Dicta vs Aqua Voice

The short version

Aqua Voice is a polished, subscription-based dictation tool built around cloud AI models. It offers a “Privacy Mode” that deletes data server-side rather than never sending it in the first place. Dicta’s approach is structural rather than a setting: speech recognition and the AI rewrite both run on your Mac, so there is no server-side copy to delete because none is ever made.

Fact table

	Dicta	Aqua Voice
Speech-to-text	On-device	Cloud-based
AI rewrite / formatting	On-device	Cloud-based
Works with no internet connection	Yes, the full pipeline	No, requires a connection
Account required	No account needed to use the app	Account required
“Privacy” mechanism	Nothing is ever sent (nothing to protect after the fact)	Optional server-side deletion (“Privacy Mode”)
Word or usage limits	None, any tier	Free tier is limited; paid subscription for unlimited

Sources

Feature details for Aqua Voice are drawn from aquavoice.com as published at the time this page was written, and are re-checked when we update this comparison. If something above is out of date, tell us at [email protected] and we’ll fix it.

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