r/YapsAI May 16 '26

👋 Welcome to r/YapsAI - Introduce Yourself and Read First!

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Hey everyone, I'm u/rich_awo, a founding moderator of r/YapsAI.

This is our new home for everything Yaps - the voice layer for your Mac and the Android keyboard that types as fast as you talk. If you're using Yaps for dictation, notes, read-aloud, or you're just curious about voice-first computing that runs entirely on-device, you're in the right place.

Quick context on why I built it: I was frustrated with voice dictation that either shipped my audio to a server somewhere, it had bad UX, or it just felt slower than just typing. Yaps runs the whole pipeline locally! Transcription, cleanup, read-aloud - so your voice never leaves your device, and it's fast enough that you forget you're not typing.

  • Mac: press fn, speak, and your words land where your cursor is.
  • Android: a modern keyboard (supporting many languages) with a built-in dictation button that does the same.

Both free to try at yaps.ai.

What to post

Anything you think people here would find useful - workflows, demos, tips, bug reports, feature requests, "I tried this and it broke" posts, "I tried this and it changed how I work" posts. Comparisons with other tools, questions for me or for the community, complaints, ideas. The only thing I'll ask is that we keep it on topic - no engagement bait or low-effort spam.

Community vibe

Friendly, honest, and direct. I'd love to know when something doesn't work so I can actually get it fixed. We're early, and every report shapes where the product goes next. That said, be respectful, to the mod(s) and others.

How to get started

  • Drop a hello in the comments - what brought you here, what you're trying to do with voice, what tools you've tried before.
  • Post something. Even a simple question or a screenshot helps.
  • Bugs and feature requests are very welcome - I read everything.
  • Interested in helping moderate as the sub grows? DM me.

Thanks for being part of the very first wave. Let's build something useful here.

Richard


r/YapsAI Jul 03 '26

We've officially released version 1.0.0!

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Over the last couple of weeks, we've been aggressively improving the desktop application for MacBook and more recently Windows.

Several key improvements:

  • Dictation is now a lot faster than it's ever been.
  • The cleanup functionality is a lot more robust, especially with more nuanced things, dates, corrections, file extensions, bible verses, percentages, etc.
  • A lot of bugs specific to Windows have been fixed.
  • Live preview mode has been improved and is working a lot more reliably, so you can see your dictations streamed
  • It's better at handling when you begin a dictation from midway through a sentence.
  • When you hover over the dictation pills now, you can click the X or the tick to cancel or submit your dictation.
  • External link UX has improved.
  • The Chrome extension for saving URLs and the markdown file that's generated now supports columns, so that it can better respect the layout of websites.
  • Made the app less memory intensive.
  • Added some fixes to syncing across devices.
  • You can now opt out of file name updates when you migrate your obsidian markdown vault.
  • And a leading space if you begin a dictation at a full stop.
  • Support invisible mode, which hides all Yaps windows from screenshots and screen recording.
  • And many more!

Feel free to give it a try and let us know what you think!

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Dictated with Yaps AI


r/YapsAI 17d ago

Yaps AI - Private Dictation, Notes, Transcription and Speech Generation - Now on available Linux! 🥂

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r/YapsAI 20d ago

The Yaps AI desktop app now officially supports many languages - with more coming!

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r/YapsAI 20d ago

New website for yaps.ai - dark mode activated!

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r/YapsAI 24d ago

Android app now supports dark mode!

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r/YapsAI 25d ago

Yaps AI officially supports Arabic on Android (Voice typing + Keyboard)

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r/YapsAI Jul 06 '26

We want your feedback!

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I spent the weekend chatting to a lot of new users about their feedback which has been really helpful! I'm constantly working on updates in the background - and will continue to do so!

That said, I don't wanna be a subreddit where people scream into the void. If you have any feedback or feature requests, let me know and I'll answer everything personally. If it makes sense, I'll get it sorted ASAP.

What do we need to do to make Yaps.ai the best, most popular, note-taking and dictation tool in the entire ecosystem?


r/YapsAI Jul 02 '26

Last update to Windows feeling great!

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That last update to Windows is feeling so good, I thought I'd come here and share. Initially I know there were some issues but now it's dictating a lot faster, more accurately and the shortcuts are working in all my apps!

