WisprBee is an AI voice keyboard and notetaker for macOS. You hold one key, say the thing, and let go; finished writing appears where your cursor was, already suited to whichever app is in front of you — brief in Slack, properly structured in Gmail, an engineered prompt in Cursor, a filed ticket in Linear. The one key works in every text field on the machine, across 75 spoken languages, and the text arrives under 2.5 seconds after you let go. In a meeting, the same key runs the Notetaker.

How is WisprBee different from other dictation tools?

Most tools hand you a raw transcript and leave the tidying to you — or make you pick a format up front. WisprBee reads whichever app is in front of you and writes to suit it, unprompted. There is no mode to choose.

What does “voice keyboard” mean?

A dictation tool converts speech to text. A voice keyboard does the whole job the keyboard does: it produces the finished text you would have typed, formatted for where it's going. That is the difference between getting words and getting writing — a transcript still needs punctuation, filler removal and reformatting before you can send it; a voice keyboard's output is already sendable.

Does WisprBee replace my keyboard?

No — it sits alongside it. WisprBee runs at the OS level and only does anything while you hold your chosen push-to-talk key. Your keyboard, trackpad and every other shortcut keep working exactly as before, and you can type over anything WisprBee pastes.

Which AI models does WisprBee use?

Speech-to-text and text polishing are routed through OpenRouter to models from OpenAI and Google: an OpenAI speech model transcribes English and other Latin-script languages, and Google models handle other languages and the text polishing. WisprBee picks whichever engine is most accurate for the language you're speaking. If those services are unreachable, it can fall back to an on-device model so dictation still works.

Anyone who writes more than they'd like to type. It's built for people who move between many apps in a day — founders and managers clearing Slack and email, writers drafting out loud, support teams answering tickets, students taking notes, and multilingual professionals who think in one language and need to write in another.

Does it really work in every app?

Yes. WisprBee works in any text field on macOS — no plugins or integrations. If you can type into it, you can talk into it.

What's the hotkey? Can I change it?

Hold to talk, release to paste. You can remap it to any push-to-talk key (Fn, a Command/Option/Control key, or F13–F19) in Settings.

Which apps does WisprBee shape text differently for?

There are eight built-in destination profiles, matched from the frontmost app and — in a browser — the website you're on. Messaging apps like Slack, Teams, Messages and WhatsApp get tight, friendly text with no sign-off. Gmail and Outlook get a structured email with a greeting and a closing. Cursor, Claude and ChatGPT get an engineered prompt with file names @-tagged and identifiers in backticks. Notion, Google Docs and Apple Notes get headings and bullets. Linear and Jira get a title, description and acceptance criteria. LinkedIn and X get a hook and short spaced paragraphs.

Can I edit existing text by voice?

Yes — that's Command mode. Select any text, hold your command key, and dictate the version you want in its place. WisprBee swaps in a complete rewrite of exactly what you said, in any editable field. It's a second hotkey, separate from your dictation key, so the two never collide.

What happens if the polish gets it wrong?

Your raw words are never lost. Hit re-transcribe to re-run the polish, undo to revert, or open the diff to see exactly what changed.

Can I control how much the AI changes my words?

Yes. There are four cleanup levels, from an exact transcript with no edits, through a light touch and a clarity polish, up to a full rewrite. The raw transcript is preserved at every level, so turning the polish up is never destructive.

Does WisprBee overwrite my clipboard?

No. WisprBee pastes by borrowing the clipboard for a moment and then restoring exactly what was in it. Whatever you had copied is still there after a dictation.

Can I find something I dictated last week?

Yes. Every dictation is saved and searchable, tagged with the app it went to and the style used. You can copy it again, re-run the polish on it, or delete it. Basic keeps 30 days of history; Pro and Pro Plus keep it indefinitely.

Can a short phrase expand into a long block of text?

