Private AI toolkit, $6.5K in 30 days: works on your device

Yaps is a private AI toolkit for dictation, transcription, notes, read-aloud, translation, and media tools. Its $6.5K in the last 30 days is verified through the payment provider's API by TrustMRR (Stripe, Superwall), as of September 30, 2026.

What it actually sells

Yaps is a private AI toolkit for dictation, transcription, notes, read-aloud, translation, and media tools. Its core content processing runs locally on the device.

The toolkit records meetings locally, identifies who said what, and produces editable notes. It also converts photographed handwritten pages into typed, searchable notes.

How it charges

Yaps has a free mobile plan. Pro costs $15 monthly or $12 monthly billed annually and adds desktop apps for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Enterprise pricing is custom, and the desktop has a 7-day free trial.

Month by month

Monthly revenue as read from the payment provider by TrustMRR, in US dollars, as of September 30, 2026.

Month	Revenue (USD)
2026-06	$15
2026-07	$135
2026-08	$5,979
2026-09	$6,527

Where customers come from

Yaps is built for people wanting powerful AI without uploading their work for processing. Visible distribution signals include a referral program, a Chrome saving integration, and plugins.

What stands out

“Yaps transcribes it, works out who said what, and drafts notes you can edit and keep.” It can answer questions from a user's notes and attach citations to the notes used.

Yaps reads PDFs, ebooks, and articles aloud in any of 31 languages and saves the audio. Translation covers 28 languages in the Standard pack and 53 in Extended.

From the official site

Yaps is a private AI toolkit built for people who want powerful AI without uploading their work for processing.

Yaps transcribes it, works out who said what, and drafts notes you can edit and keep.

Excerpts from the official website, fetched October 1, 2026.

Where it sits in the data

Yaps's $6.5K in the last 30 days is higher than 91% of the 5,602 projects with payment-verified revenue in our dataset; the median across them is $150. Within the “Content Creation” category (1,345 projects) it is higher than 93% (category median $156). Snapshot: 2026-09-02 to 2026-09-30. The dataset only covers founders who chose to publish their numbers, so it leans toward businesses that work; use it for scale, not as an average.

Currency

All figures are in US dollars as published. A rough yuan or euro conversion is not applied here because prices, taxes and acquisition costs differ by country.

Could you build something like this?

My view: demand is clearest among individual users who want AI assistance while keeping core content processing on their device. The buyer is a person paying for productivity tools across mobile and desktop, with free entry and paid desktop access forming the commercial path.

My view: distribution would need a direct app-store presence, desktop discovery, and partnerships or content aimed at privacy-conscious users. The hard parts include dependable processing across devices, transcription and translation quality, support for several operating systems, and the competition created by established productivity tools.

Verdict: Needs real work.

One thing to take from it

Yaps packages local processing, meeting notes, handwritten-note conversion, read-aloud, translation, and media tools into one toolkit. Its free mobile plan leads to paid desktop apps, while enterprise pricing remains custom.

Sources

Yaps official website, fetched October 1, 2026
Yaps pricing page, fetched October 1, 2026
Yaps about page, fetched October 1, 2026
TrustMRR: revenue verified through the payment provider's API by TrustMRR (Stripe, Superwall), as of September 30, 2026

Revenue, team and start-cost figures are what the founder reported at the interview date, not current figures and not a prediction of what you will earn. Product and pricing facts come from the business's own website as checked on 30 September 2026. Method & sources · Disclosure