Yap is a desktop app for your video logs. Open the app, press record and speak your mind. Once you’re done, Yap catalogues your video and makes it easy to find.

Download at https://github.com/felipap/yap

I built Yap as an alternative to journaling. I love journaling but it takes too long to write everything I want to say. A couple years ago, I started recording myself talking to the camera. I was using Photo Booth, then QuickTime, but the experience wasn’t great. I wanted an app purpose-built for video logs; so I built Yap.

Sharing with AI. Yap transcribes and summarizes your vlogs for you (OpenAI key needed). You can then take the transcripts and share them with friends or AIs. I use this to give AIs context about the projects I’m working on, or problems I’m dealing with.

Hope Yap can be useful to you too!