AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to dictate.
Replace your iPhone keyboard with AI voice typing
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.
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Typeless▲585AI voice dictation that's actually intelligent
Nov 2025 · typeless.com · its alternatives →
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Willow on IOS▲395Write 5x faster with voice dictation now Available on iOS
Nov 2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Grammarly launches new iOS keyboard for better writing
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Dictate. Record. Transcribe. Summarize. All On-Device.
Mar 2026 · testflight.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Dictate4Me▲76Instantly transcribe voice to text on iPhone, iPad and Mac
2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Dictation▲118The fastest and most accurate speech recognition software
2018 · dictation.io · its alternatives →
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Multilingual transcription & translation for Mac
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Context-aware voice keyboard for any app
2024 · talktastic.com · its alternatives →
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Codictate▲72I've built an AI dictation tool (like many others), but this time I have taken the time to benchmark all of the 34 models that we provide, so users can actually make a qualified choice on what model should be the daily driver. The best is that it's open source, so if you think we can improve something, please come and help out.
Apr 2026 · codictate.app · its alternatives →
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TypingMate▲92Create AI Shortcuts and use anywhere on your iPhone
Jan 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Private AI dictation that lets you operate offline.
Jun 2026 · muttervoice.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I'm a longtime web dev, but this is my first macOS app. Feedback is very welcome <3 I built TongueType because every dictation app I tried failed at least one of three things: it sent my audio to someone's cloud, it charged me monthly fee, or it felt clunky or enterprisy. The cloud thing kills it for anything sensitive. The subscription thing is insulting for what amounts to "Whisper + a hotkey." TongueType runs Whisper locally on Apple Silicon via CoreML. It's built to feel like a second keyboard: tap the hotkey, talk, let go, words appear. It sits in the menu bar (no dock icon, no…
May 2026 · tonguetype.app · its alternatives →
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Auri.AI▲80AI writing assistant one tap away in any app on your iPhone
2023 · auri.ai · its alternatives →
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2014 · myechoapp.com · its alternatives →
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Effortlessly convert your speech into clear, written content
2024 · its alternatives →
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Spoke▲102Dictate into any Mac app by holding a key. Spoke runs fully on-device using local AI — no cloud, no account, no subscription. $9.99 one-time.
Mar 2026 · usespoke.app · its alternatives →
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AI voice typing that turns your speech across all your apps.
Apr 2026 · fastdictate.com · its alternatives →
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Sayline▲83I built a voice dictation app for macOS mostly because I was tired of how awful Siri is and I didn't want to pay a subscription for cloud tools. The app uses NVIDIA's Parakeet v3 (TDT) as the primary engine. Inference is handled by the FluidAudio library. It's insanely fast on M-series chips. For Intel users, I added local Whisper support ranging from Tiny up to Large v3 Turbo (quantized to save space). The interesting part was the AI integration. I originally tried to pipeline the ASR output into Apple's Intelligence Foundation Model. It was a nightmare, because the content moderation…
Jan 2026 · sayline.app · its alternatives →
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Voice dictation that adapts to what’s on your screen
Feb 2026 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Dictatofree tier, from $20.82/mo▲93I built a macOS dictation app where everything runs on-device. Transcription, auto-correct, translation. No audio or text leaves your machine. It ships with 4 transcription engines you can swap between: WhisperKit (99 languages), NVIDIA Parakeet TDT 0.6B (25 European languages, fastest of the bunch), Qwen3-ASR 0.6B (30 languages), and Apple Speech on macOS 26+. They all run through CoreML/Metal. Whisper is the most versatile, Parakeet wins on raw latency for European languages, Qwen3 does better with CJK. I went with a protocol-based architecture so you pick the engine that fits your…
Feb 2026 · dicta.to · its alternatives →
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Transcribe & edit privately, w/ unlimited minutes on desktop
2020 · its alternatives →
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