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yap for Mac

On-device push-to-talk dictation and meeting transcription that inserts text at the cursor.

By TerrifiedBug. Free and open source, MIT licence.

Get it with OpenDMG View source on GitHub

yap at a glance

Version
0.3.1
Released
7 September 2026
Download size
3.6 MB
Works on
Apple silicon and Intel
Licence
MIT
Category
Audio and Music
Developer
TerrifiedBug
GitHub stars
5

About yap

On-device dictation and meeting transcription for macOS. Hold a key, yap, get text at your cursor at lightspeed transcription.

How to install yap on a Mac

  1. Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
  2. Search for yap and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 0.3.1 from TerrifiedBug's own GitHub release.
  3. Open it. The download is checked against its SHA-256 fingerprint and its signature is checked on your Mac before it lands in Applications.

Updates to yap show up in OpenDMG and install with one button. No account is needed.

Prefer to do it by hand? The developer's file is on GitHub: yap-0.3.1.dmg (3.6 MB).

What is new in yap 0.3.1

Meeting detection now names what has your microphone, and ignoring something
actually makes it go away.

- The prompt and the recording banner name the client in the two cases where
 they used to say nothing at all. A helper process counts as the app that
 owns it, so one "Ignore" covers every helper Chrome or Teams starts. A
 background process counts as itself, so the speech service macOS keeps
 listening with when "Hey Siri" is on shows up as `CoreSpeech` and can be
 ignored like an app. Before, either of those produced a bare "Recording
 meeting" pill with no Ignore button on it — nothing to click, and no way to
 stop it happening again short of turning detection off.
- An ignored app is now genuinely out of the picture. It used to stay the
 client yap was following, which hid everything else behind it: once you had
 ignored a process that holds the microphone for hours, no real call could be
 detected until it let go.

## What's Changed
* Write release notes by hand by @TerrifiedBug in https://github.com/TerrifiedBug/yap/pull/21
* Name the process that has the microphone by @TerrifiedBug in https://github.com/TerrifiedBug/yap/pull/22

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/TerrifiedBug/yap/compare/v0.3.0...v0.3.1

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