Flow Local — Private AI Dictation for Mac (100% offline, one-off price)

Dictation that never leaves your Mac. Hold a key, speak, release — your words are typed into whatever app you're using.

Flow Local is a menu-bar dictation app powered by Whisper AI, running entirely on your Mac. No cloud, no account, no subscription. Your voice is transcribed on-device: nothing is ever uploaded.

WHAT YOU GET

• Hold Right Option in any app — email, docs, browsers, chat — speak, release, and clean text appears at your cursor
• - Whisper AI accuracy with four switchable model sizes (fastest to most accurate)
• - Automatic cleanup: filler words ("um", "uh", "you know") removed
• - Menu-bar app with sound and icon cues: pop = recording, chime = ready, bottle = text delivered
• - Start at Login option — always ready when you are
• - Your clipboard is preserved and restored after every dictation

WHY LOCAL MATTERS

Cloud dictation tools send your audio — and often the text around your cursor — to remote servers. Flow Local sends 0 bytes anywhere. Ideal for confidential email, client work, legal and regulatory writing, or anything you'd rather keep on your machine.

PAY ONCE, USE FOREVER

£19, one-off. Popular cloud dictation apps cost £10–15 per month — Flow Local pays for itself in under two months.

REQUIREMENTS

macOS on Apple Silicon or Intel, free Python 3.10+ runtime (one brew command if you don't have it), ~200 MB disk space. First launch downloads the speech model (~75 MB), then it works fully offline.

WHAT'S IN THE DOWNLOAD

The app, a one-command installer (setup.sh), a README with setup and permissions guide, and a single-user licence. Install takes about two minutes: run the installer, grant the three macOS permissions, and the mic icon appears in your menu bar.

From Neilos Limited. Questions? info@neilosltd.co.uk