Hold the key. Talk. Done.
A physical shortcut starts recording, a live HUD shows status, and the transcript lands in the active app.
Your words appear here.
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Mac App
Hold a key. Speak. Your words appear in any app on your Mac. Powered by Apple Silicon's Neural Engine. No cloud, no account, no telemetry — verifiable, not just promised.
"I built Yap because every Mac dictation app I tried either streamed my voice to a cloud, asked for an OpenAI key, or wanted me on a $9 monthly plan. None of those were private. None of them were free. So I made one that's both — and made the privacy claim verifiable, not just promised."
Price
$19
Apple Silicon
Preview
Panel preview
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Updates
Free v1.x
Release notes stay on the page.
Fit
Specs listed
Compatibility and support notes below.
Demo
The live waveform gives you feedback while dictating, then turns into the download action on hover.
Features
Yap is built around the actual dictation loop: start instantly, see what is happening, land the text where you meant it to go, and keep the whole process local.
A physical shortcut starts recording, a live HUD shows status, and the transcript lands in the active app.
Your words appear here.
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The signed app does not ship the network entitlement. The privacy claim is verifiable.
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Parakeet TDT runs locally through CoreML on M-series hardware, so speech lands fast.
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Hold a shortcut, tap to toggle, or use a wake word when your hands are busy.
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Standard or mini, top island or bottom bar. Pick the shape that fits your workspace.
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Auto-paste into writing apps, copy-only in Terminal, and adapt to the frontmost app.
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Every saved transcript stays on the device, searchable with retention controls.
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Teach Yap names, acronyms, and phrases so repeated jargon comes out right.
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Rank your microphones once. Yap uses the best connected input and falls back cleanly.
Get Started
Three steps. That's it.
Drop Yap into Applications and open it. The onboarding flow walks you through Microphone + Accessibility permissions.
Default is Ctrl-Option-Space. Or set your own — and toggle hold-to-talk, tap-toggle, or wake word.
Mail, Slack, Figma, Terminal, anywhere you can type. Hold the key, speak, and watch your words land.
Specs
One purchase
One-time payment. No subscription. No accounts. The same Yap purchase covers the Apple Silicon app family.