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 "schema_version": "1.0",
 "id": "yaps",
 "name": "Yaps",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "yaps.ai",
 "category": "Video & Audio",
 "task": null,
 "summary": "Voice tools that run on your own device: dictation into any app, transcription of audio and video files with SRT captions, read-aloud voices and voice notes. Free on Android, iPhone and iPad; the desktop apps for Windows, macOS and Linux need Yaps Pro.",
 "best_for": "writers, students and professionals who dictate or transcribe every day and want the speech processing on their own computer, across Windows, macOS and Linux",
 "skip_if": "you want a one-time purchase rather than a subscription, or you need a finished Windows version today",
 "honest_knock": "The desktop trial converts to a paid plan automatically, and the terms exclude refunds solely because you forgot to cancel; uninstalling the app does not cancel the subscription either. Windows is still labelled beta. 'On-device' has limits: signing in, billing, sync and model downloads use the internet, and on iPhone and iPad the system speech service can fall back to Apple's remote recognition.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$144",
  "entry_price_terms": "Yaps Pro · per year, annual billing, shown as $12 a month, for the desktop apps",
  "from_price_usd_month": null,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(read 2026-10-26 on yaps.ai/pricing with annual billing selected; the monthly price was read on 2026-10-16; dollar amounts, the page does not name the currency) Yaps is free on Android, iPhone and iPad: voice typing in other apps, voice notes with local search and read-aloud with 4 voices, without an account or card. Yaps Pro covers the desktop apps for Windows, macOS and Linux and costs $144 a year (shown as $12 a month) or $15 billed month to month. Pro adds unlimited dictation and read-aloud, unlimited transcription of audio and video files, SRT captions, speaker identification on Windows and macOS, chat with your notes, 18 voices, the Studio editor and vault sync. Desktop starts with a 7-day free trial that converts to the paid plan unless you cancel. Enterprise is priced on request. Students with a verified .edu address get 50% off the first year of annual Pro ($72), then the full price.",
  "verified_at": "2026-10-26",
  "source_url": "https://www.yaps.ai/pricing",
  "schema_offer": {
   "price": 144.0,
   "currency": "USD",
   "description": "Yaps Pro, annual billing, shown as $12 a month, for the desktop apps; $15 billed monthly (read 16 October 2026); 7-day free trial that renews automatically; dollar amounts, the page does not name the currency. Read on the vendor's own pricing page on 2026-10-26.",
   "page": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/b2b/yaps-review/"
  },
  "source_quotes": [
   {
    "field": "price",
    "plan": "Student annual first year",
    "quote": "50% off $144 annual Yaps Pro for the first year is $72 ($6 a month, billed annually). Then the full geo annual price.",
    "source_url": "https://www.yaps.ai/students",
    "read_on": "2026-10-16"
   },
   {
    "field": "price",
    "plan": "Yaps Pro annual monthly equivalent",
    "quote": "Pro ($15/month or $12/month billed annually)",
    "source_url": "https://www.yaps.ai/pricing",
    "read_on": "2026-10-16"
   },
   {
    "field": "price",
    "plan": "Yaps Pro annual total",
    "quote": "Yaps Pro: $144/year, billed annually.",
    "source_url": "https://www.yaps.ai/pricing",
    "read_on": "2026-10-16"
   },
   {
    "field": "free_trial",
    "plan": null,
    "quote": "Desktop starts with a 7-day free trial.",
    "source_url": "https://www.yaps.ai/pricing",
    "read_on": "2026-10-16"
   }
  ]
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "annual_lock",
   "label": "Annual commitment",
   "evidence": "(read 2026-10-26 on yaps.ai/pricing with annual billing selected; the monthly price was read on 2026-10-16; dollar amounts, the page does not name the currency) Yaps is free on Android, iPhone and iPad: voice typing in other apps, voice notes with local search and read-aloud with 4 voices, without an account or card.",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-26",
   "source_url": "https://www.yaps.ai/pricing"
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Liltio",
  "why": "Liltio is in our dossiers as a local dictation app too: on 23 October 2026 it cost $49 once for a lifetime licence on 2 Apple silicon Macs. Yaps costs $144 a year but runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, has free mobile apps, and adds file transcription, captions and read-aloud voices"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/yaps.json",
  "review": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/b2b/yaps-review/",
  "marketplace": null,
  "vendor_site": "https://yaps.ai"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=131219&awinaffid=2880219",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Plan-by-plan prices are not structured in this record yet; pricing.notes has the full text.",
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "Being verified: refund terms are not yet matched to a verbatim line on the vendor's own pages. Not matched does not mean there is none.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "verification": {
  "price": "quoted",
  "free_trial": "quoted",
  "refund": "being_verified"
 },
 "status_page": null,
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "yaps:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "yaps:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "yaps:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "yaps:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": null,
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_checked",
   "detail": "We could not read the vendor's pages as plain HTML.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
 }
}