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Free on device dictation for any Mac app and AI agent
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Hold a key, speak, and let go. Kivo inserts clean text at your cursor in any Mac app, from email to your AI agent’s prompt box. It removes fillers and resolves corrections. Audio stays on your Mac. Free, with no account. Preview: English only and unsigned.
PH · launched Nov 6, 2026 · 61 upvotes (top 3%) · 0 views
Niche: voice dictation software · 224 launches, 17 in the last 7 days ▼ -29% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Agent / copilot
- Prosumer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Artificial Intelligence
- Audio
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More like this: all 224 launches in voice dictation software →
Could you build this?
Yes On-device dictation can wrap open-source speech models such as Whisper, and inserting text at the cursor uses standard macOS accessibility APIs, so an AI-assisted builder can assemble it.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 870 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #91 of 871 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 365 days after the earliest competitor.
- typevoice · github · 2026-09-20 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Murmur · ph · 2026-10-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- ZenVoice · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- ZenVoice · ph · 2026-09-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Parroting · ph · 2026-11-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- TapTalk · ph · 2026-09-07 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Murmurly · ph · 2026-10-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- TapVoice · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.58
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