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Coconote
Coconote
Coconote is an AI note-taking app that turns lectures, meetings, videos, and documents into organized notes, transcripts, quizzes, flashcards, and even AI chat, supporting over 100 languages. You can record or upload audio, video, documents, YouTube links, and more; Coconote then instantly transcribes and structures your content into clear notes and summaries. It offers features like quiz and flashcard generation, AI chat (“ask your notes anything”), multi-device sync, and support for uploads and recordings across many media types. The app is designed to help users capture, review, and study smarter, without manual transcription or note writing. On mobile, it can be used to record lectures and generate study materials on the go. It aims to free users from taking notes manually by automating the entire process, producing polished educational content from raw inputs.Starting Price: Free -
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CollaNote
CollaNote
CollaNote is a versatile note-taking and PDF markup app available for iPad, iPhone, and Mac that blends handwriting, sketching, collaboration, and AI tools in one environment. You can choose from over 25 pens and brushes, stabilize handwriting for smoother writing, and use infinite paper with customizable templates. CollaNote supports importing and annotating PDFs, slides, images, and documents, exporting notes to PDF, and backing up via iCloud for seamless syncing. It includes translation tools (for over 90 languages), flashcard creation with media, real-time collaboration across users, and password-protected notes. AI-powered features include a built-in AI calculator for handwritten notes, smart drawing tools (auto shapes), AI sticker generation, and writing assistance. The app also supports audio recording synchronized with handwriting, enabling you to replay lectures or meeting moments in context.Starting Price: Free -
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Freenotes
Freenotes
Freenotes offers a digital note-taking experience that blends the feel of writing on paper with powerful AI enhancements. You get realistic pen strokes that mimic lifelike handwriting as you sketch or take notes, along with tools like handwriting-to-text conversion, stickers, and various brush styles. Your notes sync via iCloud and multi-cloud backups. Freenotes supports PDF annotation, letting you mark up, highlight, and translate text directly in your documents; you can also insert hyperlinks to other pages or external web content. It enables picture-in-picture video mode and split-screen support so you can take notes while watching course videos or lectures. With its built-in AI assistant, you can take a screenshot or upload a document and receive instant answers or content summaries. To stay organized, notes can be grouped into folders, and a quick search lets you locate what you need fast.Starting Price: Free -
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Noteful
Noteful
Noteful is a digital note-taking and annotation app optimized for handwriting on iOS devices that blends fluid pen input with powerful document tools. You can write naturally using Apple Pencil or touch input; its custom ink engine records strokes as scalable vector ink, and you can switch between three brushes (ballpoint, fountain, highlighter), sizes, and colors. Beyond handwriting, Noteful supports importing PDFs and Office documents, annotating with typed text, images, and shapes, and layering multiple paper templates within a single notebook. Notes can be organized flexibly via hashtag tagging (including nested tags), rather than rigid folder structures, and you can browse content by tags or pin important pages. It offers a layer system so you can annotate without altering base content, hiding or reordering layers as needed. Editing tools include a precise eraser, lasso selection for moving or resizing content, unlimited undo/redo, and split-view multitasking.Starting Price: Free -
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CursorClip
CursorClip
CursorClip is a lightweight, native macOS screen recording app designed to create professional recordings with minimal effort and no editing required. Built at just 18MB, it launches in under two seconds, uses ultra-low RAM and minimal CPU, and avoids the bloat of heavy web-based apps. Its standout feature is AutoZoom, which automatically follows your cursor to create dynamic, engaging videos without manual keyframes. CursorClip also supports camera capture for recording your webcam alongside the screen, customizable backgrounds, adjustable cursor size, and a simple built-in editor to control zoom effects or add manual zoom points. It records in up to 4K at 60fps, supports system audio and microphone capture, and exports in high-quality MP4 or GIF formats. Optimized for both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs running Ventura (13.0+) or newer, CursorClip provides a polished workflow; record your screen, preview automatic cinematic zoom and pan effects.Starting Price: $47 one-time payment -
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Tight Studio
Tight Studio
Tight Studio is a screen-recording and video-editing application designed to help users create polished product demos, tutorials, and presentations with minimal effort. It enables automatic smart zooms that follow key mouse and UI actions so viewers stay focused on the most important elements, and offers professional captions in seconds via built-in templates for accessibility and muted playback. The platform includes crystal-clear AI narration for users in noisy environments or with sub-optimal audio setups, a curated library of background music, or the ability to import your own soundtrack, and the capability to enhance recordings with dynamic text overlays, title cards, and animated effects. Users can import or generate media, video clips, images, or AI-generated visuals to augment their screen capture, then export high-quality video with or without watermarks, depending on plan.Starting Price: $20 per month -
