Speak, and clean text appears wherever your cursor is. Transcribed and enhanced entirely on your device.
macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon · one-time purchase
A quiet pill by the notch tracks your voice while you talk. Release, and clean text lands wherever your cursor is.
The pill. Live on-screen feedback as you speak: listening, transcribing, then thinking. Release, and clean text lands where your cursor is.
Everything runs on your machine. Even the AI.
Transcription and AI enhancement both run locally: on-device Whisper and a local model. Turn Wi-Fi off and dictation still works. No API keys to paste, no account to create, no audio or text ever leaving your device. Privacy you can verify, not just trust.
Try free for 30 days. The trial starts on first launch, no email required. Buy a license when you're ready.
One-time purchase. Pick a tier above. Checkout takes a minute, then copy your license key from your Polar receipt (it's on your purchases page, linked from your confirmation email) and paste it into the app. Prefer to try first? Start the free 30-day trial below, no signup. Seats move between your own devices.
macOS today. Saidso runs on macOS 14+ (Apple Silicon). More platforms are in the works; no release date to share yet.
Others are cheaper up front but rent-forever, or private only until the AI step reaches for the cloud.
| Saidso | VoiceInk | Wispr Flow | superwhisper | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | €19–€39 once | $25–$49 once | $15/mo | $8.49/moor $249.99 once |
| Business model | One-time | One-time | Subscriptionfree tier | Subscriptionor lifetime |
| Transcription | On-device | On-device | Cloud only | On-device |
| AI enhancement | Local · no key | Cloud · your key | Cloud · built-in | Cloud · your key |
| Works Wi-Fi off | Fully | Transcribe only | No | Transcribe only |
| Needs an account | No | No | Yes | No |
Competitor details last checked July 2026 against each vendor's own site; these are capable apps and their pricing and feature sets may change.
macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later on an Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or newer). The one-time model download aside, everything runs on your machine.
Your dictation never does. Transcription and enhancement run locally. The only network access is the optional model download, checking for app updates, and activating or deactivating your license. See the privacy notice for exactly what's sent and to whom.
Download and launch. A 30-day trial starts automatically. No sign-up, no email, no credit card. Full features throughout the trial.
Dictation keeps working to your clipboard; AI enhancement and auto-paste pause until you activate a license. Your settings are preserved.
One-time purchase. Each tier covers a number of devices (1 / 2 / 3); you can deactivate one to free a seat and move it to another.
No. Unlike cloud-enhanced tools, Saidso's AI enhancement runs on a local model. Nothing to sign up for, nothing to paste.
Not yet. Saidso runs on macOS 14+ (Apple Silicon) today. More platforms are in the works, but there's no release date to share yet, so buy it for the Mac you have now.
Your audio and dictated text never leave your device. Saidso makes network connections only for the three purposes below. No dictation content is ever transmitted in any of them.
Recipients: Polar (payments & licensing), Cloudflare (licensing infrastructure), and GitHub (release hosting & updates). Saidso is made in Sweden. Questions about your data? Email support@getsaidso.com.
