鎬を削る。
A local-first workshop · Japan — voice dictation, screen OCR, window tools
Xinogi builds tools that run entirely on your machine. Your data never leaves it. No subscriptions — you buy once, and it's yours. The quiet strength that keeps working the day someone else's server doesn't.
Runs local-only Buy once, it's yours No account
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WHAT THIS WORKSHOP STANDS FOR
Products
Only what has actually shipped appears here — and the next one is close. The rest are still being sharpened: each arrives on this page as it gets near, one at a time, never earlier.
Talk, and your words are typed into whatever app you're using — then it presses Enter for you. Runs entirely on your PC: your voice and your text never leave the machine.
Interface and voice commands in English, Japanese, French, German and Spanish — switchable in settings.
See Kotocast →Words you can see on your iPhone but can't select — in a screenshot, a screen recording, or spoken audio. MAGTEXT reads them on the device and hands them back as text you can paste, so you don't retype what's already in front of you.
On the App Store. Free to try — everything it does is on its page.
See MAGTEXT →Sightkeep is two tools for the Mac screen. LiveFramePin lifts a live region out and keeps it in front. Tsumami UI puts a handle on your windows so you can bundle and move them together. One purchase covers both.
Japanese, English and Chinese interface.
See Sightkeep →Headline images for what you publish — typed, not designed. MIDASHI picks the heaviest weight your machine actually has, keeps the words inside the square that feeds crop to, and writes the PNG. Nothing to install: it runs in the page.
Open the page and make one right now. No account, no download.
Try MIDASHI →Names, details and prices stay sealed until a tool is genuinely close to shipping. It's deliberate — not a placeholder.
Three kinds of safety
Three promises that all trace back to one idea — the 鎬: your own backbone, the part that doesn't break when you need it most.
What can run on your machine, does — all of it. There are no accounts to create, and no servers of ours holding your files, because we don't run any. Privacy here isn't a setting you switch on. It's the architecture.
Nothing on our serversYour work shouldn't be hostage to someone else's uptime, someone else's policy change, or someone else's shutdown notice. A tool you own, on hardware you own, answers to no one but you. That is the 鎬 — the ridge that keeps a blade from breaking.
Answers only to youNo subscription. No metered API bill ticking in the background. You pay a single time, and the tool is yours to keep — working the same years from now as the day you bought it. In an age of subscription fatigue, owning your tools is quiet defiance.
No subscription, everBy the numbers
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Tools in the workshop
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Platforms — Windows · macOS · iOS
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Subscriptions · accounts required
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Bytes of your data on our servers
No invented download counts. No imaginary team. These are the real numbers.
Philosophy
A tool exists to protect the person using it.
A Xinogi tool wants to be the 鎬 of your day —
not the flashy edge, but the backbone that will not break.
Nothing held hostage. No one holding you.
Kept in your hands.
Xinogi is a small workshop betting on a single idea: the tools you depend on should live in your hands, not on someone else's servers. Small on purpose — small enough that every promise on this page stays checkable.
The name comes from the 鎬 (shinogi) — the ridge line running down a Japanese blade, its thickest part, the backbone that keeps it from snapping. Not the flashy edge; the quiet structure holding everything together. That's what a good tool should be in your day: not spectacle, but the strength that doesn't fail when you reach for it.
We don't pretend to be bigger than we are. No invented numbers, no imaginary team — a small workshop, honest about its size, sharpening a few tools until they're worth owning. 鎬を削る.
What we commit to
Local-first
The heavy work runs on your device — not on our servers, because there are none of ours to run to.
Buy once
No subscription and no metered bills. You pay a single time and keep the tool for good.
Private by architecture
No accounts to create, nothing of yours parked with us. Privacy is the design, not a toggle.
Honest
No inflated download counts, no fake team. If it's on this page, you can verify it.
Languages
Product interfaces — and this page itself — ship in English, Japanese, French, German and Spanish.
FAQ
A small, independent workshop in Japan. Deliberately small — that's what keeps the tools sharp and every claim on this page verifiable. We don't invent a team we don't have.
Because trust is the product. Your work shouldn't be hostage to someone else's server. What can run on your machine does — no accounts, and no servers of ours holding your data.
Each tool spells out exactly what runs where, in plain words, on its own page at launch. The rule never changes: the heavy work runs on your device, and no servers of ours hold your data.
Buy once. No subscription, no metered API bills. You pay a single time and the tool is yours to keep. Each tool's price is set and shown plainly on its own page the day it ships — never before.
Because the tools run on your machine — not our servers — they keep working regardless. Nothing here depends on us staying online. That independence is the whole point.
One address for everything — the email below. Say which tool and what happened, and you'll hear back from the person who built it. As the lineup grows, product-specific channels may follow.
Contact
Support, a question, a commission, a collaboration — every message lands in the same place, and is read by the person who built the tools.
[email protected]Every tool, one address Replies come from the maker Open to select work & collaboration