Yes — that's Snippets. You map a spoken cue to a block of text, so saying “my scheduling link” pastes your whole calendar URL and “standard intro” pastes your usual opener. Basic includes 15 snippets; Pro and Pro Plus are unlimited.

Does WisprBee take meeting notes?

Yes. The built-in Notetaker records and transcribes your microphone and your Mac's system audio together, so every voice on a call is captured rather than just yours. Every plan has it, the free one included.

Does a bot join my meeting?

No. The Notetaker captures the audio your Mac is already playing, from the Mac itself. Nothing joins the call: no extra participant, no “Notetaker has joined the meeting” message, no invite for anyone to accept. This is what's usually called bot-free capture.

Which meeting platforms does it work with?

All of them, because it doesn't integrate with any of them. It captures what your Mac is playing, so Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, a phone call on speaker or a recorded talk are all the same to it. There's no integration to install and no admin approval to request.

Can I use it for long notes when there's no meeting?

Yes — that's the other half of the Notetaker. Dictation is built for a sentence or a paragraph; the Notetaker is for talking at length. Hold the key and think out loud for as long as you need, with no expectation of finishing in one breath.

Do I need everyone's permission to record a call?

Often, yes — and it's your responsibility, not the software's. Twelve US states (California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, New Hampshire, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Washington) require every participant to consent before a conversation is recorded, and an AI notetaker counts as recording. On a call spanning several states, assume the strictest rule applies. Since January 2025, California also requires you to disclose that a virtual notetaker is in use. Saying “I'm taking notes with an AI tool — everyone OK with that?” at the top of the call is usually the whole of it. This is information, not legal advice.

Is the Notetaker included on the free plan?

Yes — Basic has it, rather than it being held back for the paid tiers.

What happens to meeting audio?

The same as dictation audio: it goes over an encrypted connection to be turned into text, isn't retained by us after processing, and is never used to train models without your permission. The full processing chain and our named sub-processors are on the About page.

Which languages are supported?

100 languages, including regional variants like British and Canadian English, Swiss German, Hinglish, and Simplified or Traditional Chinese. WisprBee can auto-detect what you're speaking, or you can pick your language in Settings for the sharpest accuracy — and separately choose the language your text comes out in, English by default. Behind the scenes it picks the speech engine that's most accurate for your language.

Can I speak one language and write in another?

Yes, and it's a first-class feature rather than a translation bolt-on. Your spoken language and your output language are set separately, with English as the default output. Speak Spanish, send English — in one step, with no translation tab in between.

Can it handle my names, brands, and jargon?

Yes — register each one in your Personal Dictionary and WisprBee's phonetic matching gets it right every time, even when the transcript came back with the wrong spelling.

How does the dictionary fix a word the transcriber got wrong?

By sound, not by spelling. It's phonetic fuzzy matching rather than find-and-replace, so a term you've taught it is corrected even when the transcript came back as a different but similar-sounding word — “Jeffrey” becomes “Geoffrey” if that's how you spell it. Plain find-and-replace can't do that, because the wrong spelling is never the one you registered.

Does WisprBee learn my corrections automatically?

On Pro and Pro Plus, yes: the Adaptive Dictionary adds terms itself every time you fix a word, so the list builds without you maintaining it. On Basic the Personal Dictionary is manual, and holds up to 50 terms.

Text lands in under 2.5 seconds after you release the key. The underlying gain is bigger than that: people speak at roughly 150 words a minute and type at roughly 40, which is where the “up to 4× faster than typing” figure comes from.

Your audio is sent over an encrypted connection to our speech providers to produce your text, isn't retained by us afterward, and is never used to train models without your permission. Your history and keys stay on your machine, and your clipboard is always restored.

Who else processes my audio and text?

Four named sub-processors, and no others: Paddle handles payments as our Merchant of Record; OpenRouter is the AI gateway that routes your audio and text onward; OpenAI provides the speech model used for English and other Latin-script languages; Google provides speech models for other languages and the text-polishing model. They are listed in full in our Privacy Policy.

