Yap is an open-source, fully on-device voice dictation tool designed specifically for macOS. Developed by the team at Frigade, Yap allows users to seamlessly turn speech into text anywhere they can type on their Mac. With a simple global hotkey workflow—press to talk, press again to paste—it integrates smoothly into any text field or application.
Built natively in approximately 3,000 lines of Swift, Yap is an exceptionally lightweight utility. The app weighs in at just 4 MB and idles near 60 MB of memory usage. Because it leverages macOS speech APIs directly on your hardware, there are no heavy external models to download, and zero user data ever leaves your machine, ensuring total privacy.
Completely free and available under an MIT license, Yap is a streamlined, privacy-first productivity booster built by developers, for developers and everyday Mac users alike.
Yes, Yap is completely free and open-source under the MIT license.
Yap runs entirely on your device using native macOS speech APIs. Nothing leaves your machine, and no external AI models need to be downloaded.
Yap is a native macOS application built in Swift that utilizes macOS speech APIs.
You set a hotkey, talk into your Mac, and press the hotkey again. Your speech is instantly converted to text and pasted into whatever text field you are currently using.
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