Cloudless Voice
A free, on-device voice dictation app for Mac, Windows, and iOS that turns speech into cleaned-up text without sending your audio to the cloud.
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Description
If you've used dictation features built into your phone or computer, you already know the basic idea: hold a key, talk, and your words appear as text. Cloudless Voice does that same job, but with two differences that matter if you dictate a lot — it doesn't need an internet connection or send your voice anywhere, and it automatically cleans up what you say (removing filler words, fixing punctuation and formatting) before dropping the text into whatever app you're using, whether that's an email, a code editor, or a to-do list.
Under the hood, all the speech recognition happens locally on your device rather than being streamed to a cloud API, which is both a privacy feature and a cost one, since there's no per-minute cloud transcription bill to pass on to users. It supports over 100 languages, activates via a customizable hotkey (hold or double-tap Caps Lock by default), works system-wide across apps and websites rather than being tied to one program, and keeps a history of past transcripts. The company positions it explicitly as a free alternative to Wispr Flow, a similar dictation tool that charges $12/month and caps free usage at 2,000 words per week; Cloudless Voice's individual plan is free for the first 5,000 sign-ups, with a separate, unpriced Enterprise plan for organizations. The site states the code is open source and available to verify, though we were unable to locate a public repository during this review.
💬 Our review
The short version: Cloudless Voice is a genuinely useful pitch — free, private, on-device dictation instead of a $12/month cloud subscription — but several of its claims (the sign-up-capped free tier, the open-source code, the team behind it) are harder to independently verify than they should be for a tool that hears everything you dictate.
Against Wispr Flow, the named competitor, Cloudless Voice's value proposition is straightforward: same core use case, no monthly fee versus $12/month, and no cloud round-trip for your audio, which is a real privacy advantage if the local-processing claim holds up. Against other local/open dictation tools like OpenWhispr or Handy, Cloudless Voice looks similar in concept but offers less transparency — its website mentions open-source code without a discoverable public repository, and doesn't name the team or company behind the product, both reasonable things to want confirmed before trusting a dictation tool with everything you say. The 'free for first 5,000 sign-ups' framing also raises the obvious question of what happens after that cap, which isn't answered on the site. If the on-device claim is accurate, it's a strong deal for individuals; verify the privacy and open-source claims yourself before rolling it out to a team.
💰 Pricing
📊 Global score
🤖 AI-enriched data
Free for individuals, capped at the first 5,000 sign-ups; unpriced Enterprise plan for teams.
Pros
Fully on-device processing — no audio sent to the cloud
Free for individual use vs Wispr Flow's $12/month
AI cleanup removes filler words and fixes formatting automatically
Supports 100+ languages
Works system-wide across any app or website
Cons
Free tier explicitly capped at first 5,000 sign-ups, with no stated plan after that
Claims 'open-source code' but no public repository could be located
No named company or team behind the product
Enterprise pricing not published
Mac, Windows, iOS only — no Linux or Android support found