Comparison
Bonfiyah vs Superwhisper.
These are different tools. We rank for the same searches because both involve transcription, but the use cases barely overlap. Here is the short version, so you can choose correctly without reading further.
The short version
Superwhisper is a voice-to-text dictation tool. You hold a hotkey, speak, your words appear in whatever text field has focus. It runs on-device using local Whisper-class models in 100+ languages, with optional BYOK cloud post-processing to OpenAI/Anthropic/Google/Groq. Pricing is $8.49/mo or $84.99/year, with a $249.99 lifetime tier. Recent updates: Parakeet Realtime offline (January 2026) and per-mode keyboard shortcuts (April 2026). It is excellent at dictation. We genuinely recommend it.
Bonfiyah is a conversation memory layer. Two or more people are talking, you record it (with three-status consent management plus per-speaker and per-story Attorney-Client OR Doctor-Patient Privilege markings), and Bonfiyah produces transcripts, speaker IDs, summaries, action items, and eighteen cross-recording memory features over time. It is not a dictation tool and would be very awkward as one.
If you want both, install both. They do not compete and they don't try to. Superwhisper for dictation; Bonfiyah for the meetings, intakes, and conversations you'd otherwise lose.
Feature-by-feature, briefly
| Feature | Bonfiyah | Superwhisper |
|---|---|---|
| Hold-hotkey-to-dictate | — | ✓ Signature feature |
| Multi-speaker conversation recording | ✓ Primary use case | — |
| Speaker diarization (who said what) | ✓ | — |
| Speaker IDs across recordings (voice recognition) | ✓ Pro | — |
| AI Summaries | ✓ Pro | — |
| Promise Tracker / Truth Layer / Project Context / Team Dynamics / Compatibility | ✓ Pro AI | — |
| Custom vocabulary boost | ✓ v3.0 | ✓ |
| Auto-translation across 30+ languages | ✓ v3.0 | Per-dictation |
| Proactive notifications (quote-driven, deep-linked) · v3.0.32 | ✓ Three tiers, local notifications | N/A (dictation tool) |
| Two-party consent management | ✓ Built-in | N/A (single-user dictation) |
| Trains AI on your data | No | No |
| Platform | iPhone, iPad, Mac (Catalyst) | Mac (flagship), Windows, iOS keyboard ext. |
| On-device transcription default | ✓ (Apple Speech / WhisperKit) | ✓ (local Whisper, Parakeet Realtime Jan 2026) |
| Attorney-Client OR Doctor-Patient Privilege markings | ✓ Pro (per-speaker + per-story, audit-logged) | N/A (dictation tool) |
| Pricing | Free 120 min/mo · Pro $14.99 intro → $24.99 · Pro AI $24.99 intro → $34.99 | $8.49/mo · $84.99/yr · $249.99 lifetime |
If you're choosing between them, you don't have to.
This page exists because both apps rank on "iOS transcription" and "Mac transcription" searches, and we want to disambiguate them honestly. They are not competitors. We have happily used Superwhisper for dictation while building Bonfiyah; the team behind it has done excellent work.
If you came here looking for a tool to dictate your emails — go install Superwhisper. If you came here looking for a tool to remember what was said in your meetings, intakes, family dinners, and client calls across months — install Bonfiyah. If you want both, install both. The categories don't overlap enough to need a winner.
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