Aqua Voice vs Wispr Flow
I'm a big fan of voice dictation apps. In fact, I'm using one right now to write this very post (you'll have to wait till the end to see which one I'm using 😉)
The two main products I've used in this space are @Aqua Voice and @Wispr Flow. From talking to others, these are the two that I typically hear people mention using. In general, I hear a lot more people talk about using Wispr Flow.
I've personally found it super helpful using a dictation app for stuff like writing posts like this, quickly messaging in @Slack, writing up @Linear tasks, talking to @Claude by Anthropic, and even using it in my terminal with @Claude Code.
I'm curious to know, which of these two are you using and why? Or are you using a totally different dictation app?
And if you aren't using one, why not? What's keeping you from making the jump?
(Written with Aqua)
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Ash
I'm a huge huge fan of @Willow Voice ! Really high quality dictation. Seriously, a game changer for me.
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@daniel_cahn Very cool! I actually was not aware of that one, so I'll have to check it out. Any particular features that stand out, or any particular reason you chose that one over others?
Ash
@jakecrump Really good UX, really fast, and just does the best job by far at transcribing what I say correctly! Love that it's app-aware so it formats differently for email vs Slack, for example.
@daniel_cahn Hey thanks for sharing! It is very interesting I was not aware of this but now I am. Thanks again:)
Don't sleep on Monologue from Every, coming soon.
I also really like @TalkTastic. It's UI is unlike any of the others, and it's recently gotten a lot faster.
@chrismessina have you tried out this new app called monologue? I couldn't find much legit info anywhere. if you’ve got the inside scoop or just some first impressions, would love to hear it!
Cora
@chrismessina Appreciate it, Chris! Anyone can try out Monologue right now. It's in beta, but it's really good and is picking up steam on the design and feature side. Link here: https://monologue.to/?ref=LPZNVTP
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I've been using @Aqua Voice and I'm very happy with it. I actually started with @Wispr Flow, but it didn't quite click for me initially. I wanted to start regularly using voice dictation, but it wasn't as seamless of an adoption as I was hoping for.
When I switched to Aqua Voice, I was immediately sold though. Three things really stand out to me:
It's extremely fast.
The streaming mode makes editing as I go super easy. I love being able to say stuff like "let's actually re-do the second sentence in the first paragraph" or "make the part where I talk about x,y,z into a numbered list"
It rarely makes mistakes. That's mostly thanks to its screen context feature. When it does occasionally get a name or word wrong, I can usually just say "like it appears on screen" and it corrects itself.
I think it's really cool that @Wispr Flow now has an iOS app now, and I'm definitely interested in trying it out since I sorely miss having good voice dictation when I'm away from my computer. I'm hoping Aqua will add iOS support in the future too.
Overall, I think both tools are really strong and helpful. While I personally recommend @Aqua Voice, I just highly recommend that people use one of these two and start trying voice dictation.
I'm using Wispr Flow since couple of months and I'm quite happy. It has some flaws and glitches. But overall I'm very happy with it, especially that it has as well Windows and iOS support. I don't own a Mac and I'm waiting for Android support.
I've had also a lot of very positive feedbacks around Aqua Voice. I have this on my wish list as well, especially because it has much better latencies in response time. Wispr Flow on the other side supports more languages. I think more than 100, but I think in the 49 languages of Aqua Voice I will find the languages I usually dictate in, so this should not be a drawback for me. I have also found out that Aqua Voice has a much better word error rate which is a plus for Aqua Voice, and I'm already very happy about Wispr Flow.
The problem is that with Wispr Flow there are days where it works pretty good and flawless, and there are other days where it's less good when it comes to the latencies, but unfortunately also about the AI formatting, and especially with long text sometimes it really fails to provide something reasonable.
So I would say that I will switch to Aqua Voice if they come out with an Android version before Wispr Flow. If Wispr Flow comes out with an Android version, I will stick to them until Aqua Flow has Android support because that's really the major key feature I'm waiting for. (This has been dictated with Wispr Flow without any manual correction or formatting. Just out of the mic.)
Use this link to get Wispr Flow: wisprflow.ai/r/FERNAND3. You and I both get $15 credits when you hit 2,000 words!
Just give it a try. You have nothing to lose, and then you can compare it to Aqua Voice. If somebody has a referral link for Aqua Voice with some benefits, I would be happy to receive it.
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I tried to use @Wispr Flow but I can't get voice dictation to stick. Maybe I am too old.
Both really great apps. I actually wrote an article on my website comparing Aqua Voice, WhisperFlow, and a couple other dictation apps—with a focus on accessibility from my perspective as someone who was born without hands and relies heavily on voice input. If you’re curious how these tools stack up in real-world use, here’s the article: https://equalaccessibility.co/resources/top-4-dictation-apps-for-mac/
I’m also really looking forward to trying out @Willow Voice and Monologue—both look super promising and I’ll be adding them to a follow-up piece soon.