Honest pricing.
One payment. No tricks.

No — all transcription runs locally on your Mac, Windows, or Linux machine. Audio files are never uploaded to any server. Summaries and chat run on a local model too, so there is no cloud-processing path at all.

The core loop. Free covers up to 5 files OR 150 minutes of audio — cumulative for life, whichever comes first. Inside that allowance you get transcribe, translate, summarize, library folders, cited chat, and per-file export (including QDPX). Free also caps the cited-chat retrieval index at 50 library entries; Lifetime lifts that cap. Some convenience surfaces (watch folders, batch export) unlock with Lifetime. No card, no upload, no signup wall.

One payment of $49, once, unlocks unlimited imports plus the Lifetime-gated convenience surfaces (watch folders, batch export) — no caps on files, minutes, or the 50-entry free retrieval index. Your installed version keeps working forever. Launch price $49 (standard $99) through 2026-11-01. It is a single one-time purchase, not a subscription. There is nothing to cancel and nothing recurring.

Yes. Lifetime is a one-time purchase — all sales final. Free covers the core loop up to the allowance so you can try before you buy. Contact support@kajovoice.com for billing questions.

Your transcripts stay saved locally and remain fully accessible. To process more than 5 files or 150 minutes total, buy the one-time $49 license — that is the only purchase Kajo offers.

The whole loop does — transcription, translation, summaries, and cited chat run with the network off once the models are downloaded. The Lifetime unlock itself is checked against the licence server whenever the app is online (about once a day). Offline, Lifetime keeps working for at least 30 days after the last successful check, then the app falls back to the Free allowance until it can check in again. Nothing is deleted, and your library stays where it is.

Kajo detects and transcribes 98 languages automatically. Accuracy varies by language.

A Mac (macOS 13 or later, Apple Silicon or Intel), a Windows PC (Windows 10 21H2 or later, x64 or ARM), or a Linux desktop, with 16 GB of RAM. ≈2.2 GB of models before your first transcript (≈2.5 GB on macOS); ≈9 GB in total once the chat model finishes downloading in the background. Download once — everything runs offline afterwards.

One licence activates on up to three machines at the same time (the oldest session is signed out when a fourth joins) and on up to 100 machines over its lifetime. Everything runs locally on each of them.

Lifetime customers: email support@kajovoice.com — we reply within 24–48 hours. Free tier: as capacity allows. Security reports: security@kajovoice.com within 24 hours.