Comparison
Fastspoken vs
Wispr Flow.
Both put your voice into any app. The difference is where your words go on the way. Wispr Flow is a polished cloud product with a metered free tier. Fastspoken keeps the whole journey on your device, with a free plan that has no meter at all. Here is the honest version, including where they win.
| Fastspoken | Wispr Flow | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Unlimited, no meter | 2,000 words a week on desktop, 1,000 on iPhone |
| Where speech becomes text | On your device | In their cloud |
| Works offline | Yes, the free plan needs no connection | Needs a connection |
| Account required | No, the free plan just works | Yes |
| Your words on their servers | Never stored, there is no transcript column to store them in | Processed in the cloud, with retention controls in settings |
| Pro price | $12 a month | $15 a month, $12 billed annually |
| Platforms today | Android early access, Windows in development, iOS planned | Mac, Windows, iPhone, Android |
| Languages | English first, tuned hard on accents | 100+ languages |
| Teams and enterprise | Not yet | Yes, with SOC 2 and HIPAA options |
Wispr Flow details are from wisprflow.ai's pricing and product pages, checked July 2026. If something here has gone out of date, tell us at contact@fastspoken.com and we will fix it. Wispr Flow is a product of Wispr AI; Fastspoken is not affiliated with it.
Five differences that matter
Our free plan has no meter, because it costs us nothing.
Cloud dictation costs the company money every time you speak, so free tiers get metered. Fastspoken's free plan runs on your phone's own chip. Your words cost us nothing, so we do not count them.
Offline is the default, not a mode.
Airplane, dead zone, locked-down site wifi: the free plan behaves exactly the same, because there is no server in the loop to lose.
Your words are unstorable, not just unstored.
A privacy setting is a promise. An architecture is a fact. On the free plan your audio never leaves the device, and on every plan our servers have no transcript column. We meter Pro by word counts, never content.
Sentences land whole, on a steady beat.
Fastspoken commits a finished sentence about two seconds after you pause, right at your cursor, with no words rewriting themselves while you watch. A rhythm you can trust matters more than a burst you can't.
Built and tested on hard speech.
Fastspoken's on-device engine scores 96.4% on our hard-speech test set of accents, noise, and spontaneous speech, ahead of the large cloud-grade model it replaced. We have not benchmarked Wispr's engine, so we will not pretend to know its number. We just publish ours.
Where Wispr Flow wins today
Fair is fair. Wispr Flow ships on Mac, Windows, iPhone, and Android right now, speaks 100+ languages, and has the enterprise checklist: SOC 2, HIPAA options, team dashboards. If you need those today, it is the more complete product. Fastspoken is earlier and narrower on purpose: one platform at a time, done properly, private by construction. If that trade reads right to you, you are who we built this for.
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