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Freshflo vs Apple Dictation
Apple Dictation is built into every Mac, free and good at turning speech into words. Freshflo is also free, and goes a step further: it edits what you said into what you meant.
What you said
“um so I think we should push the launch to Tuesday no wait Wednesday”
Typical plain dictation
Um so I think we should push the launch to Tuesday no wait Wednesday
Freshflo
I think we should push the launch to Wednesday.
| What you get | Freshflo | Apple Dictation |
|---|---|---|
| Editing | ||
| Removes um, uh, like, you know | Yes | No |
| Applies “no wait” and “actually” corrections | Yes | No |
| Spoken lists become numbered lists | Yes | No |
| Email layout with greeting and sign-off | Yes | No |
| Writes differently for Slack, Mail and code editors | Yes | No |
| Indian English and India | ||
| Hinglish in, clean English out | Yes | No |
| “Two lakh fifty thousand rupees” → ₹2,50,000 | Yes | No |
| Your dictionary of names and terms | Yes, and it learns | Limited |
| Privacy and price | ||
| Price | Free, unlimited | Free |
| Works offline, on your Mac | Yes, on-device mode | Yes, on Apple silicon |
| Beyond dictation | ||
| Meeting notes with who said what | Yes | No |
| Edit your last dictation by voice | Yes | No |
| Also on Windows and Android | Yes | No |
Which should you use?
Apple Dictation is fine for a quick sentence when you'll tidy it up yourself.
Freshflo is for when you talk the way you actually talk, with ums, restarts and a mix of languages, and want text you can send without editing. You can keep both: Freshflo uses its own key (fn by default) and doesn't replace Apple's.
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