Yaps
A private AI toolkit for dictation, transcription, notes, read-aloud, translation, and media tools.
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Description
A private AI toolkit for dictation, transcription, notes, read-aloud, translation, and media tools. Core content processing runs locally on your device.
About Yaps
What is Yaps?
Yaps is an on-device AI toolkit providing voice typing, dictation, meeting notes, transcription, and text-to-speech across desktop and mobile platforms.
What Yaps does
Yaps runs AI models locally to transcribe speech into text, record and summarize meetings, read documents aloud, generate video captions, and search notes. It operates on Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone, iPad, and Android without sending voice data to cloud servers.
Who Yaps is for
For professionals, writers, and teams who require local voice typing, audio transcription, and note management on their own devices.
How Yaps works
Users install Yaps on desktop or mobile devices, download local models, and use voice typing across applications or import audio and video files for transcription.
Key features
- On-device processing for dictation, transcription, and note queries without cloud uploads.
- The software supports macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android devices.
- Desktop transcription for audio and video files with SRT caption exports.
- The application provides 18 local voices on desktop and 4 on mobile devices.
- Local note search and conversational answers grounded in saved notes.
Pricing
As listed on yaps.ai, checked 13 October 2026. Prices can change; see the site for current terms.
- Free: $0/forever on Android, iPhone, and iPad with local voice typing, voice notes, and 4 mobile voices.
- Yaps Pro: $3.99/month billed annually ($47.90/year) or $4.99/month with desktop apps for Windows, macOS, and Linux, unlimited transcription, and 18 read-aloud voices.
- Enterprise: Custom pricing with volume licensing, centralized billing, and team onboarding.
Facts from yaps.ai, checked 13 October 2026
- The software operates locally across macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android.
- The free mobile version costs $0/forever and requires no account or payment card.
- Yaps Pro subscription is $3.99/month billed annually ($47.90/year) or $4.99/month with a 7-day free trial.
Written from Yaps's own website (Homepage, Pricing, Features, About). The maker can claim this listing to edit it.
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Frequently asked questions
Does Yaps process voice data locally?
Yes. Yaps runs local AI models directly on the user device without uploading voice data to cloud servers.
What operating systems are supported by Yaps?
Yaps supports macOS, Windows, Linux, iPhone, iPad, and Android.
Can Yaps operate without an internet connection?
Yes. Core dictation, note management, and offline voices work without an internet connection once models are installed.
What is included in the free tier of Yaps?
The free tier provides on-device voice typing, voice notes, and 4 mobile voices on iPhone, iPad, and Android.