Wispr Flow vs Aqua Voice: which one to pick for dictating on your computer

What they have in common

Both are voice dictation apps: hold a key (fn on a Mac), talk, let go, and clean text shows up in whatever app you have open, formatted for that app. Both run on Mac, Windows, iPhone and Android, have a dictionary for your names and work terms, and voice shortcuts that expand into longer text, like your email address or a link. And both let you select some text and ask for changes by voice (on Wispr Flow, with Pro).

Both turn your voice into text in the cloud, so on a computer both need the internet. If you allow it, both can read the text on your screen to get names and terms right. And both have SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001.

Wispr Flow vs Aqua Voice, point by point

Details from each company's official pages, checked on October 28, 2026.

Where Wispr Flow wins

• More languages. Wispr Flow dictates in more than 100 languages. Aqua Voice dictates in 49, including English, Spanish, Portuguese and French.
• Meeting notes. Wispr Notetaker records your meetings on Mac and Windows without adding a bot, labels who said what and answers questions about them. It's on the free plan with a weekly limit. Aqua Voice's plans don't include meeting notes.
• A free plan that resets every week. You get 2,000 words a week on desktop, a separate limit on phones and a weekly meeting limit. Aqua Voice's free option is a trial: 1,000 words, and then you pay.
• A small team pays less. Pro works for teams with no seat minimum, at USD 12 or 15 per person, with a shared dictionary, shared snippets and centralized billing. On Aqua Voice, team billing comes with the Business plan: USD 19 or 24 per person, with a 2-seat minimum, though it does include SSO.

Where Aqua Voice wins

• Price. Pro is USD 12 a month or USD 120 a year (USD 10 a month), versus USD 15 or USD 144 for Wispr Flow. Students get 70% off Pro and Max: Pro comes to USD 3 a month billed yearly. On Wispr Flow, the discount for students and educators is 50%.
• Your own rules. With Pro, you write instructions in your own words, like "in chats, all lowercase," and Aqua Voice follows them as you dictate.
• See your words as you speak. With Max (USD 19 a month billed yearly, or USD 24 month to month), Realtime Mode shows what you say live, and if you end with "send it," it sends the message without you pressing Enter (Send It).
• For coding by voice. If you say a file name while dictating in Cursor or Windsurf, Aqua Voice turns it into an editor tag, like @main.ts.
• Older phones. It works from Android 10 and iOS 17. Wispr Flow needs Android 13 and iOS 18.3.

Prices side by side

Prices in US dollars, on each company's website.

Paid month to month, a year of Aqua Voice Pro costs the same as a year of Wispr Flow Pro billed yearly: USD 144. Wispr Flow charges in your local currency, with set prices in 24 currencies.

Privacy

• Wispr Flow: turns your voice into text in the cloud and stores data in the United States. On the Free and Pro plans, it uses your dictations and meetings to improve its models unless you turn that off. You can choose not to keep your dictation history on their servers; meeting notes are stored in their cloud.
• Aqua Voice: turns your voice into text in the cloud and doesn't sell your audio or share it with advertisers. Its Privacy Mode is off by default, which means it may store your transcripts on its servers to improve the product; turn it on and they aren't stored. Your history, with the text and the audio, stays on your device. Deep Context, which takes a screenshot when you start dictating, is optional, and the screenshot isn't kept. In Max's live mode, your audio goes through another speech recognition provider. Business can enforce privacy mode and zero data retention for the whole team.

Both have SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 and offer HIPAA contracts (BAA). Local vs cloud dictation: what changes.

Which one to pick

If you work in Spanish too: Loro

Wispr Flow and Aqua Voice dictate in Spanish, but their websites are in English (Aqua Voice's also comes in Japanese), and neither works offline on a computer. Loro is a dictation and meeting notes app for Windows and Mac, in English and Spanish.

• Dictate in any app with Ctrl + Win (fn on a Mac), and Loro removes the filler words.
• It takes notes of your meetings without a bot and puts what you need to do on your list.
• It works offline: it dictates and transcribes your meetings on your computer.
• Free: 2,000 dictation words a week and unlimited meeting notes (you see the last 30 days). Pro: USD 9.99 a month or USD 80 a year.
• It has no phone app yet, and it only works in English and Spanish.

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Frequently asked questions

Is Aqua Voice free?›

It has a free trial: 1,000 words, no card needed. After that, Pro is USD 12 a month or USD 120 a year, and students get 70% off. Wispr Flow, on the other hand, gives you 2,000 free words every week on desktop.

Does Aqua Voice work on Windows?›

Yes, on Windows 10 and 11, and also on Mac, iPhone and Android. On Windows you dictate with the right Alt key.

Which is cheaper, Wispr Flow or Aqua Voice?›

Aqua Voice: Pro is USD 120 a year versus USD 144, and USD 12 a month versus USD 15. Its Max plan, with live words, costs more: USD 228 a year.

Does Aqua Voice work offline?›

Not on a computer: on Mac and Windows it processes your voice in the cloud and has no offline mode. Wispr Flow doesn't work offline either; Loro does, because it dictates and transcribes on your computer.

Does Aqua Voice dictate in Spanish?›

Yes. It dictates in 49 languages, including English and Spanish, and it can detect the language of each dictation on its own. Its website is in English and Japanese. Wispr Flow dictates in more than 100 languages.

Sources

• Wispr Flow: pricing, plans and limits, what Wispr Flow is, supported devices, Notetaker languages, Command Mode, data controls and security and privacy; checked on October 28, 2026.
• Aqua Voice: product facts, pricing, FAQ, languages, Aqua for Windows, Aqua for Mac, Android, changelog and privacy policy; checked on October 28, 2026.
• Loro, pricing and FAQ.