Who I Am

I'm Sascha from Leipzig, and I build the software I always wished existed: local-first, ad-free, subscription-free, and open source—so anyone can inspect exactly what is happening on their own machine.

Current Projects

Voxista

A native dictation tool for macOS. Press a hotkey, start speaking, and your finished text appears directly in the active application.

Speech recognition (whisper.cpp) and AI-powered text refinement (Ollama) run 100% offline on your Mac.

Features include:

• Meeting recording with speaker transcripts
• Text snippets
• CLI automation
• Native macOS integration

All free under the AGPL v3 license.

• Website: https://voxista.heinemann.media
• Source Code: https://codeberg.org/kleinschmidt/Voxista

Comparable apps typically cost €10–15 per month.

Web Experiments & Utilities

Small, focused projects built around the same principles:

• No cloud dependency
• No data collection
• No subscriptions
• No unnecessary complexity

More projects are on the way. You can find updates at:

https://heinemann.media

Why Donate?

Everything here is—and will remain—free of charge.

Your support goes directly toward the real costs of maintaining open-source software:

• Apple Developer Program membership (€99/year), so Voxista can be installed without security warnings
• Server and infrastructure costs
• Most importantly: time — for new features, maintenance, compatibility updates, and user support

Even a small recurring contribution can make the difference between:

"a hobby project when time permits"

and

"a project that is actively maintained and improved."

Thank you for your support. 💜