# Flit vs stilltype

Canonical page: https://flit.fyi/alternatives/stilltype

Flit is on sale today, with the price on the page. Checked against stilltype's own site in September 2026. Flit is ours.

**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, more than 1,600 languages and formatting that arrives finished, that is Flit at $15 once. Put your name down for stilltype too.

| | Flit | stilltype |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | Shipping today | Private beta, 50 invites |
| Where transcription happens | Your Mac, always | Your Mac, on the neural engine |
| Price | $15 once, one Mac | Not published: “pay once, no subscription” |
| Account required | No | No, stated as never |
| Platforms | macOS today, Windows in the works | macOS on Apple silicon |
| Text appears as you speak | Yes | Not stated |
| Works with no internet | Fully | Stated as fully |
| Languages | 1,600+, 30 streaming | Not stated |
| Knows your codebase | Indexes it locally | Not stated |
| Exact times and commands | Fixed rules | Not stated |

## 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.
- More than 1,600 languages, 30 of them available while you are still speaking. The widest coverage comes from Meta’s Omnilingual model, so accuracy varies by language.
- 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 folder names come out spelled right.
- Two years of shipped releases behind it, and a changelog you can read.

## Where stilltype differs

- The same architecture: neural engine, nothing uploaded, no account, paid once.
- Built in public, with the build log on the site.
- Publishes no accuracy percentage.

## What decides it

### Why this page exists at all

People search for a tool before it ships, and this page says so rather than guessing. 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.

### 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. The argument does not change because a second app makes it. The difference today is that Flit ships: a price, more than 1,600 languages, streaming text, fixed-rule formatting, and a project index.

## The verdict

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

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

## 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 $15 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?**

We cannot tell you yet beyond availability. Flit publishes a price, covers more than 1,600 languages, streams text as you speak, formats by fixed rules, and indexes your open project. stilltype states none of those either way.

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/).