Meet Onit Dictate (getonit.ai): a 100% free, 100% local alternative to paid dictation apps like WisprFlow, SuperWhisper, and Willow. Built for anyone who's tired of subscription fees, burning through free credits, or sending every spoken word up to the cloud.
The basics work the way you'd expect: a customizable hot key (Caps Lock out of the box — swap in whatever feels right) kicks off speech recognition, and the text lands wherever your cursor is. What sets Onit apart is that it's completely free and runs entirely on your device.No audio ever leaves your Mac, so it's completely private. macOS is live now; the iPhone app is awaiting Apple's review.
Most new dictation apps look the same under the hood: an open-source model, a polished UI, and a paywall. Onit is different. The real magic isn't the transcription — it's the cleanup layer that runs on top of it.
We've invested heavily in that cleanup pipeline. We trained our own models and made them small enough to run locally on your Mac or iPhone, and fast enough that you'll never wait on them. Onit catches the things raw transcripts get wrong:
Filler word removal — "I've been, uh, working on..." → "I've been working on..." Number formatting — "three hundred forty six" → "346" Email formatting — "tim three three at example site dot org" → [email protected] Punctuation — "Hello exclamation mark" → "Hello!" Lists, headings, and more — all hands-free
Since we don't pay for cloud infrastructure, we made it free. And no, we aren't selling your data. We expect to add paid features later (or, worst case, sell to enterprise), but the core dictation feature stays free forever for our earliest users. Reserve your seat now to lock that in.
Onit works without Wi-Fi. Onit works without an account. Onit supports 25+ European languages, and we're still adding more:
Bulgarian (bg), Croatian (hr), Czech (cs), Danish (da), Dutch (nl), English (en), Estonian (et), Finnish (fi), French (fr), German (de), Greek (el), Hungarian (hu), Italian (it), Latvian (lv), Lithuanian (lt), Maltese (mt), Polish (pl), Portuguese (pt), Romanian (ro), Slovak (sk), Slovenian (sl), Spanish (es), Swedish (sv), Russian (ru), Ukrainian (uk)
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