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Wave is the better pick if you want a completely free macOS dictation tool with no subscription and a BYOK AI Mode that lets you speak prompts and get LLM output at the cursor. Typilot wins when you need Windows or Linux support, AI commands that run without any cloud API key, on-device meeting transcription with speaker diarization, or ghost-text autocomplete in any app.
Yes. Both run local Whisper on-device and insert text at the cursor in any app on macOS. Wave is a free macOS-only tool with optional BYOK Groq AI Mode. Typilot adds 27 keyboard-triggered AI commands (gen:, fix:, rew:, sum:, trl:, img: and more) via a local Ollama model without any cloud API key, ghost-text autocomplete, on-device meeting transcription with speaker diarization, Windows and Linux support, and 99+ languages.
Yes. Wave requires no subscription and no account for local Whisper transcription. The AI Mode uses the Groq API, which you supply your own key for; Groq bills you directly based on token usage and Wave charges nothing extra. As of v0.5.0 (June 2026) there is no paid Wave tier.
No. Wave requires macOS 14 or later and has no Windows or Linux builds as of v0.5.0 (June 2026). Typilot supports macOS, Windows, and Linux. Other free cross-platform options include Handy (MIT open-source, any OS) and OpenWhispr (free, Mac/Windows/Linux).
Wave has an AI Mode that lets you speak a prompt and paste a Groq LLM response at the cursor - you need to supply your own Groq API key. Typilot's 27 keyboard command prefixes (gen:, fix:, rew:, sum:, trl:, img: and more) run via a local Ollama model with no cloud key required and work on existing text as well as generating new content.