For Writers

Dictate your next masterpiece

You think faster than you type. Yaps turns your spoken words into polished prose at over 150 words per minute — privately, locally, and without an internet connection. Just you, your voice, and the page.

See how it works

Words per minute

Faster than typing

Offline & private

Words sent to the cloud

Watch your words appear

Dictation

Google Docs — Draft Novel.docx

Listening…Hold Fn to dictate

Sound familiar?

You stare at a blank page, cursor blinking, waiting for the words to come

A brilliant idea hits while walking — gone by the time you sit down

Your wrists ache after marathon writing sessions and RSI flares up

Reading your draft silently misses awkward phrasing and rhythm issues

Cloud-based dictation tools process your unpublished manuscript on remote servers

Switching between note apps, dictation tools, and writing software breaks your flow

The Yaps way

Start talking and the words flow — dictation bypasses the blank page entirely

Capture ideas instantly with voice notes, searchable and ready when you are

Give your hands a rest — dictate for hours without touching the keyboard

Hear your prose read aloud with natural voices and catch every clunky sentence

Everything stays on your Mac. Your unpublished work never leaves your device

Dictate, record, edit, and listen — all in one app, no context switching

Built for the way writers work

Every feature in Yaps was designed with creative workflows in mind.

Dictation at 150+ WPM

Speak naturally and watch your words appear in real time. Yaps handles punctuation, paragraphs, and formatting so you can focus on the story.

Voice Notes for Ideas

Hit record when inspiration strikes — in the shower, on a walk, at 3 AM. Your voice notes are transcribed and searchable for later.

Hear Your Writing Read Back

Use text-to-speech with natural, human-sounding voices to hear your prose aloud. Catch rhythm issues, awkward phrasing, and typos your eyes skip over.

Studio Editor

Generate audiobook samples, narrated excerpts, or voice-over for book trailers with text-to-speech. Paste your text, pick a voice, and export as WAV with SRT subtitles — right from your Mac.

Smart History

Every dictation session is saved and searchable. Scroll back through weeks of sessions to find that perfect paragraph you spoke last Tuesday.

Works Offline, Always

Write in a cabin, on a plane, or at a coffee shop with spotty Wi-Fi. Yaps runs entirely on your Mac with no internet required.

Your writing workflow, spoken

Real ways writers use Yaps every day.

First Drafts

Dictate entire chapters, blog posts, or essays without touching the keyboard. Many writers find their voice sounds more natural than their typing.

“

She walked through the door and everything changed — new paragraph — the room was darker than she remembered...

”

Idea Capture

Record a quick voice note when a plot twist hits you mid-walk. Yaps transcribes it instantly and you can search it later by keyword.

“

Voice note: the antagonist's motivation — what if she was actually trying to protect someone?

”

Editing by Ear

Paste your draft and have Yaps read it aloud. You will hear problems your eyes glaze over: repeated words, clunky dialogue, sentences that run too long.

Audiobook Drafts

Use Studio to narrate sample chapters with Yaps voices. Test how your prose sounds before committing to a full audiobook production.

Screenwriting & Scripts

Dictate dialogue naturally — the way people actually talk. Yaps captures the cadence and rhythm that typed dialogue often loses.

“

SARAH — open paren — frustrated — close paren — I told you this would happen. JAMES — quietly — I know.

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Journaling & Freewriting

Start a timed freewrite session and just talk. No inner editor, no backspace key, no second-guessing. Just raw, unfiltered creative output.

Hear from people like you.

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“I dictated the entire first draft of my last novel with Yaps. 85,000 words in six weeks. My wrists thanked me, my editor thanked me, and honestly, the prose felt more alive than anything I have typed. There is something about speaking your story out loud that makes the characters breathe.”

Julia Whitmore

Novelist & Essayist

Writing tips from the blog

Guide

How Dictation Changed My Writing Process (And Can Change Yours)

I resisted dictation for years. I was a keyboard person. Then I tried it for a week and could not go back. Here is what changed, what surprised me, and how to build a voice writing workflow that actually works.

March 5, 2026

Productivity

How Text-to-Speech Makes You a Better Writer

Your eyes lie to you. They skim, they autocorrect, they see what they expect instead of what is there. Your ears are harder to fool. Here is how text-to-speech turns you into a sharper editor.

March 4, 2026

Productivity

Voice Notes Are the Best Way to Capture Ideas (Here's Why You're Not Using Them)

You have ideas all the time. In the shower. On a walk. In the middle of a conversation. Most of them vanish because the friction of typing a note is too high. Voice notes eliminate that friction entirely — and they capture more than just words.

February 24, 2026

Ready to write with your voice?

Start dictating your next chapter, blog post, or screenplay. Your voice never leaves your Mac.

Requires macOS 13.0+ (Apple Silicon recommended)