Superwhisper pricing 2026: Free, Pro and the $249.99 lifetime

Superwhisper is free to start, and Pro costs $8.49 a month, $84.99 a year or $249.99 once for a lifetime license. The free plan is genuinely usable for plain dictation; you pay when you want AI modes, cloud or Parakeet models, file transcription or Meetings. One Pro license covers every device you own, on Mac, Windows, iPhone and Android.

We make Sayburst, a Mac dictation app with a one-time price, so we have a view on this. Every Superwhisper fact below comes from superwhisper.com and its Plans & Pricing docs, checked October 31, 2026.

#Every Superwhisper plan

Superwhisper is explicit that all three Pro plans include the same features, so the only decision is how you want to pay. Prices above are for buying on superwhisper.com. You can also buy inside the iPhone or Android app, but Superwhisper says that costs more because of Apple's and Google's fees.

#What the free plan includes, and what Pro adds

The line that matters for most people is the AI one. "Superwhisper AI" is really the Pro mode system: your words go through a language model, cloud or local, that formats them as a message, an email or a note. On the free plan you get the raw transcript from Whisper with your vocabulary and replacements applied. That's fine for short notes; it's more fixing for long emails.

One small catch: Superwhisper's homepage lists Meetings under Free, but its docs say Meetings is part of Pro and free accounts can only use it with their trial words. Go by the docs.

#Free trial and refunds

New users get 3,000 words of every Pro feature, Meetings included. When the words run out, the app falls back to the free plan and nothing is deleted. There's no time limit on those words, so you can try Pro at your own pace.

If you pay and change your mind, every individual plan (monthly, annual and lifetime) has a 30-day refund window from the first purchase. Refunds for superwhisper.com purchases are self-serve through their refund form. Two details people trip on: renewal charges aren't refundable on their own, because the window starts at the first purchase, and anything bought through the App Store or Google Play has to be refunded by Apple or Google.

If you're looking at an unexpected Superwhisper charge on a statement, check where you bought. Website purchases show up in the billing portal at superwhisper.com/billing, where you sign in with your purchase email to cancel, switch plans or download invoices. App purchases live in your Apple or Google subscriptions list.

#Discount codes and the student discount

Superwhisper doesn't publish discount codes on its site. What it does offer:

• 40% off for verified students, faculty and academic institutions, and the same for non-profits.
• You request it by emailing support@superwhisper.com from your school or organisation address, with proof. Ask before you buy: it isn't applied to past charges, doesn't stack with other discounts, and doesn't work on App Store purchases.
• The annual plan is the built-in discount for everyone, about 17% off monthly.

At 40% off, Pro works out to roughly $5.09 a month, $50.99 a year or $149.99 for lifetime.

#Monthly, annual or lifetime: what each costs over time

Lifetime overtakes annual just before the three-year mark, and overtakes monthly after about 30 months. If you already know Superwhisper is your tool and you'll want Pro for years, lifetime is the cheapest way to own it. If you're not sure, start annual: the 30-day refund makes the first month low-risk either way.

#Superwhisper on Windows, iPhone and Android

This is where Superwhisper earns its price. One Pro license works on all your devices: unlimited Macs and Windows PCs, plus your iPhone and Android phone, with no separate Windows license. The Mac app needs macOS 14 or later, and the Windows app runs on Windows 10 and 11.

On iPhone, Superwhisper is a custom keyboard you switch to in any app; iPad isn't supported. On Android it's a floating bubble. Modes and vocabulary are stored per device for now, so you set them up again on the phone.

#Login and license keys

There's no account to sign into for everyday dictation. You buy on the website, a license key arrives by email, and you paste it into the app on each device. The "login" people search for is usually the billing portal (superwhisper.com/billing, signed in with your purchase email) or the license recovery page at superwhisper.com/licenses, which emails your key again. Enterprise seats are different: those sign in with a work email or SSO.

#Where Sayburst fits

Most people pay for Superwhisper Pro to get the AI cleanup: rambling speech in, a tidy message out. Sayburst does that job on a Mac for $29 once ($49 for up to three Macs), with no subscription and no Pro tier on top.

Speech recognition runs on your Mac with Parakeet v3 by default (Whisper models are there for 99 languages), and the cleanup runs on your Mac too. Fillers go, punctuation and capitals go in, and "new paragraph" or "bullet point" become structure. The optional Sayburst Writer model, a 2.5 GB download that runs on the Mac's GPU with no account or API key, handles the bigger rewrites.

Here's a note to a client, said the way you'd actually say it:

"Hey Priya, so the, uh, revised floor plan is attached, we moved the pantry to the north wall, no sorry, the east wall, and the quote goes up by about four hundred. Let me know if that works."

What lands in Mail with the Email mode:

Hi Priya,

The revised floor plan is attached. We moved the pantry to the east wall, and the quote goes up by about 400.

Let me know if that works.

The filler is gone, the correction resolved to the east wall, and the number you said stayed exactly as you said it. If a rewrite would ever change a number, Sayburst types the cleaned transcript instead.

Where Superwhisper is the better buy: you dictate on Windows or your phone as much as on your Mac, you want meeting recording with speaker separation, or you only need plain local dictation and the free plan covers it. Sayburst is Mac-only, needs an Apple silicon Mac on macOS 14 or later, and doesn't record meetings.

For the full feature-by-feature view, see Sayburst vs Superwhisper. Weighing other options? Superwhisper alternatives covers the rest of the field, and Superwhisper vs Wispr Flow compares the two cross-platform subscriptions. All our head-to-heads are on the compare page.

Our take

Superwhisper's free plan is a good deal for plain local dictation, and its lifetime license beats paying yearly if you'll use Pro for three years or more. If you need Windows and phones under one license, it's worth the money. If you write on a Mac and mainly want clean, formatted text, Sayburst gives you that for $29 once, about a third of one year of Superwhisper Pro.

Questions people ask

How much does Superwhisper cost?

Superwhisper has a free plan. Pro is $8.49 a month, $84.99 a year or $249.99 once for a lifetime license, and every Pro plan has the same features. Buying inside the iPhone or Android app costs more because of store fees.

Is Superwhisper free?

Yes. The free plan gives unlimited dictation with local Whisper models, custom vocabulary, text replacements and up to two modes without AI processing. AI modes, cloud models, Parakeet, file transcription and Meetings need Pro.

Does Superwhisper have a student discount or discount code?

Verified students, educators and non-profits get 40% off by emailing support before they buy. Superwhisper doesn't list public discount codes; the annual plan saves about 17% over monthly.

Does Superwhisper work on Windows and iPhone?

Yes. One Pro license covers unlimited Macs and Windows PCs plus your iPhone and Android phone. The iPhone app is a keyboard, and iPad isn't supported.

Can I get a refund on a Superwhisper charge?

Purchases on superwhisper.com have a 30-day refund window from the first purchase, requested through their refund form. Renewals aren't refundable on their own, and App Store or Google Play purchases are refunded by Apple or Google.