Hold one key, speak, and UtterKey types clean, structured text into any app on your Mac or PC. Say "full stop", "new paragraph", "heading" — real dictation, the way professionals have always worked — for less than one month of a Dragon seat. Your own AI key. No subscription, ever.
One-time licence·Mac & Windows·Free to run for most (Groq)·14-day guarantee
No windows to manage, no cloud account. It lives in the background and types where your cursor already is.
Fn on Mac, Ctrl+Shift+Space on Windows — from any app, any time.
Say what you mean. Filler words and false starts get cleaned out.
Release, and polished text pastes straight into the app you're in.
UtterKey Professional was designed by a practising UK doctor who spent years dictating the old way — and priced for the people still paying £600–1,300 a year to do it.
Clinic letters, private reports, referrals, discharge summaries — dictated with real commands, safe with clinical words: "trial period" and "sigmoid colon" always survive.
Attendance notes, letters before action, instructions — structured as you speak, typed into Word or your case system, nothing routed through a typing pool.
Reports, proposals, chapters. Say the structure, keep your hands off the keyboard, and own the tool outright.
Spoken commands become punctuation, headings and structure — typed straight into Word, your notes system, or email. This is a real, unedited example.
You say
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It knows the difference between commands and words — “the trial period ends” and “screening colonoscopy” always survive intact. With Templates, your own letterheads and note formats fill themselves as you speak.
Dragon left the Mac years ago. The AI scribes charge like enterprise software. The typing services charge more again. UtterKey is the tool for people who dictate documents — priced like software you own, because it is.
| What professionals pay today | Per year | |
|---|---|---|
| Dragon Medical One | ~£1,300 + setup | Windows only |
| AI medical scribes (Heidi, Nabla…) | ~£900–1,400 | Consult capture, not letters |
| Dragon Legal | ~£649 + VAT | Windows only |
| Outsourced typing | £1,000s | Days of turnaround |
| UtterKey Professional | $197 — once, ever | Mac & Windows |
Competitor prices as published July 2026 — check their sites for today's rates. Running cost on your own Groq key: free for most people.
A taste of the real thing — press and hold the key below, then let go. (In the app it is Fn on a Mac, Ctrl+Shift+Space on Windows — or any shortcut you choose.)
Hold the key and speak — in any app, on Mac or Windows…
Hold it down, wait a beat, then release — and watch spoken commands become real structure.
Slack, Mail, Docs, Notes, VS Code, the browser — if you can type there, UtterKey can paste there. No browser-only limit. Dictate in bursts and the sentences join with proper spacing — no glued words.
Pay once for the app. No $12–15/month tax forever — a one-time purchase with a licence key you can use on up to 3 devices.
On a free Groq key — no card required — the daily allowance covers hours of dictation every day at £0. Near-instant speed included. Prefer OpenAI? Your existing key works too, for pennies.
Say full stop, new paragraph, heading, bullet point — and the structure is typed for you. Clinical and legal words stay safe: "trial period" and "colonoscopy" always survive. Professional tier.
Import your own clinic letter, attendance note, report — any document skeleton. Speak section names as you dictate and your words land under the right headings. Back it all up — templates, vocabulary, preferences — to one file and move to a new computer in a click. Professional tier.
Save a trigger like review and a full expansion. Say the trigger, get the exact saved text.
Teach it names, drugs, case law, brand names — and add auto-corrections for anything it keeps mishearing. Your vocabulary follows you.
Plug in your own Groq or OpenAI key — stored in your system's secure keychain on Mac and Windows (with an encrypted on-device backup so updates can never lose it), never on our servers. Audio goes only to the provider you choose; we run no cloud at all — which also means there's no UtterKey outage that can take your dictation down.
Exact keeps your words untouched. Polished lightly fixes grammar. Professional turns spoken commands into structure. Switch on the front of the app.
All three turn speech into text in your apps. UtterKey is for people who want ownership, BYO-key control, and a simple privacy story — not another monthly bill.
| UtterKey | Wispr Flow | Superwhisper | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | One-time purchase | Subscription (~$12–15/mo) | Sub, or $249.99 lifetime |
| AI cost | Your key — pennies per use | Bundled in subscription | Their models; BYO keys on Pro |
| System-wide, any app | Yes — hold one key | Yes | Yes |
| Snippets / shortcuts | Yes | Yes | Pro-leaning |
| Provider choice | OpenAI or Groq | Their stack | Many + offline (Pro) |
| Key storage | Your system keychain, on your device | Account-based | Offline + Pro controls |
| Platforms now | Mac & Windows | Mac, Win, iOS, Android | Mac, Win, iOS |
Competitor pricing and platforms verified 2026-08-13 · wisprflow.ai · superwhisper.com · nuance.com
Full comparisons — the three-year cost, how the privacy differs, and an honest section on where each one beats us.
