Offline dictation for macOS
Hold fn, speak, let go.
Flowwy is voice input for macOS that sends nothing anywhere. Speech recognition and the optional AI cleanup run on your Mac. Hold fn, speak, let go, and the text is where your cursor is, in any app. Free, no account, no telemetry.
Free, no account
What it's about
Dictating is faster than typing, but most dictation apps send your voice to the cloud. For emails to clients, notes from conversations or code comments, that is not a good idea.
Flowwy recognizes speech with whisper.cpp directly on your Mac's GPU (Metal), with models from Whisper Tiny to Large v3 Turbo and 99 languages with automatic detection. From releasing the key to text takes about 0.4 seconds (measured on an M1 Max with a small model). If you want, a local language model then tidies up the text: punctuation, filler words, self-corrections.
Privacy you can check for yourself: under Settings › Privacy, every network request is listed with host, purpose and bytes. Audio stays in memory, models are only downloaded when you click. There is no account and no telemetry.
How it works
Hold fn
Or right ⌥, ⌘ or ⌃. In any app, wherever your cursor is.
Speak
Whisper recognizes the speech locally on your Mac.
Let go
The text appears at the cursor position, cleaned up if you want.
What Flowwy can do
Works in any app with a text cursor, with special handling for editors, terminals and coding agents. Optional AI cleanup via local models.
On the device
Speech recognition with whisper.cpp on Metal. Models from 78 MB to 1.6 GB, smaller ones are faster.
Your own models
Cleanup via Ollama, llama.cpp, LM Studio or MLX. For speech, any local OpenAI-compatible server works.
Context-aware
Reads the app name and the text around the cursor for spacing and spelling. Can be turned off.
Dictionary
Your own names and technical terms, plus correction rules like "kuber netties" to Kubernetes.
Snippets and styles
Say a trigger word and get the whole text. Styles from formal to raw.
Transforms
Select text, press a shortcut, and the result replaces the selection: Polish, Prompt Engineer or your own instructions.
For coding agents
Recognizes Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor and more, plus editors and terminals. "slash compact" becomes /compact.
Scratchpad
Voice notes that stay on your Mac.
Privacy log
Settings show every request the app makes.
Privacy and security
- Speech
- entirely on your Mac
- Account
- none, no telemetry
- Network
- every request in the log
- Endpoints
- local only, remote blocked unless you allow it
- Flowwy Cloud
- optional, off by default, text only
- System
- macOS 13 or newer, Apple Silicon (M1 or newer)
Pricing
As of October 2026. Current prices at flowwy.dev. The app is free, and so is Flowwy Cloud during the beta.
Flowwy
Free
no account
- Dictation, dictionary, snippets, styles
- Local models from 78 MB to 1.6 GB
Flowwy Cloud (Beta)
Free
during the beta
- Optional, off by default
- Cleanup and transforms on hosted models, speech stays local
Who Flowwy is for
Heavy writers on the Mac
Emails, notes and documents faster than typing them.
Developers
Prompts, commit messages and comments by voice, with snippets and detection for coding agents, editors and terminals.
Professions bound by confidentiality
Dictate without anything leaving the computer.
Frequently asked questions
Does Flowwy send my voice to the internet?
No. Speech recognition and cleanup run on your Mac. The only things that go out are a model download when you start one, and an update check you can turn off, with no audio, text or identifiers.
Does Flowwy work offline?
Yes, as soon as a speech model is loaded. The cleanup is optional.
What does Flowwy cost?
Nothing. The app is free and needs no account. Flowwy Cloud is also free during the beta.
Which permissions does Flowwy need?
Microphone to listen, Accessibility to type into other apps, and Input Monitoring for the fn key.
Do I need an AI model?
Not for speech recognition, that is built in. For the optional cleanup you can connect a local model via Ollama, llama.cpp, LM Studio or MLX.
Which languages does Flowwy support?
The multilingual Whisper models detect 99 languages automatically. Whisper Base (English) is a smaller option for English only.
What is Flowwy Cloud?
An optional beta, off by default. It runs cleanup and transforms on hosted models, while speech stays local. Only text is sent. The gateway runs with us in the EU, but during the beta requests go to model providers that may be located outside the EU. For sensitive content, use the local cleanup.
Does Flowwy run on Intel Macs?
No. Flowwy needs macOS 13 or newer and Apple Silicon (M1 or newer).
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Questions about Flowwy?
Plans, privacy, integration or feedback: write to us, and we'll reply personally.