Speak it. It acts.
Only when you say so.
The private voice agent for your Mac. Talk, and it acts across 1,000+ apps: send the email, create the event, post to Slack. Your audio never leaves your Mac, and it always shows you the action and waits for you to confirm before anything happens.
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You say
"reply to this email say we'll have the proposal ready by friday and ask if they need a call"
Verba writes
Context reads your screen. Every other mode routes to the right model for the job.
The only voice agent that does all three
Most voice tools make you pick two. Private, but it only writes text. Or it acts, but your voice goes to the cloud with no way to say no. Verba is on-device, acts across your apps, and always asks before it acts.
It runs on your Mac
Your speech is transcribed on-device, so your audio never leaves your Mac. Nothing is uploaded, and nobody resells your words.
It does the thing, in 1,000+ apps
Not just clean text. Send the email, create the event, post to Slack or Notion. Real actions across the apps you already use.
Only when you say so
It shows you exactly what it will do, then waits. Nothing happens until you confirm. You are always the one who presses go.
Speak it.
JARVIS does it.
Action mode is now JARVIS, a voice agent that understands what you mean, however you phrase it. It plans the steps, asks a quick question when something is ambiguous or missing, shows you exactly what it will do, and only acts once you confirm, on your Mac and across 1,000+ connected apps.
- Understands what you mean, however you phrase it.
- Asks when it's unsure: a Google Meet, or just a calendar block?
- Missing a detail? It shows editable fields to fill in.
- It never writes anything until you confirm.
Connect 1,000+ apps
one secure tap to connect
The case for talking
Your mouth is faster than your hands. Use it.
You think out loud all day. Verba just writes it down, cleaned up and ready to send, while you keep moving. Speaking is roughly 3x faster than typing.
Speaking
Typing
One key, for the way you actually work
Built first for developers who live in the terminal, Verba is the complete voice OS for anyone who thinks faster than they type. It doesn't just transcribe: it reads your screen, files your tasks, translates as you speak, and acts on what it hears.
Engineers
Dictate a rambling thought into a clean prompt in Cursor or your coding tool. Say "create the issue, email the team", confirm, done.
Founders
Clear the inbox, the doc, and the standup notes between meetings. Talk once, send clean, move on.
Writers
Capture the draft at the speed you think it. An hour of voice becomes a structured document you can actually edit.
Support and ops
Answer every ticket in your own tone, per app. Verba matches how you write in Slack, Mail, and Notion.
Multilingual teams
Think in your language, write in theirs. Speak French, send English. Every time, no prefix, no second tab.
Busy everyone
Reply to the email on your screen, build a to-do list by voice, set a reminder, run your Mac. All from one key.
What people say
Real, attributed quotes from people who use Verba every day land here.
Using Verba? We'd love your story.
Tell us what changed when you started talking instead of typing. Real quotes, with your name, go right here.
Try it right now
No download, no sign-up. Record a rambling message and watch it come back clean. This is the same pipeline the app ships with.
Say how you want it handled first (e.g. make this bullet points), then the content. Verba obeys.
Tap to record, ramble a message, then tap to stop.
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Everything Verba does
Speak, and Verba turns it into clean text, a note, a translation, an organized task list, or a real action across your apps. Go deep on any of them.
Start simple. Add power when you want it.
New Macs begin with the four essentials, press Fn and talk. Everything else is one click away in the Features page, whenever you're ready. Nothing to wade through on day one.
On from day one. Press Fn and talk.
- Raw dictation
- Polish
- Translate
- Prompt
Turn on when you need them.
- Notes
- Tasks
- Advanced modes
- Transcribe files
The deep end. Your voice, everywhere.
- JARVIS
- Snippets
- Transforms
The complete voice OS for your Mac
It doesn't just transcribe. It reads your screen, files your tasks, translates as you speak, and acts on what it hears. On your Mac, in every app, with your own AI.
Shipping constantly
40+ public releases and counting, all on the live changelog.
230+ achievements to earn
1,000 levels, daily streaks and a live leaderboard, see your rank and percentile among everyone using Verba.
Works in every app
If your cursor is there, Verba writes there. No window, no paste.
Your AI, or fully offline
Connect your own AI account or run on-device. No vendor markup, no uploads.
