Hold a key — or click the mic — talk, and clean text lands at your cursor. No round-trip, no queue, no crossed fingers: speech recognition runs on the Apple Neural Engine and cleanup runs on a local model. It's instant because the computer doing the work is the one in front of you.
APPLE SILICON · MACOS 15+ · WORKS OFFLINE
THE BAR — CLICK MIC · TALK · CLICK STOP
WHY WE BUILT THIS
It got us addicted first — dictation that stops you from wanting to type. Then came the other side of it: you dictate a full paragraph and it disappears. Or it freezes mid-sentence. Or it says you're offline when your internet is fine. Or you sit there watching a loading spinner, crossing your fingers that this time it works. And all the while, your voice — and periodic screenshots of your screen — are streaming to someone else's cloud, for $15 a month.
At some point we asked the obvious question: the Mac on the desk is more than powerful enough to do all of this itself. Why are we paying rent on a round-trip?
There's no server between your voice and your text. Parakeet TDT v3 runs on the Apple Neural Engine — the delay you hated wasn't your Mac. It was the trip.
Every dictation is written to an encrypted recovery store before insertion, and it's on your clipboard too. If insertion ever misses, ⌘V has it. Every time.
No login to lock you out of. No connection to drop. Unplug the network — after a one-time model download, dictation doesn't notice.
A small handle sits at the bottom of your screen and fades away when your cursor comes close. Prefer nothing on screen? Use the hotkey or the menu bar.
Fillers, false starts, mid-sentence corrections — stripped. Parakeet TDT v3 transcribes on the Neural Engine at many times real-time, offline.
A local cleanup model fixes grammar and tone for the app you're in — formal in email, casual in Slack, symbols in your editor. Always on your clipboard too.
WHY LOCAL WINS
Wispr Flow sends your audio — and periodic screenshots of your active window — to their servers, charges $15/month for it, and their privacy mode is opt-in. Locked In Flow has no server to send anything to.
| Locked In Flow | Wispr Flow | |
|---|---|---|
| Audio processed | On your Mac (Apple Neural Engine) | Their cloud |
| Works offline | Yes | No |
| Dictation can vanish | No — recovery store + clipboard | Reported constantly |
| Freezes / "offline" errors | No server to fail | Top Trustpilot complaint |
| Screenshots sent to cloud | Never | Periodically, by design |
| Account required | None | Yes — and it can lock you out |
| Analytics / telemetry | None | Present |
| Price | Free tier · $129 once | $15/mo · $144/yr |
CAPABILITIES
Grammar, punctuation, formatting — with hard guardrails that never invent content. Compare raw vs final in one click.
Teach a correction once — it's right forever. Suggests new terms from your own dictations. All on-device.
Formal for email, casual for chat, symbol-aware for editors. Follows the app you're in, or pin one manually.
"camel case get user name" → getUserName. Braces, arrows, quotes, dots — spoken, written.
"Insert signature" drops your full signature block. Canned text, triggered by a phrase, stored encrypted.
Encrypted, retention from "off" to "forever". Every dictation is recoverable and always on your clipboard.
PRICING
Download it, use everything for 14 days — no card, no account. Licenses validate offline; nothing phones home.
$0
14 days · everything
$129
one-time · 2 machines
$99
per seat / year
Wispr Flow Pro costs $144/year, every year. Locked In Flow Pro costs $129, once. Love it or tell us why not — feedback we ship earns you a free license: feedback@lockedinflow.com
FAQ
No. Speech recognition and cleanup run on-device. The only network calls ever made are a one-time model download and optional update checks. Dictation works with the network cable unplugged.
A second on-device stage rewrites rambling into clean prose, adapts tone to the app you're in, applies your personal vocabulary, and turns spoken symbols into code. You can always see raw vs cleaned with one click.
Secure fields are detected and refused, always. Locked In Flow never reads screen content — Accessibility permission is used only to insert text and to identify password fields so it can stay out of them.
Yes — teach a correction once and it sticks. It also suggests terms you use often, from your own local history. Nothing is trained on your data; adaptation lives in your encrypted dictionary.
Any Apple Silicon Mac on macOS 15 or later. A one-time ~600 MB model download; everything runs offline after that.
Because the compute is yours. There's no server bill to pass on, so there's no subscription to justify. You buy the software, you own it.