Switching from Wispr Flow → Switching from Superwhisper → Dragon alternative for Mac →
No subscriptions, no weekly word limits. Pick your tier, activate your licence, add your key, and start speaking into any app.
Founders price — limited time, then $147.
Everyday dictation, owned outright. Mac and Windows — one licence covers both.
14-day money-back guarantee
Founders price for early buyers — later $497.
True professional dictation — the letters, notes and reports you dictate for a living, without the £600–1,300-a-year seat.
14-day money-back guarantee
Prices exclude VAT/sales tax, added at checkout where applicable. Bring your own OpenAI or Groq key — you pay those providers directly, typically pennies for everyday dictation (free for most on Groq). Sold securely via Creem; you receive a licence key by email.
Any time, at utterkey.com/download — for Mac and Windows. You're sent there automatically after purchase, but the page is always available: use it to install on your other devices (one licence covers up to 3) or to reinstall after getting a new computer. The app only dictates once you activate it with the licence key from your purchase email.
UtterKey is everyday dictation, owned forever: speak, and clean text lands wherever your cursor is. UtterKey Professional adds the working professional's toolkit — spoken commands ("full stop", "new paragraph", "heading…"), importable document templates that fill as you dictate, the ready-made template library, settings backup for moving to a new computer, a confidential-screen mode for shared machines, one-click support reports, and six months of Priority Care. If you dictate letters, notes or reports for a living, Professional is built for you; if you mostly write messages and emails, UtterKey is plenty — and you can upgrade later for the difference.
Many of our users dictate because typing hurts — repetitive strain injury, carpal tunnel, arthritis. UtterKey types what you say into every app and web forms, adds punctuation itself, has a tap-to-talk mode so nothing needs holding, and snippets that turn one spoken word into whole saved paragraphs — dramatically fewer keystrokes across a day. It's also buy-once, with no subscription stacked on top of what hands trouble already costs. We wrote a full plain-English page for exactly this: UtterKey for hands that need a rest.
Yes — UtterKey is bring-your-own-key. Add an OpenAI and/or Groq key in AI & API; it's stored in your operating system's secure keychain — Keychain on Mac, Credential Manager on Windows. You pay the provider only for what you use, usually pennies for everyday dictation.
OpenAI and Groq. OpenAI is the familiar quality path; Groq is the speed path — near-instant transcription and cleanup. Switch anytime in Settings.
Up to 5 minutes in a single hold — far longer than everyday dictation. If you reach it, UtterKey stops and types what you've said rather than losing it, and you can start straight into the next one. There's no daily or monthly word limit.
Three. One licence activates on up to 3 devices — and it's one licence across platforms, so a Mac and a Windows PC can share it. Getting a new machine? Deactivate the old one from Settings to free the slot, or email support and we'll reset it for you.
Simple: if UtterKey isn't for you, email us within 14 days of buying and you get all your money back. No forms, no hoops. The only thing outside our control is what your AI provider charges on your own account — and for most people, on Groq's free plan, that's zero anyway.
Not from silence at the end of a recording. Speech models of this generation can fill an end-of-recording silence with the phrase that ends most captioned videos — “Thank you for watching” — and we kept hitting it ourselves. Version 0.4.3 removed the cause: UtterKey trims the quiet tail before transcribing, keeping a cushion so words that trail off softly survive. More broadly, any speech AI can mishear a mumbled word or a noisy room, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. UtterKey's default mode is built to keep your exact wording rather than improve it — which is the setting that matters when being quoted accurately is the point.
Your key stays in your computer's secure keychain (Keychain on Mac, Credential Manager on Windows), with an encrypted on-device backup so updates can never lose it. Audio goes only to the provider you choose (OpenAI or Groq), on your own account — we run no cloud and never receive your voice or your text. Full plain-English breakdown, including how your IT team can verify it themselves: Private dictation.
Yes — UtterKey runs on both macOS and Windows, and one licence covers both. Your 3 device slots can be any mix: a MacBook and a Windows desktop on the same key is exactly how it's meant to be used. (On Mac the hotkey is Fn; on Windows it's a shortcut you can set yourself.)
Speak into any app on your Mac or Windows PC, on your own key, for a one-time price. One licence covers both. No subscription, no lock-in.
Buy once — get UtterKey