Does what others can't
Reads your screen (Context), takes hour-long structured Notes, translates live, and runs agentic actions (Calendar, Reminders, email drafts). Most rivals only transcribe.
Cheaper, and honest about it
$9.99/mo, or $7/mo billed annually, while most other dictation apps run $15 to $17. Raw dictation is free forever and unlimited, no card ever; Pro adds every AI mode and feature.
Private AI on your Mac
Run AI privately on-device, or connect the AI account you already use, with no key needed at all. You're never locked into our markup.
Actually private
On-device transcription runs locally, your audio never leaves the Mac. Account credentials live in the macOS Keychain, and your history is yours to control: switch it off entirely or auto-delete it after 7, 30, or 90 days.
Works with no internet
The on-device engine ships inside the app and transcribes offline, instantly, in 25 languages. Pair it with a local AI model and the entire pipeline runs on your Mac.
Six modes, plus your own
Raw, Polish, Intent, Translate, Context and Prompt, routed to lighter or more capable AI so you only pay for power where it matters. Edit any prompt, or describe a need and AI builds you a custom mode.
It learns you
Auto-learns your vocabulary from your edits, matches your writing tone per app, and remembers how you phrase things. It sounds like you, not a template.
One press, then done
Tap Fn, talk, and clean text lands where your cursor is. Hands-free formatting, redo in another mode, edit the last result by voice. No app switching, ever.
Loading screens that make you smile
While Verba rewrites your words, it shows you a one-liner. 17 humor themes, an Off switch, and never the same joke twice in a day.
Everything you say, written better
Sixteen more things Verba does once your cursor is in the box. The headline move is dictation anywhere; these are why people stay.
Dictate in any app
Press your shortcut anywhere. The polished text lands right where your cursor is. No copy-paste, no app switching.
Your messy speech, cleaned up
Verba reorders your thoughts, fixes punctuation, and removes the filler so a rambling voice note becomes a clean, ready-to-send message.
Keeps your voice
Switch between modes for coding, work, and personal writing. Verba matches the right tone instead of flattening everything.
Hands-free formatting
Say "new line", "bullet point", or "scratch that" and watch real formatting appear. Bold, headings, and lists paste through, ready to go.
Three transcription engines
An online engine (fastest and most accurate), an on-device engine (every size, including the largest and most accurate), and a lightweight on-device engine built for speed and strong on EU languages. The on-device engines ship inside the app, work offline instantly, and need no setup.
Private by default
On-device mode runs entirely on your Mac and your audio never leaves the device. Transcripts are saved to your local history. Turn it off entirely or auto-delete entries after 7, 30, or 90 days in Settings. API keys live in your macOS Keychain.
Flexible AI options
Connect the AI account you already use, or run a fully local AI model that works offline. Verba can auto-install and start a local AI model for you.
Recording indicator choices
A floating glass pill (default), or Menu bar only (no overlay, the menu-bar icon turns into a red REC dot while recording). Pick the one that stays out of your way.
Auto-learn dictionary
When you correct a word on the review screen, Verba remembers it and applies the fix automatically next time. Your vocabulary, learned silently.
Edit the last result by voice
After a dictation, say "make it shorter", "more formal", or "translate to English" and Verba rewrites the result on the spot. No need to re-record.
Redo in another mode
Changed your mind about the format? Re-run your last recording through any other mode without speaking again.
Tone match per app
Verba learns how you write in each app from your recent messages there and matches your personal tone automatically. Slack sounds like you in Slack. Mail sounds like you in Mail.
Smart formatting per app
Rich text and markdown in apps that render it (Mail, Notion, Notes, Obsidian). Plain text in code editors and terminals. Verba detects the context and formats accordingly.
Custom sound cues
Subtle audio cues signal recording start, paste, and errors. Adjust the volume or swap out sounds. Everything is customizable, or turn it off entirely.
Synced to your account
Sign in and your history, notes, and stats follow you to your other Macs. Signed out, everything stays on this device. Nothing is uploaded.
Automatic language detection
Every transcription engine detects the language you are speaking and writes the result in that same language. No settings to change.
Personalize Verba, and keep it close
A full Customize area to tune the look, sounds and shortcuts, plus a macOS widget that keeps your tasks one glance away.
