Just talk — get text you can send.
Vara turns your speech into clean, finished text — not a raw transcript. Hold a key, say what you mean, let go. Free. No subscription.
For macOS 14+. Forged in Denmark by Brokk & Sindre.
Dictation is usually a subscription. Vara isn’t.
Most Mac dictation apps bill you every month. Vara uses either your own free Groq key or transcribes right on your Mac with WhisperKit — so the price is zero.
You don’t even need a key: WhisperKit runs free on your Mac. Prefer the cloud with OpenAI or ElevenLabs? You can — but you don’t have to. No subscription.
When something’s free, you’re usually the product. Not here.
It’s not how we make money
Brokk & Sindre builds software for others. Vara isn’t our business — it’s a tool we made for ourselves.
We use it ourselves every day
We dictate all the time and were missing it. So it’s not going anywhere — we depend on it too.
You don’t pay with your data
No account, no tracking, no cookie banner. And choose WhisperKit and Vara transcribes on your Mac — your voice never leaves the machine.
Three moves. The rest is forged away.
Hold the key
Pick your shortcut. Vara only listens while you hold it down — never in the background.
Talk freely
Ums, repeats, false starts, mid-sentence corrections. Speak as you think. Vara cleans it up.
Let go
The finished text lands right where your cursor is — mail, chat, document, anywhere.
Same voice. The tone you need.
Vara runs your speech through the mode you pick — from verbatim to polished. Switch with one keypress, or let Vara choose automatically per app.
Raw
Insert verbatim, no cleanup. No LLM involved — just what you said.
Press 1Clean text
Removes ums, fillers and false starts. Fixes punctuation and capitalization. Your everyday mode.
Press 2Professional
Rewrites your speech into polished, professional text — without losing your meaning.
Press 3VibeCode
Turns spoken developer intent into a precise prompt for your AI coding agent.
Press 4Ask AI
Treats your speech as a question and inserts the answer where you type.
Press 5Build your own modes with your own system prompt — or bind a mode to a specific app.
Speaks Danish. Stays on your Mac, if you want.
Most dictation tools are built for English and guess at the rest. Vara speaks Danish — and you decide where your words end up.
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Speaks Danish
æ, ø and å — not an English app guessing. Switch between Danish, English or automatic language detection.
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Two free paths
Groq in the cloud is blazing fast, or WhisperKit runs on your Mac with nothing to set up — no key, fully offline. Want the cloud with OpenAI or ElevenLabs? They’re there too.
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No tracking, no account
No ads, no cookie banner, no profile. Choose on-device and your words never leave your Mac.
Want to forge with us?
Vara is in private beta. We let a small group of testers in at a time so we can actually listen. Sign up and we’ll tell you when there’s a seat for you.
Only for the beta invite. No newsletter spam, and you can opt out any time.