Yappy 3.2.0

Download the DMG, drag Yappy to Applications, and open it. On first launch, grant Microphone and Accessibility in System Settings → Privacy & Security.

Yappy 3.1.0

Download the DMG, drag Yappy to Applications, and open it. On first launch, grant Microphone and Accessibility in System Settings → Privacy & Security.

Yappy 3.0.0

What's new in 3.0.0

Voice Edit (experimental)

• Select text in any app, hold Right Option, and say the change — "make this bullets", "make it more formal", "fix the spelling".
• A preview card shows exactly what will change before you press Replace; Escape or ignoring it leaves your text untouched. Nothing is ever rewritten invisibly.
• Cleanups like case, bullets, numbering, quotes, and spacing are deterministic; free-form rewrites run on-device with Apple Intelligence (macOS 26+).
• Off by default — enable it in Settings → Voice commands & formatting.

Faster from voice to text

• Short dictations now land essentially instantly: quick replies skip the heavy polish pass they never needed (and still get proper capitalization and a period).
• The insert path does less work before every paste, so text appears the moment you release the key.
• New "How much cleanup" setting: Standard polishes lightly, Conservative only fixes punctuation, capitalization, and standalone fillers — no rewording, your words stay yours.

It learns your words

• Say "scratch that", correct a word, and Yappy learns the correction as a dictionary alias on the spot — with a one-click Undo on the pill.
• Only high-confidence corrections are applied; uncertain ones become suggestions in Dictionary instead. Nothing is ever changed silently.

Every command, one page

• A new Commands tab lists everything you can say — punctuation, line breaks, lists, "press enter", edits — generated from the same code that parses them, so it's never out of date.

Failures show their face

• If text can't insert, the pill says so and a tap copies your words so nothing is lost.
• A silent microphone, a signed-out Answers backend, or an empty transcription all show an honest message instead of failing quietly.

Answers: pick your Ask key

• The Ask key is now configurable: Fn/Globe (default), Right Control, Right Shift, or Right Option — for keyboards where the Fn key is handled in firmware and never reaches macOS.
• Keys already used by dictation or Voice Edit are guarded against, with a clear note in Settings.

Install

Download the DMG, drag Yappy to Applications, and open it. On first launch, grant Microphone and Accessibility in System Settings → Privacy & Security. Existing installs update automatically via Sparkle.

Yappy 2.9.1

What's fixed in 2.9.1

The silent-mic bug

If Yappy started at login right after a reboot, the microphone could come up in a dead state: the pill listened, but no text ever appeared — no error, nothing. Fixed at the root:

• Yappy now detects a dead audio connection within a quarter second of you pressing the hotkey and transparently reconnects, before your first word — dictation and Answers both recover on their own.
• If the microphone is genuinely delivering no audio (a hardware mute switch, a dead USB device), the pill now tells you — "No audio from the mic" with a failure sound — instead of silently doing nothing.

Spoken answers

• Answers no longer read or display the model's research narration ("Checking current rankings…") once the answer arrives, and bold text can't glue sentences together anymore.

Install

Download the DMG, drag Yappy to Applications, and open it. On first launch, grant Microphone and Accessibility in System Settings → Privacy & Security. Existing installs update automatically via Sparkle.

Yappy 2.9.0

What's new in 2.9.0

Listening glow

• The recording pill now shows a soft animated glow while your hotkey is held — choose Rainbow, White, or Orange in Settings.
• The glow carries through to the Answers pill and the expanded answer card, so you always know when Yappy is listening.

Answers: much better spoken replies

• New voice speed setting: Relaxed, Normal, Brisk, or Quick.
• Tables are read naturally (cells joined into sentences, long tables summarized) instead of line by line.
• Dates, times, temperatures, comparisons, abbreviations, and dozens of other text shapes now speak correctly ("Tue Jul 15" no longer becomes "Too jool"; "-5°F", "3 hrs", "w/o", "St. Louis", "1920x1080", "#1", "Boston–NYC" and more all read the way you'd say them).
• Emoji are no longer named aloud, markdown symbols are never spoken, and code-only answers announce the code block instead of reciting it.
• The model's opening narration ("I'll look up...") shows while it works but disappears from the card and the voice once the answer arrives; sources are no longer read aloud.
• Speech starts sooner after the first words stream in, and a single bad chunk no longer silences the rest of the answer.

Fixes

• Selecting Grok as the Answers model right after logging into the CLI now takes effect immediately.
• Pressing Stop while the voice is speaking no longer pins the conversation.
• Fixed answers occasionally arriving truncated when the agent asked for search permissions.

Install

Download the DMG, drag Yappy to Applications, and open it. On first launch, grant Microphone and Accessibility in System Settings → Privacy & Security. Existing installs update automatically via Sparkle.

Yappy 2.8.0

Download the DMG, drag Yappy to Applications, and open it. On first launch, grant Microphone and Accessibility in System Settings → Privacy & Security.

Highlights:

• Resume mid-sentence: release the hotkey mid-thought, press again, and keep talking — the pieces join into one clean sentence (on-device judgment, nothing leaves your Mac)
• Spoken times land as times: "seven thirty AM" arrives as 7:30 AM even when the speech model writes it oddly
• Secure fields stay secret: password inputs skip AI cleanup and history entirely
• Answers read aloud without reciting citation links and source lists

Yappy 2.7.0

Download the DMG, drag Yappy to Applications, and open it. On first launch, grant Microphone and Accessibility in System Settings → Privacy & Security.

Yappy 2.6.3

Download the DMG, drag Yappy to Applications, and open it. On first launch, grant Microphone and Accessibility in System Settings → Privacy & Security.

Yappy 2.6.2

Download the DMG, drag Yappy to Applications, and open it. On first launch, grant Microphone and Accessibility in System Settings → Privacy & Security.

Yappy 2.6.1

Download the DMG, drag Yappy to Applications, and open it. On first launch, grant Microphone and Accessibility in System Settings → Privacy & Security.