Do you keep my recordings?

No. Audio is used to produce your transcript and is not retained by us after processing. What persists is the text, and that lives in your local history on your own machine.

Do you train AI models on my voice or my writing?

No — not without your explicit permission. Your content is used to provide the service to you. We don't sell it, and we don't feed it into model training by default.

Where is my history stored?

On your Mac. Your dictation history, personal dictionary, snippets, settings and API keys are stored locally unless you turn on cloud sync. You can delete any of it, or all of it, at any time.

Does WisprBee work offline?

Partly. Transcription and polishing normally run in the cloud, but if those services are unavailable WisprBee can fall back to an on-device model so dictation keeps working. Expect the fallback to be less accurate than the cloud models and, because polishing is a cloud step, expect plainer output while you're offline.

Are you SOC 2 or HIPAA certified?

Not yet, and we don't claim to be. SOC 2 Type II is planned, and HIPAA with a BAA is planned for business customers. We publish certification badges only once they're actually achieved — until then these are commitments, not credentials.

What happens after my 2,000 free words?

Basic includes 2,000 words to get you going. When you reach them, upgrade to Pro for unlimited words — everything you've already set up (dictionary, snippets, history) carries over.

What's the difference between Pro and Pro Plus?

Basic is free and genuinely usable: 2,000 words a month, 50 dictionary terms, 15 snippets, Command, all 100 languages, and 30 days of history. Pro ($12/mo) lifts the word cap, makes the dictionary and snippets unlimited, keeps your history forever, and adds the Adaptive Dictionary — which learns your names and jargon automatically every time you correct a word, instead of you adding them by hand. Pro Plus ($20/user/mo) adds unlimited team seats with a shared library, roles and member management; any plan can trial a team of two for 30 days.

Is team sharing available on Basic or Pro?

No — team sharing is exclusive to Pro Plus. Basic and Pro are single-user. If you want a shared dictionary and snippets across your team, that's Pro Plus.

Do you offer team plans?

Yes — Pro Plus is the team plan, at $20 per member per month. It gives everyone a shared dictionary and snippet library, roles, and invites. You can start a team and add members from the app.

Which features are actually limited on the free plan?

Two things, and they're the only quotas the product enforces: the 2,000-word monthly allowance, and owning a team beyond one team of two seats for 30 days. Everything else — the Context Engine, Auto-Polish, Command mode, all 100 languages — is on every plan, including free. The dictionary (50 terms), snippets (15) and history (30 days) are capped on Basic rather than withheld.

Paddle.com is our Merchant of Record. Paddle processes the payment, handles sales tax and VAT for your country, sends your receipt, and manages returns. Your purchase is also subject to Paddle's buyer terms, and you can manage or cancel the subscription from the link in your Paddle receipt.

Yes — there's a 14-day money-back guarantee on your first paid subscription purchase. Email support@wisprbee.com with the address you bought with and your Paddle order number, or use the help link in your Paddle receipt. Renewal charges are generally non-refundable, but an unintended renewal reviewed within 14 days will be looked at in good faith. The full terms are on our Refund Policy page.

From your account, or via the Paddle receipt link in your purchase confirmation email. Cancelling stops the renewal — you keep full access until the end of the period you've already paid for.

Is there a student discount?

Yes, for students and educators. Get in touch at support@wisprbee.com from your institutional email address and we'll sort it out.

Is WisprBee the best AI voice keyboard?

We're not going to claim that, because we haven't tested every alternative and a ranking we invented would be worth nothing to you. What we can say is where WisprBee is strong and where it isn't. Strong: it returns finished writing rather than a transcript, it adapts that writing to whichever app is in front of you, it corrects your vocabulary by sound, it edits by voice, and it takes meeting notes without anything joining the call — all on a free tier that is the whole product at a smaller volume. Weak: transcription is a cloud step, so offline it degrades; there's no Windows, Linux or Intel build; SOC 2 isn't certified and HIPAA isn't available. Our guide at /choosing-a-voice-keyboard sets out twelve checks you can run on any product in about a minute each.

