For developers
Say file names. Get them spelled right.
7 days free · Then $19 once · No account · macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon
4×
faster than typing
0.15s
verbatim in terminals
60
spoken commands, no model
0
bytes leave your Mac
Most dictation tools fall apart the moment you say a file name. They hear “user auth service dot swift” and write it exactly that way, so you stop and fix it by hand, which is slower than having typed it. Flit reads the project you have open and spells the name the way your repo spells it.
You said
“open voice snicket store dot swift”
Flit wrote · Cursor
open VoiceSnippetStore.swift
Flit indexes your open project, so it fixes the mishearing against the real file name.
Cursor 9:41 ~/flit %
open VoiceSnippetStore.swift
your exact words · 0.15s
open voice snicket store dot swift
Wispr Flow sends your voice to its servers. Flit transcribes and formats on your Mac, and keeps working with no internet.
Wispr Flow is a monthly subscription. Flit is one payment, and it is yours to keep. No account either.
Flit indexes the project you have open, on your Mac, so spoken file and folder names come out spelled the way your repo spells them. Terminals stay verbatim, and nothing about your code is sent anywhere.
No integration, no plugin, no waiting for support. Flit types wherever your cursor already is.
Wherever you would normally type: your editor, your terminal, a pull request. Flit has no window of its own to switch to.
Speak normally, fillers and all. A small bar shows the words arriving as you say them, so you can see it working.
Finished text appears at your cursor about 0.7 seconds later, punctuated and formatted. No copying, no cleanup, no second window.
Prefer not to hold a key? Tap once to lock it on, or arm hands-free mode and Flit starts when you speak. Escape cancels any dictation.
Every identifier comes out as four separate lowercase words.
Dictation tools reword your shell commands into prose.
Punctuation-heavy code means reaching for the keyboard anyway.
Cloud tools want your keystrokes and the context of your repo.
Dictating into an editor or terminal, Flit reads the open project’s file and folder names, so “user auth service dot swift” becomes UserAuthService.swift. File names and paths only, never file contents, and the index never touches disk or network.
In terminals and editors your words are never reworded. “git log dash dash oneline” becomes git log --oneline, exactly, and lands in about 0.15 seconds.
More than 60 spoken commands handled by fixed rules, not a model: open paren, dollar sign, dash dash force. Say “camel case” or “snake case” to control how the rest of the sentence joins up.
Dictating into Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor structures your words as a clear prompt and keeps code terms verbatim. It never answers the request for you.
The vocabulary Verbatim modeSpoken punctuationPersonal dictionaryPush-to-talk
From each product's own published information. Every alternative, one by one, is on the alternatives page.
 Flit
| Wispr Flow | Superwhisper | SpeakMac | Yaps | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Runs on your Mac | Always | Cloud | Local | Local | Local |
| Price | | $12/user/mo | $8.49/mo · $250 once | $29 once | $12/mo billed yearly |
| Built for macOS only | Yes | No | No, 4 platforms | Yes | No, 5 platforms |
| Text appears as you speak | Yes | Yes | No | Not stated | Not stated |
| Languages | 1,600+ | 100+ | Many | 25, plus packs | Around 25 |
| Account required | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Exact times and commands | Fixed rules | Model decides | Model decides | Not stated | Not stated |
| Personal dictionary | Learns, asks first | Learns on its own | Yes | Yes | Not stated |
| Knows your codebase | Indexes it | No | No | Not stated | Not stated |
| Style rule per app | Yes | Yes | Not stated | Not stated | Not stated |
| Words and time saved | Counted locally | Not stated | Not stated | Not stated | Not stated |
| Transcribes audio files | Yes, SRT and VTT too | No | Yes, on Pro | Yes | Yes |
“Not stated” means the product does not publish that detail.
Do not take our word for it
Run Flit with the network off, or point Little Snitch at it while you dictate. The dictation still works and the monitor stays silent. That is the whole claim, and it takes a minute to falsify.
Something else? Email hi@flit.fyi and a person replies.
Yes. Flit does the same job as Wispr Flow, but it runs on your Mac instead of a server and is paid once instead of every month. Flit indexes the project you have open, on your Mac, so spoken file and folder names come out spelled the way your repo spells them. Terminals stay verbatim, and nothing about your code is sent anywhere.
No. It reads file and directory names, and the path of the document you have open. File contents are never read. The index lives in memory, is never written to disk, and never leaves your Mac.
Terminal, iTerm, Warp, Xcode, VS Code, Cursor, Zed, Sublime, and JetBrains IDEs, plus any other app with a cursor. Terminals without a document still get verbatim mode.
In editors and terminals Flit runs in verbatim mode, so nothing is reworded. Prose formatting applies in chat, mail, and docs, where you want it.
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