Meeting Notes
Calls that end in suggested to-dos
Your mic and the call’s audio, recorded as two tracks on your Mac. Suggested to-dos when it ends.
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SwitchDesk vs Wispr Flow: Mac dictation apps, compared
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TL;DR
- Same price: SwitchDesk Essential and Wispr Flow Pro are both $12/mo billed yearly, or $15 monthly.
- Wispr Flow’s plans now include a Notetaker that records on your device with no bot. SwitchDesk’s Meeting Notes does too, and suggests to-dos when the call ends.
- Wispr Flow has a free plan (2,000 words a week on desktop). SwitchDesk has a 14-day free trial instead.
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You said: “can you make a note for like you to remember this going forward”. It typed: “Can you make a note for you to remember this going forward?”. Fixes: Filler.
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Dictation, row by row
Price, platforms, languages, cleanup, commands and meeting notes, each sourced to Wispr Flow’s own pages on Oct 5, 2026.
| SwitchDesk | Wispr Flow | |
|---|---|---|
| Price14 | $12/mo billed yearly, or $15 billed monthly (Essential). No free plan; a 14-day trial. | Pro: $12 per user a month billed yearly, or $15 monthly. Free: 2,000 words a week on desktop, 1,000 on mobile. |
| Platforms12 | Mac (macOS 14.6 or later). The iPhone app is coming soon to the App Store. | Mac, Windows, iPhone and Android. The Notetaker is Mac and Windows only. |
| Languages23 | English only, and it needs a connection. | 100+ languages, with auto-detect. |
| Cleanup23 | “AI Polish” removes fillers, repeats and take-backs and formats numbers. If a cleanup doesn’t read as a tidy copy, your words are pasted as they were. | Removes fillers and mid-sentence corrections and formats the text as you talk. |
| Voice commands23 | “add a todo …” files a to-do; “start a timer for 5 minutes” starts one. | Command Mode edits selected text by voice.† |
| Meeting notes123 | Meeting Notes: no bot; your mic and the call’s audio as two tracks on your Mac. Notes, Ask and suggested to-dos. 25 hours a month on Essential. | Notetaker on every plan, with weekly meeting limits. No bot; it runs on your device. Named speakers, and questions across meetings. |
| Also included1 | Screen recording with a share link, and a to-do list. | Pro adds “Shared dictionary and snippets” and a “Shared team workspace”. |
Sources · last checked Oct 5, 2026
- Wispr Flow pricing · accessed Oct 5, 2026
- Wispr Flow homepage · accessed Oct 5, 2026
- SwitchDesk app labels and settings, checked in the current build · accessed Oct 5, 2026
- SwitchDesk plans (this site)
† Not confirmed on Wispr Flow’s own pages on Oct 5, 2026. Prices are list prices in US dollars before tax.
Voice commands
Start with “remind me to” and it lands on your list.
Hold Globe and say “remind me to send Joe the revised proposal”. The pill shows “Todo Added”, and the to-do lands under Fernhill, with its time estimate.
It’s filed, not typed: nothing is pasted into the app you were in. Voice doesn’t set due dates, so say the day and it stays in the title.
Send Joe the revised proposalFernhill
Sam’s list: “Send Joe the revised proposal” has landed under Fernhill.
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AI Polish
“AI Polish” cuts the ums and take-backs, and formats the numbers.
Three lines, one fix each: a take-back, a spoken version number and slang. Pick one and watch it typed into the message.
If a cleanup doesn’t read as a tidy copy of what you said, SwitchDesk pastes your words as they were. Turn “AI Polish” off for the raw transcript.
Settings → Dictation
Illustration: “You said” and the chips are added for this page.
Microphones
When a mic goes quiet, dictation finds one that works.
Three things dictation does when your mic or connection lets you down.
A slow USB mic gets a second try. Some USB mics take a moment to wake, so dictation tries the same mic again before it moves on.
Lid closed, still heard. With the lid closed the built-in mic hears nothing, so dictation switches to a mic that’s picking up sound.
Wi-Fi blinks, it retries once. If the connection drops as you start talking, it opens a fresh one and tries again.
Input device
Which microphone dictation listens to. Set a fallback for when your preferred mic isn’t connected.
