Shaunny

Shaunny

1 point
Wispr Flow

What's great

It's clear to me reading these other reviewers they are either involved with Wisprflow or are not using it on Windows, that's for sure.

  • I think I have installed it five times. And if I recall that's with four different versions. I have installed it standalone. I have installed it from the Microsoft store. I even reached out to support, you know, because I am in the software space and I want them to improve their product. But it's electron based and uses 800 megabytes of RAM (Lenovo laptop 10th gen i7, 16GB Ram). I've used plenty of other resource hog electron based apps that don't crash like this does. Ooh and don't even get me started on the privacy aspect. How many privacy scandals does a fledgling startup need? That taking screenshots thing was inexcusable.

  • From what I see they got many millions from venture capital, spent it on marketing and just rushed out the Windows product as quickly as they could. And it definitely shows, the latest version from the Microsoft store just crashes. But at least it doesn't lock other system processes along with it. I just know it doesn't work. When it does though the transcription is fast, but that's a moot point. I'm not sure why it's so hard for this company. There are solo competitors that build great products.

It seems that they're much more focused on growth than retention. The history of privacy intrusion alone tells enough of their concern for customers, or lack of. If you value your privacy and your PC's stability, look elsewhere.

What needs improvement

privacy concerns (5)resource intensive (2)high CPU usage (3)system integration issues (4)

See review above

vs Alternatives

I was watching a workshop for a prominent AI tool and the person demoing was using it and raving. I think he may have dropped a referral code but I don't recall that was months ago. He was on Mac of course.

Is there a functional offline mode for privacy?

NO!

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