Yap
Open-source voice dictation for Mac, fully on-device
Yap turns speech into text anywhere you can type on your Mac. Set a hotkey, talk, press it again, and the words get pasted into whatever field you were in. It runs entirely on device using macOS 26's speech APIs, so there's no model to download and nothing leaves your machine. It's around 3,000 lines of native Swift in a 4 MB app that idles near 60 MB of memory. Free, MIT licensed, and built by Frigade because we wanted it for ourselves.
Yap is a Productivity company. It launched on Product Hunt on Jul 30, 2026, with 141 upvotes. Adamlead has 1 person on file at Yap.
Yap timeline
- Open-source voice dictation for Mac, fully on-device
People at Yap
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Who works at Yap?
Adamlead has 1 person on file at Yap, including Christian Mathiesen (Maker). Each email shows whether it has been verified.