Yesterday was my first day back in an open office after a long stretch of WFH. I'm super comfortable with dictation at home, but I couldn't help worrying about bothering my coworkers. Honestly, I felt pretty embarrassed letting people hear my prompts!

I tried whispering, but the office was dead quiet, so that didn't really help.

How do you all handle this? Do you just own it, or are there specific tricks/etiquette for dictating in shared spaces? Any advice is appreciated!

‍🤖 Android Updates v2.0.9

Reliability & Stability

We heard from Android users that things haven't felt as solid as they should, so the team spent the past few months tightening things up:

• Flow Bubble recovery: If the bubble disappears, it now recovers on its own, and you'll get a system notification if it needs a nudge.
• Accessibility permission recovery: If a device revokes Flow's accessibility permission in the background, Flow now catches that and recovers instead of silently breaking.
• Crash fixes: Fixed several crashes.
• Multi-account isolation: If you share a device with other accounts, your Flow settings and onboarding now stay isolated per account instead of carrying over between users.
• Flow Bubble UX cleanup: Fixed sizing glitches, visibility issues, errors that used to stick around, and snooze/shrink not working right.
• Xiaomi/OnePlus fixes: Resolved battery optimization and overlay problems specific to these devices.

🍎‍ iPhone Updates - v1.63

Flow now switches back automatically for more apps

Auto-switchback automatically returns you to your host app the moment you finish dictating, so you're not stuck manually tapping back in. It now works across every supported iOS version, including the iOS 27 beta.

We've also added native switchback support for a long list of apps that didn't have it before, including Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Perplexity, Kin, LinkedIn, and many more messaging and productivity apps.‍

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I tracked my wispr flow accuracy for 6 weeks because I wanted data, not vibes. here's what I found.

weeks 1-2 (during and just after trial): roughly 90%+ clean transcriptions. fast, accurate, felt like the tool worked.

weeks 3-6: noticeably worse. more word swaps, dropped phrase endings, occasional hallucinated words I never said. "taking longer than usual" started showing up maybe every 5th dictation. sometimes the whole thing would hang for 8-10 seconds.

I'm not the only one. I went through trustpilot and found the same pattern over and over: "amazing during trial, inconsistent after paying." the trustpilot rating is 2.7 out of 5 which is rough for a product with this much hype. dozens of reviews describing the exact same degradation timeline.

the most likely explanation I've seen: they use a higher quality model or prioritize server resources during trials to convert users, then switch to cheaper infrastructure for paid accounts. I can't prove this. the pattern is too consistent to ignore.

has anyone else experienced this kind of accuracy drop after the trial ended? curious if others are seeing the same thing.

It's a really great app, and it works so well. I am kind of addicted to it, and I really like using it, especially when I'm writing an email or trying to write code on Claude. It's so smooth and friction-free, with no typing, no typos. The grammar is perfect, and it detects everything as I say it. It removes the blank spaces that I have while I'm thinking about what to say next.

The only thing keeping me from getting a pro version is the subscription model. I wish they had a one-time buy option like Super Wispr, maybe $150 or $200, and you'd have it for life. I would have bought it in a heartbeat, but the fact that I don't want to get tied to a subscription is just making me delay my purchase. I'm sure I might just get the subscription one day, or I'll wait if another app comes up or Super Wispr improves its detection skills. I might just get a Super Wispr for a one-time fee.

Edit - so a lot of you are thinking that that's not a feasible model, considering the costs are driven by usage and it's not sustainable if someone ends up using it for five or six years down the line. There are so many companies who have pulled this off and are still successful and in profit. Apple does it with Final Cut Pro. Tesla did it with FSD. (Tesla did it when they were not this huge.) Affinity does it, and DaVinci Resolve does it too. A good product backed by a team of smart finance guys can any day pull it off.

I don't know if it's just me or my increasing standards, but has anyone else found the quality and just daily interaction with Wispr Flow to be greatly regressing almost every week? It either doesn't understand what I'm saying, or the keyboard doesn't have any punctuation, so I'm constantly switching between keyboards. It just feels like a fight to even get a sentence out. It's incredibly exhausting for something I really thought was gonna be a major unlock for my phone use, but it really only works well on desktop. Using it on my phone, particularly when in the car on Bluetooth, is just a nightmare.

If anyone here works there, I would be happy to spend a half an hour to walk through how I use it and where I'm getting blocked, which is probably a hundred different times a day. I'm really considering moving to a different service because this just isn't it anymore.

I know this question is a bit different but I really wanted to talk about it.

I have been using Wispr Flow for a couple of months and it helps me write more in less time. But at the same time my own typing and writing has slowed down a lot, and I notice I am completely relying on it now.

