LOCAL DICTATION FOR MACOS
STOP
TYPING.
START YAPPING.
Press a key. Say the thing. Verified text lands where your cursor is, three times faster than you type. Transcription runs entirely on your Mac, which means your voice is nobody's training data.
FREE. OPEN SOURCE. MACOS 14+. NO ACCOUNT, EVER.
0
BYTES OF AUDIO SENT ANYWHERE
3×
FASTER THAN TYPING
14
PIXEL PETS TO UNLOCK
7,140
SELF-TEST ASSERTIONS IN THE APP
BUILT LIKE A TOOL.
BEHAVES LIKE A PROMISE.
TALK. IT TYPES.
Press Option+Space, say the thing, and verified text lands exactly where your cursor is. If a paste cannot be confirmed, the app says so instead of pretending.
RUNS ON YOUR MAC. ONLY.
Whisper and Parakeet run on-device. The runtime has no network entitlement, and a CI gate fails any build that tries to add one. Privacy enforced by tooling, not promises.
YOUR WORDS, YOUR SPELLING
Teach it your product names, clients, and acronyms once. The glossary corrects every transcript, in every language you work in.
SUPER FAST MODE
Keeps the mic warm with a ring buffer so your first word is never clipped. Off by default, because the orange dot stays on, and we tell you that upfront.
LLM CLEANUP, LOCALLY
An optional small language model removes your ums and adds punctuation in about a second. It runs on your machine and falls back to your exact words if it misbehaves.
PIXEL PETS WITH OPINIONS
Fourteen pets level up as you dictate. Streaks, daily quests, hats. Your dragon requires ten thousand words and will remember if you stop showing up.
HOW IT WORKS
01
PRESS ⌥ SPACE
From any app. A tiny HUD confirms the mic is live.
02
SAY THE THING
Emails, notes, prompts, replies. Any of your languages.
03
IT LANDS. VERIFIED.
Text appears at your cursor. The app confirms it actually landed, or tells you the truth.
FRESH FROM THE BLOG
ALL POSTSYour dictation app should never see the internet
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YappYapp ships with fourteen tiny pixel pets that grow when you talk. This is not a gimmick. It is the best trick we know for turning talking-instead-of-typing into a habit.
QUESTIONS PEOPLE ACTUALLY ASK
Q01IS IT REALLY FREE?+
Yes. Open source, MIT licensed. No account, no trial, no 'pro' tier holding your words hostage.
Q02WHAT DOES IT SEND OVER THE NETWORK?+
Model downloads (once, checksum-verified) and a daily signed update check that transmits version numbers only. Both have visible off switches. Dictation audio and transcripts: never.
Q03WHAT MACS DOES IT RUN ON?+
macOS 14 or newer. Apple Silicon feels instant; the whisper.cpp engine also runs on Intel.
Q04HOW ACCURATE IS IT?+
Whisper large runs locally if your machine has the memory, and Parakeet v3 covers fast multilingual work. Plus your personal glossary fixes the words generic models always get wrong: names, brands, acronyms.
Q05WHY IS THERE A CAT?+
Because habit beats accuracy. The pets exist to make you press the hotkey tomorrow. Read the blog post; the cat has earned it.
YOUR VOICE IS THE LAST HONEST DRAFT. KEEP IT YOURS.
DOWNLOAD YAPPYAPP30 SECONDS TO INSTALL. THE CAT IS WAITING.