A Willow Voice alternative
that stays quiet.
Willow Voice learns how you write and shapes your dictation to match, which is the right instinct. A tool that does not sound like you is a tool you end up editing.
FlowIn applies that same instinct to typing instead. It predicts the rest of your sentence in your own phrasing, and drafts replies that follow the way you normally answer, with nothing said out loud.
14 days unlimited, then a free plan. Apple Silicon, macOS 13.3 or later.
Sounding like you, without speaking
Willow's pitch is personalisation: it picks up your style, your proper nouns, your vocabulary, and applies them to what it hears. That is a genuine improvement over generic transcription.
The input is still your voice, and your voice needs a room that allows it. Personalisation does not help at a shared desk, or on a call.
FlowIn learns from the same thing Willow does, how you actually write, and spends it on the sentence you are typing rather than the one you just said.
It also learns without listening. FlowIn has no microphone, so nothing you say is captured. Autocomplete can run on your own Mac with nothing transmitted. Replies and rewriting are cloud calls, so that text does leave it.
Where Willow Voice is the better choice
Its free plan is more generous than ours. Willow's free tier runs without a word cap. FlowIn's free plan is 150 autocomplete words and 10 AI replies a day after the trial. If cost is the deciding factor and you can talk freely, that is a point for them.
It is hands-free, and it is on your phone. Willow runs on Mac, Windows and iOS. FlowIn is an Apple Silicon Mac app, and you are still typing on it.
Side by side
| FlowIn | Willow Voice | |
|---|---|---|
| You have to say the words out loud | No | Yes |
| Usable in an open office or on a call | Yes | Rarely |
| Needs a microphone | No | Yes |
| Records your voice | No, there is nothing listening | Yes |
| Works with your hands off the keyboard | No | Yes |
| Finishes your sentences as you type | Yes | No |
| Writes a reply you have neither spoken nor typed | Yes | No |
| Better for a long first draft | No | Yes |
| Better for replies and short messages | Yes | Rarely worth invoking |
| Platforms | Apple Silicon Macs | Mac, Windows, iOS |
Compared in September 2026. Prices are left out deliberately: Willow Voice sets its own and changes them, so check their pricing page rather than trusting a figure copied here.
Questions
- Does FlowIn listen to me the way Willow does?
- It has no microphone, so there is nothing to listen with and nothing recorded. What it learns from is your typing. Autocomplete can run on a model on your own Mac with nothing transmitted. Reply drafting and rewriting run on a cloud model, so that text is sent, used to produce the answer, and not retained unless you opt in.
- Is FlowIn a Willow Voice alternative?
- For the job of getting words down faster, yes. For dictation specifically, no. Willow turns your speech into text shaped like your writing. FlowIn predicts your writing directly as you type it, and drafts replies from the conversation on screen. There is no microphone involved.
- Does FlowIn learn my writing style?
- The reply drafts follow the tone of the thread and the way you normally answer, and the autocomplete predicts from what you are actually typing, so suggestions arrive in your own phrasing rather than a generic one.
- Why not just use Willow?
- Use it, if you have a room where talking is fine. The reason people look for something else is that a lot of writing happens where it is not: open offices, cafes, trains, shared flats, and the middle of a call. FlowIn covers those, because it makes no sound.
- Which apps does FlowIn work in?
- Any text field on macOS: Mail, Slack, Messages, Notion, your IDE, and browser fields too. If your cursor blinks in it, FlowIn types in it.
- What does FlowIn cost?
- Free to download, with a 14-day unlimited trial and a free plan after it of 150 autocomplete words and 10 AI replies a day. Pro is $10.99 a month, or $6.67 a month billed annually.