# We forge Danish dictation that just works.

Vara is a small app with one job: to turn your speech into finished text, wherever you type on your Mac. You hold a key, say what you mean, let go — and the text lands right where your cursor is. No windows to switch between, nothing to paste, no cleanup afterwards.

We built Vara because we were tired of two things: dictation costing a subscription every month, and most tools treating Danish as an afterthought. So we made our own.

## The name

Vara is named after **Vár**, the Norse goddess who hears every promise and every word that is spoken. That is the whole idea: something that listens carefully and keeps what you say. The rest of the craft is forged — raw speech in, clean text out.

## Who is behind it

Vara is built in Denmark by **Brokk & Sindre ApS** — named after the two dwarven smiths of Norse myth who forged the gods’ finest treasures. We are a small workshop building software we want to use every day. Read more about us at [brokk-sindre.dk](https://brokk-sindre.dk).

## What we believe

**Dictation should not cost a subscription.** With a free Groq key, Vara costs you nothing.

**Danish should be first-class**, not an English tool guessing at æ, ø and å. Lock the language or let Vara detect it automatically.

**You should own your own words.** If you want everything to stay on your Mac, WhisperKit transcribes right on the machine — no key, no internet — so neither audio nor text leaves your Mac.

## How far we are

Vara is in private beta right now. We let testers in as small groups so we can actually listen and adjust. Want to help shape it? [Join the waitlist](/en#waitlist) — or [write to us directly](/en/contact). We read everything.