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Jarq vs Brainy

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Jarq compared with Brainy
Detail JarqBrainy logo Brainy
What it doesTranslate, shorten, fix or rewrite text right where your cursor is, in any app on your Mac Autonomous Chief of Staff for engineering leads and founders. Lives in Telegram and Slack.
StageMVP Startup
Founded2019 Not given
Based inKZ Not given
Pricing modelNot given Freemium
PricingFree: 5 dictations or translations per day, on-device dictation unlimited. Pro Monthly: $4.99/month, unlimited dictation and translation, up to 2 Macs. Pro Yearly: $39/year (approximately $3.25/month, save 35%), everything in Pro Monthly. Lifetime: $179 once (launch price, regular $200), all future Starter: Free forever. Pro: $9/month. Chief: $35/month. Monthly billing, cancel anytime, no credit card to start.
Key features
  • In-place text translation between 13 languages
  • Voice dictation with punctuation and capitalization
  • Text shortening, fixing and rewriting with custom buttons
  • Works in any app including terminals and Figma
  • On-device speech recognition option
  • Customizable hotkeys
  • Local history file on your Mac
  • Cloud transcription via Cloudflare Workers AI or Groq
  • Works up to 2 Macs per licence
  • Text, voice, and photo capture in Slack and Telegram
  • Whisper-v3 voice transcription with 99.8% accuracy
  • Three-stage follow-up cadence: morning digest, nudge, and escalation
  • Bidirectional sync with Obsidian, Notion, and Markdown vaults
  • Meeting CoS that joins calls and converts notes to tasks
  • Brain scans across Notion, Obsidian, and Google Sheets
  • Approval inbox for all proposed vault writes
  • Brain Health score tracking open loop hygiene and clarity
  • Deduplication of repeating commitments across threads
What makes it different
  • No copy-paste or tab switching needed—edits happen in place
  • Works in any app, including those that block selection like terminals and Figma
  • Privacy-first: audio and text never stored, history stays on your Mac
  • Optional on-device speech recognition keeps voice entirely local
  • Does not train its own AI model on user tasks
  • Approval-based vault sync prevents silent data overwrites
Free planNot given Not given
Open sourceNot given Not given
PlatformsNot given Not given
Public APINot given Not given
Community votes00
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)27 +1 (up) since last checkNot checked yet no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)40
Citation Flow (Majestic)300
Referring domains (Majestic)330

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