Make it yours
A dedicated Customize area: glass materials, accent color, recording indicator, sounds, and hotkeys. Tune Verba until it feels like your Mac, not a stock app.
macOS widget
Pin your to-dos to the desktop or Notification Center. Your next tasks stay one glance away, updated as you check things off by voice.
One keyboard, the whole app
Verba lives under your fingers. Start a dictation, switch modes, capture a note, rewrite a selection, or speak a command that runs your Mac, all without leaving the keyboard. These are only suggested defaults, every shortcut is yours to choose in the app.
Dictate
Start, pause, cancel. One key does the talking.
Tap once and talk, or set it to hold-to-talk. No window to open, text lands at your cursor.
Someone walks in. Hit Control, handle it, hit Control again, keep going.
Changed your mind halfway through a sentence. Press Escape and nothing is pasted.
Switch modes and styles
Flip between Raw, Intent, Translate and your own modes mid-thought.
Mid-dictation you decide this should be a Slack message, not an email. Fn + Tab, keep talking.
Fn + 3 drops you straight into Translate without hunting through a list.
Tap Option to cycle modes without ever leaving the recording.
Bind Prompt to ⌃⌥5 and reach it from anywhere, no cycling.
Same mode, new tone. Flick from neutral to formal as a layer on top.
Capture
Notes, to-dos and a quick glance, all by voice.
"Pay the invoice Friday at 6pm" files a dated task without opening anything.
A 20-minute brain dump becomes one clean, structured document in Notes.
Done talking. One tap of Fn closes the capture.
Option + Fn shows what's due today, then dismiss it the same way.
Transform and control
Rewrite any selection, or speak a command that runs your Mac.
Select a clumsy paragraph anywhere, press it, pick a numbered transform, and it rewrites in place.
Speak any request, however it comes out. Verba works out what you mean, plans the steps, and acts, on your Mac or your connected apps (Gmail, Slack, Notion, Calendar…), always confirmed before it does anything.
Make it yours
Every one of these is rebindable in Settings, Triggers and chords. The primary trigger, change-mode, styles, add-to-do, record-note, the glance, Action mode, and the transform key. Don't use Fn? Bind a custom shortcut and run the entire app from keys you already love.
From voice to done in one press
Press fn
Tap your shortcut, or the Fn key, from any app.
Talk
Say what you mean, for ten seconds or twenty minutes.
Done
Clean, formatted text appears right where you were typing.
Other dictation tools upload your voice. Verba doesn't.
The popular dictation tools send every word to their servers, and most run $15 to $17 a month. Verba runs on your Mac, lets you connect the AI account you already use, and costs $9.99.
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Free
Unlimited raw dictation, free forever, for everyone. No card, ever. Pro unlocks everything else.
- ·Unlimited raw dictation, free forever
- ·On-device or online transcription
- ·No card, ever
- ·Pro unlocks every AI mode + feature
Requires Apple Silicon · macOS 14+
Pro
Most popular≈ $7/mo · save 30% · 7-day trial, card required
Audio stays on your Mac · your own AI, no markup · cancel anytime.
- Every AI mode: Polish, Intent, Translate, Context, Prompt
- Notes: long recordings, structured for you
- Tasks: speak straight into a task manager
- JARVIS: act across 1,000+ connected apps by voice
- Snippets, Transforms and Styles
- Custom modes + editable system prompts
- Voice-command formatting
- Sync across your Macs
- Priority support
Lifetime, pay once, yours forever
Everything in Pro, no subscription. One payment, every future update included.
Limited Founder’s release
Questions, answered
Everything you'd want to know before you press the key.
Does it work in every app?+
Yes, Verba pastes into whatever you’re typing in: editors, browsers, chat apps, mail, notes. If your cursor is there, Verba can write there.
Can it work offline?+
Yes. On-device transcription runs entirely on your Mac, no internet needed, and your audio never leaves the device.
What languages does it understand?+
On-device transcription covers ~99 languages worldwide, with a faster option for 25 European languages. It writes back in the language you spoke.
How do the AI modes work?+
Verba ships six modes: Raw (verbatim, no AI, the default), Polish (resolves your self-corrections), Intent, Translate, Context, and Prompt (turns what you say into an optimized prompt for any AI, including coding agents). Each mode is a system prompt that shapes how the model rewrites your speech. Context also takes a screenshot to ground the output in what is on your screen. You can edit any prompt, or just describe what you need and AI builds you a custom mode.
