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Verbia 1.0 — beta

First public build. Select text anywhere on macOS, press ⌥G, and it's rewritten in place.

This is a beta and it is not notarized yet. macOS will refuse to open it on the first try —
see Installing below. Apple Developer enrolment is in progress; the 1.0 release will be signed
and notarized and this step will disappear.

Free while in beta. Please report anything odd —
open an issue.

Installing

  1. Download Verbia.dmg, open it, drag Verbia to Applications.
  2. Launch it. macOS will say it "cannot be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious
    software."     Click Done.
  3. Open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down, and click Open Anyway next to
    the message about Verbia. Confirm.

Control-click → Open is unreliable on macOS 15, so use the Privacy & Security route above.

Requires macOS 13 (Ventura) or later.

First run

  1. A menu-bar icon appears. There is no Dock icon — Verbia is a menu-bar app.
  2. Grant Accessibility when prompted. This is what lets it read and replace selected text in
    other apps; nothing works without it.
  3. Open Settings → AI and either switch on Ollama or paste an API key for one provider.
  4. Select text in any app and press ⌥G.

What's in it

  • 7 built-in actions — fix grammar, improve, professional, friendly, shorten, expand, translate
  • 38 templates to start your own from — polite decline, chase a reply, commit message, bug
    report, executive summary, extract action items, formal Arabic, fit a tweet
  • Voice dictation — press ⌥D, speak, press ⌥D again. Transcribed, cleaned up, and typed
    at your cursor
  • Your own AI account — Ollama (fully local), Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepSeek, Qwen, OpenRouter, or
    any OpenAI-compatible endpoint (Groq, Together, xAI, Mistral, LM Studio, vLLM…)
  • Keys live in the macOS Keychain. No analytics, no telemetry, no account

Known issues

  • Voice dictation needs macOS Dictation switched on. If it fails, turn it on at System Settings
    → Keyboard → Dictation and add your language. Verbia falls back to Apple's servers automatically
    when no on-device model is installed, and tells you when that happens.
  • Not notarized, so the install has the extra step above.
  • Licence purchasing isn't live yet. The beta runs without one.

Shortcuts

⌥G grammar · ⌥W improve · ⌥P professional · ⌥F friendly · ⌥S shorten · ⌥X expand · ⌥T translate ·
⌥D dictation. All rebindable in Settings → Shortcuts.

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