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Yaps

Replace a stack of AI apps with one unlimited, private, on-device toolbox.

Yaps gives you dictation, transcription, meeting summaries, and searchable notes in one Mac app, with local AI processing for work you prefer not to upload.

by Richard Awoyemi

Buy on Setapp Sold separately, not in the membership Developer website ↗
Helps you Type with your voice 9 Transcribe audio & video to text 24 Translate text & speech 34 Turn text into speech 13 Make your mic sound better 3

What you get

Turn your speech and recordings into usable text without uploading them.

With Yaps, you can speak into almost any Mac app and get text with punctuation, grammar, and formatting tidied up. You download the models you need, then process your words and recordings on your Mac without per-minute or per-task limits.

You can turn interviews, voice notes, podcasts, and videos into editable transcripts with word-level timing, then export text or subtitles. For meetings, you get speaker identification and summaries that pull out decisions, questions, and action items, so you can review what matters without replaying the whole conversation.

Your notes can become a local reference library: organize them in Markdown, add attachments, and ask questions across them with answers that cite their sources. You can also convert digital PDFs into editable Markdown, translate notes or selected text, and listen to text read aloud. Core tools work on Intel and Apple Silicon Macs, though some optional capabilities require Apple Silicon.

  • Less typing and cleanup

    You can dictate into almost any Mac app and get text with punctuation, grammar, and formatting already tidied up.

  • Recordings you can use

    You get editable, timed transcripts from audio and video, with text and subtitle exports.

  • Clear meeting takeaways

    You can review speakers, decisions, questions, and action items instead of replaying an entire meeting.

  • Answers from your notes

    You can ask questions across your local notes and check the cited sources behind each answer.

  • Keep processing on your Mac

    Your words, recordings, notes, and media can stay on your Mac during AI processing, without per-task or per-minute limits.

Best for

  • You regularly dictate drafts or messages
  • You need transcripts and meeting takeaways
  • You want a private, searchable notes library

Skip it if

You probably don't need Yaps if you rarely work with speech or recordings and already have a notes setup that meets your needs.

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From the developer

Yaps is a private AI super app that brings dictation, transcription, meetings, notes, translation, read-aloud and media tools together in one Mac app. Choose the tools you need, download their models once, and use them without per-minute or per-task limits.
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