鎬を削る。
A local-first workshop · Japan
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
One tool has shipped. The rest are still being sharpened — each is revealed on this page the day it actually ships, one at a time, never before.
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 →Names, details and prices stay sealed until each tool actually ships. 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 · Chrome
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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