Launching today
Yap
Open-source voice dictation for Mac, fully on-device
53 followers
Open-source voice dictation for Mac, fully on-device
53 followers
Yap turns speech into text anywhere you can type on your Mac. Set a hotkey, talk, press it again, and the words get pasted into whatever field you were in. It runs entirely on device using macOS 26's speech APIs, so there's no model to download and nothing leaves your machine. It's around 3,000 lines of native Swift in a 4 MB app that idles near 60 MB of memory. Free, MIT licensed, and built by Frigade because we wanted it for ourselves.
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@cmathies Congratulations on your launch. From my initial use of Yap, it’s remarkably quick and accurate. I try out most speech-to-text apps, and this is very promising in terms of its speed and lightness. I’m used to apps that clean up my grammar and verbal stumbles, which Yap doesn’t do, but for short, quick messages and emails this looks ideal. Good luck with it!
Paste is the part I'd want to hear about. If you're putting the transcript on the clipboard to insert it, you're stomping whatever I had copied, and that's the bug that gets a dictation app deleted on day two. Restoring the previous pasteboard afterwards mostly works but races with anything else watching it. Separately, your description says it idles near 60 MB and your comment says a few MB, worth picking one.
@asadmalik901 From my initial tests of the app, the clipboard contents are either not touched by Yap, or they are restored straightaway after the speech-to-text element is pasted. It’s idling at 39.7MB.
that's a great product! + after everything else being bloated, a few MB of memory and no network calls feel like such a relief.