Hi Product Hunt. I built FreeFlow Dictation because I wanted to dictate into Slack, Mail and a terminal without a subscription and without my voice leaving the laptop. Apple Dictation kept timing out mid-paragraph and could not learn my vocabulary. The cloud apps are good, and they are also a monthly bill for something an M-series chip can do on its own.

The part that is new: I spend my day in Claude Code, and the moment it stops to ask a question or wants a plan approved is the moment I have switched to another window. FreeFlow now registers a hook so those prompts come to me as a small card wherever I am. I click an option, or hold Option and say it, and the session carries on. Permission prompts are click-only, because I did not want a misheard word to be able to run a command.

Everything runs on-device: Parakeet V3 is the default model, Cohere Transcribe is there for accuracy, and the Whisper family covers 99 languages. The privacy page on the site lists every network call the app can make. There are four, none of them your voice.

Two honest notes. It is Apple Silicon only, macOS 14 or later, and there is no Windows version. And if you only need the core loop and want to read the source, VoiceInk is $29 and GPL; the comparison page on my site says so.

I would rather hear what confused you than what you liked. The trial is 14 days, full app, no card.

FreeFlow Dictation

On-device Mac dictation with a Claude Code voice hook

On-device Mac dictation with a Claude Code voice hook