Hold. Speak. Release.

Speak Russian or Ukrainian — write naturally in English.

VerbaIDE is the IDE for human language: a menu-bar app that types for you, wherever your cursor is.

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Heads up — we're moving the release to Thursday.

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The real competitor

One Slack message, seven steps.

Not another dictation app is your competitor — this routine is.

1:50per message

Measured on 20 real messages in our own team — your numbers will differ.

≈ 55 minutes a day, translating yourself.

Think the message5s
Type it in Russian25s
Open ChatGPT8s
Ask for a translation12s
Read it, fix the tone35s
Copy3s
Paste, reread, send22s
⌥ SpaceVerbaIDE: hold, speak, release3s

37× faster per message — about 54 minutes back, every day.

How it works

Three modes, one shortcut each.

Hold the shortcut, speak, release — the text is inserted where your cursor already is. Nothing to open, nothing to paste.

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Plain dictation

Your spoken language, as heard — Russian or Ukrainian in, the same out.

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⌥ ⌃ Space

Translated dictation

Speak Russian or Ukrainian, natural English lands in the field.

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Secretary mode

Dictate for as long as you like — the text keeps landing in one field. A whole email, a doc, a spec, by voice.

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Early users

Twelve people write in English through it every day.

12 / 30

beta seats taken. Each one gets a setup call with us.

"I stopped opening ChatGPT for Slack. That is the whole review."

— Andrii, backend engineer, Kyiv → Berlin

"My English letters finally sound like me, not like a template."

— Marina, founder, remote

"Standups in writing used to eat twenty minutes. Now I talk through them."

— Oleh, team lead, Lviv

"I dictate the whole spec in Russian and read it back in English. Once."

— Dmytro, product, Warsaw

"The tone picker is the part I did not know I needed. Clients get the polite one."

— Kateryna, designer, freelance

"Nothing leaves the laptop — that is why legal let me install it."

— Pavlo, engineer, fintech

Two weeks to try it. If it does not fit your work, we refund in full — no form to fill.

On-device

Nothing leaves your Mac.

Speech, translation and tone rewriting all run on-device, on Apple's on-device speech and translation plus a local model. Zero network requests during dictation. Works on a plane.

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Tone control

One sentence, three registers.

Pick the register once per app, or switch it mid-session. The same words come out formal for a client and human for a teammate.

You say«Я опоздаю минут на десять»

Requirements

It runs on a modern Mac, and nowhere else yet.

Mac with Apple Silicon — M1 or newer. The on-device models need the Neural Engine; Intel Macs are not supported.

macOS 26 or later — that is where Apple's on-device speech and translation live.

About 500 MB free — for the language and tone models, downloaded once. No internet needed afterwards.

On a different machine?

Tell us what you are on — the votes decide what we port next.

Early access

Join the closed beta.

Prices shown exclude VAT where applicable.

Closed beta: we onboard every user by hand — a call, your hotkeys set up, your notes straight into the build.

Which languages?

Russian, Ukrainian and English — all shipped today. You speak any of them; the output is your language or natural English, depending on the mode.

Where does it type?

Any macOS text field: Slack, Gmail, Jira, Notion, your editor, a terminal. There is no app to switch to.

Does my voice leave the Mac?

No. Recognition, translation and tone all run on-device; no audio is stored and no account is needed to dictate.

What about an accent or mixed speech?

Mixed Russian-English speech is normal input — technical words stay as they are. Heavy background noise is the only real enemy.

How fast is it?

Text appears about a second after you release the key for a short message; a long secretary session inserts as you speak.

What does closed beta mean, and what happens to the price?

A build sent by hand and a call to set up your hotkeys. Lifetime buyers keep lifetime after launch; monthly stays $9 for everyone who joins during the beta.