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The voice layer
for macOS.

Typing is slow. Cloud dictation isn’t private. Yaps is voice that runs on your Mac — four times faster than typing, always offline, never uploads.

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How it works

One key. No friction.

Hold Fn. Speak. That’s it.

Three states of the Yaps recording widget — idle, listening, and processing
Idle, listening, processing — all on-device.
Features

More than dictation.

Yaps is a voice-and-writing toolkit native to macOS — dictation, read-aloud, and a vault-backed notes app, in one menubar.

Yaps reads back any text you highlight, in a natural on-device voice. Useful for proofreading, useful for resting your eyes.

I · Read aloud

Anything highlighted, read back.

Hit Option + the Yaps key on selected text. Yaps reads it back in a natural on-device voice — useful for proofreading, useful for resting your eyes.

II · Notes

Every word you said, organized.

Every dictation lands in a markdown vault on your Mac. Folders, a Today view, an activity rhythm — a real notes app where the keyboard is optional from here on.

The Yaps notes app showing a markdown vault with folders, a Today view, and an activity rhythm
Live subtitles
Auto‑caption video calls and screen recordings · 24 MB
Meeting transcription
Real‑time transcripts with speaker tags · 60 MB
Background image removal
Remove backgrounds from photos in one tap · 22 MB
Yaps Agent
Ask Yaps anything, no internet needed · 280 MB
Custom cleanup rules
Define your own filler patterns · 4 MB
Voice library
12 additional natural voices for read‑aloud · 92 MB
III · Yaps Store

More offline AI, when you want it.

Yaps is just the start. Open the Yaps Store to add new offline voices, custom cleanup rules, transcription languages, and small on-device models — installed in seconds, all running on your Mac, none of it phoning home.

Works everywhere your cursor blinks

In Mail
Reply to a thread without lifting your hands off the trackpad.
Yaps dictating into the macOS Mail app
In VS Code
Dictate commit messages, comments, and prose between code edits.
Yaps dictating into Visual Studio Code
In Notion
Doc pages, meeting notes, briefs — talk first, edit second.
Yaps dictating into a Notion page
…and 50+ more
Slack, Linear, Figma comments, Safari fields, terminals — anywhere a cursor blinks.

Your voice and your notes never leave your device.

Yaps privacy architecture diagram — voice stays on the local machine, only license verification reaches the network
Subscriptions

Pick what fits.

Start free. Save 20% on Basic with annual billing. Cancel anytime — from your Mac, your phone, or anywhere you can sign in.

Free
$0/forever
For trying Yaps & light use.
  • 5,000 words / week
  • All cleanup features
  • All read-aloud voices
  • All notes features
  • Always on-device
  • No card, no account
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Basic
Most popular
$12/month
Billed annually ($144/yr). Cancel anytime.
  • Unlimited words
  • All cleanup features
  • All read-aloud voices
  • All notes features
  • Always on-device
  • Priority support
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FAQ

Quick answers.

Correct. Transcription runs locally on your Mac. The only network calls Yaps makes are for license verification and (if you opt in) an anonymous app-update ping. You can audit traffic with Little Snitch, and we publish the request list in our docs.
Yes. Yaps inserts text by simulating a paste, so anywhere you can type — native or Electron — it works. VS Code, Cursor, Slack, Notion, Linear, Discord, Figma comments, Mail, Notes, Safari fields, terminal apps. We test against the top 50 macOS apps each release.
In our internal benchmarks Yaps sits around 4–6% WER on conversational speech — comparable to the best cloud APIs and meaningfully better than Apple Dictation on names, code, and brand terms. Speed and accuracy modes are togglable from the menu bar.
macOS 12 Monterey or later. Apple silicon (M1+) gives the best latency — most dictations land in 200–400 ms after you release the key. Intel Macs work too; expect roughly 700 ms in speed mode and 1.4 s in accuracy mode.
Not today. Yaps is a Mac-first product — we wanted to do one platform really well before stretching across OSes. Windows is on the roadmap; Linux is being scoped. Subscribe at the bottom and we’ll email you the moment a build is ready.
No — and on purpose. Yaps is fully on-device for transcription, so there are no API keys to manage. For cleanup we use a tiny local model. Less to configure, less to leak.
Get Yaps

Ready when you are.

Try Yaps free for a week.

No card. No account. Just a quick download and a microphone permission prompt. If you don’t love it, drag it to the Trash.

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