Count the ums.
Find the pattern.
Paste a transcript or draft and see every filler, cliché, and wordy phrase highlighted — with rewrite suggestions. Nothing leaves your browser.
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How this works
A clean draft, without the cleanup.
This tool spots filler words after the fact. Yaps does it live — every time you dictate, your words arrive clean.
What we flag
Hesitations (um, uh, er, hmm), discourse markers (like, basically, actually), and filler phrases (you know, sort of, at the end of the day). All matched with word boundaries so they only trigger on real uses.
Why it matters
A 2% filler rate reads as confident. Above 5% starts to sound unsure. Podcasters, founders, and writers clean their drafts for a reason — the signal is in what you actually meant to say.
How Yaps fits in
Yaps runs a cleanup pass on every dictation. Fillers, false starts, and self-corrections are removed on the fly — you speak naturally and the text comes out polished.
Stop counting. Start dictating clean.
Yaps is a voice-to-text app that removes fillers automatically. Hold a key, speak, and polished text appears where your cursor is.
Ready to speak your mind?
Hold a key and talk. Yaps handles the fillers so you don't have to.
Requires macOS 13.0+ (Apple Silicon recommended)