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Show HN: An on-device OSS alternative to Wispr Flow

Frigade released Yap, an open-source, on-device dictation app for macOS 26 (Tahoe) on Apple Silicon, positioned as a private alternative to Wispr Flow. Yap uses Apple's on-device Speech framework, requires no account, API key, or telemetry, saves transcripts locally, and works offline with no network code. The team said it built Yap for its own daily use prompting coding agents, writing emails, and sending Slack messages.

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Show HN: An on-device OSS alternative to Wispr Flow
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Yap

Fast, private, open-source dictation for macOS.

macOS 26 (Tahoe) · Apple Silicon

On-device

Runs on Apple's on-device Speech framework. Nothing to download.

One shortcut

Press to start, press to stop. Rebind it to any key you like.

Pastes anywhere

Text lands in whatever field you were in, terminal to browser.

Private by default

No account, no API key, no telemetry. Audio never leaves your Mac.

Local history

Every transcript is saved on your Mac, searchable and ready to reuse.

Works offline

No network code at all. Dictate on a plane with no signal.

Why we built Yap

We yap all day at Frigade #

Mostly for prompting coding agents, writing emails, and firing off Slack messages. Nothing out there was fast and private enough, so we built Yap for ourselves and open sourced it.

source & further reading
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