For students
Write your essays by speaking.
7 days free · Then $19 once · No account · macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon
4×
faster than typing
$19
once, no subscription
1,600+
languages, all offline
0
accounts to create
The blank page is rarely a thinking problem. You can usually explain the argument out loud to a friend in 2 minutes, and then spend an hour failing to type the same thing. Flit closes that gap: you talk through the paragraph and finished, punctuated prose appears in the document, at roughly 4 times typing speed.
You said
“so um the main argument here is that urban density reduces per capita emissions comma but only above a certain threshold”
Flit wrote · Notion
The main argument here is that urban density reduces per capita emissions, but only above a certain threshold.
Fillers dropped, spoken comma placed, sentence capitalized. Nothing to clean up afterwards.
Notion 9:41 Essay outline · urban density
The main argument here is that urban density reduces per capita emissions, but only above a certain threshold.
formatted · 0.7s
so um the main argument here is that urban density reduces per capita emissions comma but only above a certain threshold
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.
A student budget and a monthly subscription do not mix. Flit is paid once, needs no account, and keeps working through every term.
No integration, no plugin, no waiting for support. Flit types wherever your cursor already is.
Wherever you would normally type: a Google Doc, your notes app, an email to a supervisor. 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.
You can explain the argument out loud but not get it onto the page.
Every tool that would help is a monthly subscription on a student budget.
Writing in a second language is slower than thinking in it.
Transcripts arrive as one unbroken block with no punctuation.
Punctuation, capitals and paragraph breaks are applied before the text lands, and “um” and “you know” are dropped. What appears in the document is a sentence you can keep, not a wall you have to edit into one.
More than 1,600 languages, all running on your Mac. Flit works out which one you are speaking and formats in that language, using its punctuation rules. It never translates unless you ask it to, so an essay in German stays in German. The widest coverage comes from Meta’s Omnilingual model, so accuracy varies by language.
Add the theorists, chemicals, case names and abbreviations from your reading list to your personal dictionary. They come out spelled correctly instead of phonetically.
$19 once, for every feature. No Pro tier, no monthly bill through your degree, and no account to keep alive. It also runs with no internet, which matters more in a library basement than anywhere else.
The vocabulary Words per minuteDisfluencyLanguage identification
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.
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. A student budget and a monthly subscription do not mix. Flit is paid once, needs no account, and keeps working through every term.
Yes. Since 1.5, drop a recorded lecture, audio or video, on the Transcribe tab and Flit turns it into a transcript on your Mac, in a few minutes for a two-hour lecture. Nothing is uploaded, and the text is saved to a folder you choose.
It is one of the better reasons to use it. Speaking is usually faster than typing in a second language, and Flit handles more than 1,600 languages, so you can dictate in whichever one you think in and write the essay in the one it is due in.
Completely. Every model runs on your Mac, so dictation works on a train, on a plane and in the parts of a university building where the wifi gives up.
$19 during the launch, $49 after it. 7 days free first, no card.
$19
was $49
Save 61%once, for up to 2 Macs, with a year of updates
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$59
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The trial needs no card. Your key arrives by email the moment you pay, and Paddle handles checkout. Already own Flit Lifetime? Claim your Vitals license.
Questions? The pricing page answers the usual ones.
Developers
Spoken code names, spelled right
Writers
First drafts at speaking speed
Founders & execs
Clear the inbox by talking
Agencies
Client work at speaking speed
Sales
CRM notes without the typing
Support teams
Canned replies, spoken
Lawyers
Privileged notes that never upload
Therapists & clinicians
Session notes that never upload
Doctors & medical
Chart notes that stay on the Mac
Multilingual
Switch languages mid-thought
Hands-free & RSI
Write without typing at all