How to uninstall Wispr Flow on Windows

Wispr Flow keeps your dictation history, meeting notes, recordings and transcripts, settings and signed-in session on this PC, and Wispr's own removal guide warns that deleting Flow's data folders can permanently remove local transcripts and other unsynced content. Save anything you need before you go further than removing the app. This guide covers Wispr Flow installed per-user from the installer on wisprflow.ai.

Quit Wispr Flow first

Quit Flow from its tray icon, then open Task Manager (Ctrl+Shift+Esc) and end any Wispr Flow.exe or Wispr Flow Helper.exe still listed; it runs about ten of them. Flow starts at sign-in through a shortcut in your Startup folder, which shows up as Wispr Flow in Settings › Apps › Startup.

Remove the app with its own uninstaller

Go to Settings › Apps › Installed apps, find Wispr Flow, and choose Uninstall. The uninstaller removes the program and the desktop and Start Menu shortcuts. In this test part of the program folder %LOCALAPPDATA%\WisprFlow was still there afterwards, and the uninstaller left the data folder, the startup shortcut, the wispr-flow:// link registration and an empty Start Menu folder named Wispr AI.

Where the data lives

Location	What it holds	What to do
`%APPDATA%\Wispr Flow`	Local dictation history (`flow.sqlite`), meetings, recordings and transcripts, settings and your signed-in session, plus caches and logs	Copy out what you need first; Wispr warns deletion can be permanent
`%LOCALAPPDATA%\WisprFlow`	What remains of the program folder	Safe to remove once the uninstall has finished
`%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\Wispr Flow.lnk`	The startup shortcut, now pointing at the removed program	Safe to remove
`%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Wispr AI`	An empty Start Menu folder	Safe to remove
`HKCU\Software\Classes\wispr-flow`	The `wispr-flow://` link registration	Safe to remove once the app is gone
A hash-named folder under `%LOCALAPPDATA%\Sentry`	A crash report cache Flow's error reporter wrote; other apps using the same reporter share `%LOCALAPPDATA%\Sentry`	Leave the Sentry folder itself alone; remove a subfolder only if you know it is Flow's

Wispr's guide also names wispr-flow-updater and older WisprFlow or wispr-flow folders under %APPDATA% and %LOCALAPPDATA%; they did not appear in this test, but check for them if you have used Flow for a while.

Check the result

Run these read-only commands after the uninstall finishes:

Get-Process "Wispr Flow", "Wispr Flow Helper" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
Test-Path "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\WisprFlow"
Test-Path "$env:APPDATA\Wispr Flow"
Test-Path "$env:APPDATA\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\Wispr Flow.lnk"
Test-Path HKCU:\Software\Classes\wispr-flow

No output from Get-Process only means this query observed no matching process; a suppressed error leaves the running state unknown. A listed process means it is still open.
The first Test-Path returning False means the program folder is gone; True means files remain there.
Test-Path "$env:APPDATA\Wispr Flow" returning True means your local history and settings are still there, which is expected if you kept them. False means they are gone.
The startup shortcut check returning True means Windows will still try to start the removed program at sign-in; False means the shortcut is gone.
The last Test-Path returning False means the link registration is gone; True means it is still there.

Account and subscription

Uninstalling does not cancel a Flow subscription or delete your Wispr account. Manage those in your account settings.

Uninstall Flow and remove local data

What Mole lists

For Wispr Flow installed per-user from wisprflow.ai:

The program folder goes with the app row. The desktop and Start Menu shortcuts are selected by default.
%APPDATA%\Wispr Flow is listed but not selected, since it holds your dictation history and settings. The caches inside it (Cache, Code Cache, GPUCache, the Dawn shader caches, Crashpad and logs) are listed on their own and selected by default.
The startup shortcut in your Startup folder is selected by default.
The wispr-flow:// link registration is selected by default and backed up to a .reg file before removal.
A row grouping Windows' own records of when you opened the program is selected by default.
The empty Wispr AI Start Menu folder and the Sentry crash cache are not listed; remove them yourself as described above.

What this test covered

Tested on September 29, 2026 with Wispr Flow 1.6.957 from the installer on wisprflow.ai, per-user scope, installed from an elevated session on an ARM64 virtual machine. The uninstaller is Squirrel and ran silently. Every listed row was ticked and removed in this test; the Wispr AI folder and the Sentry crash cache stayed. Not verified: signing in, dictation, and what a signed-in data folder holds.