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Supercut
Supercut
Supercut is an AI-powered video messaging and screen-recording tool built for teams. It enables users to record up to 4K video, leverage one-click auto-editing to look professional, apply custom branded layouts, add call-to-action links, comment or react directly on the video timeline, and track views and engagement metrics. The interface emphasizes simplicity, speed, and design quality. Supercut supports both macOS and Windows via native code for optimal performance and resource use. It offers instant share links (public or private) and smart navigation with auto-generated chapters to help viewers jump to key moments in the content. The platform is tailored for design-driven teams, agencies, sales, and support outreach, enabling them to stay on-brand while creating and distributing high-quality video content quickly.Starting Price: $15 per month -
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Tutorial AI
Tutorial AI
Tutorial AI is an AI-powered video platform built for creating professional tutorials and demos from raw screen recordings in minutes. Users can record their workflow silently or narrate naturally, then the system automatically transcribes or refines narration, generates polished scripts, and converts recordings into studio-quality videos ready for publishing. Key features include AI voice-overs in 30+ languages, document-style editing that avoids complex video timelines, automatic zooming and cursor effects for emphasis, background/branding customization, and AutoRetime translations that align video scenes automatically when switching languages. The platform supports macOS and Windows recording, iPhone and iPad screen capture, collaborative workspaces with versioning, guest viewer controls, and embeds for use in LMS, CMS, or other platforms.Starting Price: $18 per month -
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FunKey
Digital Hole
FunKey is a macOS menu-bar mechanical keyboard sound simulator that enhances your typing experience by playing satisfying mechanical keyboard and mouse click sound effects with every keystroke, aiming to make everyday tasks like coding, writing emails, or designing more enjoyable and focused. It offers over 25+ sound options, including a variety of mechanical keyboard profiles and mouse sounds, that trigger instantly as you type to create an immersive auditory experience that can boost engagement and productivity. It sits in your Mac’s menu bar for easy access and runs natively on macOS, ensuring smooth performance without impacting your workflow. FunKey is designed exclusively for Mac, requires macOS 13.0 or later, and does not collect user data. It emphasizes realistic, high-quality audio feedback and a simple, lightweight interface so users can toggle it on/off quickly and enjoy a more dynamic typing feel without extra clutter or manual configuration.Starting Price: Free -
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Phia
Phia
Phia is a modern macOS screen recording app that makes creating polished videos easy without complex editing skills by enhancing your footage automatically with smooth motion, intelligent cinematic zoom, and refined visual clarity so demos, tutorials, walkthroughs, and presentations feel ready to share right after capturing. It automatically zooms into key interactions to guide viewer focus and offers both automatic and manual zoom controls, flexible export aspect ratios, and layouts that place text, visuals, and motion into balanced scenes; captions can be generated and edited, webcam, microphone, system audio and captions captured together, and curated titles, backgrounds, and spacing give recordings a professional identity. Smooth cursor movement is refined, cursor size can be adjusted or hidden, and integrated slides and images create dynamic presentations.Starting Price: $29 per month -
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Freeform
Freeform
Freeform is Apple’s collaborative digital whiteboarding app that gives you an unlimited, flexible canvas to bring ideas to life and work visually with others in real time across your Apple devices. It supports adding photos, video, audio, documents, PDFs, web links, sticky notes, and more anywhere on a board so you can create mood boards, diagrams, project plans, research collections, or creative collages with almost any file type, and draw or write with touch or Apple Pencil on compatible devices. It includes over 700 shapes and alignment guides for clean layouts, a built-in scanner to import and annotate paper documents, and boards that sync via iCloud so changes update on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. You can invite collaborators via email, link, or Messages and brainstorm with up to 100 people at once, with optional integration to start a FaceTime call while you work.Starting Price: Free -
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Boom
Boom
Boom is a video app for serious presenters that transforms live presentations, screen recordings, and virtual meetings into polished, produced content without the need for traditional editing software, giving users professional results straight out of the camera by combining dynamic layouts, real-time enhancements, and intuitive controls that work live rather than after the fact; it lets you present with slides and camera feeds together, switch between layouts like side-by-side or picture-in-picture on the fly, and apply cinematic zooms and branded overlays so your presentation looks intentional and engaging across Zoom, Meet, Teams, and any video app that supports a camera input, eliminating the “can you see my screen?” moments common in virtual presentations. Boom also enhances your video feed with automatic lighting adjustments, skin smoothing, virtual backgrounds, custom branded overlays, and camera framing controls, so you look polished and on brand without external editors.Starting Price: $10 per month -
