Yap - Blazing-fast on-device voice dictation for macOS
Show HN: Yap – OSS on-device voice dictation for macOS with no model to download
Yap is a free, open-source voice dictation tool for macOS that leverages Apple's native Speech framework for instant, on-device transcription. Unlike competitors requiring heavy model downloads or API keys, Yap operates entirely offline with zero network calls, ensuring complete privacy. Weighing only 4 MB, it features a global shortcut to paste dictated text directly into any active application. Built with Swift, it offers live waveform previews and local transcript history, making it the ultimate lightweight solution for developers and writers who need to speak faster than they can type.
Yap ships no model at all. It's roughly three thousand lines of native Swift in a 4 MB app, all of it open, with no browser engine anywhere in sight. It idles around 60 MB of memory and never touches the network.