Top 5 Willow Voice alternatives

Willow Voice is a dictation app by Willow Care. It runs on the Mac, Windows and iPhone (as a keyboard), with Android announced. You hold a key, speak, and Willow inserts formatted text at your cursor, drops filler words and matches the style to the app. Its AI writing feature drafts a message from a rough description, replies to the text on your screen and rewrites selected text on a spoken command. Speech is recognised in the cloud in the US by default; an on-device offline mode comes with Pro.

The default Private Mode means neither Willow nor its providers keep your audio or dictated text, and your transcript history and recordings stay on your device. An account is required, and Willow collects usage data such as the number of words you dictate. The free plan is unlimited on a weaker model (Frontier Mini) with 20 AI writing uses a week. Pro costs $15 a month or $144 a year, Business $35 or $28 a month. Willow does not record meetings and has no separate voice notes.

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.

Aqua Voice is a dictation app by Aqua Voice, Inc., a US company from Y Combinator (Winter 2024). It runs on the Mac, Windows, iOS and, since October 2026, Android. Speech is recognised in the cloud by its own Avalon model, and on the Mac and Windows there is no offline mode. Polish is on its list of 49 languages, with the maker’s note that accuracy varies between languages.

The free plan is 1,000 words in total, no card needed. Pro costs $10 a month or $8 billed yearly ($96), Max $30 or $24, and Business from $19 per seat. You need an account. Aqua can edit selected text by voice and has an MCP server, a CLI and an API. Privacy Mode is off by default, so transcripts may be stored to improve the product.

Typeless is a dictation app by Simply CA LLC, a US company based in Palo Alto. It runs on the Mac (Apple silicon and Intel), Windows, Linux, iOS and Android: you dictate into any app, and Typeless drops filler words and repetitions, keeps only your final version when you correct yourself mid-sentence and matches the tone to the app. Its own page says transcription is performed in the cloud: your audio and limited context from the screen are processed on its servers, with large language model providers such as OpenAI, and the maker says none of it is stored. The dictation history stays on the device unless you turn on cloud sync.

The free plan has a weekly word limit that the pricing page gives no number for. Pro costs $12 per member a month billed yearly ($144) or $30 month to month and adds unlimited dictation, history sync across devices and team management; Enterprise is priced on request. You need an account. Typeless translates your speech into a language you pick and has Ask anything: editing selected text by voice, questions about selected text and quick answers from the web. There are no meeting notes.