AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Yak
SIP softphone with on-device AI call transcription
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.
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murmur▲145practice tough phone calls with AI before you make them
Mar 2026 · drobinin.com · its alternatives →
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NovaVoice▲578Hey HN, Today I’d like to show what I’ve recently built with my 2 friends. We’ve called it Nova. The idea is to built all-purpose AI Voice Assistant, which is able to interact with mail, to-do apps, messengers and socials, task trackers, apps like UberEats, Notion and some other daily apps. How we decided to work on it: We’ve recently read YC Request for startups Summer25 and were inspired by the idea of AI Voice Assistant for Mail by YC partner Tyler Bosmeny. What we’ve got: We’ve gone a bit further than Assistant for mail only and connected Gmail, Todoist, Google Calendar, and…
Apr 2026 · novavoice.app · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I wanted to share this OSS project I've been working on. It's called Yap and its a small menu-bar app for macOS that does voice to text for any input. You'll set a hotkey, press it, talk, press it again, and the text gets pasted into whatever field you were in. Everything runs locally and never leaves your computer. Fully OSS and MIT licensed. With macOS 26, Apple recently added two new APIs, SpeechAnalyzer and SpeechTranscriber, that do streaming on-device speech to text using models the OS ships and manages. So the app ships no model of its own and loads nothing before the first…
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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AI Audio Kit▲92Easy audio transcription from your macOS desktop
2024 · aiaudiokit.pages.dev · its alternatives →
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Yapfree▲140Open-source voice dictation for Mac, fully on-device
Jul 2026 · frigade.com · its alternatives →
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Whisper Notes▲115Offline AI Speech to Text Transcription for iOS & macOS
2025 · whispernotes.app · its alternatives →
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Super-realistic celebs' voices made by AI
2020 · parodist.ai · its alternatives →
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yapyap▲148Own your voice again. Local-first voice & meeting recorder.
Aug 2026 · yap-yap.app · its alternatives →
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Yaranga▲133Turn your WhatsApp voice messages into notes and tasks
Nov 2025 · yaranga.net · its alternatives →
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ThunderPhone▲104Hi folks, my partner and I just finished the MVP of a no-code AI phone automation tool called ThunderPhone. I'd love to get your thoughts. We've worked on a few phone AI projects recently, and have had a couple of persistent frustrations with tools like Retell, Vapi, etc. - namely that they're quite complicated to set up, and pretty pricy, around 10 cents a minute. After kicking the idea around for a while, we finally decided to go for it and build this. ThunderPhone costs 2 cents a minute for inbound and outbound calls, telephony charges included. It also handles a variety of integrations…
Aug 2026 · thunderphone.com · its alternatives →
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On-device or Cloud transcription powered by OpenAI's Whisper
2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Human-like AI phone agents for businesses.
2025 · getcallsi.in · its alternatives →
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2017 · medium.com · its alternatives →
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VoicePad AI▲53Offline voice dictation for Windows, Mac, iOS & Android
Jul 2026 · voicepad.tech · its alternatives →
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Dictate. Record. Transcribe. Summarize. All On-Device.
Mar 2026 · testflight.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Ultimate On-Device AI Transcription! private on your device.
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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