Now in TestFlight beta

Voice typing for people who think in two languages.

Mix Russian and English mid-sentence. Verbatype keeps up. Dictate offline on iPhone and Mac. Edit in a keyboard that holds both alphabets, no layout switching.

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Free public beta on iPhone. Mac is a direct download, below.

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The problem

Say this out loud: «Запушь hotfix в staging и проверь logs».

That is one ordinary sentence for a bilingual engineer. Most dictation apps pick one language for the whole recording. They either mangle the English terms into Cyrillic phonetics, or drop the Russian entirely and guess at English words that were never said. You end up dictating in fragments and fixing the same words every time.

How it works

Speech recognition runs on your device first.

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On-device transcription

Verbatype transcribes on your iPhone or Mac, so it keeps working without a network connection. No audio has to leave the device for you to get text.
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Optional cloud refinement

When you're online, cloud refinement can produce a more accurate result: Groq re-transcribes the audio, and a cloud model cleans up punctuation and phrasing on top of the on-device result. It's metered, and on-device recognition works the same with or without it. On iPhone it's off until you turn it on — Verbatype asks the first time it would help, and you can change your answer any time in Settings. On Mac it currently runs automatically whenever you're online.
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Two alphabets, no layout switching

A custom keyboard on iOS carries both alphabets at once, so you dictate and correct text without switching your system keyboard layout mid-thought.

Demo

A closer look at the bilingual keyboard.

Same layout as the mockup above, just bigger: one line in Russian, one line in English, typed without switching the keyboard in between.

The Verbatype keyboard showing a Russian line and an English line typed in the same pass, RU/EN indicator in the corner

Mockup of the Verbatype keyboard. A recorded walkthrough is next up.

Why it's different

Three things Verbatype does that generic dictation apps don't.

Mid-sentence code-switching

Say a sentence that moves between Russian and English mid-thought, technical terms included, and Verbatype follows it as one utterance, not two separate recordings in two separate modes.

Offline on iPhone and Mac

Dictation runs on-device on both platforms. Without a network connection, quality can vary versus the cloud-refined pass, but you always get a result. Cloud-only apps give you nothing when you're offline.

Both alphabets, one keyboard

The iOS keyboard holds Cyrillic and Latin letters at the same time. Dictate, then edit by hand, without switching your system layout back and forth.

Mac

Verbatype for Mac is here.

Same app, same bilingual engine. Dictate into whatever you're working in on your Mac and the text lands right where your cursor is, not in a separate window you copy out of. Works offline, like the iPhone app.

It's a direct download, notarized by Apple, not through the Mac App Store. The App Store sandbox doesn't allow typing into other apps, and that's the whole point of Verbatype.

The app itself is a small download. On first launch it fetches the speech model, about 470 MB, once. After that, it works offline. Before that finishes, dictation runs through the cloud pass instead.

Download for Mac

Direct download, notarized by Apple.

Where we're going

What we're building next.

Personalized model adaptation (in development). On-device model adaptation tuned to your own voice and vocabulary, validated in internal experiments. Not shipped yet: this is roadmap, not a current feature.
Russian and English, on purpose. Russian/English code-switching is the pair Verbatype is built for today.
Both platforms are live. TestFlight beta on iPhone, direct download on Mac.

Plans

On-device dictation is free. The cloud pass is metered.

Free

On-device dictation, unlimited, at no cost, online or off. Cloud refinement is bounded on the free tier: a warning at roughly 1,600 words a week and a hard cap at roughly 2,000, after which dictation falls back to on-device until the next week. The custom dictionary and weekly speech reports are not in the free tier.

Verbatype Pro

$9.99 a month or $79.99 a year, billed by Apple. Cloud refinement with no keys to manage, plus the custom dictionary and weekly speech reports. Generous fair-use and rate limits apply — Pro is not sold as unlimited.

Prefer not to subscribe: word credit packs are one-time purchases that add cloud words to your account and never expire — 1,000 words for $0.99, or 5,000 for $4.99. Credits are consumed first: while your balance is positive, every cloud word draws from it instead of the free weekly allowance.

The app also has a bring-your-own-key mode: plug in your own Groq and Google API keys and your device calls those providers directly, billed to your own accounts, with the keys never reaching our servers.

Verbatype offers in-app purchases: the Verbatype Pro subscription and word credit packs. Full details in the Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy.

Beta

Try Verbatype on TestFlight.

The public beta is open on iPhone. Install TestFlight, tap the button below, and you're dictating in two languages in a couple of minutes. Verbatype for Mac is available too, as a direct download.