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Products that do what Yap does

Open-source voice dictation for Mac, fully on-device

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Dictato▲93
Local instant voice-to-text for every Mac
Feb 2026
2
Megaphone▲102
Open-source Mac dictation App that's 100% on-device
Jul 2026
3
Speakmac▲190
The offline dictation macOS should have had
Nov 2025
4
Supavoice▲206
Voice to text app for macos
2025
5
Walkie▲228
Free local AI voice dictation tool
Apr 2026
6
Spoke▲102
Private voice-to-text for macOS. Hold a key, speak, done.
Mar 2026
7
Phantom Voice▲79
Local push-to-talk dictation for Mac
Jul 2026
8
Lispr▲240
Hold a key, speak, and Lispr writes it anywhere
Jul 2026
9
MacWhisper▲123
High quality text transcription with OpenAI's whisper on Mac
2023
10
TongueType for macOS▲109
Local dictation for macOS without the subscription
May 2026
11
Harker▲138
Turn thoughts into text at the speed of speech
2025
12
SpeakoFlow▲95
Free, open-source voice dictation and AI assistant, offline
Aug 2026
13
Whisper Snapper for Mac▲139
Local transcripts with speaker labels, timestamps, + export
Dec 2025
14
Juno▲167
Free, local AI powered Voice to Text w/ live transcriptions
Jun 2026
15
Spokenly▲178
Type 4x faster with your voice
2025
16
MacWhisper for iOS▲166
Transcribe & summarize looooong voice memos
2025
17
JustScribe▲117
On-device instant voice transcription
Feb 2026
18
Universal Dictation on Stream▲95
Private Voice Ring for dictation across iOS & Mac
Jul 2026
19
Speech To Markdown▲83
Harness local AI for notes
Jul 2026
20
YAP▲141
YAP teaches you to speak a language, not tap it.
Feb 2026
21
WhisperWizard▲149
Speech to text with smarter transcription
2024
22
Signal Recorder SR-7▲101
On-device voice recorder that transcribes + exports Markdown
Jun 2026
23
Whisper Notes▲115
Offline AI Speech to Text Transcription for iOS & macOS
2025
24
OpenWispr▲190
100% local open source AI speech-to-text model
2025

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