What should I look for in a dictation app?

Twelve things, in rough order of how much they affect daily use: whether you get finished writing or a transcript; whether the output adapts to the destination; whether you can teach it your vocabulary and whether it learns; whether you can edit by voice; where your audio goes and whether it's kept; what happens offline; how many languages, and whether output can differ from input; whether it works in every app or only supported ones; whether it handles meetings and whether a bot joins; whether you can recover a dictation it mangled; what it does to your clipboard; and what it costs at your real volume rather than in week one.

Which dictation app has custom vocabulary?

WisprBee does, via the Personal Dictionary — and the mechanism matters more than the feature. It matches phonetically rather than by spelling, so a term you've registered is corrected even when the transcript came back as a different but similar-sounding word. Find-and-replace can't do that, because the wrong spelling is never the one you registered. Fifty terms on the free plan, unlimited on paid; on Pro and above the list also builds itself from your corrections.

Which voice keyboard works offline?

WisprBee degrades rather than failing: an on-device model takes over transcription when the cloud is unreachable. But be clear about the trade-off — accuracy drops, and because polishing is a cloud step the output is plainer. If you work offline most of the time, a fully on-device tool is the honest recommendation over this one.

Which dictation app supports the most languages?

We can only speak for ours: 75 distinct base languages, counted as base languages rather than picker rows. Regional and script variants — British and Canadian English, Swiss German, Hinglish, Simplified and Traditional Chinese — are additional options whose base language is already in that count, so the picker shows more rows than 75. The output language is set separately from the spoken one, which is the part that matters if you think in one language and write in another.

Is there a free AI voice keyboard?

WisprBee's free plan is 2,000 words a month with no card required, and it is the whole product at a smaller volume rather than a crippled version: the Context Engine, Auto-Polish, Command mode, the Notetaker and all 100 languages are all included. Exactly two things are gated across the product — the word allowance and owning a team beyond one team of two seats for 30 days. The single feature the free plan genuinely lacks is the Adaptive Dictionary, which builds your word list from your corrections automatically.

What's the cheapest way to get unlimited dictation?

Pro, at $12 per month, which lifts the word cap and makes the dictionary and snippets unlimited. Billing runs through Paddle as Merchant of Record, and there's a 14-day money-back guarantee on a first purchase, so the real cost of finding out is nothing.

FAQEverything about WisprBee, answered.

58 questions in six groups — what it is, how to use it, accuracy and languages, privacy, plans, and installing. Every answer links back to the page that goes deeper.

What WisprBee is

The short version, for anyone who just landed here.

What is WisprBee?: WisprBee is an AI voice keyboard and notetaker for macOS. You hold one key, say the thing, and let go; finished writing appears where your cursor was, already suited to whichever app is in front of you — brief in Slack, properly structured in Gmail, an engineered prompt in Cursor, a filed ticket in Linear. The one key works in every text field on the machine, across 75 spoken languages, and the text arrives under 2.5 seconds after you let go. In a meeting, the same key runs the Notetaker.
How is WisprBee different from other dictation tools?: Most tools hand you a raw transcript and leave the tidying to you — or make you pick a format up front. WisprBee reads whichever app is in front of you and writes to suit it, unprompted. There is no mode to choose.
What does “voice keyboard” mean?: A dictation tool converts speech to text. A voice keyboard does the whole job the keyboard does: it produces the finished text you would have typed, formatted for where it's going. That is the difference between getting words and getting writing — a transcript still needs punctuation, filler removal and reformatting before you can send it; a voice keyboard's output is already sendable.
Does WisprBee replace my keyboard?: No — it sits alongside it. WisprBee runs at the OS level and only does anything while you hold your chosen push-to-talk key. Your keyboard, trackpad and every other shortcut keep working exactly as before, and you can type over anything WisprBee pastes.
Which AI models does WisprBee use?: Speech-to-text and text polishing are routed through OpenRouter to models from OpenAI and Google: an OpenAI speech model transcribes English and other Latin-script languages, and Google models handle other languages and the text polishing. WisprBee picks whichever engine is most accurate for the language you're speaking. If those services are unreachable, it can fall back to an on-device model so dictation still works.
Who is WisprBee for?: Anyone who writes more than they'd like to type. It's built for people who move between many apps in a day — founders and managers clearing Slack and email, writers drafting out loud, support teams answering tickets, students taking notes, and multilingual professionals who think in one language and need to write in another.