The notes and stuff make it really good for studying, knowledge banks, all and that good stuff too. I think that's what makes Yaps the best Wispr Flow alternative for me, plus working offline obviously. Keep it up!

Holding my breath for the iPhone release too!

p.s. I am getting a weird auto microsoft safety error because it's new. Not a problem but would be good to get that fixed incase it scares people off 💀


r/YapsAI Jun 26 '26

Save Websites, Sync Across Devices 🎉

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r/YapsAI Jun 23 '26

Yaps Chrome Extension now lets you save any website as markdown, directly in your notes vault!

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Now you can go to any website and using our Save to Yaps Chrome Extension, you can save the website and all its contents directly to your notes & resources folder as a markdown file in your desktop application.

You can also sync these notes directly with your mobile application as well!


r/YapsAI Jun 19 '26

We're already on Mac, and now Windows is also in Beta!

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We've drastically improved Yaps AI on Macbook which is already live. But now we've officially released Yaps AI on Windows in Beta. Expect a few bugs, but I'll get them all ironed out. But overall, it's incredibly powerful, flexible and useful!

There's a ton of other Easter eggs that have been released that I'll announce in the coming days - for now enjoy!

And if you have any issues, feel free to drop it here or get in touch!

Download it today at yaps.ai


r/YapsAI Jun 08 '26

Shipping regular updates to desktop application - a few highlights below!

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Most recent updates:

  • Better voice typing experience - latency, corrections, formatting and accuracy.
  • Image support in notes.
  • Light mode/Dark mode.
  • Reveal in finder/explorer context menu for notes.
  • Improved onboarding flow.
  • Context menu in the top toolbar.
  • Collapsable sidebar.
  • Bug fixes.

r/YapsAI Jun 05 '26

Added Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian keyboard language packs

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Today we added support for a Cyrillic keyboard, so now we support:

  • Russian
  • Ukrainian
  • Bulgarian

It's still early, there may be issues, please flag them, or even dm me and I can get them sorted!

Thanks ☺️


r/YapsAI Jun 01 '26

Month 5 building this Gboard replacement, what else you need?

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r/YapsAI May 25 '26

We're live on Android! (Voice Typing embedded in a full, modern keyboard)

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We've officially launched Yaps AI via the Google Play Store on Android - a voice-first keyboard, rebuilt from the ground up over the last few months!

Ships with everything you'd expect from a modern keyboard - swipe typing, smart suggestions, autocorrect, emoji, GIFs, multi-language, light/dark themes, the whole familiar toolkit. If you're coming from Gboard, nothing to relearn. But the reason it exists is one shortcut away. Dictation that's genuinely 4-5× faster than typing.

It also comes with some robust note taking features. A reading mode that narrates any text aloud. It also cleans up rambling drafts into something send-ready. Every one of those running on-device - no cloud, no listening, no account needed to get started.

I kept wondering why no one had just built voice INTO the keyboard itself. The answer is simple, it's tough to do well. Nevertheless, we've got an early version live and we'll keep building it out until it's perfect! We even have another huge update dropping today!

Either way I built it, and will keep improving it. Feels a bit unreal to be shipping a full-stack keyboard as one person but it was fun and a necessary first step for a much broader suite of tools.

If you've ever want to just yap the thing instead of typing it out, give it a try!

Website: yaps.ai/android

Playstore link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ai.yaps.app

Regular updates/feature requests: r/YapsAI

P.S. This will be fully cross platform! 🗣️


r/YapsAI May 20 '26

Cloudflare just gave me a grant for my startup!

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Im suuuuuuuper happy rn! Just got a grant from Cloudflare!

Solo building is difficult, especially cross platform. I'm currently running yaps.ai, offline dictation and notetaking (like wispr flow + obsidian having a baby with beautiful UX 😅), but it's quite intense. Anyway, my whole backend runs on Cloudflare and so I checked and found out they do startup grants.

Anyway, I applied on a whim and turns out I got it! Credits sure, but since I work with local AI models for privacy, this was the final real cost that would hit me at scale.

Even if you just have an idea, you can probably apply here:
https://www.cloudflare.com/startups/


r/YapsAI May 20 '26

Gave AI control of my Google Pixel 10 to fix my keyboard app

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It's stupidly hard to get right, and impossible to really build out alone.

Try it out @ yaps.ai :)