| What it does | Private AI toolkit for dictation, transcription, notes, read-aloud, translation, and media tools that processes content on your device
| Multi-model desktop workspace with cost optimization through agent routing
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| Stage | Startup
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| Founded | 2026
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| Pricing model | Freemium
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| Pricing | Free: $0 forever on Android, iPhone, and iPad with voice typing, voice notes, and read-aloud. Pro: $15/month or $12/month billed annually ($144/year) for desktop apps on Windows, macOS, and Linux with unlimited dictation, transcription, and video captioning. Enterprise: Custom pricing for teams.
| Desktop app: Free and open source (Apache 2.0). Halv Cloud: US$10 per month.
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| Key features | - On-device speech-to-text dictation into any app with live cleanup
- Meeting recording and transcription with speaker labels and editable notes
- Handwriting recognition to convert handwritten pages into typed, searchable notes
- Read-aloud for documents, ebooks and articles in 31 languages with audio export
- On-device image generation from text descriptions
- Chat with your notes for plain-language questions with cited answers
- On-device translation of notes, text and subtitle files
- Works offline once local models are installed
- Automatic video captioning exported as SRT format
- Works system-wide in text fields across desktop apps and as keyboard on Android
| - JEV agent routing for automatic model and reasoning selection
- Support for Claude Code, Codex, Kimi, and GLM models
- Synced savings dashboard
- History across machines
- Automatic account rotation
- Code navigation via Crux
- Command output filtering via RTK
- Model context processing via Headroom
- Cross-platform support for macOS, Windows, Linux
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| What makes it different | - Core content processing runs locally on your device, not in the cloud
- No always-on microphones or data harvesting
- Built by a small team focused on quality over growth
- Single unified app across Mac, Windows, Linux, Android, iPhone and iPad
| - 57.1% lower recorded model costs compared to vanilla Codex on benchmark runs
- Free and open source desktop app under Apache 2.0 license
- Agent routing included with Halv Cloud at no additional fee
- Single workspace for multiple AI coding models
- Matched vanilla Codex pass rates with lower cost
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| Free plan | Not given
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| Open source | Not given
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| Public API | Not given
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| Community votes | 0 | 0 |
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| DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs) | 35 ▼ −1 (down) since last check | 19 ● no change since last check |
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| Trust Flow (Majestic) | 19 | 3 |
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| Citation Flow (Majestic) | 30 | 24 |
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| Referring domains (Majestic) | 184 | 57 |
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