yapyap
A meeting recorder that transcribes and summarizes your calls entirely on your own computer, for a single €69 payment — no monthly fee, no account, and nothing ever gets uploaded to a cloud server.
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Description
Most meeting-recording tools ship your audio straight to a cloud server to transcribe it, which means a company you've never heard of has a recording of everything said in your meetings — and you're paying a monthly fee for the privilege. yapyap takes the opposite approach: everything happens on your own laptop.
yapyap is a desktop app for macOS, Windows and Linux that records meetings, transcribes them, identifies who said what, and turns the conversation into a summary with action items — all processed locally, so recordings and transcripts never leave your machine unless you choose to export them. "Lenses" let you reshape a single recording into different outputs on demand: a summary, a to-do list, or a decision log, without re-processing. Instead of a subscription, yapyap costs a one-time €69 after a 7-day free trial, with every future update included at no extra cost.
💬 Our review
The short version: if meeting-recording tools that upload your calls to the cloud make you uneasy, or you're tired of paying a monthly fee for something that should just run on your laptop, yapyap's one-time price and fully local processing are a genuine differentiator.
Against cloud tools like Otter.ai or Fireflies, yapyap trades their easier cross-device sync and browser-based access for real privacy (nothing leaves your machine) and a much better long-term price — a single €69 versus $10-20/month indefinitely. Against a hardware pendant like Plaud, yapyap needs no extra device since it uses the computer you already have, though it also only captures what happens on that machine rather than in-person conversations away from your desk. The tradeoff: transcription quality on fully local models can lag slightly behind the biggest cloud AI transcription services, and there's no built-in team dashboard for sharing recordings across a company. Best fit for individuals or small teams who record a lot of one-on-one or desk-based calls and want to own their data outright.
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69 € paiement unique après essai gratuit de 7 jours, aucun abonnement, mises à jour futures incluses
Pros
Traitement 100% local : rien n'est envoyé sur un serveur
Paiement unique de 69 € au lieu d'un abonnement mensuel
Disponible sur macOS, Windows et Linux
"Lenses" pour transformer un même enregistrement en résumé, to-do ou journal de décisions
Cons
Pas de synchronisation cloud multi-appareils intégrée
Qualité de transcription locale potentiellement en retrait sur les plus gros modèles cloud
Pas de tableau de bord d'équipe pour partager les enregistrements
Ne capture que ce qui passe par votre ordinateur, pas les conversations en personne hors bureau