Launched this week
Yaprflow
Free, private transcription that lives in your Mac menu bar
4 followers
Free, private transcription that lives in your Mac menu bar
4 followers
Free, open-source voice-to-text for macOS. Press a hotkey, speak, and paste — 100% local, real-time, no accounts, no cloud, no telemetry.
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👋 Hey PH! I'm Tim, the maker behind YaprFlow.
Why I built this:
I saw WhisperFlow raised $80M and thought... wait, transcription is just running a model locally. Most Macs can handle this for free. So I built an alternative.
What it does:
- Lives in your menu bar
- ⌘T to start transcribing
- See text stream live as you speak
- ⌘T again to stop — auto-copied to clipboard
- Paste anywhere
The tech that makes it possible:
Instead of Whisper (chunked, slower), I used NVIDIA's Parakeet TDT. It actually streams token-by-token, not chunk-by-chunk. 6% word error rate vs Whisper's ~10%. Core ML optimized for Mac.