Sona — Mac voice input that runs on the AI you already have

What Sona does

Press a hotkey, speak, and press again. The text goes straight into whatever app is focused — your editor, your chat, your email — not a separate window you have to move it from. From stop to typed text is about a second and a half in plain transcription mode.

Runs on the AI you already have

Sona doesn't lock you into a bundled model. It auto-detects a local model running on your Mac and uses it to clean up, translate, or summarize what you said.

• Auto-detects a local Ollama, LM Studio, or llama.cpp — no setup screens to fight with.
• Prefer the cloud? Bring your own key (OpenAI, Claude, Groq, and other OpenAI-compatible endpoints).
• The intelligence is whatever you already trust and run — not a black box you can't swap.

Your audio stays on your Mac

Transcription runs on-device with WhisperKit, so your voice never leaves the machine. If you point Sona at a local model for cleanup too, the whole flow stays offline. Sona doesn't send usage telemetry.

More than dictation

The same hotkey does more than transcribe. Switch modes and the same spoken sentence can come out transcribed, translated, summarized, or rewritten as an email — then dropped into the app you're in.

• Transcribe — clean, on-device speech to text.
• Translate — speak in one language, type in another.
• Summarize — turn a long ramble into the gist.
• Rewrite — turn rough speech into a tidy message.

Pricing and platform

Sona is ¥990/month with a 7-day free trial, or a one-time ¥26,400 (~$176) launch license (regularly ¥52,800). It runs on macOS (Apple Silicon recommended), with a Japanese-native interface alongside English. It's a notarized build that updates itself automatically.

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