Comparison

Flit vs stilltype

Not out yet: a 50-person private beta

The short answer

stilltype is not something you can buy yet. It is a private beta limited to fifty hand-picked invites, built in the open by one person, and it describes the same architecture Flit does: on-device dictation on Apple silicon, no account ever, pay once rather than subscribe. It does not publish a price, a language count, or a release date, and it pointedly refuses to publish an accuracy number on the grounds that nobody measured your voice. We agree with that instinct. Until it ships, the comparison is short: if you want this kind of app today, with a published price, 99 languages and formatting that arrives finished, that is Flit at $49 once. Put your name down for stilltype too.

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Side by side

  Flit stilltype
Availability Shipping today Private beta, 50 invites
Where transcription happens Your Mac, always Your Mac, on the neural engine
Price $49 once, up to 2 Macs Not published: “pay once, no subscription”
Account required No No, stated as never
Platforms macOS only macOS on Apple silicon
Text appears as you speak Yes Not stated
Works with no internet Fully Stated as fully
Languages 99, 25 streaming Not stated
Knows your codebase Indexes it locally Not stated
Exact times and commands Fixed rules Not stated

Compared against stilltype’s own published information. “Not stated” means they do not publish that detail. Prices change, so confirm before you buy.

Why people pick Flit

  • You can install it this afternoon. stilltype has fifty invites and no public release date.
  • A published price. “Pay once” is a promise about the shape of the price, not the number.
  • 99 languages, 25 of them available while you are still speaking.
  • Formatting that arrives finished: times, prices, spoken punctuation, snippets and dictionary words fixed by rules, with tone following the app you are in.
  • A local index of your open project, so spoken file and symbol names come out spelled right.
  • Two years of shipped releases behind it, and a changelog you can read.

In fairness

  • It starts from the same architecture we did: the model on the neural engine, nothing uploaded, no account, and one payment rather than a subscription. That is the right set of decisions.
  • It is built in public, with the build log on the site and no invented testimonials or borrowed logos waiting to be replaced.
  • It refuses to print an accuracy percentage, on the grounds that no published number measured your voice. More sites should do that.

Listed because they are true. We are comparing an app you can buy against one you can request an invite to, and there is no way to make that a fair fight. Everything above is a decision we respect rather than a feature we lost to. When stilltype ships, this page gets rewritten against what it actually does.

What actually decides it

Why this page exists at all

People search for a tool before it ships, and the honest thing to do is say so rather than fill a page with guesses. Everything above comes from stilltype’s own site in September 2026: a private beta of fifty, on-device on Apple silicon, no account, pay once, no price, no language list. We have not used it. When it opens up, we will write the real comparison, including the parts where it beats us.

Two indie apps, one argument

stilltype makes the same case Flit does, in almost the same words: cloud dictation uploads your voice to hardware you will never see, and the only way to remove that risk is to remove the upload. We are not going to pretend that is wrong because a competitor is saying it. If you end up buying stilltype instead of Flit, the thing we actually care about still happened: your words stayed on your Mac, and you paid once for software you own.

The verdict

Choose Flit if

you want the same architecture from something you can buy today, with a price on the page.

Download for Mac

7 days free · $19 once, up to 2 Macs · macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon

Choose stilltype if

you want to follow a build in public and do not need dictation working this week.

Questions

Can I buy stilltype?

Not as of September 2026. Its site offers an invite request for a private beta capped at fifty people, and does not publish a price or a release date. Flit is $49 once and available now.

What does stilltype cost?

Its site says pay once, no subscription, but does not state a number, so we are not going to invent one. Treat any page that quotes a stilltype price with suspicion.

Is stilltype local?

Its site says the model runs on your Mac’s neural engine, with no account and no upload, and that it keeps working with wifi off. That matches how Flit works.

How is it different from Flit?

Honestly, we cannot tell you yet beyond availability. Flit publishes a price, covers 99 languages, streams text as you speak, formats by fixed rules, and indexes your open project. stilltype states none of those either way.

Pricing

Pay once. Keep it forever.

Flit for Mac

$19

was $49

once

One payment. No subscription, no account.

Launch price for the first 50 licenses 50 left

The price goes up when they are gone.

Get it for $19 Or try it free for 7 days
  • 2 Macs, move it whenever you like
  • All 99 languages, every engine included
  • A year of updates, then keep the app forever
  • Runs offline. Nothing you say leaves your Mac

Flit Lifetime

$59

was $99

once

Buy it once and never think about it again.

Launch price for the first 50 licenses 50 left

The price goes up when they are gone.

Get Lifetime for $59 Or try it free for 7 days
  • 2 Macs, move it whenever you like
  • Every update, forever. Nothing to renew
  • All 99 languages, every engine included
  • Runs offline. Nothing you say leaves your Mac

No card for the trial. macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon. 30-day refund, no questions.

Questions? The pricing page answers the usual ones.

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