Top 5 Monologue alternatives

Monologue is a dictation app by Every, a US company, released in September 2025. It runs on the Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch: you dictate into any app, record voice notes and, in Pro, meetings without a bot. Speech is recognised in the cloud by default (the maker recommends that setting). On Apple silicon Macs a local model can be turned on, but offline it gives you raw text with no formatting.

Pro costs $15 a month or $144 a year and comes with an Every subscription. Without a paid plan there is a one-time trial of 1,000 dictated words and 10 notes. You need an account to use it. The audio, transcripts and summaries of notes and meetings are stored on Monologue’s servers. AI assistants can read them through a hosted MCP server, the Notes API or a CLI.

Wispr Flow is a dictation app by Wispr AI, a company based in San Francisco. It runs on the Mac, Windows, iPhone and Android: you dictate into any app, and Flow drops filler words, builds lists and matches the style to the app as you speak. Speech is always recognised in the cloud, so dictation needs an internet connection, and data is processed and stored in the US. Improving the models with user data is on by default in Free and Pro (you can turn it off).

The free plan is 2,000 words a week on a computer and 1,000 on a phone. Pro costs $15 a month or $144 a year, and the Growth plans for teams start at $23 per seat a month. You need an account. Notetaker comes with it: it records meetings on the Mac and Windows without a bot, writes summaries and answers questions about your meetings. Meeting transcripts and summaries stay in Wispr’s cloud with no way to opt out, and the audio is deleted after 7 days.

Granola is an AI notepad for meetings by Granola, Inc. It runs on the Mac, Windows, iPhone, Android and Apple Watch: it captures your microphone and system audio with no bot in the call, and after the meeting it turns your own notes and the transcript into structured AI notes. The audio goes to a cloud transcription provider and is not saved, while notes and transcripts are stored on AWS servers in the US. By default Granola may use anonymised data to improve its models (you can turn that off).

The free Basic plan gives you AI notes and chat with no daily transcription limit, but the app shows only the last 30 days. Business costs $14 a month per user (billed monthly only), and Enterprise starts at $35. You need a Google or Microsoft account. On the desktop Granola transcribes 31 languages, and its interface is English only.

Superwhisper is a dictation app by SuperUltra, a company based in Toronto, Canada. It runs on the Mac, Windows, iOS and Android, and recognises speech locally or in the cloud, depending on the mode you pick. The free plan gives you unlimited dictation on local Whisper models, up to two modes without AI, a vocabulary and text replacements.

Pro costs $8.49 a month, $84.99 a year or $249.99 once and covers all your devices. AI modes, screen context, call audio recording, speaker labels, file transcription and your own API keys for text models all need Pro. On the Mac it has a CLI with a local MCP server, and the maker says it does not train models on user data.