How to setup Flow Styles

Last updated: November 7, 2026

Available on: Mac, Windows, iOS, Android

Choose how Flow capitalizes and punctuates your dictation. Mac, Windows and Android use app-category styles. On iOS, follow the Default Sound steps when your Style screen shows “Your default sound”.

Available styles

Style (Mac, Windows, iOS)

Android label

Categories

What it does

Formal.

Formal

All

Caps + punctuation.

Casual

Casual

All

Caps + less punctuation.

very casual

Very Casual

Personal only

No caps + less punctuation.

Excited!

Excited

Work, Email, Other

More exclamations.

Flow picks the category from your target app: Personal for consumer messengers, Work for workplace messengers, Email for email apps, Other for everything else — including desktop AI assistants and terminals, unless those are also recognized as workplace or personal messaging apps.

On Android and the iOS category-tab layout, Personal defaults to Casual and Work, Email and Other default to Formal. Mac and Windows default every category to Formal.

Final period in messaging apps

On Mac, Windows and Android, your style decides whether the last sentence keeps its period in Slack, Messages and other messaging apps: Formal keeps the final period; Casual and very casual drop it.

Note: On iOS, messaging apps always drop the final period, whichever style you choose. Style formatting applies in English only.

How to set up Flow Styles

Category styles require completed personalization and saved choices. Until then, Flow uses standard formatting.

Mac and Windows

Until personalization is complete, “Make Flow sound like you” replaces the category cards; the tabs stay.

  1. Open Wispr Flow → Style in the left sidebar.

  2. Complete guided setup if the banner appears:

    1. Click Start now.

    2. Click Start personalization on “Let's personalize Flow to you”.

    3. Choose styles for Personal messages → Work messages → Email → Other, clicking Next after each.

    4. Click Done on “You're all set!”.

  3. Select a category tab, then click the style card you want.

Card selections save immediately, in setup and on Style, with no Save step. Next requires a selection and keeps the preselected style; clicking Next after Personal messages marks personalization complete and removes the banner.

iOS — Your default sound

If Style shows “Your default sound”, one style applies to all dictations instead of separate app categories.

Note: If iOS returns you to Home with “Try Flow first” and “Dictate in another app to access the rest of Flow”, dictate in another app, then reopen Style.

  1. Open Wispr Flow → Style.

  2. Tap the card under Your default sound to open Default Sound.

  3. Choose Formal., Casual, very casual or Excited!.

  4. Tap Save to apply your default style and close the sheet.

Save stays disabled until a style is selected; Cancel closes without saving. You can also change the sound from the keyboard, and a keyboard choice overrides standard formatting even before category personalization is complete.

Android

“Make Flow sound like you” appears on Style and Home until guided setup is complete; changing a style on the Style tab does not complete it.

  1. Open Wispr Flow → Style in the bottom navigation bar.

  2. Complete guided setup if the card appears:

    1. Tap Start now, then Start Personalization.

    2. Choose styles for Personal → Work → Email → Other, tapping Next after each to save it.

After Other saves successfully, personalization completes and the flow closes. Cancel exits the whole flow.

To change a category style later:

  1. Choose a category by tapping it or swiping horizontally.

  2. Tap its style card to open the “<Category> Style” sheet.

  3. Choose a different style, then tap Save.

Save stays disabled until the selection changes; Cancel discards it.

How long a keyboard style lasts on iOS

A style you pick on the Flow keyboard waits until you use it, then stays active for 15 minutes after the dictation that used it. When it expires, the keyboard returns to the default style set in the Wispr Flow app. Changing the default style in the app leaves an active keyboard pick alone.

Check and recover

Styles affect only new dictations. Dictate a short phrase in a matching app category — or any app for iOS Default Sound. If capitalization and punctuation match your selection, setup is complete.

On Android, a save failure shows “Could not save your selection. Please try again.” Use the matching recovery below.

Android uses standard formatting after launch

A dictation made right after launch can use standard formatting. Dictate again shortly afterwards; the new text matches your selected style.

Android cannot load styles

The screen shows “Something went wrong. Please try again.” Tap Retry; your category styles appear in place of the error.

Android cannot save during guided setup

You stay on the same step with your selection restored, and if Other fails to save, personalization remains incomplete. Tap Next again; a successful save advances to the next category or closes setup after Other.

Android cannot save a Style-tab change

Your change stays selected on the device, including after a restart. Open Style again to try saving it.

Warning: Signing out on Android clears styles stored on the device and cancels pending saves. Flow reloads the styles saved to your account after you sign back in.

Still stuck?

Contact support if Style remains inaccessible, your iOS screen differs from these steps, or your choices still do not apply after setup and a new dictation. Include:

  • Your platform and device.

  • The selected category or default sound, style, target app and steps you tried.

  • A short output example and the formatting you expected.