Free to run for 15 days, then pay once: $49 Pro or $99 Studio, yours for good. Everyone else in this category rents you your own voice by the month and uploads every word while they do it. Voxmelt runs on the PC you already own, needs no GPU to dictate, and stops charging you after the first time. Privacy by architecture, not by terms of service no one reads.
Prove it on your PC - no GPU needed. 15-day trial of everything, then 60 min/day dictation, a daily AI taste (the starter tone of every pack), and 10 min/day of read-aloud. Free forever, no card.
DownloadDictate all day, polished. Unlimited dictation, unlimited AI runs on every everyday template, all 32 voiceover voices with speed control and WAV export, mid-size local AI models, and 5 custom templates.
Get ProThe AI power-user studio. Everything in Pro, plus the AI Prompt and Code packs, every AI model in the catalog including the flagships, 30 custom templates, and a direct line to the maker.
Get StudioCloud dictation tools meter you per minute and upload every word you say. Voxmelt runs the same Whisper model locally on your GPU - unmetered, private, and often faster because there is no network round-trip.
Privacy
Audio never leaves your machine
Not "encrypted in transit" - never transmitted at all. Run any network monitor while you dictate and watch zero bytes leave. HIPAA and GDPR friendly by architecture, not by contract.
Cost
One payment, then nothing
Wispr Flow charges $15/mo with word limits. Otter AI meters per minute. Voxmelt Pro is $49 once - dictate all day, every day, with no overage fees and no second invoice.
Speed
No network latency - GPU-direct
20 to 100+ tokens/second on consumer GPUs. Your RTX card processes text faster than most cloud APIs can respond - and works offline, on planes, in air-gapped labs.
Freedom
Any Ollama model, instantly
Gemma 4, Qwen 3, Llama 4, DeepSeek R1, Mistral - new models release monthly and you get them the same day. No vendor lock-in, no waiting for a provider to add support.
GPU orchestration
Smart VRAM swap - no other app does this
Voxmelt juggles two GPU models (Whisper STT + an LLM) on one card with auto-eviction. A 12 GB card runs both; a 24 GB card keeps both warm. You never manage VRAM manually.
Proof
Proof, not promises
Cloud tools ask you to trust a privacy policy. Voxmelt lets you check: open a network monitor, dictate, and see for yourself that no audio leaves. No telemetry, no analytics, no tracking pixels.
See the full comparison: Voxmelt vs Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, Otter AI, and Dragon →
You pay once. Pro is $49 and Studio is $99, one time, through Razorpay - there is no subscription, no renewal date, and nothing to cancel. In India you pay in INR (Pro ₹3,999, Studio ₹7,999) because Indian cards and UPI can only be charged in rupees, so pick INR at checkout if your card was issued in India. No per-minute metering, no API keys, no seat counts. Buy it, keep it.
No - all sales are final and purchases are non-refundable. That is exactly why the trial is 15 days of the full Studio pipeline with no card required: you evaluate Voxmelt on your own hardware, your own voice, and your own PC before a single rupee or dollar moves. Since there is no subscription, there is also no renewal to be surprised by - one charge, and that is the last one. Full details are in the Refund Policy at voxmelt.com/privacy#refund.
15 days of everything - the full Studio pipeline. After the trial, the free tier keeps 60 minutes/day of dictation, 10 AI cleanup runs/day on the starter tone of every template pack, 10 minutes/day of Read Aloud with 2 voices (Clara and Marcus in 3 free tones), the 6-language translator, models up to 4B, and 1 custom template slot. Compose and Voiceover work within the same daily limits. You are never locked out of your own transcripts.
No account is required to record. An account only matters for managing your Pro/Studio license across machines.
Pro is the everyday plan: unlimited dictation, unlimited AI runs on the everyday template set (cleanup vibes, chat replies, meeting recaps, note distilling, signal extraction, translation), all 32 Voiceover voice combinations with speed control and WAV export, the Compose workspace, mid-size local AI models, 5 custom templates, and priority email support. Studio is the power-user plan: everything in Pro, plus the AI Prompt Architect and Code Prompt packs built for Cursor and Copilot workflows, every AI model in the catalog including the flagship-size ones, 30 custom template slots, and a direct line to the maintainer.
Never. Recording, transcription, and AI cleanup all run on your own hardware - no cloud calls, no telemetry, no API keys. The only network traffic is license checks, billing, and update checks, and none of it carries audio or text. Turn off WiFi and dictation keeps working. That is the whole point.
No. There is no subscription, no recurring mandate and no renewal date, so there is nothing to cancel and nothing that can quietly charge you again. Your licence is tied to your account and stays on the plan you bought. If you never buy, the free tier keeps working indefinitely - 60 minutes of dictation a day, forever, no card.
Two ways that matter. Wispr Flow streams your voice to their servers; Voxmelt transcribes on your own machine, and you can verify that yourself - open any network monitor, dictate, and watch zero audio leave your PC. And Wispr Flow charges $15 every month for as long as you use it, while Voxmelt Pro is $49 once. Roughly four months in, you stop paying and they do not.
Superwhisper is a good, mature product and it does ship on Windows, so treat anyone who tells you otherwise with suspicion. The honest differences: Superwhisper offers cloud-tier processing that uploads your audio, while Voxmelt is local across every tier including the AI cleanup. Voxmelt also goes much deeper on what happens AFTER the words land - 17 templates across 82 tones that rewrite a raw dictation into an email, a commit message, a meeting recap or a prompt, which is a different job from getting the transcript right. And the pricing model differs: Superwhisper Pro is billed per month, Voxmelt Pro is $49 once.
Yes, and for opposite reasons. Otter AI is cloud-only and meters you per minute; Voxmelt never uploads a word and never counts one. Dragon costs several hundred dollars up front and is a legacy stack; Voxmelt is $49 once for a modern engine plus a local AI that rewrites your draft before you paste it. Both of those products make you choose between price, privacy and modern accuracy. This is the one that does not.
Yes. Since audio and text never leave your machine, there is no data processor to sign a BAA with - the data simply never transmits. Lawyers, doctors, and researchers use Voxmelt specifically because the privacy guarantee is architectural (local processing), not contractual (a ToS promise that could change).
Measured, and published in full including the parts that do not flatter us. On five scripted real-world clips, Whisper large-v3 on an RTX 3080 Ti averaged 7.8 percent word error rate; Parakeet v3 running on the CPU averaged 11.9 percent. But on the fast-speech clip, the one that most resembles actual dictation, Parakeet was the more accurate of the two at 2.0 percent against 3.1 percent, and it did that with no GPU, no VRAM and a 3.9 second load. Much of its remaining gap is formatting rather than hearing: it writes "58" and "$1800" where our reference scripts spell the numbers out, and a strict scorer counts each as an error. Both engines ship in the app so you can pick. The per-clip tables, the method and the scoring script are all public on the benchmark page.
None for dictation. Since v1.18, speech-to-text runs on your CPU by default using NVIDIA's Parakeet v3, and voiceover is CPU too - so a laptop with no discrete graphics runs the core product at full speed. Only the AI text studio needs an NVIDIA GPU with 6 GB+ VRAM: an 8 GB card runs the starter AI models comfortably, a 12-16 GB card handles the mid-size class, and a 24 GB+ card runs the biggest flagships in the catalog.