How to migrate from Typeless to VoiceGem (2026)
Typeless includes a personal dictionary on every tier and documents no export for it, so the word list is rebuilt by hand. Downgrading to the free plan at 8,000 words a week costs nothing and keeps Typeless available on Windows, iOS and Android, which VoiceGem does not cover.
Cancelling Typeless Pro saves $144 a year on annual billing, or $360 a year if you were paying month to month. (typeless.com/pricing, checked September 4, 2026)
Competitor pricing and features last verified September 4, 2026. Every claim links to its source.
| What you would move | Out of Typeless | Into VoiceGem |
|---|---|---|
| Transcripts and historysource | Unverified | Imported from a backup file |
| Personal dictionarysource | Unverified | Rebuilt by hand, then exported and version-controlled |
| Per-app behavioursource | Unverified | Modes with per-app and per-website triggers |
| Licence or subscriptionsource | Cancel to stop billing | $25-$159 once, 14-day refund |
Choose Typeless if…
- Typeless runs on macOS, Windows, iOS and Android, and VoiceGem does not run on three of those, so switching removes dictation from most of a mixed setup.
- The Typeless free plan is 8,000 words a week and does not expire, so downgrading is nearly always better than deleting the account.
- Typeless Pro supports team members and shared administration, and VoiceGem has no equivalent at any price.
What changes when tone rewriting stops
Typeless rewrites transcripts into your writing style, which is its central feature. VoiceGem's default path does not rewrite at all, and in an editor the Deterministic Pass replaces the model entirely with a fixed table of 78 spoken phrases mapping to 40 symbols.
The result after migrating is that prose arrives closer to what you actually said and code arrives identically on every run. The first is a preference; the second is a property you can verify in five minutes.
Anyone who valued the tone rewriting specifically should expect to miss it, and this page would rather say that than promise an upgrade in both directions.
The migration itself, step by step
First, copy your personal dictionary out of Typeless by hand, since no export is documented. Second, downgrade to the free plan rather than deleting the account, so 8,000 words a week stays available on your other devices. Third, install VoiceGem, grant accessibility permission and download a local model. Fourth, retype the dictionary. Fifth, enable Developer Mode for your editor.
Allow an hour, and time any cancellation for the end of a paid term because Typeless bills per member per month or per year rather than refunding partial periods.
What Typeless lets you take with you
Nothing automatically. Typeless includes a personal dictionary on every tier and documents no export for it, so the list is copied by hand while the account is still active.
Tones and per-app settings are configuration rather than data, and they are worth reconsidering in a new tool rather than reproducing exactly. The dictionary is the only part that represents real accumulated work.
Why downgrading beats cancelling at Typeless
The Typeless free plan allows 8,000 words a week at standard accuracy, with a personal dictionary, translation, per-app tones and 100+ languages, and it is not macOS-only: it covers macOS, Windows, iOS and Android. It is the largest metered free tier in this comparison set.
Keeping it costs nothing and preserves dictation on every device VoiceGem cannot run on. Paying $25 once for VoiceGem on the Mac and using the Typeless free plan elsewhere is a cheaper arrangement than either paid plan alone.
Timing the switch against the billing term
Typeless Pro is $12 per member per month billed yearly and $30 billed monthly, so someone on the monthly plan saves $30 by switching this month and someone on the annual plan saves nothing until renewal.
VoiceGem's free tier allows 15 minutes of recorded audio a day, which is enough to run in parallel until that renewal date arrives and to make the decision on evidence.
What people ask before switching
“Moving my dictionary and settings across will eat a weekend.”
VoiceGem imports and exports its own settings, so the VoiceGem side is minutes. The real question is whether your current app exports at all, and for most of this category the documented answer is no — which means the honest estimate is retyping your word list once.
The import and export service →“My employer's code cannot go to a third-party server, so cloud dictation is out.”
VoiceGem's default engine runs on the Mac and the Deterministic Pass never leaves it. Cloud AI providers are opt-in and use your own key, held in the macOS Keychain. Nothing is sent anywhere unless you switch it on and supply the key yourself.
Which models run locally →“When the connection is poor it stalls, spirals, or loses what I dictated.”
A hosted dictation service has a round trip to fail. VoiceGem's default engine runs on the Mac and the Deterministic Pass is a pure function, so there is no request to time out and no queue to spiral — dictation behaves the same on hotel wifi as at a desk.
Which models run on the device →Also comparing: where Typeless wins and where it does not, what Typeless actually costs, or every Typeless alternative worth the switch.
Common questions
No export is documented for the personal dictionary on Typeless's public pages, so the list is copied by hand. VoiceGem can export its own dictionary afterwards, which makes any future move cheaper.
Usually not. The free plan allows 8,000 words a week and covers macOS, Windows, iOS and Android, so downgrading keeps dictation on devices VoiceGem does not support and costs nothing.
On the monthly plan, immediately, since $30 a month stops at once. On the annual plan, near the renewal date, because cancelling stops the next term rather than refunding the current one.
Yes. VoiceGem does not rewrite transcripts for tone and has no equivalent of Typeless's style settings. Dictated prose arrives closer to what you said, which is a change worth testing before cancelling.
No. VoiceGem's Startup licence covers ten Macs, which is a device count rather than a team plan, with no shared dictionary and no administration. Typeless Pro supports member management and shared administration.
About an hour in total. Installing VoiceGem and granting accessibility permission takes ten minutes, a local model download a few more, and retyping the dictionary accounts for the rest.
15 free minutes a day on the Mac, then $25 once if it earns it.
VoiceGem is released under GPL-3.0, a derivative of VoiceInk by Prakash Joshi Pax.