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Kommodo
Kommodo
Kommodo is an all-in-one AI screen recording and video knowledge platform that lets users record their screen, webcam, or meetings and automatically transcribe, summarize, and turn those recordings into high-quality videos, step-by-step guides, and searchable documentation without watermarks or time limits. Within your browser or via desktop and mobile apps, Kommodo captures unlimited recordings and uses built-in AI to generate meeting summaries, action items, chapters, and auto-generated SOPs that save time and improve clarity, while its AI assistant can search your entire video library to extract insights or answer questions about content. It includes a browser-based video editor with timeline tools, text annotations, trimming and exporting, and supports collaboration, real-time analytics, and customizable shareable pages, making it easy to create training materials, presentations, tutorials, or sales demos.Starting Price: $9 per month -
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PopTask
PopTask
PopTask is a lightweight macOS menu bar task manager designed to capture tasks instantly and turn natural input into structured plans without friction. It lives directly in your menu bar, allowing you to add tasks without switching apps, and understands the way you naturally type or speak, even if the input is messy, shorthand, or informal. It uses AI-powered scheduling to automatically detect task titles, due dates, times, and recurring patterns, eliminating the need for manual input like dropdowns or date pickers. You can write something like “meeting with team mon wed fri 9 am” and PopTask will interpret and organize it into properly scheduled tasks in seconds. It also includes an AI task breakdown, which transforms large or vague tasks into smaller, actionable steps you can start immediately, helping reduce overwhelm and improve execution. Smart countdown alerts and notifications ensure you stay on top of deadlines, while a daily summary gives a clear overview of your schedule.Starting Price: $1.99 per month -
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Blaze
Blaze
Blaze is a smart calendar and complete productivity system built to help users plan better and do what matters. It brings tasks, events, projects, notes, files, collaboration, and AI into one organized workspace, so everything stays in sync instead of being scattered across separate tools. Blaze lets users manage all tasks and calendar events in one advanced agenda, organize projects with structured tasks and supporting materials, and keep work on track through a clean, calendar-centered workflow. It also connects with favorite tools to streamline daily planning and boost productivity. Teams can collaborate in real time by sharing tasks, projects, notes, and calendars, making Blaze more than a personal planner: it becomes a shared workspace for coordinated work. Its AI features simplify time management by letting users chat with a personal assistant, ask questions, get advice, and reorganize tasks in real time directly from the chat.Starting Price: $4 per month -
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KeyText
KeyText
KeyText is an AI-native browser text expander designed to help professionals write, rewrite, and reply faster across every text field on the web. Built as a Chrome extension, KeyText allows users to create slash-command shortcuts such as /intro or /followup that instantly expand into full emails, messages, templates, or responses inside platforms like Gmail, LinkedIn, Slack, Outlook, HubSpot, Notion, and more. The platform combines traditional text expansion with integrated AI capabilities that can generate snippets, rewrite selected text, adjust tone, shorten or lengthen content, translate messages, and create contextual auto-replies with conversational memory. Users can insert smart variables such as {{first_name}}, {{company}}, {{today}}, and other placeholders that automatically populate or allow quick tab-through editing.Starting Price: $4.99/user/month -
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Pocket
Pocket
Pocket is a screen-free personal AI assistant designed to capture thoughts and conversations in the real world, then turn them into organized, actionable knowledge. With one tap, it records meetings, client calls, brainstorms, ideas, and personal reflections so users can stay present instead of taking notes. Pocket uses two studio microphones and one contact microphone for clear, speaker-separated audio, including phone calls without speaker mode, with a recording range of up to 15 meters. Its AI generates transcripts, crisp summaries, action items, to-dos, and dynamic mind maps in more than 120 languages, helping users recall what mattered and see what to do next. Pocket is model-agnostic and can use systems such as GPT-5, Claude, and Gemini to match the task. Ask Pocket lets users question their captured conversations, while summary styles, custom templates, speaker identification, daily highlights, meeting reminders, and task integrations turn recordings into reusable workflows.Starting Price: $16.59 per month -
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ScreenBuddy
ScreenBuddy
