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yapyap
Own your voice again. Local-first voice & meeting recorder.
216 followers
Own your voice again. Local-first voice & meeting recorder.
216 followers
Every meeting recorder ships your audio to the cloud and bills you monthly. yapyap does neither. It records, transcribes, names your speakers, and turns talk into summaries and action items entirely on your own machine. “Lenses” reshape each recording into whatever you need: a summary, a to-do list, or a decision log. You can install more or build your own. Prefer the cloud? Optionally connect any major provider: OpenAI, Anthropic, Groq. Either way, yapyap is yours forever. No subscription.
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👋 Hey Product Hunt!
I got sick and tired of paying subscriptions for everything in my life.
The latest addition? A transcription app that was charging me every month to upload my conversations to their servers.
So I built the opposite.
yapyap records and transcribes conversations entirely on your machine. Speaker identification, summaries, action items, custom analysis. All local. No account.
No bot is joining your calls, and no audio is leaving your device.
The parts I'm most stubborn about:
🔒 Nothing leaves your device.
Transcription, diarization, and the AI analysis all run on your hardware. Not “encrypted in transit.” Not “we don't train on your data”. Just: it never goes anywhere.
💸 You buy it once.
No monthly fee, no lock-in, and no archive holding your words hostage. Your recordings stay searchable, exportable, and yours. Forever.
🔍 It's a memory, not a transcript dump.
Everything you've ever recorded is searchable, and you can point custom analyses (“lenses”) at any conversation.
📱 There's a phone app too
For the conversations that don't happen at your desk. It syncs to your desktop over your network and no cloud in between.
Software used to work this way. I still believe it can.
I'd genuinely love your feedback!
Own your voice again.
@xiduzo love the idea that it's keeping everything local, mate! I think people really value privacy of your data and this sounds pretty useful!
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@sergei_suverev Thank you!
And yes, I also find it a skewed deal to be paying money for a service that is processing, and most likely training on, my voice (and meetings).
@xiduzo does this works only once the Desktop is paired ?
Downloaded the app from Google Play store version 1.2.0, Recorded one "Test Audio", renaming it and also clicked on "Sync now".
Other than 1 recording, nothing comes up ie. Transcript, Summaries or action.
Would like to know if this works only once Desktop paired or even on Mobile independently too. Till now, over mobile, its behaving just like a "recorder". Happy to discuss further.
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@ankur_bolia Thank you for trying out yapyap!
The mobile app is, for now, just meant to be yapyap “on the go,” a simple recorder you have always with you and available.
The desktop app is what is doing all the heavy lifting: transcripts, summaries, actions, and all other insights. After pairing your phone with the desktop, your recordings get synced and processed locally.
I hope this clarifies it. 😊
ps. I am also working on a way to have all the transcripts, summaries, actions, and more ready “to go” on the mobile app as well. This is work in progress, so stay tuned.
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@rudy_parengal1 Thank you so much 🫰
And… yikes!
That is not a very pleasant first experience. Sorry about that.
A little catch-22 in my promise to keep everything local. I am not tracking anything, so I also lose some visibility here.
Either way, let me do a full wipe on my Windows machine and see if I get into a similar issue.
Meanwhile, if you'd like, you could contact me at hello@yap-yap.app so I could get you up and running!
Cheers,
Sander
Local-first matters more for meeting audio than it does for text. A recording carries everyone else in the room, none of whom agreed to anything, and most notetakers quietly ship all of it somewhere. Keeping it on the machine is the only version I'd feel comfortable switching on during a client call.
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@rohanmanthani very much agreed!
I can only imagine how many meetings are, unfortunately, being recorded without the consent of everybody in the room.
Macaly
local first is the right call, cloud recorders always creeped me out 👀 nice one
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@petrkovacik thanks!
And yes, after getting yet another subscription, I also started to ponder about this.
Why do I need to pay for this and why am I shipping my voice and that of others to the cloud?