Kana as a Voibe alternative

An offline-first Mac dictation app, and the closest positioning to Kana's of anything on this list: on-device by default, privacy as the pitch, and a lifetime price under the bigger names.

What Voibe does better

Voibe runs on Windows as well as the Mac, in a zero-retention cloud mode, at the same price. Kana is Apple Silicon only with no cloud path at all, so Voibe covers hardware and an operating system Kana cannot. It also sells a lifetime licence for transcription itself, gives you a 7-day trial and a 30-day refund, and publishes the same plan across both platforms.

Where Kana is different

• • The one-time price is $9.99 rather than $149, though that buys dictation and transcription rather than the AI layer as well.
• • Dictation makes no network call at all, and that is checked in CI rather than promised in copy.
• • One licence covers rewriting on three Macs.

Side by side

Voibe pricing: $7.50 a month, $59 a year, or $149 once. 7-day trial, 30-day refund.