Hold a key over any word on your Mac and see its translation right beside it
Autonomous Chief of Staff for engineering leads and founders. Lives in Telegram and Slack.
Stage
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Startup
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Based in
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Pricing model
Paid
Freemium
Pricing
$12 once, not per month. Includes all 54 languages, works in every app and PDF, supports up to 3 Macs, and 1 year of free updates. 14-day money-back guarantee.
Starter: Free forever. Pro: $9/month. Chief: $35/month. Monthly billing, cancel anytime, no credit card to start.
Key features
Translate any word by holding Option and pointing at it
Works in films, PDFs, websites, chats and every app
Supports 54 languages total
20 languages with offline translation on macOS 15 or later
Reads text in images, PDFs and screenshots
Lives in menu bar and never requires selecting text
License works on up to 3 Macs
One year of free updates included
Private with Google key: only the word you point at is sent to Google
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
Translates words right where they are without selection or copying, even in subtitles and PDFs
54 languages with 20 available offline on macOS 15 or later
One-time $12 payment with no subscription and lifetime access
Works in any app, image or PDF on macOS 14 or later
Private and secure: offline translation available with no data sent to servers
Does not train its own AI model on user tasks
Approval-based vault sync prevents silent data overwrites
Tipword
Brainy