Private voice dictation for Mac, Windows, iPhone and Android
The world’s fastest dictation app.
Private. Half the price.
Speak, release, keep going. Yap turns your voice into text right on your device. Your recordings never leave it.
3 days free, no account or card. Then $6.90 a month.
Also onWindows,iPhone,Android· one subscription for all
macOS, Apple Silicon · Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit · Speech stays on your device
| Yap | Wispr Flow | Aqua Voice | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Speed | 0.56 smeasured | 0.7 stheir own target | 1 stheir own estimate |
| Privacy | On devicenever uploaded | Cloudvoice sent to their servers | Cloudvoice sent to their servers |
| Price | $6.90/moor $69 a year | $15/mo$12/mo paid yearly | $10/mo$8/mo paid yearly |
Their figures are from their own pages; prices checked 15 Oct 2026. Our speed is the median on an Apple M5 Pro Mac; older Macs take longer. How we compared.
Where your words go
Your words stay yours.
Other dictation apps send your voice to their cloud. Yap never does.
- Your voice never leaves your device
- Nothing stored on any server
- Never shared, never sold
- Your voice goes to their servers
- Can be kept on their servers
- Can be shared with third parties
Give your keyboard a break
Try a few words.
Keep them to yourself.
Try dictation right here before installing the Mac app. We’ll help your browser download the speech model, then you can say a sentence and see it become text.
Your audio stays in this tab.
First setup needs an internet connection. The model stays in this browser’s cache for later visits. The speed measurement above is from the Mac app.
Your voice. No app needed.
We’ll guide you through a first-use model download before you speak.
First, a guided download. Then, your voice.
English demo, up to 60 seconds. Audio and text stay in this tab. The model is cached in this browser for next time, while storage is available.
Small shortcut. Big exhale.
Think it. Say it.
There it is.
No new workspace to learn. No tab to switch to. Just you, your voice, and the apps you already use.
Hold to talk.
Put your cursor where your words belong. Hold Fn and start speaking.
Let the thought out.
Speak at your own pace. To use English commands such as “new paragraph”, turn on Spoken punctuation in the Mac app’s Settings.
Keep moving.
Release the key. Yap transcribes, tidies, and pastes. You take it from there.
Fast words.
Private thoughts.
On your Mac. At your cursor.
No audio uploads. $6.90 a month after 3 free days. View pricing.
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