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FreeFlow Review

Hold Fn, bring your own key

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Verdict

The best value-for-effort option on a Mac if you are comfortable with cloud inference and can paste an API key.

Best for Email
Score breakdown

Where FreeFlow shines

Coding7/10
Writing8/10
Email9/10
Medical4/10
Accessibility6/10
Languages
90+ (Whisper on Groq)
Offline
Cloud via your own Groq key
Voice
Whisper large on Groq inference
Price
Free (MIT) · Groq usage at cost
Pros
  • Extremely fast for a free tool
  • Costs pennies per day at typical usage
  • Same hold-Fn muscle memory as the paid apps
Cons
  • Audio goes to a third party — not a privacy pick
  • Mac only and minimal by design
  • Requires creating and pasting an API key
Full review

FreeFlow is a 300-line answer to a $15 subscription: capture on Fn, ship to Groq, paste the result. Because Groq's inference is exceptionally fast, latency lands close to the best commercial products.

It does nothing else — no dictionaries, no rewriting, no offline mode.

FAQ
What does it cost to run?

Groq's per-minute Whisper pricing, typically a few cents a day for heavy use.

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