Download Kana
Free for 14 days, with no card and no account. After that it is $9.99 once, or $4.90 a month ($49 a year) if you want AI rewriting as well. Download it, open it, and it works.
Requirements
- macOS 26 or later
- Apple Silicon (M1 or later). It will not run on an Intel Mac.
- The app itself is 6.5 MB. The speech model is a separate one-time download: about 480 MB for English, about 540 MB for Japanese.
Permissions it asks for
Two: the microphone, and Accessibility. Accessibility is what lets Kana see your dictation key and type into other apps. It is not used for anything else.