ScreenBuddy is a screen recorder and video editor for Windows 10/11 (64-bit), also available for Apple silicon Mac on macOS 12+. Create tutorials, product demos and walkthroughs with automatic zoom, callout bubbles, smooth cursor effects, backgrounds, trim and speed controls, pen markup, blur and solid privacy covers, local captions and 3D camera moves. Record a display, window or area with optional microphone, supported system audio and webcam. Export MP4 or GIF locally, keep editing while rendering, or publish an unlisted shareable link. Recording, editing, captions and local export process media on your device. Sharing uploads only your chosen finished video; sign-in, subscription verification, updates and optional model downloads use the internet. Record and edit free. Exports and shareable links require USD $10/month or $60/year ($5/month billed annually). Updates are included while subscribed. Previously purchased lifetime licenses keep working.Starting Price: $5/month (billed $60/year) -
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Antalogy
Antalogy
Antalogy is a Markdown processor that behaves like a traditional word processor with Word-like Ribbon. You type normally, the UI stays out of the way, and it saves clean Markdown underneath. - 100% Local-First Documents: Your files stay strictly on your device. No cloud syncing, zero telemetry, and absolutely no document format lock-in. - Word .docx Import: One-click conversion from .docx to .md while preserving tables, lists, and converting embedded images to PNG. - Native Mermaid Diagrams + AI Generation: Fully supports Mermaid syntax for rendering data visualizations and charts directly from text. The integrated AI Assistant can scan your document's text/data and automatically write the structural Mermaid code to generate precise visual flowcharts and architecture diagrams on the fly. - AI Assistant for Bring Your Own LLM: It connects via any OpenAI-compatible API to your own local quantized LLMs with LMStudio/Ollama/... , private cloud, or on-prem inference servers.Starting Price: 0 -
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Tabularia
Mackley Studios
Tabularia is book-writing software designed to help you stay focused on your story and prose. It stays fast and navigable at book length, keeping the page, the structure, and every revision together from first draft to finished work. A project holds one continuous manuscript with one or more ordered books, already formatted as you work, so there is no assembly step between the draft and the book. The outline, minimap, search, and working scope all move through that single composition rather than a file tree. A character's inner change, a plot line, or a promise that must be paid off later becomes a timeline anchored to the passages that carry it, so following a thread lands you on the words you need to edit. Drafts can be captured at any scope and turned on and off in place, and an invited editor returns a redline you accept or reject a difference at a time. The writing app is free. A Cloud subscription adds backup, sync across devices, sharing for review, and web publishing.Starting Price: $18 / month -
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Ritemark
Productory
Ritemark is a free, open-source Markdown writing app for macOS and Windows. It stores documents as regular files in folders on the user's computer, with a visual editor for working with Markdown. Its AI sidebar runs Claude Code, Codex, or OpenCode agents against the open folder so they can read, create, and revise documents alongside the writer. A built-in terminal and folder-based workspaces support writing and reference workflows. Users can export documents to Word or PDF and publish or sync them with Google Docs. Basic editing does not require an account or AI service; using AI agents may require a separate provider account or API costs. Ritemark serves writers, including technical writers and product managers, as well as consultants and other professionals preparing documentation, specifications, training material, and client-facing documents.Starting Price: Free -
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Forgot.dev
Forgot.dev
Forgot is a browser-based team calendar for engineering managers and team leads coordinating planned time off, on-call rotations, project work, public holidays and release dates. Managers can add people and events, organize views by team, office, time zone or custom fields, mark tentative dates, and flag when someone is away during a release or code freeze. Teams can submit availability through a link without creating accounts; read-only calendars can be shared or embedded, and weekly email summaries and weekday Slack posts help keep colleagues informed. Calendar feeds can be subscribed to from Google Calendar, Outlook or Apple Calendar. The optional Mac menu-bar app shows who is away and supports calendar edits. Forgot is designed for coordination rather than HR leave administration and does not track PTO balances or accruals.Starting Price: $9 one-time -
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BoTab
BoTab
BoTab is a browser extension for organizing open tabs and bookmarks in a customizable new-tab workspace. Users can save open tabs as bookmarks with one action, then reopen pages individually or restore a folder of pages together. The new-tab page displays bookmarks in multi-column layouts with category navigation, search, sorting, filtering, and controls for editing, moving, or deleting links. Users can personalize pages with themes, wallpapers, colors, layout settings, display effects, and optional custom CSS. BoTab uses the browser’s bookmark store to build its pages, and its documentation says bookmark data stays in the browser rather than being uploaded to BoTab servers. The extension is designed for people who want to reduce tab clutter, organize saved sites, and make frequently used links easier to find. It is available for Chrome and Edge on Windows, macOS, and Linux, and for compatible Android browsers.Starting Price: $0 -
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InsertKit
InsertKit