Microphone
Fallback
Right now, dictation will listen on USB Microphone.
If the primary mic isn't available, the fallback is used. "System default" follows whatever you have selected in System Settings → Sound → Input.
Settings → DictationTrade-offs
Where Wispr Flow is better
If you need any of these, Wispr Flow is the better pick today.
- Windows, plus dictation on iPhone and Android. SwitchDesk is Mac only.12
- A free plan: 2,000 words a week on desktop, 1,000 on mobile.1
- Student pricing: 50% off Pro with an education email.1
- 100+ languages with auto-detect. SwitchDesk dictation is English only.2
- SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001, and HIPAA-ready dictation with a signed BAA.1
- A more mature dictation engine.†
† Not confirmed on Wispr Flow’s own pages on Oct 5, 2026.
Price and switching
What it costs, and how to move over from Wispr Flow
Prices as listed
| Plan | Price | Billing |
|---|---|---|
| SwitchDesk Essential | $12/mo | Billed yearly, or $15 billed monthly |
| SwitchDesk Pro | $18/mo | Billed yearly, or $23 billed monthly |
| Wispr Flow Free | $0 | 2,000 words a week on desktop |
| Wispr Flow Pro | $12/mo | Per user, billed yearly, or $15 monthly |
| Wispr Flow Growth | $26/mo | Per user, billed yearly, or $33 monthly |
Source: wisprflow.ai/pricing · last checked . Prices in US dollars, before tax.
Switching from Wispr Flow
Install SwitchDesk
Open it and follow onboarding: it asks for the microphone and Accessibility permissions, and why.
Set the Globe key
In System Settings → Keyboard, set “Press 🌐 key to” to “Do Nothing”, so holding Globe starts dictation. Onboarding guides you.
System Settings → KeyboardAdd names to your “Dictionary”
Names and terms you say often, like Lumora and Fernhill. There’s no importer, so add them by hand.
Settings → DictationTurn on “App-aware modes”
Exact in Terminal. Casual in Messages. Tidy in Mail. In the app’s words: “Adjusts how Polish formats based on the app you’re dictating into — never your words.”
Settings → Dictation
Shown in the Midnight Blue theme
SwitchDesk also takes your meeting notes, records videos and keeps your list.
Three more tools in the same subscription. The to-dos you say and the ones your calls suggest land in one list; a video ends in a link you paste.
Share card for “Lumora pilot walkthrough”: Ready to share · transcript ready.
Create Video
Record your screen, paste the link
Pick Screen, Window or Area. The link is on your clipboard when you press Stop.
Explore Create Video →1.Prep pricing slides for ThursdayFernhill
SwitchDesk to-do window, Midnight Blue theme: Today's Todo: Prep pricing slides for Thursday; Reply to Daniel about the Q4 hiring plan (in progress); Book Theo's dentist appointment (done).
To-Do List
Your to-dos, filed by category
Say “add a todo …” or press “Add all” after a call, and it’s filed under the right category.
Explore To-Do List →Before you switch from Wispr Flow
More in Help →Is there a free plan?
No. Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial of Pro. Wispr Flow has a free plan with a weekly word limit.
Will “AI Polish” change what I said?
No. It removes fillers, repeats and take-backs and formats numbers; words that carry meaning stay. If a cleanup doesn’t read as a tidy copy of what you said, your words are pasted as they were. Turn “AI Polish” off for the raw transcript.
Does it type into any app?
Yes, anywhere you can type. Hold Globe, talk, let go, and the text appears where your cursor is. SwitchDesk asks for the Accessibility permission the first time.
Which languages does it understand?
English only, and it needs a connection. Apple’s speech engine takes over only if Siri & Dictation is on and an offline dictation language is installed.
Can I bring my Wispr Flow dictionary?
Not automatically. There’s no importer, so add your names and terms in
Settings → Dictation.Does it take meeting notes too?
Yes. Meeting Notes records your mic and the call’s audio as two tracks on your Mac, with no bot, and suggests to-dos when the call ends. Wispr Flow’s Notetaker also records without a bot.
Is there a Windows or iPhone app?
Not today. SwitchDesk runs on your Mac (macOS 14.6 or later); the iPhone app is coming soon to the App Store.