Is Voibe cheaper than SayControl?

Yes. Voibe Dictation is $9.90 a month against SayControl’s $12 a month, $99 a year, or $199 once, which costs less than SayControl Pro from month 17. Meeting notes are on Voibe Work, at $19 a month. SayControl’s free plan is 2,000 words a week every week; Voibe’s free word limit isn’t published.

Does Voibe work offline?

On Apple silicon, its on-device mode transcribes without a connection; its AI formatting runs in the cloud. Intel Macs and Windows use its cloud. SayControl always needs a connection.

Does SayControl read my screen?

Only to spell names right. It skims the front window for names and jargon and sends a short list of them with your audio as spelling hints. It’s on by default and has a switch in Settings; turned off, nothing on screen is read. Voibe says it doesn’t read other apps at all.

Can Voibe attach files by voice?

In code editors, yes: its Developer Mode lets you say a file’s name in Cursor, VS Code or Windsurf and attaches it to the AI chat. SayControl’s spoken controls work in any app, and also take screenshots, copy links and paths, and open apps and terminals.

Does Voibe work with Claude Code?

You can dictate into it, and in an editor’s terminal Voibe resolves the file names you say. It doesn’t tell you when an agent has finished or needs permission. SayControl does, out loud, and you answer the same way.

What does SayControl not do?

It doesn’t work offline, it runs only on a Mac, it takes no meeting notes, and it has no lifetime licence. If you need those, or a dictation app that never looks at your screen, Voibe is the better pick.

SayControl vs Voibe: which Mac dictation app fits you?

Voibe is built for confidential work: it can stay on your Mac and promises not to look at your other apps. SayControl looks, a little, so your voice can do more than type.

SHSorower Hossan, maker of SayControl·Updated 12 October 2026·7 min read

We make SayControl, so read this knowing that. Every Voibe fact here comes from Voibe’s own pages, linked at the end and checked on 12 October 2026. Where Voibe is the better pick, we say so.

TL;DR

The short answer

If you dictate confidential work and want the app to see as little as possible, pick Voibe. It can transcribe on your Mac, doesn’t read your other apps, takes meeting notes on its Work plan, runs on Windows, and costs less.

Pick SayControl if you want your voice to do things in any app: screenshots and files landing mid-sentence, a tone that fits the app, rewrites by voice, questions sent straight to ChatGPT or Claude, and coding agents that tell you when they need you.

Nothing ticked yet. If none of these matter to you, both will do the job: try each one’s free plan and keep the one you like.

At a glance

The eleven things people ask about

SayControl and Voibe at a glance
Feature	SayControl	Voibe
Free plan	2,000 words a week, every week	Limited, not published
Paid monthly	$12 a month	$9.90 a month
Pay once		$199
Stays on your Mac		On-device mode
Reads your screen	For names; can be off	No
Tone for each app		Not described
Screenshots, files, links by voice		File names in code editors
Ask ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Perplexity		Not available
Coding agents that talk back		Not available
Meeting notes		Voibe Work
Runs on	Mac	Mac and Windows

Common ground

What both do well

Both type where your cursor is, remove fillers and write numbers the way you’d type them, learn your vocabulary, and expand a spoken shortcut into text you type often. Neither trains AI on what you say.

Hold a key, talk, and it types in any app
Fillers removed and numbers written properly
Custom vocabulary
Spoken shortcuts for text you type often
Nothing used to train AI models

Two ideas

Sees less, or does more

Voibe’s promise is restraint. On Apple silicon it can keep your speech on the Mac. It says it doesn’t read the contents of other apps, doesn’t watch what you type and doesn’t take screenshots. For a lawyer or a doctor, that may be the whole decision.

SayControl makes the other trade, and says so. By default it skims the front window for names and sends a short list of them with your audio, so names come out right; there’s a switch to turn it off. And it takes a screenshot or attaches a file when you ask, because acting on what you say is the point.

