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No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“which is the only one I've seen so far that uses the new/improved speech-to-text API in MacOS 26 that outperforms the Whisper models.”
“Pretty cool. Added to this awesome-style GitHub repo I maintain”
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“If you want to use this on the CLI: https://github.com/finnvoor/yap.”
“yap interface is nicer though.”
“Someone made a cli utility to play with it: https://github.com/finnvoor/yap”
Caveats and dissent
“The brew install path in the readme doesn't seem to work”
“this looks like yet another AI generated whisper wrapper”
Often compared with
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“working on this since approximately when claude code was first released”
“My hope is just for my app to be a useful supplement.”
Threads where it came up
- Show HN: Yap – OSS on-device voice dictation for macOS with no model to download 6 mentions
- Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor 2 mentions
- Show HN: FnScribe – Open-source, offline dictation for macOS 1 mention
- Yap – free offline voice dictation for Mac/Windows/Linux (Wispr Flow alt) 1 mention
- Siri AI 1 mention
- Show HN: Ghost Pepper – 100% local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS 1 mention
Also written as Yap. Data: yap.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 12
“which is the only one I've seen so far that uses the new/improved speech-to-text API in MacOS 26 that outperforms the Whisper models.”
“There is a pre-existing transcription CLI app with the same name.”
“Pretty cool. Added to this awesome-style GitHub repo I maintain”
“an app layer for the new speech to text APIs introduced in OS 26”
“That would be a super trivial fork actually!”
“i'd be happy to switch to yours if you add parakeet support”
“The brew install path in the readme doesn't seem to work”
“If you want to use this on the CLI: https://github.com/finnvoor/yap.”
“yap interface is nicer though.”
“this looks like yet another AI generated whisper wrapper”
“Someone made a cli utility to play with it: https://github.com/finnvoor/yap”
“you can also use `yap dictate`”