Using it day to day

Hotkeys, apps, editing by voice, and what happens to your clipboard.

Does it really work in every app?: Yes. WisprBee works in any text field on macOS — no plugins or integrations. If you can type into it, you can talk into it.
What's the hotkey? Can I change it?: Hold to talk, release to paste. You can remap it to any push-to-talk key (Fn, a Command/Option/Control key, or F13–F19) in Settings.
Which apps does WisprBee shape text differently for?: There are eight built-in destination profiles, matched from the frontmost app and — in a browser — the website you're on. Messaging apps like Slack, Teams, Messages and WhatsApp get tight, friendly text with no sign-off. Gmail and Outlook get a structured email with a greeting and a closing. Cursor, Claude and ChatGPT get an engineered prompt with file names @-tagged and identifiers in backticks. Notion, Google Docs and Apple Notes get headings and bullets. Linear and Jira get a title, description and acceptance criteria. LinkedIn and X get a hook and short spaced paragraphs.
Can I edit existing text by voice?: Yes — that's Command mode. Select any text, hold your command key, and dictate the version you want in its place. WisprBee swaps in a complete rewrite of exactly what you said, in any editable field. It's a second hotkey, separate from your dictation key, so the two never collide.
What happens if the polish gets it wrong?: Your raw words are never lost. Hit re-transcribe to re-run the polish, undo to revert, or open the diff to see exactly what changed.
Can I control how much the AI changes my words?: Yes. There are four cleanup levels, from an exact transcript with no edits, through a light touch and a clarity polish, up to a full rewrite. The raw transcript is preserved at every level, so turning the polish up is never destructive.
Does WisprBee overwrite my clipboard?: No. WisprBee pastes by borrowing the clipboard for a moment and then restoring exactly what was in it. Whatever you had copied is still there after a dictation.
Can I find something I dictated last week?: Yes. Every dictation is saved and searchable, tagged with the app it went to and the style used. You can copy it again, re-run the polish on it, or delete it. Basic keeps 30 days of history; Pro and Pro Plus keep it indefinitely.
Can a short phrase expand into a long block of text?: Yes — that's Snippets. You map a spoken cue to a block of text, so saying “my scheduling link” pastes your whole calendar URL and “standard intro” pastes your usual opener. Basic includes 15 snippets; Pro and Pro Plus are unlimited.

The Notetaker

Meeting capture without a bot, long-form voice notes, and who you have to ask first.

