Free
For everyday dictation
What's included
- 10,000 words per week
- Full on-device pipeline
- Works in every app
- Custom vocabulary
Simple pricing
Start free. Upgrade whenever the weekly limit gets in your way.
Curious why most dictation apps bill monthly and this one has a permanent free tier? It comes down to where the model runs — Mac dictation without a subscription explains the arithmetic. Weighing the one-time licence against paying monthly? The dictation app you buy once does that sum, including when not to buy it.
For everyday dictation
What's included
For people who write all day
Billed $48 once a year — save $12.
Everything in Free, plus
For people done with subscriptions
About 20 months of monthly, then free.
Everything in Free, plus
Answers, without the fine print
Yes. The free plan is permanent, not a trial: 10,000 dictated words per week with the full on-device pipeline, working in any Mac app. At a typical speaking rate of around 150 words a minute that is roughly an hour of dictation every week. No credit card is needed to start.
Pro removes the weekly word limit and comes with priority support. Everything else — the on-device pipeline, system-wide dictation, custom vocabulary — is in the free plan too.
Dictation pauses and Dictro opens with a note explaining why. Nothing you've already dictated is lost, and your counter resets at the start of the next week — so you can wait it out or upgrade to Pro to remove the limit entirely.
Annual billing is $48 a year, which works out to $4 a month — $12 less than the $60 you'd pay at $5 monthly, or 20% off.
A single payment of $99 for Pro that never renews. It is a licence for the lifetime of the app, not a subscription — there is no second charge and nothing to cancel. At $5 a month it pays for itself in about 20 months, and it costs nothing to run on our side because Dictro does all its work on your own machine.
Monthly if you want to try Pro without committing — cancel any time. Annual if you already know you'll keep it, for 20% off. Lifetime if you would rather never think about it again and expect to use Dictro for more than about two years.
Yes. Open your account page and choose to switch to annual billing. You'll see exactly what's due today before you confirm — Paddle credits the unused part of your current month against the annual charge.
Yes. Cancel from the billing portal on your account page at any time. You keep Pro until the end of the period you've already paid for.
Yes — it's one subscription for both. Pro is tied to your account rather than to a machine, so buying it on a Mac makes you Pro on Windows too, and the other way round. Just sign in with the same account. The free plan works the same way: 10,000 words a week across both apps, not 10,000 each.