Talk to your AI
like a teammate.

Yappr is a voice dictation app for macOS, built for people who build with AI. You hold a key and say what you want the way you would say it to a colleague; Yappr turns what you meant into the prompt your agent needs — the goal, the context, the tasks and the constraints you spoke, sorted and pasted at your cursor in Claude Code, Cursor or the terminal. The same sentence lands as an ordinary message in Slack, iMessage or email. It can also rewrite selected text from a spoken instruction, write a whole email from one spoken sentence, and spell the names and jargon in your own dictionary right, in every app.

Click into the prompt box, hold Control, and say what you want the way you would explain it to a colleague — out of order, with the ums. Let go. Yappr pastes the result at your cursor, sorted into a goal, the context and the tasks, with every file name and "don't touch that" you said still in it. Changed your mind halfway? Press Escape and nothing is pasted. There is nothing to install inside the editor: it works in the terminal, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code and any other app you can type in.

That's what it's built for. Yappr sees which app you're in and whether an AI agent is listening — Claude Code in your terminal, or the agent inside Cursor and VS Code — and a real request arrives as a brief. A quick "please fix this" is left as you said it, and a plain shell with no agent gets your words, not a brief. Spoken file names come out as file names — "app dot tsx" becomes app.tsx. Tell Yappr about your project and it uses that to understand you — which thing "the notch" is, how your names are spelled — without pasting it into the prompt.

Because writing down what you said is a different job from working out what you meant. Claude Code, VS Code and Cursor all added dictation in 2026, all free, all good — and none of them restructures anything. Each one also stops at the edge of the window it ships in, so the pull request, the Slack reply and the email are back to typing. Yappr decides instead: the same ramble lands as a brief in your agent, a sentence in Slack and a proper email in Gmail — no second hotkey, no wake phrase to remember. If you only ever dictate short prompts into one tool, the built-in one is genuinely enough.

No. It reorganizes, and it never summarizes. Your ramble comes out under Goal, Context, Constraints and Tasks — plus Verify, when you said how you'd check the work — with every file name, error code, condition and "don't touch X" you spoke still in there. If you said eight things, eight things land. Rather keep your own words in paragraphs, without the headings? That is one setting. We call this prompt shaping.

Yes, and it's the one place Yappr writes rather than edits. Say "email Sam that the beta slips a week and ask if Thursday works" and you get the email, not your sentence with the ums taken out. Same for a prompt: describe what you want built and it comes back as the brief. It won't invent facts you didn't give it — a one-line brief makes a short email, which is correct rather than unfinished.

The audio is turned into text on your own Mac. That text is then sent to a third-party service to be cleaned up and shaped, because that part does not run well locally yet. We do not keep it — unless you choose to send us a bug report, which you read in full first and which is deleted after 90 days — and we are not going to make promises about a company we do not control — what we send, and what we know about how it is handled, is set out in the privacy policy.

No, and it never takes screenshots. It reads a few labels instead: which app is in front and the title of its window — in a browser, the tab's address too — what kind of box your cursor is in, and anything you have highlighted. That is how the same sentence comes out differently in iMessage and in a pull request. The title and the address stay on your Mac; what goes out with your words is the app's name, like "Slack" or "Cursor", and the privacy policy lists the rest.

Wispr cleans up your speech, and so do we — and both will rewrite a selection when you say the change. The difference is what happens to the shape of what you said. Talking to a coding agent, your ramble arrives as a brief: the goal, the context, the constraints and the tasks, with every detail you spoke still in it. And say what an email should do and Yappr writes the email, rather than handing back your sentence with the ums taken out.

Every feature, and fifty polished dictations a week. Your rambles turned into clear briefs for your coding agent, whole emails from one spoken sentence, any selected text rewritten by saying what's wrong with it, the right tone for each app, the dictionary that keeps your names and jargon right, and all three hotkey behaviors — none of it is held back for Pro. Polished means fillers, stutters and false starts removed; past fifty, dictation keeps working, it just stops going out for the polish. No card. Pro lifts the weekly cap, and that is the only difference.

Every new account starts with 14 days of Pro — no card, nothing to cancel. When they run out you are on Free: every feature, 50 polished dictations a week, and dictation never stops. Every account also has an invite code. A friend who enters yours within 7 days of signing up gets 14 extra days of Pro at once, and when they have dictated 1,000 words, a month is added to yours — for up to 12 friends. Words are counted on the dictations that get polished, so very short ones do not count.

For anything you can say out loud, yes. There are limits, and these are all of them: 120 polished dictations an hour and 600 in a day, and 30 minutes of polished speech in any hour. One recording runs for up to 10 minutes; then it stops, types what you said as usual, and you press again to carry on. They exist so that one runaway script, or a key left recording through a lecture, cannot run up the bill for everybody else. The heaviest real user we have measured does about 44 dictations a day — a few minutes of talking — so you are unlikely to meet any of them. If you did, nothing breaks: dictation keeps working and cleanup falls back to what runs on your Mac until the window clears, exactly like Free past fifty. We would rather print the numbers than say “fair use” and leave you guessing.

macOS only, today. Windows and Linux are not supported yet, and we would rather say that than point you at a beta you cannot join. If you need them now, the comparison post covers which tools do. On a Mac, Yappr needs Apple silicon; it does not run on Intel Macs.