Verba — Dictation for Mac
Verba
You speak. It writes.Polished text, in any app,recognised on your own Mac.
Coming to the Mac App Store
One-time purchase · 7-day free trial · No subscription · macOS 14 or later
How it works
Three movements, and then it is out of your way.
Press
A shortcut you choose. Verba starts listening in whatever app you were already typing in.
Speak
Say it the way you would say it to a person. Pauses, restarts and second thoughts are fine.
Done
Finished text lands where your cursor was — filler removed, punctuation fixed. Nothing was uploaded, and no recording is kept.
Guarantees
True of every copy, on every Mac.
On your machine
Speech recognition runs on your Mac using on-device models. No cloud service, no account, and no third party between your voice and your text.
Nothing leaves
Audio is processed locally and never sent anywhere. There is nothing for the studio to collect, sell, or lose.
Bought, not rented
A 7-day free trial with every feature unlocked, then one purchase and it is yours for good. No subscription, and the licence is checked on your Mac with no server to phone home to.
Native to the Mac
Built with Apple's own frameworks. It launches fast, sits light, and behaves like a Mac app because it is one.
What it does
It writes, rather than only transcribing.
Say it the way you would say it out loud. Verba strips the filler, fixes the grammar and punctuation, and quietly resolves your second thoughts — say “send it to John, no, Sarah” and you get “send it to Sarah.”
Any app, one shortcut
Put the cursor in an email, a chat, a document or a code comment, hold your shortcut and talk. Hold to speak, or tap to toggle. Escape cancels.
Four levels of polish
From a verbatim transcript to lightly cleaned to finished prose to auto-formatted bullets — or hand it your own instructions and it follows them.
It learns your words
Names, clients, acronyms and job jargon go in a personal Dictionary. Correct a word once after dictating and it remembers for good.
Ask AImacOS 26
Select text, speak an instruction — “make this more formal”, “cut it to two sentences” — and it is rewritten in place. Select nothing and you get a private on-device chat.
BrainstormmacOS 26
Ramble into a box, half-formed and out of order, then hit Polish and get organised writing back. The fastest way to get an idea out of your head.
Speak and translatemacOS 26
Talk in English and insert Spanish, French, German, Japanese and a dozen more, without switching how you think.
Snippets
Say a short cue and paste a whole canned block — a booking link, a signature, a stock reply you send twice a week.
Built for daily use
It pins your chosen microphone and sidesteps flaky Bluetooth headsets, lives in the menu bar with an optional Dock-free mode, ships light and dark and high-contrast themes, and keeps honest stats on the time you save against typing.
Requirements. Verba runs on macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later, and dictation works on every supported version. The features marked macOS 26 — cleanup, Ask AI, Brainstorm and Speak-and-Translate — need macOS 26 with Apple Intelligence enabled.
On the name
Five letters, two languages.
In Latin, verba means words. That is the app's first job: to catch them accurately and leave them with you.
In Russian, верба is the pussy willow. Its five Cyrillic letters transliterate one for one into the same five Latin ones.
Willow is among the first things to bloom. The catkins open while the wood is still bare, which makes their arrival one of the plainest signs that winter is over.
A word for words, and a branch that means the cold part is behind you. Verba is for anyone getting their words out again.
Getting it
One purchase. Every feature.
No subscription, no account, and no reason for the studio to ever ask you for anything again.
Coming to the Mac App Store
macOS 14 or later · 7-day free trial · Price shown at the App Store