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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 — local-first dictation, bot-free meeting capture, Quick Note → 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, MLX inference. No Electron, no cloud round-trip.
  • Bundled CLI, local REST adapter, and stdio MCP server for agent integration.
  • 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
FeatureDettivoWispr 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 modelLifetime, 3 MacsPer-seat subscription
Privacy
Local-first transcriptionYes — WhisperKit on Apple SiliconCloud-based STT
Surface
Meeting captureBuilt in, no botNot the focus
Mac platformNative Swift, Apple SiliconCross-platform Electron-style
Windows / WebNoYes
Polish
Custom dictionaryYes, per languageYes
Per-app polish profilesYesLimited
Developer
CLI / API / MCPBundledNo

Pulled from public pricing + feature pages. Last reviewed: 07 May 2026

Launching April 2026

One license. Three Macs. Forever yours.