The world's first voice tool that types what you say and does what you ask — no WiFi needed. Open-source models, blazing fast, toe-to-toe with the paid stuff. Your data never leaves your Mac.
Two keys. That's the whole app.
Every Mac is organized differently. Yappy studies yours — where the apps, projects, and files actually live — then teaches itself the routine, task by task. And when a step is yours alone (a login, a "send it?"), it hands you the wheel and waits.
Personas restyle how your dictation reads — your own voice, a dialect, or a character. It changes how it reads, never what you said: every fact, name, and number lands exactly as spoken.
Sounds like you · Never rewrites you · No pirate surprises
Other tools type what you say. Yappy is the only one that can also act on it.
| That's us Yappy | Wispr Flow | Apple Dictation | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dictation speed | Instantmodel stays warm on-device — no round-trip | ~450 msplus a trip to their servers | Fast-ishpunctuation optional, apparently |
| Does things for you | ✓yap an errand — it reads your screen, clicks, fills, done | ✗types words. that's the whole show | ✗types words, eventually |
| Session continuity | ✓the agent works next to you — answers, hands back, or switches tasks, and never loses the thread | n/ano computer use to continue | n/a— |
| Knows your Mac | ✓scans your machine locally, writes itself playbooks — better every week | ✗your Mac is just a microphone | ✗— |
| Hands you the wheel | ✓stops at logins & "send it?" moments, waits, resumes on "continue" — without ever watching you | n/anothing to hand over | n/a— |
| Screen-aware context | ✓on-device OCR — your screen never leaves your Mac | ✓by sending your screen to the cloud | ✗— |
| Works offline | ✓plane mode is yap mode | ✗no internet, no words | ~some languages, sometimes |
| Where your audio goes | Nowhere0 bytes leave your machine. ever. | Their cloudhope the privacy policy holds | Dependssometimes Apple's servers |
| Personal memory | ✓your contacts, docs & history — "email the deck from Tuesday" just works | ✗who's Tuesday? | ✗— |
| Custom vocabulary | ✓dictionary + snippets + learns from your edits | ✓dictionary | ✗good luck with "Kubernetes" |
| Writing personas | ✓your voice, British, posh butler, pirate — restyles how it reads, never what you said | ✗one voice: default | ✗— |
| Open source | SoonAGPL-3.0 | ✗trust us™ | ✗trust us, but bigger |
| Price | $0forever. it's your Mac doing the work | $12/mo$144/yr to talk | Freeand it shows |
Yes, we made this table. No, they wouldn't have made it any different — except the columns.