Pay once and it’s yours. No subscription, no account, no cloud. Everything happens on your Mac — your words never leave your machine, and it keeps working when the internet doesn’t.
No card. No account. Just a download link.Double-tap Ctrl for a long recording, or hold Right Option to speak a quick thought. Your words land wherever your cursor is — email, code, docs, anywhere. And your last dictation stays on its own clipboard (Ctrl+V), so your regular copy-paste is never touched.
The very first launch takes a few minutes while Write On downloads what it needs to recognise speech and sets itself up for your Mac. That happens once. Every launch after it is instant.
Write On transcribes entirely on your Mac using Apple Silicon — nothing is uploaded, ever. There’s no server to trust because there’s no server. That’s also why it works on a plane, off the grid, or with the router unplugged. Most voice-to-text apps stop the moment you lose signal. Write On doesn’t know the difference.
You don’t have to take my word for any of that. Here’s how to check it yourself →
Words appear as you speak, so you always see exactly what you’re getting rather than finding out afterwards.
Your name, your product, your clients’ names — add them once and they come out spelled right from then on.
Every transcript lands in a searchable history, encrypted on your Mac. Said something good yesterday? Two keystrokes brings it back.
| Write On | Wispr Flow | |
|---|---|---|
| Free trial | 7 days, nothing held back | 14 days of Pro, no card |
| Then | once, and it's yours | $15 a month — or drop to 2,000 words a week, free |
| What you've paid after three years | $432 on the yearly plan, and still counting | |
| Account | Not needed | Required |
Wispr Flow pricing as published, 21 August 2026.
What Wispr Flow does that Write On doesn't: over a hundred languages, Windows, iPhone and Android, team accounts, SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certification — and a free tier that never expires, if 2,000 words a week is enough for you. Write On is one Mac app, for one person. If you need any of that, buy theirs — genuinely. The full comparison → · Or vs MacWhisper →
No. Your voice is turned into text on your own Mac and the audio is thrown away as it goes — never saved to disk, never sent anywhere. You don't have to take my word for it: turn your wifi off and dictate. It works exactly the same. How to check it yourself →
Anywhere you can place a cursor: Mail, Slack, Notion, browsers, code editors, terminals, search bars. Write On types where your cursor is.
Good enough that I dictate everything I write with it, including this page. Words appear live as you speak, so you always see what you're getting rather than finding out afterwards — and the custom dictionary catches the names it can't be expected to know. Benchmarks, if you want them →
English, plus 24 more European languages you can switch to in Preferences. English is the default and the one I use every day; the rest are there if you need them.
No. Ctrl+V re-pastes your last dictation; Cmd+V still pastes whatever you copied. They are two separate things and Write On never touches the second one. That one takes about a day to become muscle memory, and then you'll miss it in every other app.
A Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 or newer) and macOS 14 or later. The first launch spends a few minutes setting itself up, once. After that it starts instantly and needs no internet at all.
You buy once and your key appears on screen the moment payment clears. Paste it into the app and it is checked right there on your Mac. There is no account to make and nothing to sign in to — and it keeps working whether or not I am still around.
Yes — up to three at once. Your desktop, your laptop, and one spare. If you replace a Mac, email support@write-on.app and I will free the slot.
Have it re-sent to the address you bought with — it arrives in seconds. Worth keeping in your password manager, but losing it is not a disaster.
14-day no-questions refund. Email support@write-on.app and a human — the one who built it — answers.