Does WisprBee take meeting notes?: Yes. The built-in Notetaker records and transcribes your microphone and your Mac's system audio together, so every voice on a call is captured rather than just yours. Every plan has it, the free one included.
Does a bot join my meeting?: No. The Notetaker captures the audio your Mac is already playing, from the Mac itself. Nothing joins the call: no extra participant, no “Notetaker has joined the meeting” message, no invite for anyone to accept. This is what's usually called bot-free capture.
Which meeting platforms does it work with?: All of them, because it doesn't integrate with any of them. It captures what your Mac is playing, so Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, a phone call on speaker or a recorded talk are all the same to it. There's no integration to install and no admin approval to request.
Can I use it for long notes when there's no meeting?: Yes — that's the other half of the Notetaker. Dictation is built for a sentence or a paragraph; the Notetaker is for talking at length. Hold the key and think out loud for as long as you need, with no expectation of finishing in one breath.
Do I need everyone's permission to record a call?: Often, yes — and it's your responsibility, not the software's. Twelve US states (California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, New Hampshire, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Washington) require every participant to consent before a conversation is recorded, and an AI notetaker counts as recording. On a call spanning several states, assume the strictest rule applies. Since January 2025, California also requires you to disclose that a virtual notetaker is in use. Saying “I'm taking notes with an AI tool — everyone OK with that?” at the top of the call is usually the whole of it. This is information, not legal advice.
Is the Notetaker included on the free plan?: Yes — Basic has it, rather than it being held back for the paid tiers.
What happens to meeting audio?: The same as dictation audio: it goes over an encrypted connection to be turned into text, isn't retained by us after processing, and is never used to train models without your permission. The full processing chain and our named sub-processors are on the About page.

Accuracy, speed and languages

Proper nouns, jargon, 100 languages, and how long it actually takes.

Which languages are supported?: 100 languages, including regional variants like British and Canadian English, Swiss German, Hinglish, and Simplified or Traditional Chinese. WisprBee can auto-detect what you're speaking, or you can pick your language in Settings for the sharpest accuracy — and separately choose the language your text comes out in, English by default. Behind the scenes it picks the speech engine that's most accurate for your language.
Can I speak one language and write in another?: Yes, and it's a first-class feature rather than a translation bolt-on. Your spoken language and your output language are set separately, with English as the default output. Speak Spanish, send English — in one step, with no translation tab in between.
Can it handle my names, brands, and jargon?: Yes — register each one in your Personal Dictionary and WisprBee's phonetic matching gets it right every time, even when the transcript came back with the wrong spelling.
How does the dictionary fix a word the transcriber got wrong?: By sound, not by spelling. It's phonetic fuzzy matching rather than find-and-replace, so a term you've taught it is corrected even when the transcript came back as a different but similar-sounding word — “Jeffrey” becomes “Geoffrey” if that's how you spell it. Plain find-and-replace can't do that, because the wrong spelling is never the one you registered.
Does WisprBee learn my corrections automatically?: On Pro and Pro Plus, yes: the Adaptive Dictionary adds terms itself every time you fix a word, so the list builds without you maintaining it. On Basic the Personal Dictionary is manual, and holds up to 50 terms.
How fast is it?: Text lands in under 2.5 seconds after you release the key. The underlying gain is bigger than that: people speak at roughly 150 words a minute and type at roughly 40, which is where the “up to 4× faster than typing” figure comes from.

Privacy and your data

Where your audio goes, who touches it, and what stays on your Mac.

Is my data private?: Your audio is sent over an encrypted connection to our speech providers to produce your text, isn't retained by us afterward, and is never used to train models without your permission. Your history and keys stay on your machine, and your clipboard is always restored.
Who else processes my audio and text?: Four named sub-processors, and no others: Paddle handles payments as our Merchant of Record; OpenRouter is the AI gateway that routes your audio and text onward; OpenAI provides the speech model used for English and other Latin-script languages; Google provides speech models for other languages and the text-polishing model. They are listed in full in our Privacy Policy.
Do you keep my recordings?: No. Audio is used to produce your transcript and is not retained by us after processing. What persists is the text, and that lives in your local history on your own machine.
Do you train AI models on my voice or my writing?: No — not without your explicit permission. Your content is used to provide the service to you. We don't sell it, and we don't feed it into model training by default.
Where is my history stored?: On your Mac. Your dictation history, personal dictionary, snippets, settings and API keys are stored locally unless you turn on cloud sync. You can delete any of it, or all of it, at any time.
Does WisprBee work offline?: Partly. Transcription and polishing normally run in the cloud, but if those services are unavailable WisprBee can fall back to an on-device model so dictation keeps working. Expect the fallback to be less accurate than the cloud models and, because polishing is a cloud step, expect plainer output while you're offline.
Are you SOC 2 or HIPAA certified?: Not yet, and we don't claim to be. SOC 2 Type II is planned, and HIPAA with a BAA is planned for business customers. We publish certification badges only once they're actually achieved — until then these are commitments, not credentials.

