Kairo
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Kairo reads any selected text aloud on your Mac from one shortcut, and summarizes, translates or humanizes it on your own OpenAI key.
PH · launched Sep 6, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 26%) · 0 views
Niche: text-to-speech reading apps · 69 launches, 4 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Communication
- Prosumer
- AI feature
- Commercial product
- Developer Tools
- Tech
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More like this: all 69 launches in text-to-speech reading apps →
Could you build this?
Yes It is a native macOS menu bar app (Swift) listening for a global keyboard shortcut to read selected text using the Accessibility API, then piping it to OpenAI's TTS and completion APIs.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 317 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #135 of 318 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 304 days after the earliest competitor.
- Kivo · ph · 2026-11-06 · 61 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- mac-shortcuts-mcp · github · 2026-09-19 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- m’kay · ph · 2026-09-30 · 75 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Koi · ph · 2026-10-21 · 70 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Hearby · ph · 2026-10-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Repluma · ph · 2026-10-21 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- TypeKey · ph · 2026-10-18 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- TapTalk · ph · 2026-09-07 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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