WHAT TALKING TO YOUR OWN MAC CAN COST OUT THERE. ILLUSTRATIVE, OBVIOUSLY.

Don't get billed
for talking.

Private, on-device dictation for macOS. Hold the globe key, yap, release. Clean text at your cursor, in any app, and your voice never leaves the machine.

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the invoices are draggable. the prices are not.
INVOICE · CLOUD DICTATION, PRO PLAN
dictation, 1 yr$144.00
× 5 years$720.00
cloud processingmandatory
free tier2,000 words/wk
AUTO-RENEWS
INVOICE · LIFETIME LICENCE APP
lifetime licence$249.99
source codeclosed
audio on diskby default
ONE-TIME
RECEIPT · YAPPING
dictation, forever$0.00
words uploaded0
PAID IN FULL
$0 today + $0 in 5 years + $0 when you're 80 + still $0 + no cloud + no account + $0 today + $0 in 5 years + $0 when you're 80 + still $0 + no cloud + no account +
RAW YAP, HELD KEY, 11 SECONDS

transcribed on this mac · 0 bytes uploaded cleanup kept the point, cut the ums
$144/yr TYPICAL CLOUD SUBSCRIPTION, $720 PER 5 YRS
$249.99 TYPICAL LIFETIME LICENCE, CLOSED SOURCE
$0 ever YAPPING, ON-DEVICE

illustrative of common dictation app pricing as of july 2026. exact numbers vary by vendor and change often; the zero does not. much of that transcription happens in a data center. yours happens in the metal you already paid for.

THE APP, AS SHIPPED

Small enough to disappear.
Alive when you talk.

The logo is the level meter

bars float above your dock and dance with your voice. release, they fade. no window, no chrome.

yapping settings
Cleanup providerApple Intelligence
Style in SlackCasual
Style in TerminalVerbatim
DictionaryAngad, SwiftPM, gemma
"Send it" presses Returnon

Every knob is yours

cleanup prompts you can read and edit. styles per app. your names spelled right. zero setup by default.

yapping history
21:42 · Messages Running ten minutes late, order me the usual. raw: um so I'm running like ten minutes late, uh order me the usual
21:44 · Mail Attached is the revised proposal for Thursday. raw: attached is uh the revised proposal for thursday

Cleanup with receipts

history shows raw and cleaned side by side. if the AI ever changes your meaning, you'll see it. raw words win on doubt.

HANDS-FREE

Double-tap the globe key to talk without holding. Say "send it" and the message fires with zero keypresses.

VOICE EDIT

Select text, hold the key, say "make this more formal". Rewritten in place, or left alone if the model fumbles.

FAST

Audio streams into the recognizer while you talk. Text lands the moment you release, first word included.

ZERO SETUP

Apple's on-device model cleans your transcript out of the box. Ollama and custom endpoints for the tinkerers.

PROMPT MODE

Dictating to Claude or ChatGPT stays terse and keeps file paths, flags, and identifiers exactly as spoken.

SCRATCH THAT

Correct yourself mid-sentence and only the final version survives. Like the demo above, which was one take.

This key is
worth $144/yr.

fn
hold it. yap. release. that's the product. some apps: $12/mo for this key others: $249.99, one time, for this key yapping: hold the key you own
INSTALL, 40 SECONDS
01

Clone or download

Build from source (zero Gatekeeper friction) or grab the zip from releases.

02

Grant three permissions

The setup assistant walks you through mic, input monitoring, and accessibility with live checkmarks.

03

Hold the key

That's it. That's the manual. There is no step four.

$ git clone https://github.com/angad-kandhari/yapping.git
$ cd yapping
$ make install
PRIVACY, THE SHORT VERSION

A dictation app hears everything. That's why this one can't phone home.

complete list of network connections: localhost (your Ollama, if you use it) + the GitHub API, only when you click Check for Updates. read the source and verify.

Questions certified yappers ask.

What does it need to run?+

macOS 26 on Apple Silicon. Cleanup works out of the box with Apple's on-device model; Ollama and OpenAI-compatible endpoints are there for tinkerers. Without any of them, yapping pastes accurate raw transcripts.

Why does macOS warn me about the downloaded app?+

Releases are not notarized; that requires paying Apple $99 a year, and this app costs $0 forever. Allow it once under System Settings, Privacy & Security, or skip the warning entirely by building from source. The code is public; read it first if you like.

Is my audio or text stored anywhere?+

Audio is never written to disk; it streams from the mic straight into the on-device recognizer. Your last 20 dictations are kept in a local history file so you can inspect what cleanup changed, and you can clear it any time.

Does it work in every app?+

Anywhere you can type: browsers, editors, chat apps, terminals. Terminals and code editors get verbatim mode by default so cleanup never touches your commands.

Why the globe key?+

It sits in the corner doing almost nothing, your thumb already knows where it is, and holding it feels like a walkie-talkie. Set "Press globe key to: Do Nothing" in System Settings and yapping takes it from there. Or double-tap it and go hands-free.

Keep the
$720.

One clone, one make install, one permission screen. Then just hold the key.

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