# Flit vs Aqua Voice

Canonical page: https://flit.fyi/alternatives/aqua-voice

Flit can read the thread too, on your Mac, and never uploads it. Checked against Aqua Voice's own site in July 2026. Flit is ours.

**Short answer:** Both apps read your screen to write better text; Flit is the one that does it without uploading anything. Aqua sends that context to its servers and charges $8 to $24 a month with an account. Flit reads the focused field on your Mac, holds it in memory for exactly one dictation, writes it nowhere, and costs $19 once. If the thing on your screen is the reason you want dictation to be smart, it is also the reason you should not send it anywhere.

| | Flit | Aqua Voice |
|---|---|---|
| Where transcription happens | Your Mac | Cloud |
| Price | $19 once | $8/mo Pro, $24/mo Max |
| Free tier | No, 7-day trial | Yes, 1,000 words |
| Account required | No | Yes |
| Platforms | macOS today, Windows in the works | Mac and iOS |
| Screen context | Read locally, memory only | Yes, core feature |
| Works with no internet | Fully | No |
| Exact times and commands | Fixed rules | Model decides |
| Languages | 1,600+, 30 streaming | 49 |

## Why people pick Flit

- The screen context never leaves your Mac. That is the whole difference between the two products.
- One payment rather than $8 or $24 every month.
- No account.
- It works with no connection at all.
- Times, punctuation, and dictionary words are handled by fixed rules, so the same input always produces the same output.

## Where Aqua Voice differs

- Mac and iPhone.
- A free tier of 1,000 words.
- Publishes a 97.3% accuracy figure for its Avalon model.

## What decides it

### “Your screen is its dictionary” cuts both ways

Reading the screen is what makes dictation feel intelligent: names from the thread, terminology from the document, code from the file. It also means the most sensitive thing on your machine is the input. Aqua does this in the cloud. Flit does the same thing on your Mac, keeps the capture in memory for exactly one dictation, never writes it to disk, and skips secure fields entirely.

### Two speed claims, two baselines

Aqua states 5x faster than typing, from 230 words per minute against 40. Flit states 4x, from 124 words per minute measured across real dictations against about 31 for composition typing. The gap is mostly the baseline: a speaking rate is not the same as finished text arriving, and typing while you think is slower than copying text. We chose the more conservative pair, which is why our number is lower.

## The verdict

you want it on iPhone too, or you want to try it free before deciding

the context it reads is the exact thing you do not want uploaded

## Questions

**Does Aqua Voice run on your Mac?**

Its site does not say the processing happens on your Mac, and the screen context feature implies it is handled on their servers. Flit runs on your Mac only, and you can check that with a network monitor.

**Which reads context better?**

We have not benchmarked theirs, so we do not claim to. What we can say is where the reading happens: Aqua in the cloud, Flit on your Mac in memory for one dictation.

**Is there a free version of Flit?**

No free tier. There is a 7-day trial, with no card and no account.

Every comparison: [Flit alternatives](https://flit.fyi/alternatives). Ranked: [the best dictation apps for Mac](https://flit.fyi/best-dictation-app-for-mac). Flit: [flit.fyi](https://flit.fyi/).