{"repo":"FrigadeHQ/yap","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/FrigadeHQ/yap","clone":"git clone https://github.com/FrigadeHQ/yap.git","description":"Free, open source voice dictation for macOS. On-device transcription with Apple's Speech framework. No cloud/no API keys/no account.","language":"Swift","stars":364,"topics":["accessibility","apple-speech","dictation","macos","macos-app","menubar","offline","on-device","privacy","speech-recognition"],"license":"MIT","category":"self-hosted-apps","readme_excerpt":"Yap Blazing-fast voice dictation for macOS that works anywhere you can type. Press a shortcut, talk, press it again. Your words land in whatever text field you were using. No account, no API key, no audio leaving your machine. Built by Frigade. https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9bd8dae6-49d6-4c06-98b9-878e24dd401f --- What it does Yap lives in your menu bar and waits for a shortcut. Trigger it and a small window appears near the bottom of the screen with a live waveform and a running preview of what you have said so far. Press the shortcut again and the text gets pasted into the app you were already working in. Every transcript is saved locally, so you can go back and copy something again later. The default shortcut is ⌘⇧D . You can rebind it, or set a single modifier key instead. Tapping right shift on its own works nicely if you have a spare thumb. Install The quickest way is from the website: frigade.com/yap. Or use Homebrew. Homebrew To update later: Direct download Download Yap from the website, or grab the .dmg straight from Releases. Drag it into your Applications folder. Yap runs on macOS 26 (Tahoe) on an Apple Silicon Mac. Intel Macs are not supported. Released builds are signed and notarized, so macOS opens them without complaint. Why we built this There's no shortage of voice to text tools for macOS, and some of the open source ones are genuinely good. Most of them still run into some mix of the same problems: - Some cost money, which is a lot to ask for s","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/FrigadeHQ","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/FrigadeHQ/yap/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}