Yappr is a small Mac app that types what you say. Tap Right ⌥, talk, tap again, and the text shows up wherever your cursor is. You can also use the Touch Bar or click the little pill on screen.
Did we get the demo numbers for the new batch?
⌥ to yapThere's no window to open. Yappr sits in your menu bar and waits.
Tap Right ⌥, the Touch Bar button, or click the pill. Works from any app.
Talk the way you'd talk to a person. Ums and pauses are fine.
About a second later the text is there, right where your cursor was. Even if you talked for five minutes.
Most people type around 40 words a minute.
Most people talk at around 150.
Turn on Smart Yap and Claude cleans up what you said before it's pasted. It drops the ums, fixes it when you correct yourself halfway through, and keeps Slack casual and email proper. It's off unless you turn it on.
um so basically can you send the, no wait, share the Apex demo numbers on Slack like by tomorrow
Can you share the Apex demo numbers on Slack by tomorrow?
It skips this step when you're typing into Claude or ChatGPT. They understand messy speech fine, so your prompt goes straight in.
Nothing fancy. Just the stuff that makes it nice to use every day.
Slack, Gmail, Notion, VS Code, Terminal. If there's a text box, it works.
Tap to start and stop. If you only have one line to say, hold ⌥ instead. Esc cancels.
Your words show up above the pill as you speak, so you know it's hearing you.
Mix Hindi and English the way you normally do. Indian accents too.
Everything you've said is saved on your Mac with the audio. Search it, play it back, copy it.
Floating pill, menu bar, Touch Bar. Turn off the ones you don't need.
Your speech is turned into text by Whisper, running on your Mac's own chip. Nothing gets uploaded. You can turn off Wi-Fi and it still works.
Your audio stays on your Mac. There's no server on the other end.
No sign-up, no email, no tracking.
Smart Yap is off by default. When it's on, only the text goes to Claude, using your own API key.
There's a two-minute test built in. You read ten sentences out loud and Yappr shows how many words each speech engine got wrong, and which ones.
Whisper got 3 words wrong out of 101
You read: “Ajai, please check the assessment slots”
It heard: “ajay please check the assessment slots”
Yes, while it's in beta. No word limits, no account. Smart Yap uses your own Anthropic API key if you turn it on, so Claude bills you directly. It's a few cents for a lot of talking.
You need macOS 14 (Sonoma) or newer. It's fastest on M1 and newer. Intel Macs work, just slower.
Yes. The speech-to-text happens on your Mac. Only Smart Yap needs the internet.
That's because the beta isn't notarised by Apple yet. You only have to do this once:
So it can notice when you tap Right ⌥ and paste text into the app you're in. It doesn't read your screen or what's in other apps.
Yappr updates itself. You won't need to download it again.
It's free while it's in beta. Download it, open it, tap Right ⌥ and say something.
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