Kivo

What it does

Hold a key. Say it. Let go. Your words appear at the cursor, in any app on your Mac. On-device, free to use, no account, no credit card.

Say it the way you would say it. The “ums” and the repeats are taken out. The microphone closes. The speech model runs on your Mac and the text lands at your cursor. Speed, memory and load time were measured in August 2026 on Apple silicon. Client files. Medical notes. Unreleased code. What you say stays on your Mac, because Kivo never sends it anywhere. The only thing that uses the network is downloading the speech model. Yes. It is free to use, with no account, no credit card and no paid tier. That permission is how the global key is seen and how text reaches your cursor. Kivo reads nothing from your screen. Yes. The model downloads once and is checked against a pinned SHA-256 hash. After…from trykivo.space

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