Top 5 Voibe alternatives

Voibe is a dictation app by Essence AI Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales. It runs on the Mac (Intel and Apple silicon, macOS 14.4+) and Windows: you dictate into any app, and Voibe adds punctuation, drops filler words and formats numbers. On an Apple silicon Mac you can choose speech recognition on the device, offline too; on Windows and Intel Macs it uses a cloud mode on zero-retention providers. Your history and Memory stay on your computer, but you need an account (an emailed sign-in code), and the app collects usage analytics and crash reports without your dictated content.

The free plan is dictation with limited words on one device. Voibe Dictation costs $7.50 a month, $75 a year or $149 once, and Voibe Work $14 a month, $140 a year or $349 once, per seat. Work adds meeting notes without a bot: summaries in styles, a transcript with speakers and a chat with the meeting. Meeting notes are always made in the cloud, whatever mode you use for dictation; transcripts and summaries are saved on your computer, and the recording is deleted after a day.

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.

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.

MacWhisper is a Mac transcription app by Good Snooze (Jordi Bruin) from the Netherlands. It turns audio and video files and microphone recordings into text, and in Pro also meetings from Zoom, Teams or Webex, YouTube videos and whole batches of files. It has dictation into any app too. Speech is recognised on the Mac by default (models such as Whisper and Parakeet), and transcripts sit in a database on your disk; cloud transcription and AI providers only work when you add your own API key.

The Free version is free forever. Pro costs €64 once, with lifetime updates, for your own devices (a soft limit of 3). Pro adds automatic meeting recording (beta), speaker recognition, AI with your own key or a local model, a CLI and integrations with Zapier, Make, n8n and Obsidian. On the Mac App Store and the iPhone the same app is called Whisper Transcription and has subscriptions, but no dictation and no meeting detection.