Free, Trial, or Pro: Choosing the Right DijiFlow Plan (and What Each Includes)

Here is the part most pricing pages bury: Free, Trial, and Pro run the exact same engine. Same on-device Whisper models, same CoreML speed, same ~98% accuracy across 90+ languages, same promise that your audio never leaves your machine. No tier transcribes better than another, and no tier is more private than another.

So the choice is not "good, better, best." It is simply how much of one engine you need to unlock. This guide makes that call quick.

What you get on every plan

Before the differences, the constants. These never change, no matter what you pay:

• ~98%
  accuracy on clear speech
• 90+
  languages transcribed on-device
• 0
  bytes of audio uploaded

The dictation itself feels identical on Free and on a Lifetime licence: you press a hotkey, speak, and text lands at your cursor. What the paid tiers add is capacity and a handful of pro features. That is the whole story, and the rest of this guide is just deciding which of those you actually use.

Free: a real tool, kept forever

Free is not a countdown to a paywall. It stays free, and it stays useful. It is the right home if you dictate now and then, keep recordings short, and do not need speaker labels or a saved history.

The trade-offs are deliberate, not crippling:

• One dictation slot, not several running at once.
• A 3-minute cap on each file.
• CPU-only transcription.
• No diarization, timestamps, custom vocabulary, or history.
• No Large-v3 model.

If a quick note, a short voice memo, or the occasional message is your whole use case, Free may genuinely be all you ever need. It is a complete tool, not a demo with a timer.

Trial: Pro, for 30 days, no card

The Trial exists to answer one question with your own audio instead of a feature list: does the Pro experience fit how you actually work?

For 30 days you get the full Pro feature set — every slot, every advanced feature, the Large-v3 model — with no credit card and no commitment. Run your real workloads through it: a long interview, a multi-speaker meeting, a lecture, a stack of multilingual notes. Because everything runs locally, the Trial behaves exactly like a paid licence, at the same speed and with the same offline reliability.

Pro: the full toolkit, yours to keep

Pro lifts the Free limits and unlocks everything, permanently. It is built for people who dictate often or professionally and want the app to keep pace with real work. You get everything in Free, plus:

• Multiple dictation slots instead of one.
• Long and multi-speaker audio, well past the 3-minute cap.
• Diarization to tell speakers apart.
• Timestamps for navigating and citing recordings.
• Custom vocabulary for names, jargon, and field-specific terms.
• History, so past transcriptions stay at hand.
• The Large-v3 model for the most demanding accuracy.

What Pro costs

Pick the term that suits you:

• $4.99
  per month
• −50%
  on the 12-month plan
• $39
  Lifetime, one-time

Monthly is $4.99. The 6-month plan saves 30%, the 12-month plan saves 50%, and the Lifetime licence is a single $39 payment with nothing to renew. If you expect to keep dictating for the long haul, Lifetime usually works out cheapest and simplest.

Free vs Trial vs Pro, at a glance

The same capabilities, side by side:

So which one is yours?

A 30-second decision:

• Choose Free if your recordings are short, you dictate occasionally, and you do not need diarization, timestamps, vocabulary, or history.
• Choose the Trial if you think Pro fits but want to prove it on your own audio first. A few real sessions will settle it.
• Choose Pro if you dictate regularly, handle long or multi-speaker recordings, or lean on history and custom vocabulary. Pick a term, or take Lifetime and forget about it.

Whichever you land on, the privacy promise is the same: your voice and your text stay on your device. That does not change with the price — it is the entire point.

If you already suspect Pro is the fit, start the 30-day Trial and put it through your real work before you pay a cent — try DijiFlow Dictate Pro.