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Most people$29
was $49
Yours forever, on 2 Macs. Updates for a year.
Comparison
Flit vs VoiceInk
The more capable of the two
Open source, local, and cheaper
The short answer
Flit and VoiceInk are the two serious local, one-time-purchase dictation apps for Mac, and Flit is the more capable of them: text appears as you speak, it indexes your open project so spoken code names come out right, it rewrites selected text by voice, and it dictates in 99 languages. VoiceInk is the budget option and an honest one, starting at $25 and open source, which is a real advantage if reading the code is how you decide.
Side by side
 Flit
| VoiceInk | |
|---|---|---|
| Where transcription happens | Your Mac | Your Mac |
| Price | $49 once | $25 to $49 once, by Mac count |
| Open source | No | Yes |
| Account required | No | No |
| Text appears as you speak | Yes | No |
| Knows your codebase | Indexes it locally | Cursor mode only |
| Edit selected text by voice | Yes | No |
| Translation while dictating | Yes | No |
| Exact times and commands | Fixed rules | Model decides |
Compared against VoiceInk’s own published information. “Not stated” means they do not publish that detail. Prices change, so confirm before you buy.
Why people pick Flit
- Text appears while you are still speaking rather than after you stop.
- It reads your open project and repairs misheard symbol names against the real ones.
- Select text anywhere and rewrite it by voice: “make this shorter”, “fix the tone”.
- Dictate in one language and write in another, with 99 languages and automatic detection.
- Times, spoken punctuation, snippets, and dictionary words are produced by fixed rules that cannot drift.
In fairness
- It is open source, so you can read exactly what it does rather than verify it by watching the network. If auditability is how you decide, that is a real advantage.
- It is cheaper, starting at $25 for one Mac.
- Its license tiers scale by number of Macs, which is friendlier if you have several.
Listed because they are true. VoiceInk is local and open source, and published source settles the trust question on terms nobody has to take on faith. What is left is how much of the work happens before the text reaches your cursor.
What actually decides it
Open source is a real advantage, and we will not pretend otherwise
Flit asks you to believe a privacy claim you can verify by watching the network, but not by reading the code. VoiceInk lets you read the code. For some people that settles it, and it should. Our answer is not that auditability does not matter; it is that PRIVACY.md documents every network-capable path, the app makes exactly two kinds of call, and a network monitor proves the rest in about a minute.
What the extra money buys
The gap is roughly the price of a lunch, and it buys four things: streaming text, the workspace index, voice editing of selected text, and translation. If you write code or write in more than one language, those are not extras, they are the reason to choose Flit. If you need none of them, VoiceInk does the basics well and costs less.
The verdict
Choose Flit if
you want text as you speak, spoken code names spelled right, or dictation in more than one language.
Join the waitlist7 days free · $29 once, up to 2 Macs · macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon
Choose VoiceInk if
auditable source or the lowest price matters most, and you do not need streaming or a codebase index.
Questions
Are both really local?
Yes. Neither uploads your audio for normal dictation. VoiceInk offers an optional cloud text pass; Flit has no cloud path at all.
Is Flit open source too?
No. The privacy guarantees are documented in PRIVACY.md with a verification recipe, but the source is not published, and we would rather state that plainly than imply otherwise.
Which is better for developers?
Flit, on the specific point of spoken identifiers: it indexes the project you have open and repairs mishearings against real symbol names anywhere you dictate. VoiceInk has a Cursor-specific mode.
Pricing
One price. Yours forever.
You will buy Flit once and it is yours permanently, on up to 2 Macs, with 12 months of updates. No subscription, no account, no upsell.
Launch pricing
First 100 licenses
Once they are gone, Personal steps to $39, then $49. Lifetime goes to $99.
Lifetime
$79
was $99
Yours forever, on 2 Macs. Every update, forever.
Not on sale yet. These are the prices Flit will launch at. macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon. 7 days free first, no card, and a 30-day refund.
Both include
- Every feature. There is no Pro tier and nothing is held back.
- All 99 languages and every local model, downloadable free.
- Developer mode, snippets, the dictionary that learns, a style per app.
- No account. Flit never asks who you are.
Team
Per Mac$195
$39 per Mac, once, with a year of updates. One key for everyone.
$34 per Mac from 10.
Join the waitlist
More than 50? Let us talk.
How a team license works
- Licensed per Mac. Ten people with one Mac each is 10 Macs. A laptop and a desktop count as 2.
- One key with exactly that many activations. Free a seat yourself when a Mac is replaced.
- Nothing to provision and nothing to audit. No accounts, and nothing leaves any Mac.
12 months of updates, one renewal date for the whole key.
macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon
Questions? The pricing page answers the usual ones. If a future major version is ever a paid upgrade, you will hear it from us before you pay for anything.
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