Flow Keyboard vs Typeless

Looking for a Typeless alternative with better privacy and pricing? Here's how Flow Keyboard compares.

Quick Comparison

Why Choose Flow Keyboard over Typeless

1. Free trial with no limits. Flow Keyboard offers a 1-month free trial with full Pro access and no weekly word cap. After that, plans start from $2.50/month (Plus annual). Typeless's free tier limits you to 4,000 words per week. For unlimited usage, you need to pay $12/month (annual) or $30/month (monthly).

2. Stronger privacy -- no surrounding text collection. This is the most important difference. When you use Typeless, it collects "the application you're using and relevant text within it" to provide context-aware transcriptions. This means Typeless reads text from your editing area beyond just your voice input.

Flow Keyboard takes a different approach: by default, we do not collect any surrounding cursor context text from app input fields. Only your voice input is sent for processing. We believe users may not be fully aware that other tools are reading their text fields, and we choose not to do this.

3. Better custom dictionary recognition. Both tools offer custom dictionaries, but Flow Keyboard provides more accurate recognition of user-added terms. When you add specialized vocabulary, brand names, technical terms, or proper nouns, Flow consistently recognizes them better in context -- especially important for professional and technical workflows.

4. Superior mixed-language support. Flow excels at mixed-language input -- handling sentences that switch between languages mid-sentence without manual toggling. Flow delivers higher quality output with proper formatting for both languages, which is especially important for bilingual users.

Where Typeless Is Better

We believe in being transparent:

• Multi-platform: Typeless is available on macOS, Windows, iOS, and Android. Flow Keyboard supports macOS and iOS — download on App Store.
• Voice editing: Typeless offers "speak to edit" -- select text and use voice commands to modify it. Flow Keyboard focuses on voice-to-polished-text rather than voice editing of existing text.
• Context-aware transcription: Because Typeless reads your surrounding text, it can produce more contextually appropriate transcriptions. Flow achieves accuracy through a different approach -- AI refinement -- without reading your text fields.

The Privacy Difference, Explained

When you dictate with Typeless, it sends two things to its servers: your voice audio and "relevant text" from the application you're currently using. This surrounding text helps Typeless understand context for better transcription.

Flow Keyboard only sends your voice audio. No text from your screen, no content from your editing area, no clipboard data. This means:

• Your emails, messages, and documents are never read by Flow
• Sensitive content in your text fields stays private
• You don't need to worry about what context is being sent to servers

Both tools discard data after processing (zero server-side retention). The difference is in what gets sent in the first place.

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