Kavanati — Help & User Guide

Last updated: 5 October 2026 · current version 1.14.2

Kavanati needs zero configuration: install it and type. This guide covers the power features (shortcuts, undo, the personal dictionary, per-app rules), plans, teams and how to reach us.

Kavanati is young and can get a word wrong. If you hit a bug or an odd case, tell us — every report helps us a lot.

Kavanati in 36 seconds: a whole article typed in the wrong language, fixed as it was typed.

1. Getting started

Windows: run Kavanati-windows.exe. The first time, Windows SmartScreen asks for a confirmation because the app is new: click More info → Run anyway. The icon appears in the system tray, and from then on Kavanati starts with Windows (you can turn that off in the menu: Settings → Start with Windows). That's it: just type.

macOS: open the zip, drag Kavanati.app to Applications and open it. Allow Accessibility and Input Monitoring in System Settings → Privacy & Security, and Kavanati starts working on its own. The icon appears in the menu bar.

Keyboard layouts: Kavanati works with the standard Hebrew keyboard layout on Windows and Mac, together with English. With phonetic (Hebrew-QWERTY) or other non-standard Hebrew layouts, automatic fixing is paused for now, so correct text is never flipped by mistake.

The Kavanati tray menu on Windows
The tray menu: on/off, auto-fix, Rules, Settings, your plan, updates.

2. The automatic fix

Kavanati watches which keyboard layout is active while you type. When a word only makes sense in the other language (you typed akuo but meant שלום), it deletes the gibberish, switches the layout, and retypes what you meant, instantly. Real words are never touched: if what you typed is a legitimate word in the language you typed it in, Kavanati assumes you meant it. Password fields are always skipped.

Why a fix sometimes waits a word or two. Many short words read fine in both languages (cut is also בוא, no is also מם). Kavanati won't guess on those, because a wrong guess would change something you meant. It keeps typing them as they are until a word arrives that settles which language you're in, and then fixes the whole run at once: two or three words switch together. That's on purpose, not a delay. If you'd rather not wait, select the text and use the fix shortcut (section 3).

Manual fix: free, unlimited, one key

The manual fix works on every plan, including Free after the trial, with no daily count.

3. Fix a whole line at once

Typed a full sentence before noticing? One shortcut converts the entire line, numbers and correct words untouched:

Selected text always flips. With no selection, Kavanati converts only what clearly reads as wrong-language typing: a rare word whose flipped form isn't a real word in either language is left alone. Text you select first is an explicit order: the shortcut flips it to the other layout every time, in both directions, even when it reads fine as-is. So if a word "refuses" to convert, select it and hit the shortcut.

The manual fix is free, unlimited, forever. Select text (or nothing, for the whole line) and press the shortcut: it works on every plan, including Free after the trial, with no daily count. Plenty of people live with just that. Pro adds unlimited automatic fixing on top.

The Settings submenu
Settings: the manual-fix shortcut, beep and notification, autostart, automatic updates, and the two word lists.

4. Undo, and protected words

Fixed something you actually meant? Two ways back:

Settings → Protected words… opens the list, newest first, with a search box: select words and click Remove selected (or press Delete) to let Kavanati fix them again, or remove them all.

The Protected words window
Protected words: search, remove one, or remove all.

Why wasn't my word fixed?

Almost always it is one of these five, and Kavanati now tells you when it is the first one:

Right after you undo a fix with Ctrl+Z, auto-fix also waits until you start a new sentence. That is deliberate.

5. The personal dictionary

Kavanati learns your vocabulary, on your device: type a word that isn't in its dictionary three times and it becomes part of your personal dictionary. Your slang, names and jargon stop being "corrected", and even their wrong-layout gibberish starts fixing back to them. Everything stays in a local settings file. Settings → Learned words… lists them, most used first, with a search box: remove a word that was learned by mistake, or all of them. Learning new words is part of Pro (and of the first 7 days); words already learned keep working on the free plan.

6. Rules: where you only type English

Open the menu → Rules → All rules…. One window holds everything:

The Rules window
The Rules window: places that are always English, the password heads-up, a rule per app, and the word lists.

For the app you are in right now, Rules → This app sets it in one click. App rules, email and web-address fields and the password warning are free on every plan. Switching on arrival in command windows, other English-only apps, the Run box and the address bar is part of Pro, and runs during the free trial.

7. Updates

Kavanati checks for new versions automatically (its only automatic network request, apart from license checks on paid plans), downloads an update in the background, verifies it, and offers a one-click restart. You can always check manually via "Check for updates…".

8. Plans, the free trial and buying Pro

Activating a license. Click the Kavanati icon, open the Plan menu, choose "Enter license key…" and paste the key from your purchase email (KAV-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX).

A computer with no internet? In the Plan menu choose "Activate offline…": the app shows a license key and a device code. From your phone (or any online device) open kavanati.com/activate, enter both, and type the response code back into the app. From that moment the computer needs no internet at all.

Switched computers? On the old machine open Plan and choose "Disconnect this device…"; the slot frees up for the new one. A device inactive for a month and a half frees its slot automatically when space runs out.

Offline right now? Nothing locks: a paid license keeps working as usual, and the app simply re-verifies it the next time the computer is online.

9. Kavanati for teams

A Business license covers an organization's computers (5 to 1,000) with one key, on Windows and Mac, at from ₪25 per computer a month, billed yearly, cheaper at volume. IT sets the key once, centrally, and every computer activates itself; a small team can also type it (Plan → Enter license key). Teams can start with a free 30-day pilot. Details, checkout and the pilot form: Kavanati for teams. For your IT team: the deployment guide and the security overview.

10. Privacy in one line

Everything runs on your device: no account, no analytics in the app, nothing you type is ever sent anywhere, and no record of your typing is kept (only your protected words and personal vocabulary, in a local settings file). Details in the privacy policy.

11. Feedback, ideas and reporting a problem

Found a miss or a wrong fix? That report is gold: it becomes a permanent test case. Use "Report a problem…" in the app menu (pre-filled with the last fix), "Share feedback or an idea…", or the feedback page, and you can also vote for the next language. Plain email works too: support@kavanati.com.

The example of your last fix stays on your computer until you press Send: it travels in the part of the page address after the #, which browsers never send to a server, and the feedback page has no analytics. When you report from the app it can, with your consent, attach a short diagnostic log so we can reproduce the issue: it records app events only (which app had focus, when a fix ran), never the text you type. Reproduce the problem first, then report, so the log captures it.

12. Credits

Word-frequency data: FrequencyWords by Hermit Dave (CC BY-SA 4.0), derived from OpenSubtitles.

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