Made for me first,
shared with friends.

It started with my own English 😅

I work at an international company, but English isn't my superpower. I'd often pause and think: “I know how to say this in Thai… but how does it go in English?” 🤔

So I looked for a way to make it easy and quick: a tiny menu-bar helper for myself. Hold a key, speak in Thai, and clean English appears right where I'm typing. Highlight any text to translate it in place. Now it sounds like me, just in English ✨

Then I wanted to share it with friends

Turns out I wasn't the only one in that boat — friends kept asking to try it. So Momo grew from a personal little hack into something I'm happy to give away: free to use, built on top of the lovely open-source Whisper app by gamezxz. (Early builds went by Whisper Momo; same app, new name.)

Why your Mac shows a scary warning 🙈

The first time you open Momo, macOS says something like “Apple could not verify Momo is free of malware.” Nothing is wrong — it says that about every little indie app that hasn't paid Apple's toll.

To make that warning go away for good, a developer has to join the Apple Developer Program — $99 every year — so Apple can notarize the app. Momo is a free, one-person project, so it hasn't paid that yearly fee yet. The app is safe and its code is out in the open; you just click past the warning once (the install guide walks you through it).