Yap is private voice dictation for Apple Silicon Macs and Windows PCs. Hold a shortcut, speak, and release: Yap turns your speech into clean, punctuated text and types it where your cursor is, in email, documents, chat, browsers, terminals and coding agents.
Why Yap
- Speech recognition (NVIDIA Parakeet) runs on your Mac, so your audio is never uploaded.
- Works offline after a one-time model download.
- 25 European languages, detected automatically for each recording.
- Adds punctuation and removes filler words.
- Searchable history that stays on your device.
- One subscription covers Mac and Windows.
Requirements: macOS 13 or later on Apple Silicon (M1 or newer).
Pricing: the first 3 days are free with no account or card, then a 10-day trial, then USD 6.90 a month or USD 69 a year.
