Yap – free offline voice dictation for Mac/Windows/Linux (Wispr Flow alt)

- Yap is a free, open-source desktop app that lets you dictate text offline using a local AI speech-to-text model (Whisper). It runs on Mac, Windows, and Linux. - It's positioned as a free alternative to Wispr Flow, a paid, polished dictation tool that uses cloud-based AI to convert speech to text across apps. - The key differentiator: Yap runs entirely on your machine (no internet needed, no data leaves your computer). The tradeoff is that local models can be slower or less accurate than cloud-powered rivals like Wispr Flow or OpenAI's Whisper API. - This matters because dictation is becoming a mainstream way to write, code, and interact with computers, but most solutions either cost money, require internet, or send your voice data to a third party. Yap offers privacy and zero cost in exchange for some performance overhead.