Client Confidentiality by Design
Yaps processes all speech-to-text on your device. No audio or text is transmitted anywhere. Your client communications, case strategies, and privileged information stay where they belong.
For Legal Professionals
Dictate briefs with complete confidentiality
Yaps gives attorneys, paralegals, and legal teams fast dictation with core desktop speech processing on-device. Connected services are documented separately, and each firm remains responsible for reviewing confidentiality, retention, access-control, and professional obligations.
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Built for legal work
Privacy, speed, and reliability - the three things legal professionals need most from a dictation tool.
Dictate Legal Documents Fast
Speak your briefs, memos, demand letters, and contracts at over 150 words per minute. Get first drafts done in a fraction of the time.
Works Without Internet
In a courthouse, on a flight to a deposition, or working from a secure facility - Yaps runs entirely on your own machine with zero internet dependency.
Proofread by Listening
Have Yaps read back your brief or contract with natural text-to-speech. Catch errors, ambiguous language, and inconsistencies your eyes miss.
Searchable Case Notes
Every dictation is saved to Smart History. Search across months of dictated notes to find that key detail from a client call or deposition summary.
More Billable Hours, Less Typing
Dictation at 3x typing speed means you spend less time on document production and more time on the legal analysis your clients are paying for.
Your legal workflow, accelerated
How attorneys and legal professionals use Yaps day to day.
Case Briefs & Motions
Dictate the facts, legal analysis, and argument sections of your briefs by voice. Many attorneys find their arguments are sharper when spoken aloud first.
“The defendant's motion to dismiss should be denied. Under the standard set forth in Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662, the plaintiff has stated a plausible claim...”
Client Memos
Draft client advisory memos and internal research memos by speaking your analysis. Yaps captures the natural flow of legal reasoning.
“Memorandum to file. Re: Smith acquisition due diligence. New paragraph. After reviewing the target's lease agreements, three material concerns have emerged...”
Deposition & Meeting Notes
Immediately after a client call or deposition, dictate your observations and key takeaways while they are fresh. Searchable and time-stamped.
“Post-deposition notes: the witness was evasive on the timeline of the board meeting. Follow up on the email chain referenced at approximately 2:15 PM.”
Court Preparation
Prepare oral argument outlines and opening statements by dictating them first. Hearing your argument spoken helps refine delivery and structure.
Contract Review Notes
Dictate clause-by-clause commentary as you review contracts. Build a comprehensive review memo without switching between documents and a notepad.
“Section 4.2 indemnification clause - this is broader than market standard. Recommend narrowing to direct damages only and capping at the purchase price.”
Time Entry Descriptions
Dictate your billable time entries at the end of each task. Speaking your descriptions takes seconds and produces more detailed entries for clients.
“0.8 hours - reviewed and revised draft purchase agreement. Negotiated seller's requested changes to representations and warranties in sections 3 and 4.”
Hear from people like you.
“Confidentiality is not negotiable in my practice. When I found out Yaps processes everything on-device, that was the deciding factor. I dictate case briefs, client memos, and deposition notes - all of it stays on my MacBook. I am getting first drafts done in half the time, and the quality of my initial arguments is better because I am speaking them through rather than typing word by word. My partners have started asking what changed.”
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There are more dictation apps for MacBook than ever in 2026. Most do one thing: speech-to-text. Yaps pairs polished voice typing with a markdown vault and local Git checkpoints, which is why it sits at the top of this list. Here are the 11 worth knowing, and which one fits how you actually work.
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