Paying Willow $15 a month for dictation, Hunter Bohm built a free, open-source Mac replacement
Another monthly toll gets knocked down. Hunter Bohm was paying Willow $15 a month to type what they say, so Hunter built a dictation app of their own: free, open source, and your voice stays on your Mac. Hold a key, talk, let go. Hunter clocks the new build typing your words in 0.21 seconds against Willow's 0.37. It also goes past plain dictation: one key combo has Claude Code write your reply, another hands the task straight to your agent. A subscription tool turned into a weapon the survivor owns outright.
Saving, as stated by the author: $15 a month
i was paying Willow $15 a month to type what i say
so i built my own. free, open source, your voice stays on your Mac
hold a key, talk, let go:
> fn: your words, typed in 0.21 s (Willow 0.37)
> fn + control: Claude Code writes your reply
> fn + option: your agent gets the task
— Hunter Bohm, read the original on XMore SaaS obituaries
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