ForthWrite's answer

Next.js, React, Supabase, Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, Stripe, Vercel, Chrome Extensions API

Verbally-Reader's answer:

Verbally is a Chrome extension built on Manifest V3. The read-aloud voices and the translation run in the cloud rather than on your device, so audio quality and translation do not depend on your machine. It works on any standard web page, with no setup per page.

ForthWrite's answer

ForthWrite learns your writing style from your actual sent mail, not a generic prompt. Every draft sounds like you wrote it because it was trained on how you actually write. It also auto-drafts replies before you open your inbox, so your email is partially handled before your day starts.

Verbally-Reader's answer:

Most tools do one half of the job. Read-aloud extensions read a page but do not translate it. Translators give you the meaning but kill the original language. Verbally does both at once, on the page you are already reading. You listen in the language you are learning while a synced translation sits underneath as a safety net. Keeping the original audio as the main signal is what makes it a learning tool, not a shortcut. Add words you save as flashcards and quick comprehension quizzes, and it becomes an all-in-one immersion tool instead of a single trick.

ForthWrite's answer

Most AI email tools give you a blank box and a "write for me" button. ForthWrite builds a voice profile from your sent history and gets more accurate with every draft you edit or send. Unlike ChatGPT or Gemini, it works natively inside Gmail and Outlook with no copy-paste. Unlike Lavender, it writes the draft, not just scores it.

Verbally-Reader's answer:

Verbally is built for one moment: the wall you hit after Duolingo and courses, when native content still feels too steep. Instead of another app with its own walled garden, it turns the real web, the news, blogs and articles you already read, into immersion you can actually follow. Listening and reading together, vocabulary you save from real content, and comprehension checks, all in one place. The original language stays the main signal, so you pick up the language itself, not just the gloss. It is the level up, not another beginner app.

ForthWrite's answer

Professionals who send high volumes of relationship-critical email and cannot afford to sound generic: lawyers, financial advisors, recruiters, account executives, consultants, and founders managing their own inbox.

Verbally-Reader's answer:

Intermediate and up learners, roughly B1 and above, who have outgrown flashcard apps and want to spend real time inside the language. Expats reading the local news, self taught learners tackling native content, and bilingual readers keeping a second language alive. The common thread: people who can read a little but lose the thread in real content, and want natural audio plus a translation safety net while they do it. It is not aimed at absolute beginners or at accessibility users who are not learning the language.

ForthWrite's answer

Built out of frustration with AI writing tools that produce text that sounds nothing like the person sending it, and as a way to handle large amounts of daily email. The core insight was that your sent mail is the best training data you already have, and no tool was using it.

Verbally-Reader's answer:

Verbally started with a personal plateau. After moving to the Netherlands, the maker got to a decent level of Dutch and then stalled. The apps had run their course, but real Dutch news and articles were still a slog. What finally helped was listening to a page while reading along, with a translation ready for the moment a word slipped past. Doing that by hand meant juggling a text to speech tab and a translator tab on every article. Verbally collapses that into the page you are already on, so the real web becomes the place you practice.