Plans, billing and refunds

What's free, what each paid tier adds, and how to get your money back.

What happens after my 2,000 free words?: Basic includes 2,000 words to get you going. When you reach them, upgrade to Pro for unlimited words — everything you've already set up (dictionary, snippets, history) carries over.
What's the difference between Pro and Pro Plus?: Basic is free and genuinely usable: 2,000 words a month, 50 dictionary terms, 15 snippets, Command, all 100 languages, and 30 days of history. Pro ($12/mo) lifts the word cap, makes the dictionary and snippets unlimited, keeps your history forever, and adds the Adaptive Dictionary — which learns your names and jargon automatically every time you correct a word, instead of you adding them by hand. Pro Plus ($20/user/mo) adds unlimited team seats with a shared library, roles and member management; any plan can trial a team of two for 30 days.
Is team sharing available on Basic or Pro?: No — team sharing is exclusive to Pro Plus. Basic and Pro are single-user. If you want a shared dictionary and snippets across your team, that's Pro Plus.
Do you offer team plans?: Yes — Pro Plus is the team plan, at $20 per member per month. It gives everyone a shared dictionary and snippet library, roles, and invites. You can start a team and add members from the app.
Which features are actually limited on the free plan?: Two things, and they're the only quotas the product enforces: the 2,000-word monthly allowance, and owning a team beyond one team of two seats for 30 days. Everything else — the Context Engine, Auto-Polish, Command mode, all 100 languages — is on every plan, including free. The dictionary (50 terms), snippets (15) and history (30 days) are capped on Basic rather than withheld.
Who handles billing?: Paddle.com is our Merchant of Record. Paddle processes the payment, handles sales tax and VAT for your country, sends your receipt, and manages returns. Your purchase is also subject to Paddle's buyer terms, and you can manage or cancel the subscription from the link in your Paddle receipt.
Can I get a refund?: Yes — there's a 14-day money-back guarantee on your first paid subscription purchase. Email [email protected] with the address you bought with and your Paddle order number, or use the help link in your Paddle receipt. Renewal charges are generally non-refundable, but an unintended renewal reviewed within 14 days will be looked at in good faith. The full terms are on our Refund Policy page.
How do I cancel?: From your account, or via the Paddle receipt link in your purchase confirmation email. Cancelling stops the renewal — you keep full access until the end of the period you've already paid for.
Is there a student discount?: Yes, for students and educators. Get in touch at [email protected] from your institutional email address and we'll sort it out.

Choosing between options

The comparative questions, answered without claiming to be the best at anything.

