Kotocast — fully local voice input

Hands off.
Work goes on.

Write and send without touching the keyboard or mouse. Your voice never leaves this PC.

See Kotocast → See all three tools

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WHAT THIS WORKSHOP STANDS FOR

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Products

See them
actually working.

Kotocast and MAGTEXT are real screen recordings; Sightkeep is a short ad. Press “Hear it” for sound. Each tool’s own page has the full details and the buy button.

The real screen, 46 s: wiping a misspoken word by voice, then working by voice while leaning back. English subtitles and narration; the on-screen text is Japanese.

Rest your hands and your back. Lean back, or stand up, and just talk — for anyone who can’t sit for long because of back pain or hemorrhoids.Not a medical device: a tool that gives you more postures to work in, with no therapeutic claim.

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Kotocast

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.

  • Windows 10 / 11 (64-bit) · macOS 26+ (Apple silicon)
  • One licence covers both builds — up to 2 machines
  • One-time purchase · no account

Interface and voice commands in English, Japanese, French, German and Spanish — switchable in settings.

See Kotocast →
The real screen, 18 s. A long article, read in one go and turned into text you can paste.
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MAGTEXT

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.

  • iPhone · iOS
  • Recognition and transcription run on the device
  • Free to try · one-time purchase · no account

On the App Store. Free to try — everything it does is on its page.

See MAGTEXT →
A 28-second ad for Tsumami UI, one of the two Sightkeep tools. The person and desk scenes are AI-generated, and the moving windows are an illustration, not the app’s screen.
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Sightkeep

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.

  • Apple silicon Mac (M1 or later) · macOS 14 Sonoma or newer
  • Both LiveFramePin and Tsumami UI
  • One-time purchase · up to two Macs (two apps, still two seats)

Japanese, English and Chinese interface.

See Sightkeep →

Names, details and prices stay sealed until a tool is genuinely close to shipping. It's deliberate — not a placeholder.

Free to use — headline images, made right in your browser. Try MIDASHI →

Three kinds of safety

Your data, your money, your machine.

Three promises that all trace back to one idea — the 鎬shinogi: your own backbone, the part that doesn't break when you need it most.

01 Top priority

Your data never leaves

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 servers
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Your own backbone

Your 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shinogi — the ridge that keeps a blade from breaking.

Answers only to you
03

Buy once. It's yours.

No 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, ever

By the numbers

A small workshop, measured honestly.

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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

Why everything stays in your hands.

A tool exists to protect the person using it.
A Xinogi tool wants to be the 鎬shinogi 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. Xinogi is pronounced “shee-noh-ghee” — the X sounds like “sh”.

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shinogi o kezuru.

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

Good questions.

Who is Xinogi?

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.

Why local-first?

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.

Is anything sent to the cloud?

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.

Subscription, or buy once?

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.

What if Xinogi disappears one day?

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.

How do I get support?

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.

The blade rack

Three blades,
three tools.

Pick a blade to jump back to that tool’s demo.

Contact

One inbox. A human reads it.

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]

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