MacYaps
Battery dying? WiFi gone? Your Mac finally talks back.
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MacYaps - Battery dying? WiFi gone? Your Mac finally talks back.

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MacYaps turns your Mac into a personality-packed companion that talks back. It automatically plays audio clips for real system events: Battery levels & charger plugged/unplugged - High CPU usage - WiFi connect/disconnect & latency spikes - USB devices plugged in/out. Every trigger is fully customizable. Choose from multiple voice packs (Cheeky Irish, Thick Australian, Savage New Yorker, Dramatic Opera, Valley Girl, and more) or add your custom sounds. Your Mac finally has personality.

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Joey
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Hey Product Hunt!

After having fun with SlapMac last week, I wanted to take the idea further — so I built MacYaps, a menu bar app that makes your Mac talk back with funny sounds (or serious if you wish) for real events like low battery, WiFi drops, charger changes, high CPU, and USB connections (more triggers to come).

Multiple voice packs + full custom sound support included.

Short demo found here: https://macyaps.com/demo.

This is my first Product Hunt launch — would genuinely appreciate any feedback. Or let me know if you'd like any other triggers in the app.

Discount Code: `PHLAUNCH` to get it for $4.49 (limited to 50 activations)

Craig Paterson
Instant purchase (bought before I saw the PH coupon code). Fantastic idea really well executed. I love the sound packs included, but a question about the "Cheeky Irish Man" pack - it's not very Irish, in fact it definitely sounds more like an English accent.
Joey
Maker

@craigcpaterson Thanks for the feedback and the support ❤️! Yea you're right I noticed that too. I'll make an update to the title of this accent and try generating another voice from Elevenlabs for an irish one. I think the current one sounds like an F1 commentator maybe I'll rename it to something like that

Craig Paterson
@joeyhachem you're very welcome. Yeah, definitely needs the Irish voice in there 🍀. Keep up the great work!
Daniel Shao

do you think you could also add triggers for when mac sleeps/wakes up?

Joey
Maker

@dms1298 Ohh great idea, will definitely add that

Dontell Levesque

Do you plan to add context-aware responses, like different tones depending on urgency?

Joey
Maker
@dontell_levesque good idea. right now, you’re able to add different battery thresholds and the app defaults with audio that goes “crazier” the lower the battery gets. I’ll look into other places I can add customized thresholds, maybe at different CPU usages for example.
Alan Gregory

The voice packs sound like the main attraction .Savage New Yorker reacting to to low battery is something I didn’t know I needed 😂

Joey
Maker
@alan_gregory hahaha that’s my favourite voice pack by far. Planning to add more audio clips from him.
Daniel Shao

idea: you could check the item's charge cycle count and use that to find optimal charging patterns

Joey
Maker

@dms1298 Interesting, I'll look into it. Could add it along with the custom battery thresholds that I currently have