On-device
Transcription runs on your Mac with Apple's Speech framework.
Fast, private, open-sourcedictation for macOS.
Free to use. Press a shortcut, speak, and Yap pastes your words into the app you're using.
macOS 26 (Tahoe) · Apple Silicon
One shortcut
Press to start, press to stop. Set the shortcut to a key combination or a single modifier.
Pastes anywhere
Your words land in the field you're using, from your terminal to your browser.
Private by default
Audio stays on your Mac. Yap doesn't require an account or an API key, and has no telemetry.
Local history
Transcripts are saved on your Mac, searchable and ready to copy again.
Works offline
Dictate without a connection once macOS has the speech model for your language.
Why we built Yap
We yap all day at Frigade
We use it to prompt coding agents, write emails, and send Slack messages. We wanted dictation that runs on our Macs and pastes into the tools we use, so we built Yap and open sourced it.