Wispr Flow is the app that made this category popular, and it is good. If you have landed here looking for an alternative, it is not because it does its job badly: it is because there are two questions a Spanish law firm ends up asking that the app is not designed to answer.
In short: Wispr Flow, for notes and emails on Windows, Mac and mobile: free plan, Pro at $12/month paid annually and audio in the cloud. ablalo, for legal writing in Spanish on Windows and Mac: your voice stays on your computer, 22 to 29 euros a month plus VAT.
How they are alike
More than the websites of either suggest. Both are desktop apps that you install once and that work on top of any program (Word, email, the browser, your case management software) without plugins. Both punctuate on their own, remove filler words and give back text that is already written instead of a literal transcript. Both are far ahead of the dictation that comes with the operating system.
So the choice is not decided on “which one transcribes better”. It is decided on everything else.
Point-by-point comparison
| Wispr Flow | ablalo | |
|---|---|---|
| Maker's country | United States | Spain (EU) |
| Windows and Mac | Yes | Yes |
| iOS and Android | Yes | No |
| Permanent free plan | Yes: 2,000 words a week on desktop | No, 14-day trial |
| Paid price | Pro: $12/month annual · $15/month | €22/month annual · €29/month, + VAT |
| Spanish | Yes, a tuned language | Yes, main language |
| Spanish legal terms | Not out of the box | 30,000+ out of the box |
| Cite articles by dictating them | No | Yes, full official text |
| Custom vocabulary | Yes | Yes |
| Meeting notes | Yes | No |
| Transcribe recordings | No | Yes, locally |
| Audio transcription | Always in the cloud | Always on your computer |
| Billing | In dollars | In euros, with Spanish VAT |
| Support | Help centre in English | In Spanish |
Public information from each maker, checked on 12 October 2026 (sources at the end). Wispr Flow's plans and features change often; confirm on its website before deciding.
Where Wispr Flow wins
The free plan
It is the strongest argument and there is no way round it: you can use it indefinitely within a weekly word cap (2,000 on desktop and 1,000 on mobile, at 12 October 2026). If you dictate little, you may never need to pay. ablalo has no permanent free plan: it has a 14-day full trial and after that you pay.
Mobile
It has apps for iOS and Android. ablalo is desktop only, Windows and Mac. If you handle a good part of your work from your phone in the corridors of the courthouse, it is a practical difference and there is no way to hide it.
Price
12 dollars per user per month paid annually (15 paid monthly), against ablalo's 22 euros. It is cheaper, and we say so plainly: ablalo costs more because it does things the other one doesn't, not because it is better in the abstract. If you have no use for those things, you are overpaying.
Meeting notes
It includes Notetaker, a feature for taking meeting notes that works on Mac and Windows. ablalo doesn't do that.
Where ablalo wins
It knows what you are talking about
This is the fundamental difference. ablalo recognises more than 30,000 Spanish legal terms out of the box (procedural, commercial, criminal, employment): litispendencia (lis pendens), Audiencia Provincial (provincial court), ERE (collective redundancy), allanamiento (acceptance of the claim), S.L.U. (single-member limited company); you don't have to teach it any of them. Wispr Flow lets you add your own vocabulary, which is good, but the starting point is a general dictionary that does not contain the vocabulary of a Spanish legal brief.
It cites the law without you typing it
You say «artículo 1124 del Código Civil» (article 1124 of the Civil Code) or «artículo 24 de la Constitución Española» (article 24 of the Spanish Constitution) and ablalo puts the full official text, word for word, into the document. Without searching for it, copying it or transcribing it. It is a feature that doesn't exist in general-purpose dictation, because it only makes sense if your product is built for a specific legal system.
It transcribes the hearing, not just what you dictate
Wispr Flow dictates and takes live meeting notes, but its help says it does not support uploading an audio file that has already been recorded. ablalo, as well as dictating, transcribes existing recordings (a court hearing, a deposition, the recording of a meeting with the client) and does it on your own computer. The usual alternative for that is uploading the file to a cloud transcription service, and uploading the full recording of a proceeding to a third party is a conversation no lawyer wants to have with their client.
Modes for each type of document
An email to the client, a brief, a case note and an internal message are not written the same way. In ablalo you define a mode for each one, with its tone, format and rules, and you choose when you dictate.
Where what you dictate ends up
This is the second question we mentioned at the start, and for a lawyer it is not a minor one.
With ablalo the audio is always transcribed on your own computer: it is not uploaded to any server, and it is not a mode you have to turn on. When you use the Assistant mode, which rewrites and adjusts the text, only the text travels, encrypted, to a European AI, and it is not used to train any model. The company is Spanish and the contract is signed in Spain. The details are in the privacy policy (in Spanish).
Wispr Flow is an American company, and it publishes security certifications and privacy options. According to its own website, transcription always happens in the cloud, and its privacy policy says that the data of users outside the US are transferred to and processed in the US. Beyond that, we are not going to tell you what they do with your data: we will tell you what to ask them, in writing, before dictating a client's matter to them. Where the audio is processed, where the text is processed, under which jurisdiction, who is named as the data processor and which sub-processors there are. The five questions are covered in client confidentiality and the GDPR when using AI in a law firm, and they apply to any provider, us included.
Details that only matter if you are in Spain
Invoices in euros with Spanish VAT, support in Spanish and a fifteen-minute video call to get your installation working, if you want one. It is not cutting-edge technology; it just means you don't have to wrestle with currency exchange or write to support in English.
So, which one?
- Wispr Flow, if you dictate general emails and notes, if you also want to dictate from your phone, if the free plan is enough for you or if price is what decides.
- ablalo, if what you dictate is briefs, claims, reports and case notes in Spanish; if you want legal vocabulary and articles handled out of the box; and if you need to be able to explain, in writing and to a client, where what you dictate is processed.
Put briefly: if your job is writing, either of the two will change your day. If your job is writing under Spanish law and bound by professional secrecy, the list comes down to one.
Sources: Wispr Flow, pricing, data controls, privacy policy, languages (January 2026) and uploading audio files. Checked on 12 October 2026; prices and terms may change.
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Frequently asked questions
Does Wispr Flow work well in Spanish?
Yes. Spanish is among the languages for which the maker says it has offered “fast, accurate and natural” transcription since January 2026, and for emails, notes and general texts it works smoothly. What it does not include is Spanish legal terminology out of the box or any feature tied to Spanish law.
How much does Wispr Flow cost compared with ablalo?
At 12 October 2026, Wispr Flow publishes a free plan of 2,000 words a week on desktop and a Pro plan at 12 dollars per user per month paid annually, or 15 paid monthly. ablalo is 22 euros a month paid annually or 29 paid monthly, plus VAT, with a 14-day trial with no card and no permanent free plan.
What is the main difference for a law firm?
Two things. First, the content: ablalo recognises more than 30,000 Spanish legal terms out of the box and inserts the official text of an article when you name it while dictating. Second, jurisdiction: ablalo transcribes the audio on the computer itself and sends the text to a European AI, while Wispr Flow always transcribes in the cloud and, according to its privacy policy, processes the data of users outside the US in the US.
What does Wispr Flow do that ablalo doesn't?
It has apps for iOS and Android, a permanent free plan with a weekly limit and a meeting notes feature. ablalo is desktop only, Windows and Mac, and does not take live meeting notes, although it does transcribe existing recordings of hearings or meetings locally.