Jarq

What is Jarq?

Jarq is a Mac menu bar app that translates, fixes, shortens, and dictates text inside the apps you already use. Select text anywhere and action buttons appear beside it, or press a hotkey to speak and get punctuated text at your cursor. It supports 13 languages and can run dictation fully offline.

Top Features:

• Inline translation: select text and swap in a natural translation without leaving the app.
• Polished dictation: speak into Slack, Mail, or an IDE and get clean text.
• Custom buttons: save your own instructions, like make it formal, as reusable buttons.

Use Cases:

• Client messages: translate replies to international clients directly inside Slack or email.
• Quick notes: dictate meeting follow-ups or code comments into any text field.
• Cross-language writing: speak in one language and have text typed in another.

Who Can Use Jarq?

• Remote teams: communicate across languages in chat tools without copying text elsewhere.
• Developers: dictate comments and messages into IDEs and terminals with one hotkey.
• Designers: translate interface copy inside Figma, where normal text selection often fails.

Pricing

• Free ($0): 5 dictations or translations per day after the 14-day Pro trial.
• Pro monthly ($4.99): unlimited translations and dictations, with every Pro feature fully unlocked.
• Yearly or lifetime ($39 or $179): the same Pro access billed once a year or paid once.

Pros and Cons

Pros:

• Works almost everywhere: a capture hotkey grabs text even in Figma and terminals.
• Offline option: on-device speech recognition keeps dictation private and unlimited on all plans.
• Generous trial: every install gets fourteen days of Pro with no card needed.

Cons:

• Mac only: it needs macOS 13 or newer on an Apple Silicon machine.
• Daily cap: the free plan allows only five dictations or translations each day.
• Thirteen languages: teams using less common languages may find their language missing.

FAQs:

1) Which Macs does it support?

It runs on macOS 13 Ventura or newer with an Apple Silicon chip.

2) Can dictation work offline?

Yes, an optional on-device speech model handles dictation offline, unlimited on every plan.

3) Is there a free version?

Yes, after the trial you keep 5 dictations or translations per day with no expiry.

4) How many languages are supported?

It supports 13 languages, including English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, and Russian.

5) Does history stay private?

Yes, your history stays on your Mac, and you can remap every hotkey.