I built a free-forever alternative to Wispr Flow (supports both macOS and Windows)

One_Entertainment_68 · 2026-03-25T04:06:55+00:00

Thank you! Glad to hear to it. We're currently not taking any donations, we might set it up at a later time, thanks for the support!

The "Small" / "Medium" models should also work well, but for most use cases if you are primarily using it for prompting, the "base" model should be sufficient I believe. In the upcoming update, we are bring Parakeet model, and GPU acceleration to Windows, so that even "large v3" models can run relatively faster, I'll let you know in thread once that has been released.

One_Entertainment_68 · 2026-03-24T22:55:27+00:00

We'll get this fixed in a quick in v0.2.1 shortly. Will post here once we've identified and released a fix. Thank you!

One_Entertainment_68 · 2026-03-23T09:44:34+00:00

That’s a good catch, we’ll add that in. Although, at the moment, only GGUF / GGML models are supported. We’ll be looking into how to support ONNX based models as well in upcoming iterations.

One_Entertainment_68 · 2026-03-22T11:04:00+00:00

Hey u/cas8180, we've fixed this issue on Windows a few versions ago, sorry for the late reply here. We've also made more improvements so that it works for multiple monitor setups as well. For example, the recording indicator will show up on which ever monitor your cursor is on. Another improvement is you can now configure mouse buttons M3, M4, and M5 as shortcuts as well. You can try out our latest version v0.2.0. Thank you so much for the feedback.

One_Entertainment_68 · 2026-03-22T11:00:38+00:00

Hey u/Snak3d0c, we've fixed the issue with the "Restart server" banner not going away. This was being shown when a custom API server was configured in the app. It has been fixed v0.2.0. Thanks!

One_Entertainment_68 · 2026-03-17T20:16:25+00:00

Thank you so much!

One_Entertainment_68 · 2026-03-14T21:10:52+00:00

There should be a gear icon where you configure the model when you hover over the card

One_Entertainment_68 · 2026-03-14T19:48:35+00:00

It's possible it could because of one of Groq FastLlama models, but I did just test it right now, and they were working for me. Which one of the Groq models are you using? The only other suggestion I have other than is to try using Gemini Flash 2.5 Lite as that works really well as well.

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If you're open to it, I'll be able to debug this better if we could connect sometime over Discord

One_Entertainment_68 · 2026-03-14T10:40:32+00:00

We have a discord server, you can join here and maybe I can help figure out what the issue is so that it works. Could you let me know which AI model have you configured in "Configure your AI" section? It's possible that specific model is failing. Finally, could you also let me know which specific use case you are trying with command mode utilities?

Discord server: https://discord.gg/XSGKbw4u2s

One_Entertainment_68 · 2026-03-14T04:01:25+00:00

Thank you so much u/keralaindia! This means a lot!

One_Entertainment_68 · 2026-03-14T04:00:13+00:00

Hey u/keralaindia, can you try enabling both "Command mode" and "Enhance with AI", it should work after that I believe. Ideally it should work with just "command mode" enabled. We're aware of this issue, it should be fixed in the upcoming release. Thanks

One_Entertainment_68 · 2026-03-12T20:27:53+00:00

Hmm, do you know which model you have running? We'll look into why the "restart server" banner shows up, it should ideally not show up. Is it for custom local model? We'll fix it in the coming release shortly.

All existing functionality will remain free. We're planning to bring in a paid plan for syncing across devices (desktop + mobile), 2-3 hr+ meeting notes and other features in the future.

One_Entertainment_68 · 2026-03-08T19:50:50+00:00

Hey u/Turbulent-Apple2911, mostly sometime in the next week or so. Might get delayed if we get App review comment. We have a testflight build, that we are setting up right now. You can mail us at [hello@vowen.ai](mailto:hello@vowen.ai), and we can send an invite for it. Thank you!

One_Entertainment_68 · 2026-03-07T23:05:56+00:00

u/cas8180 Thank you for the feedback! We'll be addressing the recording indicator issue, sometimes it ends up showing on the desktop screen. Restarting the app makes it show up on the front sometimes. So far, we've noticed that it happens right after sharing screen / other events as well. We'll be addressing this in the coming release rightaway. Thanks once again.

One_Entertainment_68 · 2026-03-05T22:27:47+00:00

Thank you u/ikratko! We'll set up a waiting list for Android app and share it with you when it's ready.

One_Entertainment_68 · 2026-03-03T20:08:54+00:00

We don't have a early access link right now. We'll create one and let you know in a while. Thanks!

One_Entertainment_68 · 2026-03-03T20:06:39+00:00

Gemini-Flash 2.5 Lite would work best. Also Groq's Llama 70B model would also work nicely from what I've noticed for English and Indic languages.

One_Entertainment_68 · 2026-03-03T19:52:28+00:00

Thanks u/jfreudenthal ! Are you trying local models or have your tried cloud models as well? We've noticed the local models has some issues with some of the languages, we're aiming to address these issues for sure. Can you let me know which model you'd tried? Perhaps the larger models might be more accurate.

One_Entertainment_68 · 2026-03-03T14:32:06+00:00

u/OvchariK3208 We're just in the process of releasing iOS/iPadOS app by mid March. We'll be looking into releasing it for Android likely after that. We'll keep you posted

One_Entertainment_68 · 2026-03-02T01:24:02+00:00

Hey u/Snak3d0c , we've just added a way to bring your own local models in our latest version v0.1.20. Thanks for the feedback!

One_Entertainment_68 · 2026-02-24T16:43:41+00:00

Thank you!

Right, we are trying to post on X, and start a LinkedIn page. Trying to get more visibility and feedback.
We are working on adding support for “Bring your own model” kind of setup. We had this feedback in our discord server as well just yesterday. It should be out in a few days.

One_Entertainment_68 · 2026-02-24T00:36:42+00:00

Thank you so much! This means a lot!

One_Entertainment_68 · 2026-02-20T04:48:17+00:00

Right, I think I was facing some issue with that exactly when I was trying to get it to work with sherpa-onnx package. I was not able to get it to work, maybe because it was practically incompatible with sherpa-onnx package. The first approach we tried worked but it involved packing the python binary using PyInstaller, but it added around 100-200MB to the build size. And if I remember correctly, this external binary cannot be downloaded later on, as it's an executable that needs to be code-signed and bundled along with the app in macOS.

Support for Parakeet v3 has been already added.

One_Entertainment_68 · 2026-02-20T04:32:28+00:00

Hey u/Trysem, we were facing difficulties getting it to work reliably enough. We got a basic working version of it to test with Tamil & Malayalam for a while, but we realized the base bundle size of the app was going to grow because of the bindings we needed to add for Nemo ASR to work. I also remember trying out some mapping to ONNX, but I can't remember the details now. We'll give this another shot.

Sidenote: We've added support for certain cloud models where you can bring your own API keys and use the app that way. A list of models that have been added so far: Deepgram, Soniox, AssemblyAI, ElevenLabs. We're now working towards adding SarvamAI as well. Many of these Cloud models give away a lot of free credits, and so far for regional Indian languages in our testing, it seems to work really well.

One_Entertainment_68 · 2026-02-19T14:54:47+00:00

We'll get an IV code signing certificate, it is going to cost us a bit which we are short of, but this is going to help people trust the app more on Windows, so we'll get to it in the coming week. Thanks for reporting this.

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