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Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-08

Kana: Mac dictation that stays on your Mac

getkana.app ↗ · Useful Tools · score 84.0
Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

Kana is an on-device Mac app for dictation, file transcription, and custom per-app rewriting.

Why it surfaced

Hold a key, speak, and text appears in whatever app you are using, with no account, telemetry, or network calls for dictation. It documents unusually concrete limits—macOS 26 or later, Apple Silicon, a roughly 480–540 MB speech-model download—and charges $9.99 once after a 14-day trial, while reserving its optional AI rewriting feature for a subscription.

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This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-08 Domain Arrivals issue.