FreeThe open-source Wispr Flow alternative

Talk to your computer,
for free, forever.

Hold fn, speak, and your words are typed wherever your cursor is. Open source, and it never leaves your Mac.

Download for Mac

Wispr Flow Pro costs $15/mo. talkflow is free.

curl -fsSL /install.sh | bash

Spoken words go into talkflow and come out as clean, punctuated text.

Speak, and it appears in any app.

talkflow types into whichever text field has your cursor. No copying, no pasting.

Three moves, no typing.

  1. fn

    1. Hold fn

    The Globe key in the corner of your keyboard. talkflow starts listening.

  2. 2. Talk normally

    Your words appear as you speak. Say "comma" or "new paragraph" when you want them.

  3. Can we move standup to Thursday?

    3. Let go

    talkflow finishes the last words and fixes punctuation. The text is already where your cursor was.

Say the whole thought.

Most people talk much faster than they type, so the context you would normally skip, the edge cases and the "and also", makes it into what you write. Better prompts, emails and messages for the same effort.

Typing
40 wpm
Speaking
145 wpm
talkflow typing a dictated message into Claude Code. Scroll to see it in other apps.

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Your voice never leaves your Mac.

talkflow sends your audio to exactly one place: a speech engine running on your own computer. Nothing is uploaded, because there's nowhere to upload it to.

Your Mac
Your voice
Speech engine on your Mac
Text at your cursor
No cloud

Runs on your Mac

Speech is recognized by OpenAI's Whisper model, running through whisper.cpp on your own processor.

No cloud, no account

No sign-in, no analytics, no crash reports and no update checks. It works the same with Wi-Fi off.

Audio is never saved

Your voice is kept in memory only, never written to disk, and replaced by your next dictation.

Open source

Every line is public under the MIT License, so you don't have to take our word for any of this.

The details are in the privacy policy, and the code is on GitHub.

See how much you didn't type.

Open Dashboard from the menu bar to see your words, speed, streak and the typing time you've saved. It's worked out on your Mac and stays there.

Your dictation stats
Words dictated
44,612
Average speed
145wpm
Words today
1,208
Day streak
52days
Time saved
13.5hours
Dictations
2,316
Time saved compares your speaking time with typing the same words at 40 wpm.

FAQs

Wispr Flow Pro costs $15 a month, or $12 a month billed yearly, and Wispr Flow's free plan stops at 2,000 words a week on desktop. talkflow is free with no word limit, it's open source, and the speech engine runs on your own Mac.

Talk instead of type.

Free, open source, and private by design. Set up once and just talk.

Download for Mac
curl -fsSL /install.sh | bash