Kikitori

Private voice dictation

Only for Mac

Free · In‑App Purchases

Mac

Your voice never leaves your Mac: on-device transcription, no cloud, no account. GDPR-compliant by design. Speak, and watch your words appear. Kikitori turns your voice into text: quickly, accurately, and entirely on your own Mac. Press Option+Shift+Space, speak, and press it again. Your words appear live in a floating panel while you talk and are copied to the clipboard the moment you stop, ready to paste anywhere with Cmd+V. No window juggling, no uploads, no waiting. WHY “KIKITORI” Kikitori (聞き取り) is Japanese for catching what you hear: listening comprehension. I built it out of frustration: every dictation tool I tried either misheard me or quietly shipped my voice to someone else's server. I wanted the opposite: a listener that gets the words right and keeps them on my Mac. That is the whole app: it listens carefully, so you can just talk. YOUR VOICE NEVER LEAVES YOUR MAC Privacy is not a setting in Kikitori. It is the architecture. That makes it GDPR (DSGVO) compliant by design: • Transcription runs 100% on-device, powered by Whisper, the state-of-the-art open speech model • Audio is processed in memory and discarded, never stored, never uploaded • No account, no sign-in, no analytics, no tracking, no ads • Works completely offline after the one-time model download • The only thing ever collected is your purchase, handled by the App Store and the payment service that validates it. Your voice and your text are never part of it Dictate confidential email, meeting notes, medical or legal drafts, or your private journal. Nobody hears it but your Mac. HOW IT WORKS • Live transcription: words appear as you speak, not after • Auto-copy: the finished text lands on your clipboard, paste it anywhere • 99 languages: dictate in your language, or auto-detect • Translate as you dictate: speak any language, get English text • Menu bar app: invisible until you need it, no dock clutter ACCURACY TIERS The free Low tier is fast and genuinely useful for everyday dictation. Kikitori Pro, a one-time purchase with no subscription, unlocks the Medium and High tiers powered by larger Whisper models, for when every word has to be right: drafts, emails, technical vocabulary, or noisy rooms. KIKITORI PRO (one-time purchase) • Medium tier: noticeably more accurate, still fast • High tier: the most accurate Whisper model available • One purchase, yours forever. Local features never move behind a subscription REQUIREMENTS macOS 14 or later. An Apple silicon Mac is recommended for the higher accuracy tiers.

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Seller
Tobias Wissmueller
Size
6.7 MB
Category
Productivity
Compatibility
Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
  • Mac
    Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
Age Rating
4+
In-App Purchases
Yes
Copyright
© 2026 Tobias Wissmüller
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