I Stopped Paying $15/Month for Wispr Flow. Here's the Open-Source Replacement.

I paid for Wispr Flow for five months. $15/month. Every month. For voice-to-text on my iPhone. It's a good product. But every time I used it, the same thought: my voice is going to their cloud. Not my cloud. Theirs. Then I found out they were caught constantly phoning home and using customer voice data for training without consent. That was enough. I built Diction instead. It's an iOS keyboard powered by Whisper running on your own server. Your audio goes from your phone to your machine and back. Nothing else touches it. docker compose up -d That's the server. Then install the keyboard, point it at your URL, and start talking. Why Wispr Flow Costs $15/Month Wispr Flow runs Whisper on their infrastructure. Every transcription goes to their cloud. They have servers to pay for, so they charge you. That's not a criticism — it's just the model. Cloud infrastructure costs money. But if you already have a home server, a NAS, a Raspberry Pi, or a cheap VPS, you can run the same Whisper models