The one-line version
Wispr Flow is a better keyboard. Deiko is a better bug report. If what you need is prose in a text field, that is Flow. If what you need is for an agent to understand a thing on your screen, that is Deiko.
Where Wispr Flow is the better tool
- You write a lot of prose by voice. Flow's cleanup — removing the ums, fixing the false starts, applying your tone — is the product, and it is aimed squarely at that.
- You want it in every app. Any text field, all day.
- You are not on a Mac, or not only on a Mac. Deiko is macOS only, and macOS 14 or later at that.
Where Deiko is the better tool
- Half of what you mean is visual. "This one, not that one" is a perfectly good sentence when you are pointing. Dictation records the words and loses the pointing. Deiko records both: the crop under your cursor, the element's label, the window it lives in.
- The reader is a coding agent. The brief is shaped for one — what you pointed at, what you said about it, in the order it happened — and it drops in as a folder rather than as a paragraph you paste.
- Your sentences are bilingual. No language setting. It comes back as English whichever way you said it.
- You want screenshots never to leave the machine. They do not, and no setting makes them.
The honest overlap
Both save you typing, so on that axis they compete. But the reason you were typing matters: Flow is faster at producing text, and Deiko is faster at producing understanding of a screen. If you have never once wished your dictation could see what you were looking at, you want Flow.
Practical differences
- Platform. Deiko is macOS 14+, Apple Silicon only.
- Account. Deiko has none at all.
- Privacy. Screenshots and briefs never reach Deiko's servers. Narration audio travels to be transcribed, and it is deleted the moment the brief is made. To file each brief in the right task, Deiko sends what you said, a one-line summary of it, your window titles (with anything that looks like a key stripped) and a few lines about your earlier tasks through its relay to a sorting model. Deiko keeps none of it. Bring your own Groq key and your audio skips our servers. The specifics.
- Price. Free and open source, no account, no card. Every Mac gets two hours of hosted transcription a month; past that Deiko transcribes on-device, and your own Groq key has no limit. Pro is $6.99 a month, $69 a year or $169 once, for ten hours.
- Source. All of Deiko is open source under MIT, the relay included, so every privacy line here can be checked in the code.