Do I need to set anything up?+
No. Verba can run fully private AI on-device, or connect the AI account you already use, with no extra setup. You never pay a markup on someone else's servers.
What is Context mode?+
Context mode takes a screenshot of your screen, analyzes it with a vision model, and writes based on what you say and what it sees. Say "reply to this email" and it drafts a reply to the message on screen. It requires macOS Screen Recording permission and a connected AI account that supports vision.
Can it handle long recordings?+
Yes, talk for twenty minutes and Verba turns the whole thing into clean, well-ordered text.
Is my data private?+
In on-device mode your audio never leaves your Mac. Transcripts are saved to your local history by default. You can turn history off entirely (nothing written, nothing synced) or auto-delete entries after 7, 30, or 90 days. When you sign in, your history, notes, and stats sync to your account so they follow you across Macs; signed out, nothing is uploaded. API keys live in your macOS Keychain, and you can delete all your account data at any time.
Can Verba take notes?+
Yes. The Notes tab lets you record up to a full hour of speech and Verba turns it into a clean, structured document. Pick a format before you start: Clean note, Brain dump to outline, Summary, Meeting notes, Journal, Email, Code task, To-do list, or Article outline. Markdown is rendered (headings, bold, checkboxes). You can tag notes with #hashtags to file and filter them, edit the result in place, and copy it anywhere.
Can it create calendar events or reminders?+
Yes, with the Labs toggle on in Context mode. Say "create an event tomorrow at 3pm", "remind me to call the bank", or "draft a reply to this email" and Verba creates the Calendar event, Reminder, or email draft for you. It always asks you to confirm before doing anything.
Do my notes sync across my Macs?+
Yes. Notes are tied to your Verba account, so they follow you when you sign in on another Mac. No iCloud setup needed.
How does the Translate mode work?+
Pick a target language once in the Translate mode (English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hindi, Turkish, Polish). Then just speak in whatever language is natural to you and Verba writes the result in your chosen language, every time, preserving tone, names, numbers and code. You can also make a dedicated mode per language and auto-switch it by app.
How much does Verba cost?+
Raw dictation is free forever and unlimited, with no card. Pro is $9.99 per month or $84 per year (a saving versus monthly), or a one-time $149 Founder's Edition lifetime license, all billed securely through Stripe. Pro has a 7-day trial, and you connect the AI plan you already use so there are no hidden token charges.
Is Verba accurate, and how good is the transcription?+
Verba uses state-of-the-art on-device speech models for fast, high-accuracy voice-to-text on Apple Silicon Macs. Its AI cleanup layer then automatically fixes filler words, punctuation, and formatting in whatever app you're typing in, so the final text reads polished rather than raw.
Does Verba have a free trial or refund?+
Yes - raw dictation is free forever and unlimited with no card, so you can use Verba indefinitely without paying. The paid AI features have a 7-day Pro trial (card required), then $9.99/mo, $84/yr, or a $149 one-time lifetime. Billing is handled through Stripe, so subscriptions can be managed and cancelled at any time.
Does Verba work offline?+
Yes - in on-device mode Verba transcribes your voice locally, so core dictation works without an internet connection and your audio never leaves your Mac. You only need a connection for AI features like AI cleanup with a hosted model, live translation, or the JARVIS agent (a fully local AI model lets you run AI offline too).
Is my data and audio private with Verba?+
Yes - in on-device mode your audio never leaves your Mac, since transcription runs entirely locally. With JARVIS, the action plan is generated on your Mac by your own AI (your own AI plan, your key, or a local model), never a server key, and every action runs only after you confirm. The keys that connect your apps are held by a secure relay, never on your Mac, and you can run AI fully locally for maximum privacy.
What can the JARVIS voice agent actually do?+
JARVIS is Verba's voice agent that takes action across 1,000+ connected apps - so you can speak commands to send emails, create calendar events, update tasks, and more without leaving your current app. It plans on your Mac with your own AI, shows you the steps, and only acts once you confirm. The keys that connect your apps are held by a secure relay, never on your Mac.