“Most restaurant POS software is a subscription: a monthly fee, a cloud dependency, and your sales data living on someone else's server.”
Debraj Biswas, on github.com ↗
Restaurant POS software bills you every month to ring up a sandwich. DineForge rings it up on one Windows box, free, forever.
Wispr Flow charges $15 a month to type what you say. LocalFlow does it on your own GPU for nothing, word limit not included.
“The idea came from using Wispr Flow and wanting the same convenience without a subscription or the cloud.”
Word's Transcribe wants a Microsoft 365 subscription and stops at 300 minutes. sada runs Whisper on your own PC, inside Word, with no meter running.
“Microsoft 365's Transcribe needs a paid subscription, uploads your audio to its servers, and caps you at 300 minutes per month and 200 MB per file.”
Wispr Flow wants $15 a month to type what you say. FlowLocal holds a key, runs Whisper on your own PC, and sends the invoice nowhere.
“A local replacement for subscription dictation apps like Wispr Flow: speech recognition runs on your own machine via faster-whisper, nothing is sent to the cloud, and there's nothing to pay for.”
Built something because a company wanted your credit card for a feature that fits in a single file? That's spiteware. Submit it and join the hall of fame.
