Build faster, speak freely
You wear every hat in the company. Between investor calls, product decisions, and the 47 emails you have not answered, typing is the bottleneck. Yaps lets you dictate, capture ideas, and transcribe meetings — all on your Mac, all offline, all private.
Words per minute dictated
Faster than typing emails
On-device processing
Bytes sent to any server
Voice commands that get things done
The founder grind
The Yaps way
Built for people who build things
Every feature designed to give founders back the one thing they never have enough of: time.
Dictation at 150+ WPM
Hold Fn and speak in any app — email, Notion, Slack, Google Docs. Auto-punctuation and formatting mean your dictated messages read as polished as typed ones. Clear your inbox between meetings.
Voice Notes for Ideas
The best startup ideas do not come at a desk. Hit record when inspiration strikes — walking, driving, or mid-conversation. Yaps transcribes instantly so you can search by keyword later.
Meeting Transcription (Coming Soon)
Coming soon: transcribe co-founder syncs, investor calls, and advisory sessions on-device. Every decision and action item will be captured, searchable, and never uploaded to a third-party server.
Private by Architecture
Your pitch deck narrative, cap table discussions, hiring plans, and competitive strategy never leave your Mac. No cloud processing, no data retention, no risk of exposure.
Works Everywhere, Offline
Dictate on a red-eye flight. Record a voice note at a noisy conference. Draft investor emails at a cafe with no Wi-Fi. Yaps runs entirely on Apple Silicon with zero internet dependency.
Smart Dictation History
Every dictation and voice note is timestamped and searchable. Find the product idea you spoke last Wednesday or the email you dictated before the board meeting — instantly.
Your startup workflow, voiced
Real ways founders use Yaps to move faster every day.
Investor Communications
Monthly updates, follow-up emails after pitch meetings, LP communications. Speak your update in five minutes, polish for two, and send. What used to consume an entire evening now takes under ten minutes.
Hi Sarah — quick update on March. We closed 14 new accounts, ARR is at 840K, and we are hiring two engineers. Happy to discuss the Series A timeline on Thursday.
”Product Ideation
Your best product insights do not arrive on schedule. Record a voice note when a customer call sparks an idea, when you spot a competitor weakness, or when a solution clicks at 2 AM.
Voice note: what if we flip the onboarding flow — show the value prop before asking for the signup? The drop-off is happening because people do not understand what they are getting.
”Proposals and Decks
Draft partnership proposals, sales decks, and strategy documents by speaking. Most founders find that their spoken narrative is more compelling than what they type — the conviction comes through.
Our platform reduces customer churn by 34 percent in the first 90 days. Here's how — new slide — the three key mechanisms are...
”Strategy Sessions
Transcribe co-founder whiteboard sessions, advisory board calls, and brainstorms. Capture the nuance of strategic discussions that typed notes inevitably flatten.
Customer Development
After a customer call, immediately dictate your takeaways while they are fresh. The patterns across dozens of recorded insights become your product roadmap.
Call with Acme Corp — they love the dashboard but need CSV export by Q2. Third customer this week asking for bulk import. Moving this up the roadmap.
”End-of-Day Recaps
Spend two minutes at the end of each day dictating what happened, what is blocked, and what is next. Over time, these become an invaluable record of your company's evolution.
Hear from people like you.
“I was spending my evenings writing investor updates and partnership proposals that I should have sent during the day. Now I dictate my monthly LP update in six minutes between meetings — it used to take me an hour and a half. But the real game-changer is voice notes. I have captured over 200 product ideas on walks, in the car, after customer calls. Twelve of those turned into shipped features. And the fact that none of it touches a cloud server matters when you are discussing term sheets and competitive strategy.”
Daniel Osei
Co-founder & CEO, Series A SaaS
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Move faster. Ship more.
Dictate emails. Capture ideas. Transcribe meetings. All on your Mac, all private, all offline.
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