SayControl

Does what you say

Screenshots and files land mid-sentence
Names read off your screen, if you allow it
Command mode rewrites what you selected
Agents speak up when they need you

Voibe

Sees as little as it can

On-device transcription on Apple silicon
Doesn’t read other apps or take screenshots
Audio deleted after cloud transcription
Meeting notes with no bot (Work)

Where SayControl goes further

Dictation that does things

Say “take a screenshot” while writing an email and the picture is pasted where you were. Say “attach the PDF from downloads” and the newest one is attached. Say “polish it” and command mode tidies what’s on screen.

Illustration: an email reading “The layout breaks here” with a screenshot pasted below, after saying “take a screenshot” — Say it mid-sentence; the screenshot is in the email.

Here's the bug I mentioned: . It happens on every refresh.

📸 Screenshot taken

take a screenshot

A picture of your screen, pasted mid-sentence. Pick another to watch it land.

Voibe has one thing in this family: in Cursor, VS Code and Windsurf, its Developer Mode attaches a file to the AI chat when you say its name. SayControl’s controls work in any app, on Pro. See everything you can say.

Only in SayControl

Your coding agents talk back

Voibe is good at dictating into Claude Code and Codex, and resolves the file names you say in an editor’s terminal. It doesn’t tell you when an agent is done.

SayControl does. It sums up what each agent did and says it out loud: finished, stuck on a limit, or waiting for a yes. Answer by voice from the kitchen and the reply goes into that session.

Illustration: a laptop on a kitchen counter says “Finished. What next?” aloud to someone pouring tea, who answers “Yes, commit it” — Make tea; the agent tells you when it needs you.

Free accounts get 10 conversations to try it, and Pro includes 300 a month.

Credit where due

Where Voibe is ahead

Voibe is the better pick on these:

It can stay on your Mac. On Apple silicon, its on-device mode transcribes without a connection; turn AI formatting off and nothing leaves. SayControl always uses the cloud.
It sees less. Voibe says it doesn’t read other apps, watch what you type or take screenshots. SayControl reads names off your screen unless you switch that off.
It costs less, and you can pay once. Dictation is $9.90 a month, $99 a year, or $199 for life.
It takes meeting notes. Voibe Work records any meeting app without a bot, labels speakers and writes summaries you can question.
It runs on Windows. As well as Intel and Apple silicon Macs, in 100+ languages.

Price

What it costs

Voibe costs less: Dictation is $9.90 a month, $99 a year, or $199 once. SayControl Pro is $12 a month, with no yearly or lifetime option. Meeting notes are on Voibe Work, at $19 a month. Free, SayControl gives 2,000 words every week; Voibe’s free word limit isn’t published.

If you use it for12 months

SayControl · Pro, monthly$144
Voibe · Dictation, monthly$118.80
Voibe · Dictation, yearly (paid up front)$99
Voibe · Dictation, lifetime$199

A yearly plan is paid a year at a time, so 12 months on it means paying for a whole year. Voibe’s lifetime Dictation licence is one payment of $199: it costs more than SayControl Pro for the first 16 months, and less from month 17 on. Prices before tax.

Privacy

What happens to your voice

Neither keeps your audio on its servers, and neither trains on it. The difference is where the work happens and what the app looks at. Voibe can transcribe on your Mac, sends finished text to the cloud only for AI formatting, and doesn’t read other apps; it does collect usage counts and crash reports. SayControl always uses the cloud and reads names off your screen unless you switch it off.

What SayControl and Voibe keep
Feature	SayControl	Voibe
Where speech becomes text	In the cloud	On your Mac (Apple silicon), or its cloud
Audio kept on servers?	Never	Never: deleted once transcribed
Reads your screen?	Names only, as spelling hints; can be turned off	No, it says

Our privacy policy has the whole round trip.

Every row

The full comparison

Every feature, side by side.

