Yaps
Private, powerful AI Super-App that runs on your device
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Yaps is your private AI super app, bringing powerful offline AI tools together on your device. Use speech-to-text to dictate into any app, transcribe audio and video, turn text into speech, chat with your Markdown notes, and create captions. Local AI models keep your data on your device and work entirely offline. No scripts to wrangle, no per-use cloud credits, just one AI assistant for your everyday work. Available on Mac, Windows, Linux, Android, iPhone and iPad.
PH · launched Sep 18, 2026 · 9 upvotes (top 5%) · 0 views
Niche: ai personal assistant software · 354 launches, 21 in the last 7 days ▼ -30% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Agent / copilot
- Prosumer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Productivity
- Notes
- Artificial Intelligence
- OpenAI Day
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Could you build this?
Partial While wrapping open-source models like Whisper and Llama.cpp inside an Electron or native UI is feasible, managing cross-platform local hardware acceleration and background system audio capture is non-trivial.
What it would actually take: The architecture requires a native desktop shell (Swift/Electron/Tauri) bundling ONNX Runtime, llama.cpp, and Whisper.cpp with platform-specific hardware acceleration (Apple Metal / CoreML / DirectML). Hard parts include low-latency OS-level accessibility/audio capture hooks and memory/thermal management when running concurrent generative models locally.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 185 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #20 of 186 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 316 days after the earliest competitor.
- YapBetter · ph · 2026-11-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Yap · hn · 2026-07-27 · 104 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Yappng · ph · 2026-11-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Morph AI · ph · 2026-10-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Hey Asistan · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- EasySay · ph · 2026-11-03 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- YAPVO · ph · 2026-11-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Yacti · ph · 2026-10-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.39
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