Sometimes I get this anxious feeling that maybe I am forgetting how to write on my own.

If anyone here has felt the same with dictation or any tool like this, how did you deal with it? Did your normal writing come back, or did you just accept the trade? Would like to hear how others handle this.

I wouldn't mind the odd one or two, but sometimes I will say something like, "I have no choice but to send you cute videos." and it transcribed it as "adios" or something way different.

edit: I just said 'can you move yours' and it came back as 'reviews' wtf

edit 2: i said "I live with four strangers, but I never see them " > "Closed Captioning by Kris Brandhagen. brandhagen@gmail.com"??

​I love WF's dictation, but I'm shocked that it stores a history of all my messages in the app completely unprotected.

​Since there's no auto-delete or biometric lock, I can't really use it for anything confidential without manually deleting messages one by one.

​Am I missing something, or is there still no way to disable the dictation history?

​Thanks in advance!

I've been using Wispr Flow for about six months now. The thing that always impressed me about it is that it's dead accurate and seems to be very contextually aware.

However, over the past couple of days, I have noticed that the accuracy has gone way down, especially at the beginning of the dictation (but not exclusively). Has anyone else noticed this?

I'm wondering if the model or the context structure or the prompting changed recently?

Before I file a bug, I want to make sure it's not just me imagining it. I haven't changed anything about my setup, and I've tried several different mic options to see if that helps. Nothing seems to make any difference.

Anyone else noticing accuracy issues?

Has anyone found an easy way to use Wispr Flow with an IPad that is using an external keyboard? I’m using the Apple Magic keyboard and struggling.

I've used both companies but i cant tell which one is best (most accurate) and with the least amount of issues? With neither i cant do dialogue and there are limitations. So its basically used for emails or commenting on reddit.

Any advice appreciated on which one to go with paid.

Superwhisper is cheaper as its a one time payment or $8 a month

But whispr flow has some great features to but costs more per month at $12 a month

📈 All Platforms:

More consistent and accurate formatting

Over the past few months, some dictations had formatting issues: course corrections that didn't land, words swapped for ones you didn't say, punctuation or edits getting ignored, and quality that varied session to session. A portion of dictations were being handled by older models, one too conservative on course correction and one too aggressive about changing words.

Both are now fixed. Everyone is on the same current model, so quality is consistent every time you speak. You'll notice:

• Cleaner course correction
• Fewer changes to words you said
• Punctuation and corrections that do what you tell them to

To keep it from recurring, we've added A/B testing and expanded benchmarks so every new model is tested against real usage before it ships.

If you hit a formatting issue, report the transcript from inside the app with a note on what went wrong. Those reports are what help the team improve Flow.

💻 Desktop Updates - v1.5.751

Let Flow pick the right microphone automatically‍

Rank your microphones once and Flow uses your top available one without you switching manually. Plug in a headset and Flow picks it up; unplug it mid-dictation and Flow falls back to your next-ranked mic without interrupting you.

Find it: Settings > General > Microphone

Keep dictating when you dock your laptop (clamshell mode) 

‍Close your laptop lid and Flow switches to your highest-ranked external mic on its own instead of interrupting you with a notification, then returns to your built-in mic when you open it again. Reordering mics in settings now applies instantly, with no need to restart recording.

Find it: Settings > General > Microphone

I'm so sorry - I'm sure this has been answered before but my search skills are about as advanced as a brick. How do I get Wisper Flow to stop auto formatting lists? For example, I might say something like this:

"When I was a child, the path forward was always simple -- elementary school, middle school, high school, then college. I didn't need to think about the next step."

And it gets formatted like this:

"When I was a child, the path forward was always simple:

• Elementary school
• Middle school
• High school
• Then college"

I don't want this behavior. That's not meant to be a list. That's meant to be a sentence. I don't know how to turn this off. The only option I can see is switching Auto Cleanup to None for strict transcription, but I don't want that either because I do like that it removes my filler words (I am a copious user of "um" and "like"). Please let me know if you know the solution, I feel like I'm going crazy whenever I dictate and then need to go and backspace and reformat the entire list.

English is not my primary language, so I speak Swedish to WisprFlow quite a lot. A few hours ago it seems like WisprFlow, for some reason, instantly translates my Swedish to English, which is not something I want. Is this some new setting I have accidentally activated?

I've been using Whisper Flow for a while, but now it requires payment. I looked at other services like Super Whisper, Voiceink, which let you set up modes for different styles (e.g., comments, chat, emails) and can automatically delete audio history after intervals like 5 min, 10 min, 24 h, 1 week, or 1 month. They also have a prompts option to define formatting for each mode. I don’t see these features in Whisper Flow. Are they unavailable?