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- You should include your demo video on your landing pageby hmokiguess
- One price, indefinitely for the rest of your life. The developer isn't maintaining any infrastructure, there's no ongoing cost whatsoever, so there's no reason for monthly payments.
It's just a static file on your own computer that's burning your own CPU cycles. Sorry, but it just feels a bit greedy to me.
by copper-float - > "Your voice and text never leave the machine"
> "Runs on your Mac — no upload, no queue"
> $8/month
by dangoodmanUT - I spent ~10 minutes looking at it.
Vibe-coded website.
Both bundles contain quantized versions of the CohereLabs/cohere-transcribe-03-2026 model. The model in JEXXA.dmg is MLX int8 g64 affine quantized. JEXXA-Small.dmg has the same model but MLX int4 g32 affine quantized. There's also an int8 quantized WeSpeaker ECAPA-TDNN speaker-verification ONNX encoder. No acknowledgments for both models (doesn't the Apache 2.0 license require it? WeSpeaker's cc-by-4.0 license certainly does). Both bundles also contain full-blown Python 3.12.8 runtimes with about a dozen packages installed.
Apps are unsandboxed menubar apps and also contain PostHog analytics and Supabase auth. So, I wouldn't run it on any of my machines.
A few engineering hygiene issues like a .pytest_cache directory, Python code, .DS_Store files, etc.
Given the above, I suspect the "I am training better models." is just marketing speak.
nb: The demo link without LinkedIn tracking slop: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sankyde_jexxa-demo-httpsjexxa...