OpenQuack
Menu-bar voice dictation: press a hotkey, speak, and the transcript is typed at the cursor using on-device Whisper.GetMIT
Yap
Dictate into any text field with a shortcut, transcribed on device by Apple’s speech framework without accounts or API keys.
MIT · Downloads from github.com
- License
- MIT
- Open source
- Source
- GitHub
- FrigadeHQ
- Verified
- 2026
About Yap
Yap waits in the menu bar for a global shortcut. While you speak, a small panel shows a waveform and a running transcript; pressing the shortcut again pastes the text into the app you were using. Past transcripts are kept locally so they can be copied again.
Transcription uses Apple's on-device speech framework, so no cloud service or key is involved. The project states that it requires macOS 26 on an Apple silicon Mac and does not support Intel machines.
Information
- Source code
- FrigadeHQ/yap
- License
- MIT
- Website
- frigade.com
- Download
- github.com
- Category
- Productivity
- Evidence checked
- Tags
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Sources and image credits
- github.com/FrigadeHQ/yap
- github.com/FrigadeHQ/yap/blob/main/LICENSE
- github.com/FrigadeHQ/yap/releases
- frigade.com/yap
- icon.png: Frigade, Inc.. MIT; upstream project asset, trademarks retained.
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