What they do well — and where it stops
Superwhisper is the best local-first Mac story
Superwhisper has the strongest local-first privacy story on macOS — the Whisper model runs entirely on-device by default, no cloud round-trip required.
But the Canadian legal entity, USD-only billing, no team dictionary and no AVV mean it scales badly into a German law firm or hospital. Sprecho gives you the EU cloud equivalent plus team workflows and a Made-in-Germany invoice.
At a glance
| Sprecho | Superwhisper | |
|---|---|---|
| Price (monthly) | €12.99 brutto incl. VAT | $8.49 USD (~€7.85) |
| Free tier | Yes · 2,000 words/week | Yes |
| Platforms | Windows · macOS · Linux · iOS · Android | macOS · Windows · iOS |
| EU hosting | Hetzner Falkenstein, Germany | Partial |
| German-language UI | Yes — native | English-only |
| AVV / DPA | Yes, public template | Not public |
Pricing for B2B buyers — netto, like-for-like
Superwhisper invoices from Canada in USD under the reverse-charge mechanism — no VAT on the invoice. Sprecho invoices come from Melo Designer GmbH in EUR brutto; the 19 % VAT is recoverable as Vorsteuer. Net-for-net comparison below — plus USD FX-rate variance to factor in.
Sprecho Pro
VAT included & deductibleMonthly billing
€10.92 / mo netto
(€12.99 brutto incl. 19 % VAT)
Yearly billing · 15 % cheaper
€9.24 / mo netto
(€10.99 brutto · €131.88 brutto/yr · €110.82 netto/yr)
Superwhisper Pro
Reverse-charge invoice (B2B)Monthly billing
$8.49 USD / mo
Canadian entity (SuperUltra, Inc.) · USD billing
Yearly billing · 15 % cheaper
$84.99 USD / year
≈ $7.08 USD / mo · still no EUR invoice
Hidden costs
- USD billing — your accounting team handles FX-rate variance and books the reverse-charge VAT separately in the monthly UStVA
- No team workspace — every seat is provisioned individually
- No public AVV / DPA template — Sprecho's AVV is publicly downloadable without a sales contact
- BYO API key for cloud features — audio goes to OpenAI/Anthropic directly, not Superwhisper
Where your data actually lives
Named legal entities, named regions, named subprocessors. The single most concrete answer to: where does my audio go?
Sprecho
Melo Designer GmbH (Lower Saxony, Germany)
Hetzner Falkenstein / Nuremberg (Germany)
Superwhisper
SuperUltra, Inc. (Toronto, Canada)
On-device (macOS) by default · Cloud: user-selected provider
What each side built that the other didn't
Honest, concrete, audit-grade. Superwhisper has shipped features Sprecho hasn't; Sprecho has shipped features Superwhisper hasn't.
What Superwhisper built that Sprecho didn't
- Fully on-device transcription on macOS by default — Whisper runs locally, zero cloud round-trip required.
- $249.99 lifetime tier — pay once, use forever (no equivalent at Sprecho).
- BYO API key support for cloud post-processing — choose your own OpenAI / Anthropic / Groq endpoint.
What Sprecho built that Superwhisper didn't
- Team workspace with shared dictionary and admin-managed terminology — Superwhisper Enterprise has central auth but no shared vocabulary.
- Native Linux desktop support (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora) — Superwhisper covers Mac, Windows and iOS, no Linux.
- German Fachsprache vocabulary trained on DATEV, RA-MICRO and Medistar terminology — Superwhisper has no documented German vocabulary tuning.
- EUR brutto pricing with German GmbH invoice — Superwhisper is USD-only via a Canadian entity.
Honest feature comparison
Side by side. Superwhisper has a genuinely strong local-first story on Mac — we show it where it wins.
Platform support
Privacy & DSGVO
German language quality
Pricing
Dictation features
Switch in three steps
Superwhisper stores vocabulary locally per device. No cloud export — just bring your word list across.
Download Sprecho
Win / Mac / Linux installer from sprecho.ai — 30 seconds.
Bring your vocabulary
Re-enter your custom vocabulary in Settings → Dictionary. Local-to-local copy-paste works fine for small lists.
Re-map your shortcut
Default shortcut is Fn + Option. Match whatever you had on Superwhisper — 10 seconds in Settings.
A 12-person Berlin law firm migrated in under an hour, including dictionary import.
“Superwhisper was perfect when I was solo. The moment we hired a paralegal, we needed a shared dictionary — and Sprecho was the only option that wasn't an enterprise sales call.”