Writing Apps

Write faster, cleaner and smarter across every app. Dictate text offline, translate instantly, refine grammar and tone with AI, expand snippets, clean formatting, extract text from images, manage emojis and symbols, automate text transformations, and keep everything flowing without breaking your focus.

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Freemium apps

TransLite

TransLite translates selected text instantly with a shortcut, working across your Mac without copy-pasting. Auto-detect languages, choose your preferred tone, and paste translations directly into any app.

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Paid apps

Listen Orb

AI-powered voice dictation for Mac that lets you dictate directly at the cursor with push-to-talk control, custom vocabulary, and voice-based text editing. Uses your OpenAI API key and supports Apple silicon.

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Free apps

Vox

Vox provides private, on-device voice dictation that turns speech into polished text instantly. With AI-powered cleanup, custom modes, and no cloud processing, it makes writing faster and simpler — and keeps every word on your device.

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Rewrite

Rewrite helps you polish, rewrite, or draft text wherever you write. Improve emails, messages, essays, and more while keeping your own voice, with sensitive data masked locally on your Mac. Bring your own ChatGPT or Claude.

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Paid apps

Phantom Voice

Phantom Voice delivers fast, local push-to-talk dictation by transcribing speech directly into any app with on-device whisper.cpp. Audio never leaves your Mac, while customizable animated HUD indicators add a distinctive visual touch without subscriptions or cloud services.

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Mojito

Mojito brings emoji shortcodes to every text field on your Mac. Type commands like :joy: to insert emojis instantly, with smart search, personalized suggestions, and a lightweight picker.

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WunderType

WunderType uses AI to refine selected text anywhere on your Mac, improving grammar, clarity, and style in seconds while keeping everything privacy-focused, and compatible with both cloud and local models.

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Glyf

Glyf makes it easy to find and copy Unicode and NerdFont characters with a quick keyboard shortcut. Fast fuzzy search, recent character history, and a native Swift design keep everything within reach.

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Free apps

DoD

DoD puts a fast, system-wide dictionary at your fingertips, letting you look up English and German words from anywhere with a keyboard shortcut. It works entirely offline, includes thesaurus support for English, and offers customizable themes to match your workflow and taste.

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BarDict

BarDict keeps dictionary lookups fast and fluid, combining multi-dictionary search with polished animations, trackpad gestures, and keyboard-first navigation.

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