talkflow vs Wispr Flow
Wispr Flow* and talkflow both let you hold a key, speak, and have your words typed into any app. They make different trade-offs. Here is a plain comparison, including where talkflow does less.
Side by side
| talkflow | Wispr Flow* | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free, no paid tier | Free plan; Pro is $15 per user a month, or $12 billed yearly |
| Word limit | None | Free plan: 2,000 words a week on desktop, 1,000 on mobile |
| Source code | Open source (MIT License) | Proprietary; its terms don't allow decompiling or derivative works |
| Where speech is transcribed | On your own computer, with Whisper | In Wispr's cloud (its privacy page: "Transcription always happens in the cloud") |
| Works offline | Yes, once set up | No, transcription needs its servers |
| Account | None | Required by its terms of service |
| Platforms | Mac and Windows | Mac, Windows, iPhone and Android |
| Languages | English | 100+ languages, per its website |
| Text editing | Fixed rules: filler removal, spoken punctuation, lists. Never rephrases | Automatic formatting and edits of what you said |
Wispr Flow details are from its own pricing, privacy and terms pages and its website, last checked October 2026. Plans and features change, so check wisprflow.ai for the current details.
Price and limits
talkflow costs nothing and has no paid tier, trial or word limit. Wispr Flow has a free plan limited to 2,000 words a week on desktop, and a Pro plan at $15 per user a month, or $12 a month billed yearly. It also lists team and enterprise plans.
Where your audio goes
This is the biggest difference. talkflow runs Whisper on your own Mac or PC through whisper.cpp; your audio never leaves the computer, and dictation works with Wi-Fi off. Wispr Flow sends audio to its servers for transcription. Its privacy page says the audio is deleted once it is transcribed unless you turn on its cloud storage, and that a setting controls whether your audio, transcripts and edits can be used to improve its models.
The trade-off is that a cloud service can run larger models than a laptop. talkflow uses Whisper's small.en model, plus the larger large-v3-turbo for the final text on computers that can run it quickly. See how talkflow works.
Open source and accounts
talkflow's code is public under the MIT License, so you can read exactly what it does, build it yourself, or change it. It has no account and no sign-in. Wispr Flow is proprietary software and requires an account.
Where Wispr Flow does more
- Phones. Wispr Flow has iPhone and Android apps. talkflow is only for Mac and Windows.
- Languages. Wispr Flow says it supports more than 100 languages. talkflow is built for English.
- AI editing. Wispr Flow formats and edits what you say. talkflow deliberately types your own words: it removes filler sounds and follows spoken commands, but never rephrases.
- Teams. Wispr Flow offers team and enterprise plans. talkflow has no admin features.
Which one fits
talkflow is a good fit if you dictate in English on a Mac or PC and want it free, private and working offline, with code you can inspect. If you need phone apps, other languages or AI rewriting, Wispr Flow covers those.
Read about offline dictation on Mac or dictation on Windows, or browse the source on GitHub.
* talkflow is an independent, open-source project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Wispr AI, Inc. Wispr Flow is a trademark of Wispr AI, Inc., and is named here only to identify it.
