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Verbatim vs Wispr Flow

Both turn natural speech into clean text in any app. The difference is who owns the stack — and whether you get to see what the correction pass did.

VerbatimWispr Flow

Price

Free — MIT open source
Subscription

Open source

every line auditable on GitHub

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Bring your own keys

your accounts, your bill

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Choose your providers

speech: PyAI · Deepgram · OpenAI — correction: PyAI · OpenAI · Anthropic, mixed freely

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Visible corrections

see every filler and false start struck out — nothing edited behind your back

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Revert to raw

one shortcut back to exactly what you said

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Live streaming transcript

stable text + volatile tail while you speak

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Formatting modes

prose · message · code · raw

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Custom vocabulary & snippets

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Wake word

“Hey Jarvis!” — hands-free activation

Coming — in exploration
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Content telemetry

what you say, collected as data

Never — not collectable
Cloud account required

Key storage

macOS Keychain
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Platforms

macOS (Windows coming)
Mac · Windows · iPhone

based on publicly available information, August 2026 — corrections welcome via GitHub