June vs Superwhisper

• Your hard requirement is that audio never leaves your machine, and you are willing to pay for Pro, run Apple Silicon, and pick the local models yourself to get it.
• You want to tinker: custom modes, per-app prompts, mixing local and cloud models.
• You want a one-time lifetime license instead of a subscription, or dictation on Windows or an iPhone keyboard.

• You want the private path to be the default, not a setting. June routes dictation to zero-retention models on every plan, including free, with nothing to configure.
• You are on an Intel Mac. Superwhisper's offline models run well only on Apple Silicon; June's private routing works the same on any supported Mac.
• You want more than dictation. June includes meeting notes that trigger when a meeting starts, private chat, and a local agent, all in one $20 subscription.
• You want to read the code. June is MIT licensed with a TEE-attested backend you can verify; Superwhisper is closed source.

The concession first: with a Pro license on Apple Silicon, Superwhisper can run a local voice model and a local language model, and that dictation never touches a server. June does not offer an on-device mode, and we will not pretend otherwise.

Now the fine print that page rarely leads with. That mode is one configuration among many: the free tier and the highest quality models route to the cloud, offline models need Apple Silicon to run well, and what actually leaves your Mac depends on which of dozens of models you picked. Superwhisper can be private in expert hands. A default is not what it has.

June's bet is that defaults protect more people than options do. Every dictation on every plan routes to zero-retention models: nothing stored, nothing trained on, no setup, no model menu to study first. Your history stays on your Mac, OpenSoftware keeps only account, login, and billing records, and the routing backend is open source and TEE-attested, so the claim is verifiable instead of configurable.

Superwhisper is a dictation tool, and only that: it does not detect your meetings, take structured notes, answer questions, or run tasks.

June's dictation is one surface of a private workspace. It detects your meetings and writes notes without a bot, answers questions in chat, and runs an agent on your Mac that can act on all of it. One app, one subscription, one privacy standard across everything you say to it.