superwhisper is a genuinely strong on-device dictation app for macOS and Windows, with the deepest model picker in its class. It has no Android app. OpenWispr does — and is open source.
Unlike the cloud-only comparison against Wispr Flow, superwhisper is a real on-device peer — its free tier already runs local Whisper models, and its paid tier adds on-device Parakeet and Whisper Large alongside optional bring-your-own-key cloud models (Deepgram, ElevenLabs). This comparison is narrower and more honest as a result: it's mostly about platform coverage, license, and how deep the model picker goes, not "local vs cloud."
The clearest gap in superwhisper's favor is model choice — it offers the most granular picker of any app in this category. The clearest gap in OpenWispr's favor is Android: superwhisper has none, and Android support is an open feature request on their own public feedback board, not a shipped feature.
superwhisper's model picker is the deepest in this category — several Whisper variants plus Parakeet, selectable per your accuracy/speed tradeoff, all documented. It also has a clean recovery pattern: right-click any history entry and "Process Again" re-runs transcription with your current settings, without needing to re-record.
OpenWispr currently ships one right-sized on-device model rather than a picker, and its own retry-on-failure flow is still in active development, not shipped. If per-recording model switching or mature failure recovery matters most to you today, superwhisper covers both better right now.
The gap that doesn't close with a feature update: superwhisper has no Android app, and Android support sits as an open, unshipped request on their own feedback board. OpenWispr's Android app is live on Google Play today, running the same on-device model as the desktop build.
superwhisper is closed source — you can observe its behavior but not read the code that produces it. OpenWispr is MIT-licensed; every claim about what the app does or doesn't send over the network is checkable in the public repository, not just stated in a privacy policy.
Open source and entirely on your device. Android from Google Play, macOS from GitHub — no account, no sign-up, just a download.