Yubi
Talk to your Mac and let Yubi do the typing
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Details
- External ID
- 1267846
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Yubi
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 3, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 64
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.96
- Tags
- Productivity, Artificial Intelligence, Menu Bar Apps
Description
Yubi is a 6 MB Mac app. Hold the right Option key, talk, and your words land at the cursor. Hold right Command when you need help on screen. Your voice never leaves this Mac. Free to talk. Email sign in. No card for Free.
Enrichment
- Niche
- voice dictation and autocomplete tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- speech-to-text dictation tool for mac
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While wrapping a local speech-to-text model like Whisper into a menu bar app is straightforward, building an ultra-lightweight (6MB), native macOS accessibility app with seamless system-wide keystroke simulation, hotkey hooks, and screen context capture requires deep native Swift/macOS platform programming.
What it would actually take: The app requires a native Swift/Objective-C macOS application utilizing Apple's Accessibility APIs (AXUIElement) and CGEvent hooks for global key listening and text injection into arbitrary active windows. It also requires embedding an optimized, quantized local STT engine (like whisper.cpp or Apple's native SFSpeechRecognizer) tuned for minimal binary size and low-latency streaming without network calls. The primary hurdles are managing macOS sandboxing permissions, accessibility entitlements, and glitch-free caret text replacement across non-standard apps (browsers, Electron apps, terminals).
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 139 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #21 of 140 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 272 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Zero typing · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Coii VoiceInput · ph · 2026-09-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Moe · ph · 2026-09-16 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- SayKuku · ph · 2026-10-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Paluku · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- SOUND · ph · 2026-09-26 · 101 upvotes · similarity 0.40
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