Dictation

Dictate into any app
Hold a key, talk, let go.
SayControlYes
VoibeYes
Cleanup
Fillers, punctuation, numbers and lists.
SayControlYes
VoibeAI formatting, in the cloud
Tone for each app
SayControlPersonal, Work, Email, Agents
VoibeNot described
Vocabulary and shortcuts
SayControlDictionary and phrases
VoibeCustom vocabulary and Memory
Reads your screen
SayControlFor names, on by default; can be turned off
VoibeNo: it doesn’t read other apps
Where speech becomes text
SayControlIn the cloud
VoibeOn your Mac (Apple silicon) or its cloud
Works offline
SayControlNo
VoibeOn-device mode, without AI formatting
Languages
SayControl60+
Voibe100+

Doing things with your voice

Rewrite selected text by voice
“make it shorter”, “make it formal” on what you selected.
SayControlCommand mode, Pro
VoibeNot described
Spoken controls mid-sentence
Screenshots, files, links, terminal and apps, in any app.
SayControlPro
VoibeFile names in Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf
Ask ChatGPT, Claude, Grok or Perplexity
Say the question; it opens in that AI, already asked.
SayControlPro
VoibeNot available
Coding agents that talk back
Claude Code and Codex say when they need you; you answer by voice.
SayControl10 free, 300 a month on Pro
VoibeNot available
Meeting notes
No bot joins the call.
SayControlNo
VoibeVoibe Work

Privacy

Your audio
SayControlNever kept on our servers; recent clips on your Mac
VoibeStays on your Mac on-device; deleted after cloud transcription

Plans

Free
SayControl2,000 words a week, every week
VoibeLimited words, number not published
Paid monthly
SayControl$12 a month
Voibe$9.90 a month
Paid yearly
SayControlNo yearly plan, so no year up front
Voibe$99 a year
Lifetime
SayControlNo
Voibe$199 once
With meeting notes
SayControlNo
VoibeVoibe Work: $19 a month, $149 a year or $399 once

Where it runs

Platforms
SayControlmacOS 13 and later
VoibemacOS 14.4 and later, and Windows

SayControl and Voibe, line by line
Feature	SayControl	Voibe
Dictation
Dictate into any appHold a key, talk, let go.	Yes	Yes
CleanupFillers, punctuation, numbers and lists.	Yes	AI formatting, in the cloud
Tone for each app	Personal, Work, Email, Agents	Not described
Vocabulary and shortcuts	Dictionary and phrases	Custom vocabulary and Memory
Reads your screen	For names, on by default; can be turned off	No: it doesn’t read other apps
Where speech becomes text	In the cloud	On your Mac (Apple silicon) or its cloud
Works offline	No	On-device mode, without AI formatting
Languages	60+	100+
Doing things with your voice
Rewrite selected text by voice“make it shorter”, “make it formal” on what you selected.	Command mode, Pro	Not described
Spoken controls mid-sentenceScreenshots, files, links, terminal and apps, in any app.	Pro	File names in Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf
Ask ChatGPT, Claude, Grok or PerplexitySay the question; it opens in that AI, already asked.	Pro	Not available
Coding agents that talk backClaude Code and Codex say when they need you; you answer by voice.	10 free, 300 a month on Pro	Not available
Meeting notesNo bot joins the call.	No	Voibe Work
Privacy
Your audio	Never kept on our servers; recent clips on your Mac	Stays on your Mac on-device; deleted after cloud transcription
Plans
Free	2,000 words a week, every week	Limited words, number not published
Paid monthly	$12 a month	$9.90 a month
Paid yearly	No yearly plan, so no year up front	$99 a year
Lifetime	No	$199 once
With meeting notes	No	Voibe Work: $19 a month, $149 a year or $399 once
Where it runs
Platforms	macOS 13 and later	macOS 14.4 and later, and Windows

Questions

What people ask when switching

Sources

Checked on 12 October 2026. Voibe and its logo are trademarks of their owner, shown here only to identify the product; SayControl is not affiliated with it. Something out of date? Write to support@saycontrol.com and we’ll fix it.