Does Willow Voice process my voice in the cloud?

Willow Voice is a cloud service and does not document an offline mode — check its current privacy page for the specifics, as they change. Blabb runs speech recognition and AI cleanup entirely on your PC; your audio and transcripts are never uploaded. Blabb still contacts one server for the licence check, and a verified subscription keeps dictating for 30 days without reaching it.

How do the prices compare?

Willow Voice is about $15/month (or $12/month annual), with a free tier of 2,000 words a week. Blabb Free gives you 2,000 words a day, forever, no card. Unlimited dictation is USD $4.99/month, USD $49.99/year, or USD $99 once for a lifetime licence, with a 14-day free trial on subscriptions — cheaper because there is no cloud inference bill to pass on.

Which one works in locked-down Citrix, RDP, or VDI sessions?

Blabb was built for exactly that environment: it runs on your local PC and types text key-by-key into the focused window, so it works even where clipboard redirection is blocked — and because dictated audio and text are processed on the machine, the only outbound traffic your IT policy has to account for is the licence check and any model download.

Blabb vs Willow Voice
An honest comparison

Willow Voice is one of the best-known cloud AI dictation tools — polished and cross-platform. The architectural difference is simple: Willow sends your voice to its cloud to be processed; Blabb runs the same class of AI on your own PC. As of July 2026 — check Willow's current pricing and privacy pages before deciding.

Willow Voice

~$15/MO

Blabb

ONE COFFEE / MONTH

Where your audio goes

Willow's cloud — see its current privacy page for who processes it

✓This PC — audio and transcripts are never uploaded

Offline

Optional Offline Mode on Mac and iOS (local model); cloud by default

✓Dictation runs on-device; the subscription re-checks online at least every 30 days‡

Spoken formatting

Auto-formats; voice edit commands

✓Layout, lists, punctuation, and symbols by voice — "new line", "bullet point", "question mark", "at sign"

Specialist vocabulary

Custom words you add yourself

Medical (48,133 terms) and Legal (13,004 terms) vocabulary plans — on-device, USD $9.99/mo each, not included with standard Blabb

Price

~$15/mo monthly, $12/mo annual; free tier 2,000 words/week

✓Blabb Free: 2,000 words a day, no card. Unlimited: USD $4.99/mo, USD $49.99/yr, or $99 once — 14-day free trial

Could your words train someone's model

Read Willow's current privacy terms — cloud processing makes it a question you have to answer

✓Not a question that arises — dictated audio and text stay on the machine

Locked-down RDP, Citrix, VDI

Not documented as a specific supported scenario

✓Types straight in†

Sign-up

A Willow account

A Polar checkout and a licence key you paste into Settings — no API key, no separate Blabb login

Platforms

✓Mac, Windows, iOS (Android coming soon)

✕Windows 11 (x64) only — and deeply

Self-correction while talking

✓Resolves self-corrections and strips fillers, cloud-side

✓Spoken retractions drop the false start automatically, on-device — a genuine tie

History

Cloud history

✓Encrypted local history — your original words beside the final text, copy or delete any entry

† NOT INTO ELEVATED/ADMIN WINDOWS — A WINDOWS LIMIT, NOT BLABB'S. ‡ AN ALREADY-VERIFIED SUBSCRIPTION KEEPS DICTATING FOR 30 DAYS WITHOUT REACHING THE LICENCE SERVER. FEATURE AND PRICING CLAIMS FOR WILLOW VOICE SOURCED FROM ITS OWN PUBLIC SITE, JULY 2026 — VERIFY CURRENT DETAILS BEFORE DECIDING.

01The honest read

Same promise, opposite architecture

Choose Willow Voice if…

You dictate on a Mac as well as a Windows PC — or move between them — and your content is fine transiting a cloud service. Willow is polished, and cross-platform breadth is its real advantage.

Choose Blabb if…

Your words can't leave your machine — NDA work, client data, health information — or your company's IT policy makes cloud dictation a non-starter. There's no privacy setting to remember, because there's no transcription server to send your words to. And if you work in a locked-down Citrix/RDP/VDI session, Blabb types where cloud tools don't reach.

Why the price gap

Cloud dictation pays for GPU inference on every word you speak, and that bill lands in your subscription. Blabb's models run on hardware you already own — so USD $4.99/month is the whole price, with no word caps and no metering. Against Willow's ~$15, that's roughly a third. Architecture is the pricing.

Same AI cleanup. On your PC. A third of the price.

Two weeks free, models included in the download.

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