Dettivo

Wispr Flow

Wispr Flow is the right pick if you need cross-platform dictation across Mac, Windows, and web. On Mac alone, Dettivo covers more ground: low-latency local dictation, bot-free meeting capture, Quick Note to Obsidian, CLI / REST / MCP, for $45 once instead of $144 a year, forever.

§ Pricing math

$45 once. vs. $15/mo Pro · $144/yr.

Bar length is proportional to actual dollars spent. Five years of Wispr Flow stretches the way it would stretch your card.

Year 1

Dettivo · $45

Wispr Flow · $144

Year 2

Dettivo · $45

Wispr Flow · $288

Year 3

Dettivo · $45

Wispr Flow · $432

Year 5

Dettivo · $45

Wispr Flow · $720

Numbers from public pricing pages. We update these when they change.

§ Where Dettivo wins

Local-first dictation. Audio never leaves your Mac unless you opt into a cloud STT endpoint.
Bot-free meeting capture in the same app, no second tool, no calendar bot.
One-time $45 lifetime license vs $144+/yr forever.
Native Swift on Apple Silicon. No Electron, no cloud round-trip on the default path.
Bundled CLI, local REST adapter, and stdio MCP server for AI-native workflows.
Quick Note straight to your Obsidian vault or any folder.
Meeting Mirror auto-exports transcript + notes + analysis to a folder you pick.

§ Where Wispr Flow wins

Windows and Web. Dettivo is Mac-only, and will stay that way.
Bigger team. They’ve burned more cycles tuning enterprise voice quality.
Longer shipping history. They’ve hit corner cases we haven’t.

§ Where they’re equal

Both polish raw dictation into clean prose.
Both insert directly into your focused app.
Both let you swap dictation modes mid-session.

§ Specsheet

Feature	Dettivo	Wispr Flow
Cost
Pricing	$45 lifetime	$15/mo · $144/yr
After 1 year	$45 paid · 0 paid going forward	$144 · keeps charging
After 5 years	$45 total	$720 total
License model	Lifetime, 3 Macs	Per-seat subscription
Privacy
Local-first transcription	Yes, Whisper + Parakeet on Apple Silicon	Cloud-based STT
Surface
Meeting capture	Built in, no bot	Not the focus
Mac platform	Native Swift, Apple Silicon	Cross-platform Electron-style
Windows / Web	No	Yes
Polish
Custom dictionary	Yes, per language	Yes
Per-app polish profiles	Yes	Limited
Developer
CLI / API / MCP	Bundled	No

Pulled from public pricing + feature pages. Last reviewed: 26 Jun 2026

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