PUSHTYPE vs Wispr Flow
A Wispr Flow alternative that stays on your Mac.
Wispr Flow sends your voice to its servers and costs $144 a year for Pro. PUSHTYPE transcribes on your Mac, puts text on screen in 0.12 s instead of 0.83 s, adds inline autocomplete, and costs $35 once. Wispr Flow is the better pick if you need Windows, iPhone, or Android.
Side by side
| PUSHTYPE | Wispr Flow | |
|---|---|---|
| Where your voice is transcribed | On your Mac | On their servers |
| Works with Wi-Fi off | Yes, after a one-time model download | No |
| Release to text on screen | 0.12 s | 0.83 s |
| Inline autocomplete as you type | Yes, TYPE | No |
| Teleprompter | Yes, follows your voice | No |
| Price | $35 once, 3 Macs | Pro $15 a month, or $144 a year |
| Free use | 14-day refund | Free plan: 2,000 words a week on desktop |
| Platforms | Mac (Apple silicon, macOS 15+) | Mac, Windows, iPhone, Android |
Wispr Flow prices from wisprflow.ai/pricing, 18 October 2026. Speed is the median of 25 runs of the same 27-second passage per app, 16 October 2026, Mac mini (M4), PUSHTYPE 9.4.1 with Parakeet Streaming and Wispr Flow 1.6. How we measured →
Price over three years
PUSHTYPE, paid once, every Mac update included.
Wispr Flow Pro billed yearly, three years at $144.
Where Wispr Flow does better
It runs on Windows, iPhone, and Android, and PUSHTYPE is Mac only. It has a free plan. Its server rewrites words using the rest of the sentence, so it sometimes fixes a word you misspoke, and in our accuracy test it restored the umlaut in Zürich 5 times out of 12, where PUSHTYPE wrote Zurich. If you need dictation on a phone or a PC, Wispr Flow is the one to pick.
Why people switch
Privacy: with PUSHTYPE your audio becomes text on your Mac and is thrown away; nothing you say or type is uploaded or used to train anyone's model. Price: one payment instead of a subscription. Speed: no network round trip, so the text is there when you let go. And TYPE: the same app finishes your sentences as you type, in gray at the cursor.
Pricing
$35 once for Talk and TYPE, on up to 3 Macs. Every future Mac update included, all models included, 14-day refund with no questions. Launch price; $50 after launch.