Offline AI Dictation & Voice Tools Suite

Bundle local speech-to-text, text-to-speech, notes and captioning into one cross-platform subscription that works with no internet.

In plain English

Yaps bundles dictation, read-aloud, notes, and video captions into one subscription for Android, Mac, and Windows, and it works with no internet. The listening and the speaking happen on the person's own computer or phone, so the audio can stay there, including on a plane. Customers pay that single subscription after a free trial because they want the voice tools together and the audio kept private. The AI on the machine does almost all of the transcription, the spoken audio, and the captions. The person running Yaps still builds the apps for each kind of computer, markets them, and helps users.

Automation90%

Startup costNot disclosed

Time to first $1–3 mo

Monthly range*$2,973 MRR

$2,973 MRR (operator, TrustMRR-verified, Oct 2026)

DifficultyHard

SourceTrustMRR — Yaps AI (Stripe-verified) ↗

Verified

Revenue independently checked: documents reviewed by a publication, or a public dashboard.

Not disclosed by the founder. Local open models mean no per-use inference cost. Stripe charges per transaction.

The tool stack

whisper.cpp ↗

Free (open source)

Local speech-to-text for dictation and captions.

Piper TTS ↗

Free (open source)

Local text-to-speech voices.

Stripe ↗

Per-transaction fee

Subscription billing with a free trial.

Prices are the vendors' published list prices as researched in Oct 2026 and change often — always check the vendor's pricing page.

Step-by-step setup

Pick 3–5 everyday voice jobs (dictation, notes, read-aloud, video captions) and run each with an open model on the user's device.
Ship on the platforms the big players ignore (Android, Windows) as well as Mac.
Single Pro subscription with a free trial, so one payment unlocks every tool.
Market privacy and 'no limits': nothing leaves the device, works on a plane.

What's automated vs. the human 10%

The machine does

Transcription, speech generation and captioning (on-device)
Billing and trials

You still do

Building and maintaining apps on several platforms
Marketing (X audience, SEO) and support

Overview

Yaps AI (UK, founded April 2026) is built by a founder TrustMRR lists only as “R.” (3,379 followers on X). It sells local, offline AI tools for Android, macOS and Windows at $15/mo or $144/yr. TrustMRR shows $2,973 MRR, 216 subscriptions and $12,649 all-time revenue, verified through Stripe.

Note: TrustMRR doesn’t give the founder’s full name, so the operator is only partly named.

Costs

Not disclosed by the founder.

Realistic income

Verified and still small. Supporting many platforms is real engineering work. Free OS-level dictation keeps getting better.

Risks

Multi-platform maintenance.
OS vendors shipping “good enough” dictation for free.

*Income figures are illustrative ranges based on public pricing and typical outcomes reported by practitioners, not guarantees. Most new online businesses earn little or nothing at first. Not financial, legal or tax advice.

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