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Yap for iPhone

Private dictation on your iPhone, in any app.

Switch to the Yap keyboard, tap the microphone and speak: your words appear as clean, punctuated text where you were writing. Speech recognition runs entirely on your iPhone, so your recordings never leave it.

Install the Yap iPhone betaSetup guide

iPhone 12 Pro, 13 Pro, 14 or newer, iOS 17 or later. Installs through Apple’s TestFlight app. $6.90 USD/month or $69 USD/year. 3 days free with a free account, no card, then a 10-day trial with a card.

Globe key, talk, check mark.

  1. 01

    Choose Yap.

    Touch and hold the globe key below your keyboard in Messages, Mail, Notes, WhatsApp or any other app, and pick it.

  2. 02

    Speak.

    Punctuation and capital letters are added for you. Dictations can run up to five minutes.

  3. 03

    Tap the check mark.

    Your words are inserted where you were writing. Yap keeps the microphone ready for a few minutes, so the next dictation starts at once.

Never uploaded.

Your audio is processed on your iPhone and never sent anywhere. Read our privacy policy.

Works offline.

After a one-time download of the speech model, dictation works with no connection.

History on the phone.

Your dictation history stays on your iPhone.

No keyboard switching

25 languages, detected by themselves.

Each dictation is recognized in the language you speak: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Estonian, Finnish, Swedish, Danish, Dutch, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Greek, and Maltese. The app’s own screens are in English.

Already on your iPhone

Apple Dictation or Yap?

Apple Dictation

Yap

  • Free for 3 days with a free account and no card, then Yap Pro.
  • 25 languages detected per dictation, with no keyboard to switch.
  • Recognition always on the iPhone, and a history you keep.
  • One subscription also covers Yap on your Mac, Windows PC and Android phone.

If you dictate in one language and Apple’s results suit you, the built-in dictation may be all you need. Yap is for people who switch languages, want every dictation kept on the phone, or use it on their computer too.

A few minutes

Set it up.

  1. Create your free account

    3 days free. No card. Type your email. Tap Email me a code. Enter the code from the email.

  2. Allow the microphone

    Yap hears you only while you dictate. Tap Allow microphone. Tap Allow.

  3. Turn on the Yap keyboard

    So you can dictate in every app. Tap Keyboards. Turn on Yap. Turn on Allow Full Access. Tap Allow. Tap ◀ Yap at the top left.

  4. Download the speech model

    One download, then Yap works offline. Tap Download. Wi-Fi is best: it is about 800 MB.. Keep Yap open until it is ready..

  5. Dictate in any app

    Try it here first. Touch and hold 🌐 below the keyboard. Choose Yap. Tap the microphone and talk. Tap ✓ and your words appear.

Questions.

Does Yap work offline on iPhone?
Yes. After a one-time download of the speech model, Yap recognizes your speech on the iPhone with no connection. Your audio is never uploaded.
Which iPhones does it run on?
iPhone 12 Pro, 13 Pro, 14 or newer, iOS 17 or later. On-device speech recognition needs the memory of these models to run the speech model on the phone.
How do I switch to the Yap keyboard?
Add the Yap keyboard once in Settings, then touch and hold the globe key below your keyboard in any app and choose Yap. Tap the microphone, speak, and tap the check mark.
Do I have to change keyboards to dictate in another language?
No. Yap detects the language of each dictation by itself, in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Estonian, Finnish, Swedish, Danish, Dutch, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Greek, and Maltese.
What does it cost?
3 days free with a free account, no card, then a 10-day trial with a card. Then $6.90 USD a month or $69 USD a year. One subscription covers Yap on your iPhone, Mac, Windows PC and Android phone.

On Android? See Yap for Android. On a computer, Yap runs on Mac and Windows.

From the library

Dictation and Voice to Text on iPhone and Android

Every iPhone, iPad, Android phone, Samsung Galaxy and Apple Watch already has free voice typing in its keyboard: turn it on once, tap the microphone key and speak, and in many languages the speech is turned into text on the device itself, even with no internet. Speaking is about three times faster than typing on a phone keyboard, and when voice typing fails the cause is often a setting, a permission, a swapped keyboard or a missing language download, not the microphone.