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24 alternatives to Willow on IOS
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Willow is a custom keyboard app for iPhone that enables voice dictation across any application with speech-to-text technology. It features automatic formatting, auto-correct, custom dictionary support, and AI-powered… 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 4 we have checked on their own sites, 4 of them free or with a free tier.
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Hey HN! We were part of YC S24, ended up pivoting around. Made dictation that worked really well, and decided to go all in on agentic. We've done two major things. 1. Scribe is a revamp of our product. Continually learns your style (can get into details if comments want). TLDR; we fingerprint based off your edits, and make dictation sound more and more like you. Post-trained Llama 3.1 8b. 2. Dictation is completely free. Unlimited unpersonalized dictation for everyone.
Jul 2026 · willowvoice.com · its alternatives →
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As the Home Assistant project says, it's the year of voice! I love Home Assistant and I've always thought the ESP BOX[0] hardware is cool. I finally got around to starting a project to use the ESP BOX hardware with Home Assistant and other platforms. Why? - It's actually "Alexa/Echo competitive". Wake word detection, voice activity detection, echo cancellation, automatic gain control, and high quality audio for $50 means with Willow and the support of Home Assistant there are no compromises on looks, quality, accuracy, speed, and cost. - It's cheap. With a touch LCD display, dual…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Wispr Flow▲2,732Speak naturally, write perfectly & 3x faster in every app
2024 · wisprflow.ai · its alternatives →
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Aqua Voice▲579Incredibly fast voice input for Mac and Windows
2025 · aquavoice.com · its alternatives →
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dictate.▲103Replace your iPhone keyboard with AI voice typing
Mar 2026 · usedictate.app · its alternatives →
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Grammarly launches new iOS keyboard for better writing
2017 · 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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Dictlyfree tier, from $29.99/mo▲240TL;DR: I built a native macOS dictation app that transcribes locally and instantly. Text appears as you speak (measured ~100 ms first‑character latency). No accounts, no servers, no tracking. Links: • Website: https://dictly.app • Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/de/app/dictly-no-keys-just-clarity/id... • Free download; optional Pro tier (pipelines, unlimited history, etc.) What it does Real‑time transcription — streaming text while you talk, not after you stop. Quick‑Capture Overlay (macOS) — global hotkey, drop text into any app/field.…
Oct 2025 · dictly.app · 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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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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2014 · myechoapp.com · its alternatives →
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Yapfree▲140Open-source voice dictation for Mac, fully on-device
Jul 2026 · frigade.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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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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Private, local transcription and system-wide dictation for Apple Silicon. - VladUZH/qwen-scribe
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hold a shortcut, speak, and BetterWispr types clean text into any Mac app. Local speech models, a style for each app, meeting notes and insights. Free and open source, with no account required.
10d ago · betterwispr.com · its alternatives →
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Multilingual transcription & translation for Mac
2025 · apps.apple.com · 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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Zen Whisper▲136On-device Mac dictation that types into any app
Aug 2026 · zenproducts.ai · its alternatives →
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Juno▲167Juno is the local voice layer for Mac with live transcription, Voice Actions, Voice Commands, private offline dictation after setup, and no subscription or paid tier.
Jun 2026 · usejuno.co · its alternatives →
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Whisper Notes▲115Offline AI Speech to Text Transcription for iOS & macOS
2025 · whispernotes.app · its alternatives →
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Megaphone▲102Open-source Mac dictation App that's 100% on-device
Jul 2026 · megaphone.kuber.studio · its alternatives →
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