Is WisprBee the best AI voice keyboard?: We're not going to claim that, because we haven't tested every alternative and a ranking we invented would be worth nothing to you. What we can say is where WisprBee is strong and where it isn't. Strong: it returns finished writing rather than a transcript, it adapts that writing to whichever app is in front of you, it corrects your vocabulary by sound, it edits by voice, and it takes meeting notes without anything joining the call — all on a free tier that is the whole product at a smaller volume. Weak: transcription is a cloud step, so offline it degrades; there's no Windows, Linux or Intel build; SOC 2 isn't certified and HIPAA isn't available. Our guide at /choosing-a-voice-keyboard sets out twelve checks you can run on any product in about a minute each.
What should I look for in a dictation app?: Twelve things, in rough order of how much they affect daily use: whether you get finished writing or a transcript; whether the output adapts to the destination; whether you can teach it your vocabulary and whether it learns; whether you can edit by voice; where your audio goes and whether it's kept; what happens offline; how many languages, and whether output can differ from input; whether it works in every app or only supported ones; whether it handles meetings and whether a bot joins; whether you can recover a dictation it mangled; what it does to your clipboard; and what it costs at your real volume rather than in week one.
Which dictation app has custom vocabulary?: WisprBee does, via the Personal Dictionary — and the mechanism matters more than the feature. It matches phonetically rather than by spelling, so a term you've registered is corrected even when the transcript came back as a different but similar-sounding word. Find-and-replace can't do that, because the wrong spelling is never the one you registered. Fifty terms on the free plan, unlimited on paid; on Pro and above the list also builds itself from your corrections.
Which voice keyboard works offline?: WisprBee degrades rather than failing: an on-device model takes over transcription when the cloud is unreachable. But be clear about the trade-off — accuracy drops, and because polishing is a cloud step the output is plainer. If you work offline most of the time, a fully on-device tool is the honest recommendation over this one.
Which dictation app supports the most languages?: We can only speak for ours: 75 distinct base languages, counted as base languages rather than picker rows. Regional and script variants — British and Canadian English, Swiss German, Hinglish, Simplified and Traditional Chinese — are additional options whose base language is already in that count, so the picker shows more rows than 75. The output language is set separately from the spoken one, which is the part that matters if you think in one language and write in another.
Is there a free AI voice keyboard?: WisprBee's free plan is 2,000 words a month with no card required, and it is the whole product at a smaller volume rather than a crippled version: the Context Engine, Auto-Polish, Command mode, the Notetaker and all 100 languages are all included. Exactly two things are gated across the product — the word allowance and owning a team beyond one team of two seats for 30 days. The single feature the free plan genuinely lacks is the Adaptive Dictionary, which builds your word list from your corrections automatically.
What's the cheapest way to get unlimited dictation?: Pro, at $12 per month, which lifts the word cap and makes the dictionary and snippets unlimited. Billing runs through Paddle as Merchant of Record, and there's a 14-day money-back guarantee on a first purchase, so the real cost of finding out is nothing.
Do I need separate apps for dictation and meeting notes?: Not with WisprBee — the same app and the same key do both, which is the practical argument for it. Dictation handles a sentence or a paragraph; the Notetaker handles a whole call, capturing your microphone and the system audio together so every voice is transcribed. Both sit on every tier, the free one included.

Installing and compatibility

Which Macs, which permissions, and the one macOS warning you may hit.

What platforms do you support?: macOS today. Windows and iOS are on the roadmap.
Which version of macOS do I need?: macOS 11.0 (Big Sur) or later.
Does WisprBee run on an Intel Mac?: Not yet. The published build is for Apple Silicon (M-series) only. An Intel build isn't out — email [email protected] if you need one and it gets prioritised.
What permissions does WisprBee need, and why?: Two, both requested during setup. Microphone access, so it can hear you. Accessibility access, so it can paste text into other applications — that's the permission macOS requires for any app that types into another app's text field, and it's what lets WisprBee work everywhere instead of only inside its own window.
Will macOS warn me when I open WisprBee?: No. WisprBee is signed with Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple, and the notarization ticket is stapled to both the app and the disk image — so it opens like any other Mac app, with no security warning and no Terminal command. It works even if your Mac is offline, because a stapled ticket doesn't need to check in with Apple. If you're running a build downloaded before notarization landed, delete it and download again rather than clearing the quarantine flag by hand.
How do I verify the download is genuine?: Every published build has a SHA-256 checksum listed on the download page. Compare it against `shasum -a 256 <file>` in Terminal before you install.

Still looking?

Glossary — what “voice keyboard”, “app-aware dictation” and “phonetic matching” actually mean.
How-to guides — setting your hotkey, teaching it your names, dictating into any app.
WisprBee vs Apple's built-in dictation — including when Apple's is the better choice.
Privacy & security and our Privacy Policy — the full sub-processor list.
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