Dictation tools like Wispr Flow are powerful, but not everyone wants to pay $144/year to send their audio to the cloud!
That’s why we built Onit Dictate. Onit is the 100% free and 100% local alternative to Wispr Flow, on MacOS (and soon iOS!) It’s the same concept: fast and accurate speech-to-text that goes beyond basic dictation by using custom-built models to polish your transcript into something ready to use.
Most new dictation apps are the same: wrap an open-source model in a pretty interface and put it behind a paywall. Onit is different. We don’t think that tools like Wispr Flow earned their reputation from their transcription model alone. The real magic is the cleanup layer, the post-processing that turns a rough transcript into something you'd actually want to send. That's where we've focused our energy too. We’ve built small, fast models that run entirely on your device and handle the things open-source speech-to-text models get wrong:
• Filler word removal — "I've been, uh, working on..." → "I've been working on..."
• Number formatting — "three hundred forty six" → "346"
• Email formatting — "tim three three at example site dot org" →
[email protected]
• Punctuation — "Hello exclamation mark" → "Hello!"
• Lists, headings, and more
How is Onit free? Onit runs 100% locally; we don’t have any server costs! Down the road, we plan to introduce paid features (or god forbid, sell to enterprise), but we’re committed to keeping the core local dictation experience free forever for our earliest adopters. Sign up now to claim your free seat.
Does Onit sell my data? No, just the opposite. We built Onit because we wanted a private dictation. We do collect some usage data, but you can disable telemetry in settings. Most important: your voice and your transcripts never leave your computer.
Do I need an account? No. We recommend users authenticate for the best experience, but you can use Onit without an account
What languages does it work in? Under the hood, our current transcription model supports 25 European languages:
Bulgarian (bg), Croatian (hr), Czech (cs), Danish (da), Dutch (nl), English (en), Estonian (et), Finnish (fi), French (fr), German (de), Greek (el), Hungarian (hu), Italian (it), Latvian (lv), Lithuanian (lt), Maltese (mt), Polish (pl), Portuguese (pt), Romanian (ro), Slovak (sk), Slovenian (sl), Spanish (es), Swedish (sv), Russian (ru), Ukrainian (uk)
We plan to expand our supported languages. You can check our website for the most recent supported languages.
If you’re tired of paying for dictation, burned through your free credits, or just not thrilled about sending everything you say to someone else's servers, Onit is for you. Sign up now to claim your free seat!
Comments (2)
Really interesting concept, will check it out.
Built this because we were tired of paying for dictation. It's been in our daily workflow for months. Happy to answer any questions! 🙌