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VoicePad AI is the right pick if you need voice dictation that runs offline on Android or iOS as well as your desktop, and English or German covers your language needs. Its cross-platform licence is straightforward and affordable. Typilot is a better fit when you need more than transcription - 27 AI command triggers, ghost-text autocomplete, meeting transcription with speaker labels, or Linux support - or when you dictate in languages beyond English and German.
Yes - both use on-device Whisper to keep audio fully local and work offline. VoicePad AI covers Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS with a €50 one-time licence; Typilot adds 27 inline AI command triggers, ghost-text autocomplete via a local Ollama model, on-device diarized meeting transcription, and runs on macOS, Windows, and Linux at $7.99/month or $199 lifetime.
No. VoicePad AI transcribes entirely on-device using faster-whisper on desktop and whisper.cpp on mobile. Audio is never sent to a server at any pricing tier. Typilot offers the same local-only guarantee on macOS, Windows, and Linux.
VoicePad AI currently supports English and German with a sub-5% word error rate on German, with more languages listed as coming. Typilot uses the full multilingual Whisper model, which covers 99+ languages across all supported platforms.
No. VoicePad AI runs on Windows 10/11, macOS 12+, Android 8.0+, and iOS 15+, but has no Linux build. Typilot runs on macOS (Apple Silicon), Windows 10/11, and Linux, processing audio locally on all three.