Your voice, your business, your Mac
You wear every hat in the company — strategist, writer, marketer, accountant, account manager. Half your day disappears into typing proposals, drafting client emails, and writing content that keeps the pipeline full. Yaps lets you dictate at 150+ words per minute instead of typing at 40, turning a three-hour proposal into a 45-minute first draft. Capture ideas by voice the instant they arrive — in the shower, on a walk, between calls. Everything processes on your Mac, so client-sensitive work stays private. No cloud. No subscription stack. No Wi-Fi required. Just you, your voice, and more billable hours in the day.
Words per minute by voice
Faster than typing
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Proposals drafted at speaking speed
The freelancer's time trap
The Yaps advantage
Built for the freelance life
Speed, privacy, and flexibility — the three things freelancers cannot compromise on.
Fast Proposal Dictation
Speak your project proposals, scope documents, and pitch emails at over 150 words per minute. Get the first draft down in a fraction of the typing time so you can move on to the work that actually pays.
Client-Safe Privacy
Yaps processes all speech on your Mac. No audio or text is ever transmitted. Client contracts, pricing discussions, and business strategies stay completely private — not because of a privacy policy, but because the data never leaves your device.
Voice Notes for Ideas On the Go
Capture ideas, to-dos, and project thoughts the moment they occur. Walking, commuting, cooking — speak it and Yaps transcribes locally. No more losing the perfect pitch angle because you were away from your desk.
TTS Proofreading
Have Yaps read your proposals, blog posts, and client emails aloud with natural text-to-speech. Catch awkward phrasing, unclear pricing language, and tone mismatches that your eyes skip over when reading silently.
Searchable History
Every dictation and voice note is saved with a timestamp. Search across weeks and months of work to find that client quote, the pricing rationale you drafted last Tuesday, or the blog idea you captured on a walk three weeks ago.
Offline Everywhere
Coffee shops with terrible Wi-Fi, coworking spaces with captive portals, airports between connections, the park on a sunny afternoon — Yaps runs entirely on your Mac with zero internet dependency. Your office is wherever you are.
Your freelance workflow, unlocked
How independent professionals use Yaps to get more done in less time.
Client Proposals
Dictate project scopes, deliverable outlines, timelines, and pricing rationale by voice. Get the first draft out of your head and onto the page while your thinking is sharpest, then refine in editing.
The project will consist of three phases: brand audit and competitive analysis over two weeks, visual identity development over four weeks, and brand guidelines documentation with a final presentation. Total investment: twelve thousand dollars.
”Email Responses
Stop spending 20 minutes crafting a three-paragraph client email. Speak your response naturally, let Yaps transcribe it, and edit for tone. Client communication that used to eat your morning now takes minutes.
Hi Sarah, thanks for the feedback on the second round of revisions. I have incorporated all three changes to the header layout and updated the color palette per your notes. The revised files are attached. Let me know if you would like to schedule a call to walk through the final version before we move to development.
”Project Brainstorming
When a new project lands, speak through your initial approach, creative direction, and potential challenges before you start executing. Talking through a project out loud often surfaces insights that staring at a blank screen does not.
Initial thoughts on the Martinez rebrand: their current positioning is too corporate for the audience they want to reach. I am thinking a warmer color palette, hand-drawn illustration style, and a tagline that leans into their founder story. Need to research competitors in the artisanal food space before the discovery call.
”Meeting Prep Notes
Before a client call, dictate your agenda, talking points, and questions. After the call, immediately capture decisions, action items, and follow-ups while they are fresh. Everything is searchable for the next meeting.
Pre-call notes for the Greenfield project: confirm timeline for phase two, ask about their internal review process for the copy, raise the question of photography budget. Post-call: they approved the revised timeline, want copy delivered by March 15th, and will handle photography internally.
”Content Creation
Blog posts, newsletter drafts, social media copy, case studies — speak your first draft instead of wrestling with a blank page. Many freelancers find their writing voice is more natural and engaging when they literally use their voice.
Working title: Five Things I Learned Redesigning a SaaS Dashboard. Opening hook: most dashboard redesigns fail because they start with the interface instead of the workflow. Paragraph one: when the client first showed me their analytics dashboard, my instinct was to simplify. But the real problem was not complexity — it was sequence.
”End-of-Day Brain Dumps
Before you close the laptop, spend two minutes dictating everything that is in your head — tomorrow's priorities, unresolved client questions, that idea that popped up during lunch. Start the next morning with clarity instead of trying to remember what you were thinking.
End of day: finish the Henderson logo revisions first thing tomorrow, send the invoice for the Patel project — it has been 30 days. Need to follow up with the agency about the subcontract rate. Blog post idea: write about how I structure my client onboarding process. Also: renew the domain for the portfolio site before Friday.
”Hear from people like you.
“I tracked my time religiously for a month before and after switching to Yaps. Before: I was spending about 11 hours per week on non-billable writing — proposals, client emails, project notes, blog content for my own site. After: that dropped to under 4 hours. Same output, sometimes better because dictating feels more natural than typing when I am explaining a concept or pitching an approach. The privacy aspect sealed it for me — I work with clients in fintech and healthcare, and their legal teams would lose their minds if they knew I was running client briefs through a cloud transcription service. With Yaps everything stays on my MacBook. No servers, no logs, no risk. And it works at the coffee shop where the Wi-Fi is barely functional, which is where I do half my best thinking.”
Priya Mehta
Freelance UX Consultant
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