Interview to story, fast.
Deadlines don't wait. Yaps lets you dictate articles at the speed you think, record voice notes in the field, and review drafts by listening — all processed on your Mac with no audio ever reaching a cloud server. When protecting sources matters, local processing is the only answer.
Dictation speed
Faster than typing articles
Offline processing
Audio uploaded anywhere
Field notes, captured in real time
The journalism bottleneck
The Yaps approach
Tools for the newsroom and the field
Everything a working journalist needs, nothing a source should worry about.
Dictate at Deadline Speed
Hold Fn and speak your article directly into your editor, CMS, or a plain text file. Auto-punctuation and formatting keep the text clean. A 1,000-word story takes about seven minutes to dictate.
Field Voice Notes
Record voice memos during interviews, press conferences, or stakeouts. Yaps transcribes them locally on your Mac so you have searchable text without any audio leaving your machine.
Source Confidentiality
When you record or dictate notes about sensitive sources, the audio and text stay on your device. No cloud processing means no server logs, no data retention policies, and no third-party access.
Review Drafts by Ear
Select your article and have Yaps read it aloud. Hearing your prose catches awkward phrasing, missing transitions, and factual gaps that your eyes skim over when reading silently.
File from Anywhere
No Wi-Fi at the press event? No problem. Dictate your story, record voice notes, and review drafts — all offline. Connect later to send. Yaps doesn't need the internet for any core feature.
Searchable Note Archive
Every voice note and dictation is timestamped and searchable. Find the quote from Tuesday's interview or the observation you dictated outside city hall last month.
From the press box to the byline
Real workflows for journalists on deadline.
Filing Breaking News
When a story breaks, dictate your copy directly into your CMS or email. Speaking at 150 WPM means you can file a 600-word dispatch in under four minutes.
City council voted 7 to 2 to approve the zoning amendment late Thursday, clearing the way for the mixed-use development despite vocal opposition from neighborhood groups.
”Investigative Note-Taking
Record observations, source quotes, and document details as voice notes. The local transcription gives you searchable text. The offline processing means no digital trail on third-party servers.
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”Longform Feature Writing
Dictate the first draft of a feature story in one sitting. Many journalists find that speaking produces more vivid, narrative prose than typing. Edit on screen afterward.
The warehouse had been empty for six years when Rosa Campos first walked through the rusted doors.
”Editing by Ear
Use TTS to hear your article read back to you before filing. Awkward sentences, tonal shifts, and repetitive phrasing become obvious when you listen instead of read.
Field Reporting
At protests, disaster sites, or remote locations — record voice notes and dictate dispatches without needing cell service or Wi-Fi. Your Mac is your entire mobile newsroom.
Research Review
Have Yaps read lengthy reports, court documents, or government filings aloud while you take notes. Process more source material in less time.
Hear from people like you.
“I cover stories where protecting sources isn't optional — it's life or death. Every other transcription tool sends audio to a server somewhere. Yaps is the only one that processes everything on my machine. I dictate my field notes, record voice memos during interviews, and draft my stories by voice. My editor says the copy has actually gotten better because dictated prose sounds more natural. And when I'm filing from a location with no internet, it just works.”
Elena Rodriguez
Investigative Journalist
Read more about voice-first writing
File faster, protect sources.
Dictate. Record. Review. All on your Mac, all offline, all private.
Requires macOS 13.0+ (Apple Silicon recommended)