Mac and productivity writers
Dictation, file transcription, call recording and subtitles in one menu bar app is a natural “what I use” item. The one-time price is the part readers thank you for.
Affiliate program
Kekoso affiliate program: keep 30% of every sale.
Kekoso is a dictation and transcription app for Mac that never sends speech to a server — one purchase, no subscription. The Kekoso affiliate program pays $8.70 per licence, with a 60-day cookie so the free trial does not cost you the sale.
Applications reviewed by hand · Paid out by Lemon Squeezy · No minimum audience
The terms
Four numbers, no fine print.
Everything below is set in Lemon Squeezy, which tracks the clicks and pays you. We only repeat it here.
- 30%
- of every sale
- 60 days
- attribution window
- $10
- minimum payout
- 7 days
- free trial for your readers
$8.70 per licence at $29
Long enough to cover the free trial
Two sales and you are over it
No card, no account, no email
Why the cookie is 60 days
Kekoso has a 7-day free trial with no card and no account. A reader who clicks your link installs the app, dictates for a week and only then pays. The default 7-day window most programs use would expire in exactly the week that matters — so ours is set to 60, and the trial is the reason, not a marketing number.
The rules that are not numbers
- Last referrer wins when a reader clicked more than one link.
- Refunded orders — within our 30-day policy — earn no commission.
- No search ads on the brand name, no coupon or cashback sites, no self-referrals.
- Applications are approved by hand; there is no audience minimum.
How it works
One form, one link, any page on the site.
- 01
Apply
The form lives on Lemon Squeezy, our merchant of record — the store there is listed under the founder’s name, CHMEREV DEV, not Kekoso. Applications are read by a person and approved by hand, usually within a couple of days.
- 02
Get your link
Once approved you get a referral link and a dashboard with clicks, sales and payouts. The link points at kekoso.app, not at a checkout page, so your readers land on the product, not on a payment form.
- 03
Send people anywhere on the site
Add ?aff=YOURCODE to any page — the homepage, a comparison article, the subtitle generator. Every page remembers the code for 60 days and carries it into the checkout when the reader buys.
- 04
Get paid
Lemon Squeezy tracks the sale and pays you directly once your balance passes $10. You never invoice us, and we never see your payout details.
your referral link, three ways
https://kekoso.app/?aff=YOURCODE
https://kekoso.app/video-to-text/?aff=YOURCODE
https://kekoso.app/blog/superwhisper-alternatives/?aff=YOURCODEPages that tend to convert: the video to text, subtitle generator and call recording pages for productivity audiences, the MCP server page for developers, and the comparison articles when your reader is already using a competitor.
Who it suits
Four audiences that already want this.
Kekoso sells on three things — it runs on the Mac, it is paid for once, and it does four jobs that are usually four subscriptions. Pick the one your readers care about.
Privacy-minded audiences
Speech never leaves the Mac. If your readers switched to Signal and a password manager, this is the transcription tool they have been looking for.
Developers and AI-tool channels
Kekoso ships a local MCP server with twelve tools — Claude Code, Claude Desktop and Codex transcribe through it with no API key and no per-minute bill. A rare angle that is still open.
Students, journalists, researchers
Lectures, interviews and voice memos to text with timestamps, in up to 99 languages, with no upload and no per-minute pricing. Compare that to what they pay now.
Assets
Take what you need. No press kit to request.
Everything on the site is yours to embed. If a screenshot of a specific screen is missing, write and it will be made.
- Logo (SVG)
The mark on a transparent background. Scales to any size.
- Cover 1200×630
Ready for a hero image, a newsletter or a social card.
- Screenshots
Eight interface shots at 1800×1224 with transparent corners, under /shots/.
- Demo video
On YouTube — the app in use, ready to embed or link.
Facts you can quote
The numbers, as of version 1.1.4.
- $29 once — no subscription, no account
- One licence covers 3 Macs
- 7-day free trial, no card required
- macOS 14.4 or later · Apple silicon
- Speech recognition runs entirely on-device
- Dictation, audio and video files, YouTube links, call recording
- SRT and VTT subtitles, custom vocabulary, up to 99 languages
- Local MCP server with twelve tools for AI agents
These come from the same file the site is built from, so they do not drift. Check the changelog for what shipped since.
Questions
Before you apply.
- How much do I earn per sale?
- 30% of the price. Kekoso costs $29, so a sale is $8.70 to you. There are no tiers and no caps — the rate is the same on your first sale and your five-hundredth.
- Why is the cookie 60 days? Most programs give 30.
- Because Kekoso has a 7-day free trial. A reader clicks your link, installs the app, tries it for a week and only then decides to pay. A short window would mean the sale lands after your credit has expired. Sixty days covers the trial, a busy fortnight and the reminder email.
- Does the link have to go to the homepage?
- No. Any page on kekoso.app works with ?aff=YOURCODE appended — a comparison article, the video-to-text page, the MCP server page. The code is remembered for 60 days and added to the checkout link automatically, whichever page the reader ends up buying from.
- What if the reader had already clicked someone else’s link?
- The last referrer wins. If your link was the most recent one clicked before the purchase, the sale is yours.
- What happens on a refund?
- Kekoso has a 30-day no-questions refund policy, and a refunded order does not earn a commission. In practice refunds are rare — the trial exists so that people who would refund never buy — but the rule is there so you know it.
- Who approves applications, and how long does it take?
- A person — the same one who builds the app. Applications are approved by hand, usually within a couple of days. If you have a site, a channel or a newsletter about Macs, productivity, privacy or developer tools, you will be approved.
- How and when am I paid?
- Lemon Squeezy handles payouts to the details you set in your affiliate account, once your balance is above $10. We never hold your money and never see your payout details.
- Can I run ads on the brand name or use coupon-site tactics?
- No. Bidding on “Kekoso” in search ads, coupon and cashback listings, and self-referrals are not what the program is for, and sales from them are reversed. Write about the product; that is the whole ask.
Join the Kekoso affiliate program
$8.70 a sale, for writing about a tool worth writing about.
Apply on Lemon Squeezy, get your link in a couple of days, and put it on whichever page of the site makes your point. Questions first? Write to [email protected].
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