InsertKit is a text-expansion and productivity application for people who frequently reuse text across apps. Users create shortcuts that expand into saved replies, signatures, emails, and other longer passages, with dynamic placeholders, folders, and variations for organizing reusable content. Voice typing transcribes speech and can format text for the active app, while voice commands can find and insert saved snippets. A clipboard manager keeps a searchable history of copied items, and cloud synchronization makes snippets available across supported devices. InsertKit offers desktop apps for Windows, macOS, and Linux, a Chrome extension, an Android app, and a web dashboard. Individuals and teams can use it for customer-support replies, sales outreach, content creation, and other repetitive writing workflows.Starting Price: $0 -
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Granite
Granite
Granite is an encrypted Markdown note-taking and knowledge management app for individuals and teams. It organizes notes with wikilinks, tags, backlinks, a graph view, daily notes, templates, and offline search, and syncs them across web, desktop, and mobile devices. Each vault has its own encryption key. The built-in MCP server lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and other compatible AI tools search, read, and update notes in authorized vaults, with answers that cite the source notes. Teams can co-edit shared vaults, add comments and mentions, and publish notes to the web. Business adds SSO, SCIM, audit logs, and security policies. Notes are never used to train AI. Granite offers a free one-vault plan, a Pro subscription, and per-seat Business plans.Starting Price: $3.99/month -
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LensNote
LensNote
LensNote turns recorded lectures, meetings, and long videos into visual notes. Upload audio or video in the web app, or record a window on macOS. The app identifies distinct slides and key frames, matches them with timestamps and the relevant transcript, and writes a key message for each visual. Sessions include searchable transcripts, summaries, action items, and structured reports. Jump from a slide or transcript line to the original moment. Export slides as PPTX, reports as PDF or Word, and transcripts as TXT, or share a read-only link. No meeting bot is required. Available on the web and macOS 14 or later, with a 14-day trial and a Pro plan at $30 per month.Starting Price: $30/month -
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Cilevi
Doment Digital
Cilevi is a desktop screen recorder and video editor for creators, educators, founders and software teams making product demonstrations, tutorials, training materials and software walkthroughs. It has Windows and Mac editions, with recording and editing handled locally. On Windows, it captures a full display, a window or a selected region, with optional webcam, microphone and system audio. The Windows editor creates zooms around recorded clicks, smooths the cursor and places footage on styled backgrounds. Users can arrange multiple clips on a timeline, add transitions, text and shape overlays, blur or mosaic selected areas, and edit captions or cuts using a transcript. Captions are generated on-device in 99 languages. Recordings can be exported as MP4 or GIF, including a selected timeline range. The Mac edition also records a display, window or selected area, with optional camera and microphone.Starting Price: $50 one-time -
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Gravity
Gravity Notes
Gravity is a personal note-taking app for capturing and reviewing short thoughts on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Android. It stores notes in one chronological stream, with the newest at the top; older notes move down as new ones are added, and users can bring useful notes back to the top. Notes support search, Markdown, checklists, tags entered as text prefixes, archiving, and export to JSON or Markdown. The apps work offline and store notes locally; iPhone, iPad, and Mac versions can optionally sync through the user’s iCloud account. A companion macOS command-line tool can search, add, edit, archive, import, and export notes, including for scripts and AI agents. Gravity is designed for individual note capture and review rather than shared team workspaces or structured project knowledge bases.Starting Price: $9.99 one-time -
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SnapMatrix
Chilview LLC
SnapMatrix is a Mac desktop application for capturing screenshots and recording on-screen activity. Users can capture a full display, a single window, or a selected region, then annotate images and record screen activity with a paid annual plan. Screenshots are available without a paid plan; subscriptions also unlock an on-Mac Library, recording review, guides and citation PDFs, brand kits, and organization tools. Captures are stored locally on the Mac; Chilview does not host screenshots or recordings. Organizations can optionally use a customer-managed backend. SnapMatrix is aimed at individuals and organizations that document, teach, or report from their screens, including walkthroughs, class examples, and reports. SnapMatrix is a Mac desktop app, with Windows planned.Starting Price: $34.99/year -
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Kimiko
Inovia AI Solutions
Kimiko is a desktop AI meeting assistant and note-taking app for Apple silicon Macs and 64-bit Windows 11 PCs. It records microphone and computer audio during calls without adding a meeting bot, then creates live transcripts with speaker labels, summaries, decisions, open questions, and suggested tasks. Users can organize meetings, notes, and follow-ups in projects, search past conversations, and ask questions with references to transcript passages. The app also offers standalone notes, AI-assisted editing, and dictation into other applications. Speech recognition and AI run locally by default after models are downloaded, and meeting data is stored in an encrypted local database. Users can optionally connect cloud providers using their own account or API key. Kimiko serves professionals and teams seeking meeting capture, searchable notes, and follow-up workflows.Starting Price: $12/month
