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Yaprflow
Free, private transcription that lives in your Mac menu bar
Free, open-source voice-to-text for macOS. Press a hotkey, speak, and paste — 100% local, real-time, no accounts, no cloud, no telemetry.
Why I built this: I saw WhisperFlow raised $80M and thought... wait, transcription is just running a model locally. Most Macs can handle this for free. So I built an alternative.
What it does: - Lives in your menu bar - ⌘T to start transcribing - See text stream live as you speak - ⌘T again to stop — auto-copied to clipboard - Paste anywhere
The tech that makes it possible: Instead of Whisper (chunked, slower), I used NVIDIA's Parakeet TDT. It actually streams token-by-token, not chunk-by-chunk. 6% word error rate vs Whisper's ~10%. Core ML optimized for Mac.
About Yaprflow on Product Hunt
“Free, private transcription that lives in your Mac menu bar”
Yaprflow was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #160 on the daily leaderboard. Free, open-source voice-to-text for macOS. Press a hotkey, speak, and paste — 100% local, real-time, no accounts, no cloud, no telemetry.
On the analytics side, Yaprflow competes within Open Source, GitHub and Menu Bar Apps — topics that collectively have 121.8k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Yaprflow performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Yaprflow?
Yaprflow was hunted by Timothy Moreton. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Yaprflow including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Timothy Moreton
👋 Hey PH! I'm Tim, the maker behind YaprFlow.
Why I built this:
I saw WhisperFlow raised $80M and thought... wait, transcription is just running a model locally. Most Macs can handle this for free. So I built an alternative.
What it does:
- Lives in your menu bar
- ⌘T to start transcribing
- See text stream live as you speak
- ⌘T again to stop — auto-copied to clipboard
- Paste anywhere
The tech that makes it possible:
Instead of Whisper (chunked, slower), I used NVIDIA's Parakeet TDT. It actually streams token-by-token, not chunk-by-chunk. 6% word error rate vs Whisper's ~10%. Core ML optimized for Mac.