Wispr Flow alternative

A private Wispr Flow alternative for Mac.

Celesa gives you what people like about Wispr Flow, speaking naturally and getting polished text in any app, without sending your voice to the cloud, without a weekly word cap and without a subscription.

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Why people look for a Wispr Flow alternative

Wispr Flow is popular because it turns rambling speech into clean writing. People usually start looking elsewhere for three reasons.

The free plan runs out. Wispr Flow’s free plan allows 2,000 words a week on desktop¹. A few long emails use that up.
The price adds up. Pro costs $15 a month, or $12 a month billed yearly¹.
Your voice leaves your Mac. Wispr Flow sends your dictation over the internet to its service, and with Privacy Mode off, dictation data may be used to improve the product².

What Celesa does the same

Works in every app: hold a key, speak, let go, and the text appears at your cursor.
Removes “um”, “uh” and false starts, and applies corrections such as “Tuesday, no, Wednesday”.
Changes tone with the app: casual in Slack and WhatsApp, complete in Mail, structured in Notion, terse in VS Code.
Edit by voice: select text and say what to change.
A personal dictionary for names, and snippets for things you type often.

What Celesa does differently

Everything runs on your Mac. Speech recognition uses NVIDIA Parakeet and writing uses Qwen 3.5, both on your computer.
It works offline. Turn off Wi-Fi and it behaves the same.
It is free with no limits. No account, no word cap, no subscription.

Where Wispr Flow is still the better fit

Be honest about what you need. Wispr Flow is on Windows, iPhone and Android today, offers team plans, and uses cloud models that can know more rare words out of the box. If you need any of that right now, it remains a good choice.

Switch in three steps

Download Celesa for Mac and drag it into Applications.
Allow Microphone and Accessibility when asked, and let it download its models once (about 2 GB).
Paste your Wispr Flow dictionary words into Celesa’s dictionary, then hold Right Option and talk.

Prices and features as published, checked 31 October 2026.

Compare

How Celesa compares.
Side by side, with sources.

Celesa is the only one of these that does both steps, hearing you and tidying your words, on your Mac and for free.

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Celesa compared with Wispr Flow, Superwhisper and Apple Dictation
Feature	Celesa	Wispr Flow	Superwhisper	Apple Dictation
Price	Free	$15 a month, or $12 a month billed yearly¹	$8.49 a month, $84.99 a year or $249.99 once³	Free, built in⁴
Free limits	None	2,000 words a week on desktop¹	Local models only, no AI modes³	Stops after 30 seconds of silence⁴
Where your voice is processed	On your Mac	Sent over the internet to Wispr²	On your Mac, or in the cloud with cloud models³	On your Mac (Apple silicon, supported languages)⁴
Writes in your tone, removes fillers	Yes, on your Mac	Yes, in the cloud⁶	With AI modes in Pro³	No
Works with Wi-Fi off	Yes	No, cloud only⁵	With local models	On Apple silicon⁴

Prices and features as published, checked 31 October 2026.

Questions

Switching from Wispr Flow

Is Celesa as accurate as Wispr Flow?

For everyday English dictation, Celesa is accurate enough to use all day, and it never needs a connection. Wispr Flow uses cloud models, which can help with rare words; in Celesa you add those words to your dictionary once.

Can I bring my Wispr Flow dictionary to Celesa?

Yes. Open Dictionary and Snippets in Celesa and paste your words in, one per line. A line like “Celessa -> Celesa” fixes a word the speech model mishears.

Does Celesa have a command mode like Wispr Flow?

Yes. Select text, hold Shift with your Celesa key, and say what to change, such as “make it friendlier” or “turn this into bullets”. The edit happens on your Mac.

Does Celesa work on Windows or iPhone like Wispr Flow?

Not yet. Celesa is available for Mac today, and Windows and iPhone versions are in development. If you need those platforms now, Wispr Flow covers them.

Keep the flow.
Keep your voice.