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Talk.

Reply to Sarah
I think we should push the auth refactor to next sprint. The design team still needs another week.
Fn Dictate·Cmd+N Notes·Ctrl+Option+Y Ask about your screen

Hold the pebble. Say anything. Let go and the last words still land.

It writes.

Yap turns speech into clean, formatted text wherever your cursor is. Punctuation and paragraphs are fixed. Your words stay yours. Free. Sign in with ChatGPT or bring your own OpenAI key.

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How it works

Hold Fn and talk.

Yap types what you say at your cursor, in any app, and checks whether you are in email, chat or code so the formatting fits. Keep going as you let go: words you say just before releasing still make it in.

Or press Cmd+N and keep going.

Record a whole meeting from your Mac's microphone. No bot joins the call and nobody gets an announcement. When you stop, Yap labels each speaker by name and hands you a clean note with a title.

Then ask about your screen.

Press Ctrl+Option+Y and ask about the window you are in, by voice or text. Guide answers as if it wrote the document, can search a folder you share, and never looks at Yap itself.

Reply to Sarah
Thanks for the update. I will send the revised plan by Friday, and James can take the board.
Listening… let go to finish

Sprint planning sync

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CleanRawGuide
Sarah

I think we should push the auth refactor to next sprint. The design team still needs another week on the new flows.

Matt

Agreed. Let's keep this sprint on the API migration and pull auth in once the mocks are signed off.

James

Works for me. I will update the board.

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Guide

Ready
CleanRawGuide
You spoken
Why does the Q3 number look low?
Guide looking at Numbers — Q3 budget

Row 14 is still a forecast. The 41k in B14 was never replaced with the actual invoice total, so the quarter sums short by about 9k.

Ask about what's on your screen→

The app, at its real size

Untitled recording

Recording
CleanRawGuide

Listening to the room. Yap writes it up when you stop.

Stop recording
Record the roomPress Cmd+N when the meeting starts. No bot, no integration.

Client feedback call

Ready
CleanRawNotes

Decisions

  • Ship the new onboarding on the 14th.
  • Keep the old pricing page until Q1.

Actions

  • Matt: send the revised scope.
  • Priya: book the usability test.
CopyRegenerate clean text
Notes from a transcriptOne press turns the conversation into decisions and actions.

Guide

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CleanRawGuide
Looking at Front windowProject docs
You
Which contract mentions the 30 day notice?
Guide searching Project docs

Supplier agreement v3, clause 9.2. It says 30 days written notice, and the renewal paragraph points back to it.

Search a folder you chooseGuide tells you what it is doing as it goes.

Guide

Ready
CleanRawGuide

Guide will send screenshots to OpenAI

To answer, Guide sends a picture of the window you choose (and any file text it reads) to OpenAI using your ChatGPT plan or API key. Nothing is stored by Yap. Do you want to go ahead?

Go aheadNot now
Asked before it looksGuide only sees a window after you agree, and only when you ask.

Connect Yap to OpenAI

Sign in with your ChatGPT plan, or use your own key. Either is stored in the macOS Keychain, never in a plain file.

Continue with ChatGPT
Or use an API key••••••••••••••••

Get one at platform.openai.com/api-keys

Finish setup
Set up in a minuteContinue with ChatGPT or paste a key (Yap checks it first), then it walks you through each permission.

Yours to control

Settings

Yap 1.3.1

Connection

Signed in with your ChatGPT plan, or an API key. Either way it lives in your macOS Keychain.

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Models

Live transcriptionAuto-updated
Note cleanupAuto-updated
Guide conversationAuto-updated

Voice

Guide speaks replies on

Shared folders

Project docs

Window and Dock

Show Yap in the Dock

Quit Yap

Your notes

Plain Markdown files in ~/.yap/

Plan or key, in the KeychainFree to use. Sign in with ChatGPT (no API key) or pay OpenAI for what you use. No Yap account.
Models that healIf OpenAI retires a model, Yap picks a replacement your key can use and tells you.
Folders you chooseGuide can search only the folders you share, and says what it found.
A voice for GuideReplies are spoken if you want them to be, and silent if you do not.
Always within reachA pebble on screen, an icon in the Dock and the menu bar. Quit any time.
Local firstNotes live as Markdown on your Mac. No cloud, no sync, no telemetry.

Questions

What does it cost?

Nothing. Yap is free. Sign in with your ChatGPT Plus or Pro plan (usage counts toward your plan limits), or bring your own OpenAI API key and pay OpenAI directly for what you use.

What leaves my Mac?

With an API key, audio goes to OpenAI for transcription and clean-up. When you sign in with ChatGPT, speech is turned into text on your Mac and only the text goes to OpenAI. Guide sends a picture of the window you ask about, only after you agree and only when you ask. Notes, settings and your key stay on your Mac. There is no telemetry, no analytics and no account.

Do I need to install anything else?

No. Yap is a normal Mac app with everything built in. Open the disk image, drag Yap to Applications and open it.

Which Macs does it run on?

macOS 12 Monterey or later, on Apple Silicon or Intel. There is one download for each.

Why does it ask for permissions?

Microphone to hear you. Accessibility to type at your cursor. Input Monitoring to notice the Fn key. Speech Recognition if you sign in with ChatGPT. Screen Recording only if you use Guide. Setup walks you through each one and updates by itself when you grant it.

Fn opens the emoji picker instead of Yap

In System Settings, Keyboard, set "Press the globe key to" to Do Nothing. macOS then leaves the key to Yap.

Does Guide look at Yap itself?

Never. It ignores its own window and looks at the one you were using.

Is it finished?

No. Yap is alpha software and you may meet rough edges. It is signed and notarised by Apple, so it opens without warnings.

Start
talking.

Open the disk image, drag Yap to Applications, and a short setup connects ChatGPT (or your key) and asks for the permissions it needs.

Get Yap for Mac

Version 1.3.1 · macOS 12 or later · free

Download Yap 1.3.1

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