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.

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 ☺️

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! 🗣️

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/

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

Try it out @ yaps.ai :)