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Velora vs
Superwhisper.

This is the close one. Superwhisper believes what Velora believes: speech recognition belongs on your Mac. What’s left to compare is the licence, what good cleanup costs, and whether you can read the code.

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Respect first

Superwhisper got the big thing right.

Local transcription on Apple Silicon, offline operation, a deep per-app mode system, years of steady releases. If Velora didn’t exist, Superwhisper is the tool we’d point Mac users at. Here is what still separates them.

Economics

Free vs $249.99

Superwhisper’s free tier covers the Whisper models and meeting transcription. The rest (its other local and cloud AI models, file transcription, translation, your own API keys) is Pro at $8.49 a month or $249.99 lifetime. Everything in Velora is free, including the best models it supports.

Cleanup

Included vs bring-your-own

Velora ships a local Qwen cleanup model sized to your RAM: filler removal, formatting and app-aware polish with zero configuration. Superwhisper’s advanced AI formatting leans on Pro cloud models or your own API key, billed separately.

Verifiability

Open vs closed

Both apps say “local.” Only one lets you read the code, build it yourself and watch the network monitor to confirm. For a tool that hears everything you say, that difference isn’t academic.

Beyond dictation

Actions and safe edits

Action Mode drives real apps from a spoken sentence, and Voice Edit rewrites exactly the text you selected with ⌘Z as the exit. Superwhisper’s automation story is deep links and coding-agent integrations — different, and narrower on the desktop.

Head to head

Where each one wins.

Choose Velora if you want

  • Every feature free — no Pro tier, no lifetime licence, no API key to bring.
  • Cleanup included and local: the polish layer is a bundled on-device LLM, not an upsell.
  • Open source under MIT — auditable, forkable, yours.
  • Action Mode, Voice Edit, and consent-first meeting capture with speaker separation.
  • First-class Hindi and Hinglish, including a dedicated fine-tuned model.

Choose Superwhisper if you need

  • Windows, iPhone or Android; Velora is Mac-only.
  • Per-mode shortcuts, paste policies, and tone controls — its mode system has more dials today.
  • A bigger catalogue of switchable models and languages surfaced in the UI.
  • Deep links and hooks for scripted start/stop workflows.
  • A longer shipping history — Velora is pre-1.0 and says so.

Pricing checked September 2026: Superwhisper Pro is $8.49/month, $84.99/year, or $249.99 lifetime; the free tier includes the Whisper models and meeting transcription. Velora is free and MIT-licensed.

Free. Open source. Local.

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