Almost every piece of software you use now bills you monthly. It is such a settled convention that a one-off price looks faintly suspicious, as though something must be missing.
So it is worth setting out plainly why PeekoType is sold as a single payment, and why that is not a marketing gimmick but a direct consequence of how the software works.
The short version: PeekoType costs £39 once. Every feature is included, updates are free for life, and there are no usage limits or per-minute charges. Because everything runs on your own machine, there is no ongoing cost for us to pass on to you.
Subscriptions exist for a reason, and it is not you
Cloud dictation genuinely costs its provider money every time you use it. Your audio travels to a server, occupies a processor, and travels back. That happens on every sentence, for every user, forever. A recurring cost needs recurring revenue, which is why cloud services are subscriptions and why they meter your minutes.
None of that applies to software that runs on your computer. Once you have downloaded PeekoType and its speech model, using it costs us nothing at all. You are using your own processor, your own electricity, your own machine. Charging you monthly for that would be charging you rent on something you already own.
That is the whole argument. The pricing follows the architecture, which we explain in how offline speech recognition works.
What five years actually costs
Dictation is not software you use for a month. People who take it up tend to use it daily for years, which is exactly where subscriptions get expensive.
Run the numbers over five years and the shape is stark. A dictation subscription at around ten pounds a month comes to roughly £600. Dragon Professional has historically sat around £699 for a licence. Otter.ai Pro over five years lands near £400. PeekoType is £39, once, and then nothing.
We put this comparison on the homepage rather than hiding it, because it is the single strongest argument we have, and our piece on Dragon alternatives goes into the comparison properly.
No limits, and what that means day to day
Metered services train you into a small, unhelpful habit: rationing. You think twice before transcribing a long recording. You skip dictating the rough draft because it will burn minutes. You keep half an eye on a usage bar.
Remove the meter and that anxiety goes with it. Transcribe a three-hour interview. Do it again because you want speaker labels this time. Dictate all day. Run a folder of forty recordings overnight. It costs the same as doing none of it, which is nothing.
This changes how people use dictation more than the money does. You stop optimising and start just using it.
The part that matters most, quietly
Software you have bought and that runs offline has a property subscriptions cannot offer: it keeps working.
It does not stop when a card expires. It does not lose features when a plan is restructured. It does not degrade when a company is acquired and the new owner rethinks the free tier. And if we stopped trading tomorrow, the copy on your machine would carry on exactly as before, because there is no server behind it and no licence check phoning home.
For anyone whose work depends on dictation, particularly people using it for accessibility reasons rather than convenience, that durability is not a small thing. If you dictate because typing hurts, as covered in voice typing for RSI and wrist pain, your tool disappearing is a genuine problem rather than an inconvenience.
What you get for the £39
All of it. There is no professional tier, no add-on pack and no feature held back for a higher plan. Dictation in 100 languages, batch file transcription with speaker detection, five export formats, custom vocabulary, text snippets, offline translation, read-aloud voices, live captions and portable mode.
We simplified to a single product deliberately. Tiers make people spend the first ten minutes working out what they are missing rather than trying the thing they came for.
And the free trial is genuinely free
Fourteen days, every feature unlocked, no card required and nothing to cancel. If you forget about it, nothing happens. That is the point of a trial: to find out whether dictation suits you before any money changes hands.