# Free Flow by MASHBOX Labs — On-device dictation keyboard > On-device dictation keyboard (iPhone/iPad app by DEPLOY FORWARD LLC.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/free-flow-by-mashbox-labs/id6828348029 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [DEPLOY FORWARD LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/1834702526) - Category: Productivity, Utilities - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 18.0 · 28 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-11-02 - Data updated: 2026-11-10 ## What is Free Flow by MASHBOX Labs? Free Flow is a dictation keyboard for iPhone and iPad. Tap the mic key, talk, then tap the check key, and your words go in at your cursor. The speech model runs on your device, so your voice is not uploaded. It works offline once the model is downloaded. There is no account and nothing to buy. Keyboard Next to the full typing keys are a mic key and a key that hides the keyboard. A two-finger swipe up starts dictating and a swipe down finishes. iOS lets only the app turn on the microphone, so when the mic is off the first tap opens Free Flow. Tap your app's name at the top left to go back. The mic then stays ready for 5 minutes, 15 minutes or an hour, and the mic key works without leaving your app. Autocorrect fixes a mistyped English word when you tap space, return or a punctuation key. Tap delete right after to put your word back. Six key layouts: Classic (Apple's keyboard, key for key, the default), Current with a big L-shaped return, and L1 to L4. The dictate key goes on the left or the right. Hold the #+= key to open the keyboard list, with Emoji one tap away. Cleanup with Apple Intelligence With the switch on, Apple Intelligence, Apple's on-device model, writes each dictation in the style you pick: Formal, Casual, very casual or Excited. Where it can't run, your words go in as heard and Free Flow says why. Turn it off in Settings. Other ways to start Control Center, the Lock Screen, Siri and the Shortcuts app start and stop Free Flow. On iPhone, so do Back Tap and the Action Button. With the Free Flow keyboard on screen the text goes in at your cursor; otherwise it is copied, ready to paste. While the mic is on, a Live Activity shows the time left and a Stop button. Speech models Free Flow recommends a speech model for your device and shows each download's size first. It checks every downloaded file against a SHA-256 pinned in the app. With enough memory it picks Parakeet Ultra by Moondream, a post-training of NVIDIA's Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 that covers 25 European languages. Parakeet Redux, also by Moondream, covers the same languages and is the smallest download, at 220 MB. Phonon-2 by Fermion Research is for English. So is Underdog Bark 3.0 by Conway Research, in two forms: Clean leaves out "um" and false starts, and Pro writes every word. A C++ version of Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 comes in three sizes. The first time you use a Core ML model, Free Flow prepares it once for your device's Neural Engine. If that takes more than 10 minutes, Free Flow says so and offers Try again. Your words Dictionary: add names and unusual words, spelled your way. Phonon-2 and Bark 3.0 Clean lean toward them as they listen, and their cards in Models say Dictionary. History keeps your last 500 dictations on this device. Delete entries any time, or turn history off. If a call or closing the app cuts a dictation short, the audio stays on this device so you can transcribe it again. Unfinished recordings are deleted after 7 days unless you pick another time. Privacy 100% private: nothing you say leaves your device. Speech recognition and cleanup run on your iPhone or iPad. Your audio and your text are not uploaded. No sign-in, analytics, ads or crash reporting. Free Flow goes online only to download speech model files from Hugging Face. Allow Full Access: iOS does not let keyboards use the microphone, so the Free Flow app listens and passes the text to the keyboard through storage on your device that only Free Flow can open. The keyboard has no network code. Without Full Access the keys still type. Good to know Requires iOS 18 or iPadOS 18 or later. Cleanup needs a device and iOS version with Apple Intelligence turned on. Free Flow's source is available under the PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0: free for personal, school and nonprofit use; it may not be sold. About MASHBOX Labs MASHBOX Labs makes open models run faster and cheaper on TPUs and accelerated hardware, as well as exploring the future of the intersection of AI and gaming. ## Is Free Flow by MASHBOX Labs safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Free Flow by MASHBOX Labs. ## Is Free Flow by MASHBOX Labs legit? Free Flow by MASHBOX Labs appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Free Flow by MASHBOX Labs is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 3 releases) ### 1.1.2 — 2026-11-08 - Mic only: the keyboard shrinks to one short bar with a big Dictate key, and the app keeps most of the screen. When the keyboard is docked, delete and return sit at the right end of the bar. - Hold the keyboard's hide key to switch between Mic only and the full keyboard. Free Flow's Settings has the same choice under Keys. - Setup now asks which size you want. Full keyboard is the default. - On iPad, Free Flow floats when the iPad's own keyboard floats. With Mic only it becomes a small record button you can drag anywhere. - Fixed: Finish on the keyboard could leave it on Transcribing while Free Flow kept recording. ### 1.1.1 — 2026-11-04 - Whisper large-v3-turbo, rebuilt for the Neural Engine, covers Thai, Japanese, Chinese, Korean and about 95 more languages. It downloads when you choose it. - Whisper dictation is faster and uses less than half the Neural Engine memory it used before. - Automatic language: Whisper detects the language each time you dictate. The current language shows on Home. - If the selected model doesn't support your language, one tap switches to one that does. - First launch offers two models: Whisper for about 99 languages, recommended on devices with 8 GB of memory or more, and Parakeet for English and 24 European languages. - The keyboard's style key appears only when Apple Intelligence cleanup is on. On iPad, the dismiss key gets the space it frees. - Fixed: Use on a downloaded model now always switches to it. ### 1.1 — 2026-11-02 No release notes. ## More apps by DEPLOY FORWARD LLC - [Local LLM: MITHRIL](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/local-llm-mithril/id6751945393) - [infipedia](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/infipedia/id6752109334) - [FPV Drone Operator Manual](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fpv-drone-operator-manual/id6752651844) All apps by DEPLOY FORWARD LLC: https://appshunter.io/developer/1834702526 ## Related topics [freeflows](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/freeflows) · [free flow free](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/free-flow-free) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-11-10.*