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If you are on an Apple Silicon Mac, voice dictation is the only feature you need, public auditability of the codebase matters, and $25 one-time beats $199 for a broader toolset - VoiceInk is a genuinely good pick. Typilot wins when voice is one piece of a larger AI workflow (polish, meetings, notes, 27 inline commands), when you need Windows or Linux, when you want AI beyond raw transcription, or when your machine does not meet VoiceInk's Apple Silicon + macOS 14.4 requirement.
For macOS voice dictation, yes - both run Whisper locally so audio never leaves your machine. Typilot adds 27 inline AI commands, text polish, meeting recap with speaker diarization, and AI autocomplete that VoiceInk does not have. VoiceInk wins on price ($25 one-time), open-source transparency, and per-app Power Mode.
No - VoiceInk is macOS-only and requires Apple Silicon (M-series chip) and macOS 14.4 or later. Typilot ships first-class builds on macOS, Windows, and Linux with the same local-first privacy stance.
Yes - the source code is published on GitHub under the GPL v3 licence at github.com/Beingpax/VoiceInk with 4,300+ stars. You can build and run it for free. The compiled binary costs $25-$49 one-time with lifetime updates. Typilot is closed source.
VoiceInk's Power Mode adapts settings to whatever IDE or browser you have open, which is useful for code dictation. Typilot's 27 inline commands (explain, review, fix, generate, img: for screenshot context) let you invoke AI inline in any app without switching windows, with per-command model selection. Different strengths: per-app dictation tuning for VoiceInk, inline AI editing for Typilot.