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Yap — Fast, private voice dictation for Mac and Windows: hold a key, speak, and Yap types your words into any app.

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About Yap

Yap is private voice dictation for Apple Silicon Macs and Windows PCs. Hold a shortcut, speak, and release: Yap turns your speech into clean, punctuated text and types it where your cursor is, in email, documents, chat, browsers, terminals and coding agents.

Speech recognition (NVIDIA Parakeet) runs on your computer, so your audio is never uploaded, and it works offline after a one-time model download. It understands 25 European languages and detects the language of each recording, adds punctuation, removes filler words, and keeps a searchable history on your device.

Free for 3 days from first launch with no account or card, then a 10-day trial, then USD 6.90 a month or USD 69 a year. One subscription covers Mac and Windows.

Who it is for
People who write a lot on a Mac or Windows PC: founders, developers, writers, students, and anyone who needs dictation for accessibility.
Problem it solves
Typing is slow and tiring, built-in dictation is inaccurate and often sends your voice to the cloud, and most dictation tools only work inside one app.
The solution
Hold a shortcut, speak, and release: Yap turns your speech into clean, punctuated text and types it where your cursor is, in email, documents, chat, browsers, terminals and coding agents. A searchable local history keeps everything you said.
What makes it unique
Speech recognition (NVIDIA Parakeet) runs on your own computer, so your audio is never uploaded and Yap works offline. It detects 25 languages automatically, and one subscription covers both Mac and Windows.

Starting price: USD 6.90 per month

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Features

  • Dictate into any app

    Hold a shortcut, speak, and release: your words are typed where the cursor is.

  • On-device speech recognition

    Your audio never leaves your Mac or PC, and it works offline.

  • 25 languages

    The language of each recording is detected automatically.

  • Clean text

    Punctuation is added and filler words are removed.

  • Searchable history

    Everything you dictated stays on your device and is easy to find again.

  • Mac and Windows

    One subscription covers both.

Details

Platforms
  • Windows
  • macOS
Pricing
  • Paid
  • Subscription
  • Free trial
Built for

People who write a lot on a Mac or Windows PC: founders, developers, writers, students, and anyone who needs dictation for accessibility.

Building since

2026

Technology

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Website performance

Leaderboard

Recorded mobile lab measurements and finalized weekly standings from IndieTools Speed.

74GoodMobile Lighthouse

Measured · UTC

Load time
1.78 s
FCP
1.35 s
LCP
5.40 s
CLS
0.009
TTFB
170 ms
TBT
229 ms
Speed index
3.97 s

These stored lab observations describe controlled test runs. They are not real-user Core Web Vitals or a guarantee of search rankings. Weekly standings below remain attached to their finalized edition.

Overall rank
Not finalized
Best overall rank
Not finalized
0 top 10 finishes
Best category rank
Not finalized
0 category wins
Latest change
-8 score
No finalized score yet

Method: psi-mobile-two-sample-mean-v1 · 2 samples per reading. Only readings with the same recorded method and sample count share a chart. Lab results can vary between runs.

Website performance history

Inspect every successful mobile Lighthouse lab measurement by metric and date range.

Range

Latest score

74 / 100

Higher is better
10 measurements

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Oct 14, 2026Oct 21, 2026

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