How to uninstall Wispr Flow on Mac
Wispr Flow keeps your dictation history, meeting notes, recordings and transcripts, settings and signed-in session locally, and its own removal guide warns that deleting Flow's data folders can permanently remove local transcripts and other unsynced content. Save anything you need before going beyond removing the app. This covers the official Mac download from wisprflow.ai, plus a Homebrew section for the wispr-flow cask.
Quit Flow and remove it
These steps follow Wispr Flow's removal guide.
- Quit Flow from its menu bar icon and let it finish closing.
- Open Activity Monitor, search for Wispr Flow, and end any process still running, including Wispr Flow Helper.
- In Finder's Applications folder, move Wispr Flow to the Trash.
- Open System Settings, then General, then Login Items, and remove any Wispr Flow entry.
- Open System Settings › Privacy & Security and check entries for both Wispr Flow and Wispr Flow Helper. Remove their Accessibility entries and remove or disable their Full Disk Access, Bluetooth and Screen & System Audio Recording access where listed. Turn off their Microphone switches. Older macOS versions may call the recording panel Screen Recording; disable any old Flow Automation permission only if it appears.
Where Wispr Flow keeps its data
Press Shift + Command + G in Finder and open each path that exists. The table combines the current vendor removal guide with the Homebrew cask; older versions can use different locations. After copying wanted content, move the chosen files or whole app data folders to the Trash, leaving their Library parent folders in place. For a complete local reset, remove the whole data folder rather than only its database, which can have companion journal files.
| Location | What it holds | What to do |
|---|---|---|
~/Library/Application Support/Wispr Flow |
Local dictation history, meetings, recordings and transcripts, settings and your signed-in session | Copy out what you need first; the vendor warns deletion can be permanent |
~/Library/Application Support/Flow |
Alternate app data, including prefs.yml |
Back up wanted data, then remove the folder |
~/Library/Application Support/Caches/Wispr Flow |
Vendor-documented app cache | Remove if present |
~/Library/Logs/Wispr Flow |
App logs | Safe to remove |
~/Library/Caches/com.electron.wispr-flow |
App cache | Safe to remove |
~/Library/Caches/com.electron.wispr-flow.accessibility-mac-app and ~/Library/Caches/com.electron.wispr-flow.ShipIt |
Caches for Flow's accessibility component and its updater | Safe to remove |
~/Library/Caches/SentryCrash/Wispr Flow |
Crash reports | Safe to remove |
~/Library/HTTPStorages/com.electron.wispr-flow |
Web storage | Remove with the app |
~/Library/Preferences/com.electron.wispr-flow.plist |
App preferences | Remove with the app |
~/Library/Preferences/com.wispr.flowapp.plist, ~/Library/Preferences/com.electron.wispr-flow.accessibility-mac-app.plist |
Other version or helper preferences | Remove if present |
~/Library/Saved Application State/com.wispr.flowapp.savedState |
Saved window state | Remove if present |
~/Library/HTTPStorages/com.wispr.flowapp, ~/Library/Caches/com.wispr.flowapp |
Other version web storage and cache | Remove if present |
Check the result
pgrep -il wispr
mdfind "kMDItemCFBundleIdentifier == 'com.electron.wispr-flow'"
ls -d ~/Library/Application\ Support/Wispr\ Flow
No output from pgrep means no Wispr Flow process is running; a listed process means one is still open, so end it in Activity Monitor. No output from mdfind means Spotlight finds no remaining copy of the app. For ls, "No such file or directory" means that folder, and the local history inside it, are gone; the path printed back means it is still there, which is expected if you left that row unticked.
If you installed it with Homebrew
The wispr-flow cask's zap list covers the Wispr Flow support and log folders, the three com.electron.wispr-flow caches, its web storage and preference file, SentryCrash/Wispr Flow and the Recent Documents record. It does not currently include the additional vendor locations for Flow, com.wispr.flowapp or the accessibility helper's preference file. Running brew uninstall --cask --zap wispr-flow yourself moves the cask's listed items to the Trash, dictation history included, whatever you selected in Mole. Check the other vendor locations manually. To remove only the app:
brew uninstall --cask wispr-flow
Mole checks the entire cask removal list before using --zap. If any item is unchecked, shared or cannot be verified, it removes the app without --zap and cleans the selected leftovers separately. Leave the Application Support folder unchecked to keep its history.
What Mole lists
Mole selects by default the logs folder and crash report folder named after the app, and the cache, web storage and preferences named after Flow's bundle ID. ~/Library/Application Support/Wispr Flow, which holds your dictation history and settings, is listed for review. With Default remove app data off it starts unchecked; with it on, eligible app data can start checked. Back up local and unsynced transcripts before removal, or uncheck this folder. Check the vendor's additional locations in Finder if Mole does not list them.
What this test covered
On September 22, 2026, Wispr Flow 1.6.897 from the official Mac download was copied into Applications and removed with Quit and Remove, using a development build of Mole. Status showed one Wispr Flow row while it ran. The 600 MB app and its Application Support folder went to the Trash. Before the removal, the only startup entries were the temporary ones macOS creates for a running app, and no new user LaunchAgent appeared. Mole found a Squirrel updater but no readable update feed for Flow. Signing in and dictation were not tested.