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.
Hi I'm Gokulakrishnan, and I build Kivo on my own.
Hold Option, speak, and let go. Your words appear at the cursor in any app on your Mac. Try it on your next long prompt to an AI agent.
It runs on your Mac, so your audio is never uploaded. It is free, with no account.
It is an early preview: English and Mac only, and slower than my target. It is not signed yet, so you allow the first launch in Privacy & Security, and it needs a one time 460 MB model download.
Free, on-device, and no account is a strong combination — dictation is the kind of thing I only trust if the audio never leaves the machine. The part I'd actually use daily is dropping clean text straight into an agent's prompt box, since that's where my messy voice notes usually end up. Curious how it handles code identifiers and proper nouns in that mode — and whether the per-app writing mode request ends up automatic, since I'd want verbatim in a terminal and cleaned-up everywhere else.
Dropping clean text straight into an agent's prompt box is the detail I did not expect to matter, because dictating into a chat window that autocorrects my words has been its own small misery.
About Kivo on Product Hunt
“Free on device dictation for any Mac app and AI agent”
Kivo launched on Product Hunt on November 6th, 2026 and earned 61 upvotes and 4 comments, placing #43 on the daily leaderboard. 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.
Kivo was featured in Mac (103.9k followers), Artificial Intelligence (483k followers) and Audio (2.2k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 151.4k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Kivo?
Kivo was hunted by Gokulakrishnan S. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Gokulakrishnan S
Hi I'm Gokulakrishnan, and I build Kivo on my own.
Hold Option, speak, and let go. Your words appear at the cursor in any app on your Mac. Try it on your next long prompt to an AI agent.
It runs on your Mac, so your audio is never uploaded. It is free, with no account.
It is an early preview: English and Mac only, and slower than my target. It is not signed yet, so you allow the first launch in Privacy & Security, and it needs a one time 460 MB model download.
Which apps or words does it get wrong?
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