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Willow Frontier Pro

The fastest, most accurate dictation model in the world

ProductivityWritingArtificial Intelligence
304votes40commentsLaunched 47h agoWebsite

By Allan Guo, Lawrence Liu, Agnibha Chatterjee, Gordon Childs

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Willow ist eine Sprachdiktier-App, die über einen gehaltenen Hotkey gesprochene Sprache direkt in sauberen Text umwandelt – überall, wo man tippt, also in E-Mails, Slack, Docs oder KI-Prompts. Für Coaches, Berater und Workshop-Facilitatoren könnte das den Dokumentationsaufwand nach Gesprächen oder Sessions deutlich reduzieren, da Notizen, Protokolle oder Zusammenfassungen schneller per Sprache erfasst werden als per Tastatur. Der neue kostenlose Mini-Plan senkt die Einstiegshürde, während Frontier Pro für professionelle Nutzung mit höherer Genauigkeit und Geschwindigkeit positioniert ist. Die Kommentare bewegen sich zwischen vorsichtiger Alltagsbegeisterung und konkreter Skepsis – besonders die unbeantwortete Frage, ob Sprachdaten freier Nutzer zum Modelltraining verwendet werden, trübt die Stimmung merklich.

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Willow is launching two new voice AI models: Willow Frontier Pro and Willow Frontier Mini. Frontier Pro is our most powerful dictation model. It is built for people who want fast, accurate, and polished writing anywhere they work. Frontier mini is lightweight and completely free to use. On our free plan, users get unlimited access to this model. It's faster and more accurate than other AI dictation tools.

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  • [REDACTED]·2d ago5
    Today, we are making AI dictation free for everyone. You might be wondering why, and also how. No, you are not becoming the product. Willow is a voice dictation app that lets you speak anywhere you write. You can use it for emails, Slack messages, docs, notes, AI prompts, and more. Just hold a hotkey, speak naturally, and Willow turns your words into clean text. Today, we are launching two new voice AI models: Willow Frontier Mini and Willow Frontier Pro. Frontier Mini is our fast and lightweight dictation model. It is completely free to use, with unlimited access on our free plan. Frontier Pro is our most powerful dictation model. It is available on our Pro plan for people who want the highest accuracy, better formatting, and more polished writing. Our Pro plan also includes Scribe, our voice AI writing assistant for turning rough spoken ideas into finished drafts. For a long time, good voice dictation has either been too slow, too awkward, not accurate enough, or locked behind a paywall. We do not think speaking to your computer should be a premium feature. That's why now nobody has an excuse to not talk to their computer with our free plan! Would love for you to try it and share any feedback.
  • [REDACTED]·41h ago3

    Been using it for a couple days and the filler word removal actually works well, my rambling thoughts come out pretty clean. Way faster than typing for long slack messages.

  • [REDACTED]·45h ago3

    Are you mainly aiming at general text dictation, or does the product handle developer-y dictation too, like punctuation-heavy sentences, variable names, or speaking edits into a coding workflow?

  • [REDACTED]·47h ago3

    "you are not becoming the product" is a bold line to open with, and it made me curious rather than reassured. one review here specifically calls out a competitor for holding privacy certifications and not using dictation data for training, as a differentiator. now that Frontier Mini is free and unlimited, what's the actual model for staying sustainable on that tier, is voice data from free users used to improve future models, and if so is that opt-in or just disclosed in the terms somewhere. genuinely asking because unlimited free dictation has to be paid for by something

  • [REDACTED]·40h ago2

    Speed + accuracy is the right pair to obsess over — most dictation tools nail one and butcher the other. In my world (voice agents) the make-or-break is proper nouns and numbers: a model that writes beautiful prose but drops a digit in a phone number is useless in a real workflow. Curious where Frontier Pro lands there — is the accuracy jump mostly on natural speech, or does it hold up on names, addresses, and long strings of numbers where most models fall apart? That's the part I'd pay for. Congrats on shipping 🚀

  • [REDACTED]·42h ago2

    "prompting AI tools" by voice is an underrated use case here. typing out long prompts for claude or chatgpt is friction most people don't notice until they see someone doing it by voice. 1.3K followers and a winter 2025 award suggests this has actual retention, which is rare for dictation tools. curious how it handles technical vocabulary and product names that aren't in standard training data, does it let you add a custom dictionary?

  • [REDACTED]·45h ago2

    I've always felt that typing is the bottleneck for a lot of knowledge work. If Frontier Pro can make dictation fast enough and accurate enough that people stop thinking about the tool entirely, that's a huge shift. Also love the decision to make it free for everyone. Excited to try it out. 🚀

  • [REDACTED]·47h ago2

    No, you are not becoming the product" is a smart line :)

    voice dictation feels like one of those habits that is still weird for a few days, then suddenly typing everything starts to feel slow. I've been using voice more and more for rough ideas, messages, and prompts, and the biggest difference is whether the output feels clean enough to use immediately. making unlimited dictation free is a pretty strong move. if Frontier Mini is genuinely fast and accurate, I can see a lot of people trying voice for the first time without overthinking it.

    curious how Willow handles different writing contexts. does it adapt formatting differently for Slack, emails, docs, and AI prompts, or is the cleanup mostly the same everywhere?

  • [REDACTED]·37h ago1

    As a longtime Willow Voice user, I have to say I've always found it surprising that the conversation revolves around the other two big transcription apps. Willow has been awesome, reliable, and does exactly what I need it to. I tell all my friends to try Willow before giving up on dictation, because you've tried the other ones.

  • [REDACTED]·38h ago1
    amazing launch!! If someone is already using SuperWhisper or Wispr Flow, what would make them install Willow instead?