Yaprflow

What it does

Free, open-source voice-to-text for macOS. Press a hotkey, speak, and paste — 100% local, real-time, no accounts, no cloud, no telemetry.

Yaprflow is free, open-source voice dictation for macOS. Speak naturally, paste clean text anywhere, and keep every transcription local on your Mac.

Yaprflow turns natural speech into clean text in any macOS app. It runs locally, so your audio stays on your Mac. Speech recognition happens on-device with Core ML. No accounts, no telemetry, no remote transcription queue. Summarize, rewrite, or use a custom prompt with Apple Intelligence. Long transcripts are divided and combined automatically. Browse local Markdown transcripts by title, topic, description, and date instead of searching through timestampedfrom yaprflow.com

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