Compare × Checked October 2026
Bedrock Flow vs Willow Voice
Willow Voice is a cloud dictation app for Mac, Windows and iPhone, with a generous free plan. Willow offers an offline mode on Mac and iPhone, but on Windows it works in the cloud. Bedrock Flow is built for Windows and runs on your PC.
In short
Which one suits you?
Choose Bedrock Flow if
- On Windows, your voice never leaves your PC.
- Works offline on Windows.
- Lower Pro price: $95.88 a year against $144.
- Built only for Windows.
Choose Willow Voice if
- An unlimited free plan, with a smaller model.
- Over 100 languages.
- Works on Mac and iPhone, with offline mode there.
- Team and Business plans.
The big difference
Where your voice goes.
Willow says Windows users get zero-data-retention cloud processing, with its offline mode on Mac and iPhone only. On Windows, Bedrock Flow keeps both speech recognition and AI cleanup on your PC.
Bedrock Flow is built local first. Your dictation history is saved on your PC, and your vocabulary, snippets and styles are backed up to your account so they follow you to a new PC. Your recordings and your words are never part of that.
Side by side
Bedrock Flow and Willow Voice, feature by feature.
| Feature | Bedrock Flow | Willow Voice |
|---|---|---|
| Where your speech becomes text | On your PC | On Willow’s cloud servers (on Windows) |
| Works without internet | Yes, once set up. Sign in at least once every 30 days. | Not on Windows. Offline mode is on Mac and iPhone. |
| Where your dictations are kept | Your dictation history is saved on your PC and never uploaded. Vocabulary, snippets and styles are backed up to your account. | Audio is processed in the cloud. Zero data retention is enforced on Business. |
| Free plan | 30 minutes of dictation a week, all features | Unlimited, with a smaller speech model |
| Paid plan | Pro $9.99 a month, or $95.88 a year ($7.99 a month) | Pro $15 a month, or $12 a month billed yearly ($144) |
| Platforms | Windows 10 and 11 | Mac, Windows, iPhone |
| Languages | English | 100+ |
| AI cleanup (fillers, punctuation) | Yes, runs on your PC (optional) | Yes, in the cloud |
| Custom vocabulary | Yes, or learned from your Obsidian vault on your PC | Yes |
| Snippets (spoken shortcuts) | Yes | Yes (Shortcuts) |
| Writing style per app | Yes | Yes, matches tone to context |
| Setup | Install, sign up, one-time speech model download. No voice training. | Install and sign up |
Sources
Facts about other products come from their makers’ own websites and were checked on 5 October 2026. Prices are in US dollars before tax. Plans change, so check the links below for the latest. If something here is out of date, email support@madebybedrock.com and we will fix it.
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Hear the difference
on your own PC.
Bedrock Flow is free for 30 minutes a week, with a 7-day Pro trial and no card needed.