5 Free Apps That Replace Superhuman, Wispr Flow and WeTransfer

Five free apps can replace Superhuman, Wispr Flow, WeTransfer, Calendly and 1Password. Handy does Wispr Flow's dictation, fully offline. LocalSend is free AirDrop between your own devices. Cal.com's free plan gives you unlimited booking links. Inbox Zero is a free email app for Gmail and Outlook. And Bitwarden's free plan keeps every password synced.

Paid monthly, those five plans cost $71.99 a month, or $863 a year. On yearly billing they're cheaper, about $695 a year.

Below is what each free app replaces, what the paid plan costs, and the one thing to set up first. Prices are in US dollars, from each company's own pricing page on 26 October 2026.

What does each free app replace?

Handy: dictation like Wispr Flow, fully offline

Wispr Flow's free plan stops at 2,000 words a week on desktop, and Pro costs $15 a month, so $180 a year. Handy is free, with over 34,000 stars on GitHub. Press a shortcut, speak, and your words appear in whatever app you're typing in.

It runs entirely on your computer, on Mac, Windows and Linux, so your voice never goes to the cloud. There's no phone app.

LocalSend: free AirDrop between any of your devices

WeTransfer's Starter plan is $10 a month, $120 a year. If the file's going to your own phone or laptop, LocalSend sends it free over your local network, iPhone to Windows or Android to Mac, with no account and nothing uploaded to a server. It has over 95,000 stars.

Both devices need to be on the same network, so it won't replace WeTransfer for sending files to a client across town.

Cal.com: unlimited booking links on the free plan

Calendly's free plan gives you one event type, and Standard costs $12 a month, $144 a year. Cal.com's free plan, for one person, gives you unlimited event types and calendars, so every kind of call gets its own booking link.

Inbox Zero: a free email app for Gmail and Outlook

Superhuman's Starter plan is $30 a month, $360 a year. Inbox Zero's email app is free on the web, Mac, Windows and iPhone, and it works on top of your existing Gmail or Outlook account, so there's nothing to move. Every action has a keyboard shortcut, and all your accounts sit in one inbox.

The AI that sorts your inbox and drafts replies in your voice is paid, from $20 a month. The code for the web and desktop app is public on GitHub, with over 12,000 stars.

Bitwarden: a free password manager instead of 1Password

1Password's Individual plan costs $4.99 a month paid monthly, about $60 a year. Bitwarden's free plan has no time limit and covers unlimited passwords on unlimited devices, synced across its browser, phone and desktop apps.

How do you set up each app first?

One step each, taken from each app's own docs.

Handy. Download it from handy.computer or the GitHub releases page and open it. Grant the microphone and accessibility permissions it asks for, pick your shortcut in Settings, then dictate your next email.

LocalSend. Install it on your phone and your laptop. Get it from your app store if you can, as its README recommends, because the app doesn't update itself. Open it on both devices on the same Wi-Fi, pick a file and tap the other device.

Cal.com. Sign up for the free plan and connect your Google, Outlook or iCloud calendar, so your availability stays up to date. Then put your booking link in your email signature.

Inbox Zero. Sign up free at getinboxzero.com and connect your Gmail or Outlook account. Your email stays where it is. The AI plans come with a 7-day free trial and are paid after that, so only start one if you want the AI.

Bitwarden. Make a free account, then bring your passwords over. In Chrome, open chrome://password-manager/settings, find Export passwords and download the file. In the Bitwarden web app, go to Tools, then Import, pick the file format and the file, and select Import.

Then delete the exported file straight away, as Bitwarden's guide says. It holds every password you saved. Leaving 1Password instead? Bitwarden has an import guide for that too.

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