Wispim vs Speakflow
A Speakflow alternative for iPhone — and where it isn’t one
Speakflow is a teleprompter you open in a browser tab. Wispim is an app you install on an iPhone. That single difference decides most of this comparison, and it decides it in both directions.
Who each one is for
If your work happens on a computer — a script two people wrote, a webcam take, a call with your notes over the top of it — Speakflow is built for that and Wispim is not. Wispim has no web app, no Mac or Windows app and no accounts at all.
If you film with the phone itself, in the Camera app or in TikTok, the shape of the two products separates hard. Speakflow’s equivalent of a floating script is Overlay, and their own documentation is clear about it: “Overlay is desktop only. Mobile browsers do not support overlay.” Wispim’s floating window is the whole point of the app, and it only exists on an iPhone.
| Feature | Wispim | Speakflow |
|---|---|---|
| Platform | iPhone only, iOS 16 or later. No iPad, Mac, Watch or Vision Pro version. | A browser. Their docs say it “works on any device with a web browser, microphone input, and Wi-Fi connection”, listing “smartphones (iPhone and Android), laptops, desktops, tablets, and iPads”, and their download page offers a desktop app for macOS and Windows. |
| Script over the app you film with | A floating window that stays on top of other apps and snaps to a corner, Wide or Tall, rotatable either way. It does not accept touch — an iOS constraint. | Overlay, listed under their Plus plan. Their docs say it is desktop only, that mobile browsers do not support it, and that it lets you view other applications rather than control them. |
| Voice following | Voice mode scrolls to the words you actually said — pause and it waits, repeat an earlier line and it goes back to it. Sound mode follows the presence of speech instead. | Flow. Their docs: “Speakflow uses your device’s microphone to detect your words as you talk, then scroll the word into view as you read your script.” Thirty seconds of silence and it stops listening; free users get 2 minutes per take. |
| Fixed speed | Constant mode in words per minute, with a start delay of off, 5, 10 or 20 seconds, shown inside the floating window too. | Auto mode, a constant pace you can adjust during the take. |
| Spoken commands | Pause, continue and jump between sentences. Ten languages, and the phrases are editable. | Four: GO Restart or Top, Next, Previous, Current. Their docs say they need Flow mode and a paid plan. |
| When another app takes the microphone | Wispim switches to Constant by itself, tells you in a banner, and switches back when the microphone returns. On by default, and can be turned off in Settings. | Not stated on their site. |
| Languages | Interface in 16 languages. Voice following in every language your iPhone can recognise — 60+ locales on current iOS. Spoken commands in 10. | “We support multiple languages”, with North American English the default. No list or count published, and their docs say you cannot change language during a presentation. |
| Teams and collaboration | None. One person, one phone, no account. | Shared scripts and labels, script commenting, real-time collaboration, an API, and on Studio up to 10 client workspaces and 25 members. |
| Recording video | No. You record in Camera, Instagram, TikTok or whatever you film with, and the script floats over it. | A webcam recorder in the browser. Their docs say paid users can save multiple takes and share them by link while “Free users cannot currently save recordings”, and recommend “keeping recordings around 10 minutes”, with dedicated software for anything longer. |
| Import a document | PDF, Word and RTF. Part of Pro. | Not stated on their site. |
| Price | Free gives you six prompter takes with every feature and unlimited scripts. Pro removes the take limit and adds import: $9.99 a month, $49.99 a year or $199.99 once, in USD. | A free tier and two paid monthly tiers, in USD. Amounts on their pricing page — we do not reprint them, because a price copied onto another site goes stale without anyone noticing. |
Speakflow details last checked on 5 September 2026, from their own website.
Both track words. Only one of them is holding the camera
The mechanism is similar enough that it is not the deciding factor. Flow listens through the device microphone and brings the word you are reading into view. Wispim’s Voice mode does the same job and waits for you to start — Voice and Sound have no 3-2-1 countdown at all, and the start delay of off, 5, 10 or 20 seconds belongs to Constant mode, where a fixed speed makes it worth having.
What separates them is what happens next. On an iPhone the script has to survive being put behind a camera app, and that is where a browser tab cannot follow: Overlay is desktop only by their own documentation, and a tab is not on top of the Camera app. Wispim’s window is, and it handles the failure mode that comes with it — when the app you are recording with takes the microphone, Wispim switches to Constant on its own, says so, and switches back when the microphone comes free. Voice tracking has kept following in Camera, Instagram and TikTok in testing.
Two honest caveats on Wispim’s side, because they are the price of the same iOS constraint. The floating window takes no touch at all, so you steer it by speaking or with the volume buttons — and the volume buttons are marked Experimental and do not work inside camera apps, which claim them for the shutter. Recognition runs on your iPhone where your language supports it; where it does not, iOS sends the audio to Apple to convert it to text, and the app tells you before the take and again during it.
What Wispim does not have
Everything in this list is on Speakflow’s own pages and missing from Wispim: a web app, a Mac or Windows app, an iPad version, accounts, shared scripts, labels, comments, real-time collaboration, client workspaces, AI writing tools, an API, video recording and storage, and syncing one script across two devices. If any of those is load-bearing for you, this comparison is already over.
Who should pick Speakflow
- You present from a laptop, and having the script over Zoom or Google Meet on that laptop is the job — Overlay is built for exactly that, and Wispim can only do the phone version of it (see teleprompter for video calls).
- More than one person touches the script. Comments, shared labels and real-time editing have no equivalent in Wispim, and never will while it has no accounts.
- You want the teleprompter and the recorder in one window rather than filming in a separate app.
- Your devices are mixed. A browser runs on Windows, Android and a Mac; an iPhone app does not.
- You want a price you can read today. Theirs is published; Wispim’s is not, and this page will not invent one.
Wispim’s case is narrower on purpose: one phone, in your hand or on a tripod, nothing to sign into, and a script that sits on the word you just said rather than the word a timer expected you to reach. If you are weighing more than these two, the survey of iPhone teleprompter apps covers the rest with the same sourcing rule.
Questions
Is there a Speakflow app for iPhone?
Not a native one. Their download page offers macOS and Windows only, so on a phone Speakflow runs in a web browser — their device article lists iPhones among the devices that can run it. Wispim is a native iPhone app and runs on nothing else. Checked 5 September 2026.
Can Speakflow’s Overlay sit over the Camera app on a phone?
No. Their documentation says “Overlay is desktop only. Mobile browsers do not support overlay,” and that Overlay lets you view other applications rather than control them. Wispim’s floating window does stay on top of other apps on the iPhone, but it does not accept touch either — that is an iOS constraint, and the reason the voice commands exist.
Does Wispim have teams, shared scripts or collaboration?
No, and that is a real reason to choose Speakflow. Wispim has no accounts, no shared scripts, no comments and no workspaces; it is one person on one iPhone. Speakflow’s own pages list shared scripts and labels, script commenting, real-time collaboration and, on Studio, client workspaces and members.
What do the two free tiers include?
Wispim’s free tier is six prompter takes with every feature switched on — Voice, Sound and Constant, the floating window and the voice commands — scripts are unlimited, and Pro removes the take limit and adds import from PDF, Word and RTF at $9.99 a month, $49.99 a year or $199.99 once, in USD. Speakflow’s pricing page lists a Free plan with the teleprompter, auto scrolling and limited Flow, 7 day script history, and their docs add a 2 minute limit per take for free users.