What's the difference between Bonfiyah and Superwhisper?

Superwhisper is a voice-to-text dictation tool — hold a hotkey, speak, your words appear in the focused text field. Bonfiyah is a multi-speaker conversation memory layer — records, transcribes, identifies speakers across recordings, and reasons across meetings. They are different categories that happen to both transcribe audio.

Should I use Superwhisper or Bonfiyah?

Use both, ideally. Superwhisper for dictation (writing emails, code comments, Slack messages by speaking). Bonfiyah for the meetings, intakes, and conversations you'd otherwise lose. Categories don't overlap.

Does Bonfiyah work as a dictation tool?

No, that's not the use case. Bonfiyah is built for multi-speaker recorded conversations with consent management, speaker identification, and cross-recording reasoning. For dictation, install Superwhisper alongside Bonfiyah.

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.

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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 is excellent at this. If you want to dictate emails, code comments, and Slack messages faster than typing, install Superwhisper. We genuinely recommend it.

Bonfiyah is a conversation memory layer. Two or more people are talking, you record it (with consent), and Bonfiyah produces transcripts, speaker IDs, summaries, action items, and 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 (cohort-aware ECAPA-TDNN)	✓ 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 (primary), iOS (companion)
Pricing	Free / $9.99 / $19.99	$8.49/mo or $84.99/yr

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.