# FluidVoice

11 Hacker News commenters recommended FluidVoice and 4 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 6 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Free dictation app that people recommend for private, fully local speech-to-text with a useful feature set and a real-time view of speech.

## Why people recommend it

- Runs fully locally on device (2 comments): "They are cooking up smaller and smaller dictation polish models to do everything locally." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49812281)) "its a 100% local voice model that works really well and really fast." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936308))
- Richer UI and feature set (2 comments): "The UI is much better and offers a better and more comprehensive feature set" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50046313)) "seems privacy focused with a bit more enhancements like custom dictionary" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49619313))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Handy](https://hackerapproved.com/p/handy.md): 150 recommend
- [Wispr Flow](https://hackerapproved.com/p/wispr-flow.md): 52 recommend
- [MacWhisper](https://hackerapproved.com/p/macwhisper.md): 31 recommend
- [macOS Dictation](https://hackerapproved.com/p/macos-built-in-dictation.md): 26 recommend
- [Hex voice-to-text app for macOS](https://hackerapproved.com/p/hex.md): 26 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "FluidVoice", https://hackerapproved.com/p/fluidvoice/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).