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Whisper Wizard
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macOS speech-to-text app that uses ChatGPT to clean up dictation into polished emails and documents, sold as a lifetime license.
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Paperpal
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AI academic writing assistant for researchers and students, with grammar, paraphrasing, citations and plagiarism/AI checks.
1.5M visits/mo16K saves
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Smartlead
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A cold-email platform for sales teams offering unlimited mailboxes, automated warm-up, lead verification, and deliverability infrastructure.
1.1M visits/mo
Pricing
Essential: $29 one-time (1 macOS device license)
Advanced: $49 one-time (2 macOS device licenses)
Ultimate: $69 one-time (3 macOS device licenses)
No public pricing
Base: $39/month (2,000 contacts, 6,000 sends, 2,000 verified emails)
Pro: $94/month (30,000 contacts, 90,000 sends, 30,000 verified emails)
Smart: $174/month (150,000 sends, 50,000 verified emails)
Free trial available
Core features
- ✦Global keyboard-shortcut dictation (Option+Space)
- ✦ChatGPT-powered cleanup and reformatting of spoken text
- ✦Custom prompt templates for repeated writing tasks
- ✦Adjustable AI model and creativity settings
- ✦Searchable history of past voice recordings
- ✦One-time lifetime-license purchase, no subscription
- ✦academic grammar checker
- ✦AI writing and paraphrasing
- ✦research search and citation across 250M+ articles
- ✦chat with PDFs
- ✦plagiarism checker
- ✦AI content detector
- ✦submission-readiness checks
- ✦plugins for Word, Docs and Overleaf
- ✦Unlimited mailbox connections with automatic warm-up
- ✦Dedicated sending infrastructure to protect sender reputation
- ✦Built-in email verification and 3x-verified lead sourcing
- ✦Unified inbox to manage replies across the whole pipeline
- ✦Deliverability monitoring with real-time bounce and spam tracking
- ✦APIs and automation for scaling outbound campaigns
Use cases
- →Drafting emails and documents by speaking instead of typing
- →Translating or reformatting dictated notes into different styles
- →Reusing custom templates for recurring writing tasks
- →writing and polishing research manuscripts
- →checking grammar and academic tone
- →generating citations
- →summarizing papers
- →preparing journal submissions
- →Running large-scale cold email campaigns across many mailboxes
- →Building and verifying outbound prospect lists
- →Protecting domain reputation while sending high volumes of email
- →Consolidating replies from multiple sequences into one inbox
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