Overview
Wispr Flow turns speech into polished text inside every app on Mac, Windows, iPhone and Android. The free tier caps words per device; HIPAA-readiness is included free while SSO and SOC 2 are Enterprise-only.
What Wispr Flow is
Wispr Flow is a voice-dictation app for Mac, Windows, iPhone and Android. Hold a key, speak, and it turns the words into clean, punctuated text in whatever field you are typing into — email, chat, docs, code editors, browser forms. The cleanup layer is the product: it removes filler words, applies punctuation, and reforms rambling speech, so the output reads like writing rather than a raw transcript. It replaces typing for people who write a lot and are slowed down by a keyboard — creators, developers, lawyers, sales and accessibility users. The company markets it as roughly 4x faster than typing.
The free tier that treats your devices differently
Wispr Flow gives you 2,000 words per week on Mac or Windows, 1,000 per week on iPhone, and unlimited on Android — for a limited time. Three different limits for one product is rare, and it changes how the free plan should be read. 2,000 words is roughly ten 200-word emails, or about 15 minutes of continuous dictation at a typical speaking pace; the iPhone allowance is half that. A person who does most of their dictation on the phone is not on the free tier at all — they are on a demo.
Command mode is the Pro threshold people miss
On Pro, you can edit by voice — "delete the last sentence," "make this more formal," "turn this into a list" — instead of grabbing the mouse. On the free plan, dictation is input only; the editing half of the workflow sits behind the subscription. That is a bigger gap than the word caps for people who dictate long passages, because voice cleanup is what makes dictation feel faster than typing in the first place. A person who dictates short replies may never notice; a person who drafts documents will hit it within the first day.
The use case changes who the free tier fits
The way people actually use Wispr Flow splits into two patterns, and the free tier fits one much better than the other. Long-form drafting — documents, long emails, article drafts — is where the cleanup layer does the heavy lifting. Short, high-frequency input — commit messages, ticket replies, chat responses, meeting notes — is usually 20–60 words per item, so a developer writing 40 commit messages a week plus a few tickets stays under the 2,000-word cap while someone drafting a single 1,500-word document does not. The counter-intuitive conclusion: the free tier is genuinely workable for people who write in many short bursts, and hits its limit fastest for people who write in long ones — the opposite of how most writing tools price themselves.
That pattern explains why Wispr markets itself to developers and support agents rather than novelists: the product is built for throughput across many small interactions, not sustained prose. If your writing is mostly replies, notes and messages, the free tier plus an occasional Pro month covers it; if it is mostly long-form, the word cap is not the main obstacle — the missing command mode is.
When Pro stops being a choice
Pro costs €12 per user per month billed annually (€15 monthly) and removes the word caps on every platform. The decision is whether your dictation volume makes the cap real:
| Weekly desktop usage | What it is in practice | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| Under ~1,000 words | Short messages, light replies | Free tier holds |
| ~1,500–1,800 words | ~8–9 emails, or most of a writing day | Hitting the cap regularly; Pro starts to pay |
| 2,000+ words | A full writing day or dictation-heavy workflow | Free tier blocks you mid-week |
The time-value side of the same math: the official claim is roughly 4x faster than typing, which against a 40–45 wpm typing pace puts voice around 160–180 wpm. Replacing 30 minutes of typing a day is about 1,200–1,350 words — most of the free tier's weekly desktop cap in a single day. On Pro it is unlimited, and the time recovered — roughly 22 minutes a day, about 7 hours a month — is worth more than the €12 subscription to anyone whose time is worth more than about €10–15 an hour.
One detail most comparisons miss: the desktop and iPhone allowances are separate, not shared. A person who dictates on both adds up to roughly 3,000 words a week on the free tier, but each device has its own ceiling, so a heavy mobile day can exhaust the iPhone side while the desktop cap sits untouched. The free plan is two separate small buckets, not one medium one.
What the tiers actually unlock
| Plan | Price | Word cap | Security |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | Free | 2,000/week desktop · 1,000/week iPhone · unlimited Android (limited time) | HIPAA-ready, privacy mode |
| Pro | €12 / user / mo (annual) · €15 monthly | Unlimited on all platforms | Command mode, team features, prioritized support |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | Unlimited | SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, SSO/SAML, enforced privacy mode |
Two details matter before you compare prices with anything you saw elsewhere. The prices on the public page are in euros, and third-party listings translate them inconsistently — some say $15, some $20 — so a non-EU buyer should treat the rate card as a starting point. And the compliance ladder splits in an unusual place: HIPAA-readiness is available on the free plan, while SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and SSO/SAML are Enterprise-only and require a sales conversation. A solo healthcare user is covered on Basic; a company that needs SAML must negotiate, with no self-serve middle option.
Who should use it, and who should not
- Works for: people who produce a lot of text daily across many apps — support agents answering tickets, lawyers drafting notes, developers writing commit messages; accessibility users who need a keyboard alternative.
- Works at these usage levels: more than ~1,500 words a week on desktop, where the free cap becomes a real constraint and Pro pays for itself in time saved; students get three months free and 50% off Pro, which changes the math for them.
- Does not work for: light users under ~1,000 words a week of short messages — the free tier is genuinely enough. Almost-exclusively Android users currently get unlimited free, so paying has the weakest case. And anyone who needs offline, on-device transcription: the cleanup layer runs on Wispr's servers, so offline use and privacy-sensitive material are the product's limits, not a pricing tier.
Wispr Flow is a dictation tool for people who want speaking to replace typing across every application they use. The free tier suits light users on one device; Pro is where dictation stops being a trial and becomes a writing method. Figures use Wispr's published pricing and typical word counts.