The first time I installed TextExpander, it changed how I used my Mac. Snippets I typed twenty times a day became three keystrokes. It wasn’t the most powerful text utility on the Mac. There were heavier options out there. But TextExpander hit the spot: the feature was powerful enough to be useful and simple enough to use every day. That’s a hard place to land.

Wispr Flow has done the same thing for dictation.

I’ve been dictating into Macs for years. I’ve tried the high-end stuff. I’ve tried the built-in stuff. None of it was quite right. Wispr Flow is the one that did.

A few things make it work. The accuracy is good enough that I trust it on the first pass. The custom dictionary handles names like “MacSparky” without me having to babysit the result. It runs everywhere I write, and it gets out of the way when I don’t want it.

Wispr Flow isn’t the most powerful dictation tool you can buy. There are heavier-duty options if you need them. Wispr Flow sits in the Goldilocks position. Enough features to make it worth paying for. Not so many that learning becomes a burden.

And I’ve been hearing from listeners and readers who have reached the same conclusion.

The price is around $10 to $15 a month. I’ve run roughly 200,000 words through it at this point, including the rough draft of this newsletter. If you want to try it, my affiliate link gets you a free month of Pro.

This is not a sponsorship. I just dig the app. That’s the whole take. A tool that brings dictation to everyday Mac use, the way TextExpander brought snippets to it. If you’ve been on the fence about dictation, this is the one I’d point you to.