Yakki vs VoiceInk: Complete Voice Productivity for Mac

Similar on the surface, different underneath

VoiceInk and Yakki are both Mac dictation apps that run Whisper locally. Same basic pitch. But once you get past basic dictation, they go in pretty different directions.

So what's actually different?

AI Enhancement Prompts

Credit where it's due: VoiceInk has a really clever feature here. AI enhancement prompts let you define how dictated text gets transformed. Set up a prompt to turn raw dictation into an email, meeting notes, or a formatted doc. I played with it and it's a creative take on post-processing that works well.

Yakki has Clean Writing mode to strip filler words and clean things up, but nothing like VoiceInk's freeform prompt system. Not even close on this one.

Meeting Features

VoiceInk is a dictation-only tool with no meeting recording or transcription.

Yakki captures audio from any app (Zoom, Teams, Meet, podcasts) with speaker identification for 8+ participants, AI summaries, and action item tracking.

Stability

VoiceInk users have flagged hardware-dependent bugs, especially on M3 Macs. If it works on your machine, great. But the reports are out there and worth knowing about.

Yakki has been tested across Apple Silicon generations. Runs solid on M1 through M4 in my experience.

Batch Processing

VoiceInk doesn't support batch file imports.

Yakki supports drag-and-drop import of MP3, WAV, M4A, OGG, OPUS, and WebM files with batch processing and progress tracking.

Language Support

VoiceInk offers a more limited selection of languages.

Yakki supports 99+ languages through the Whisper engine with mid-sentence language switching.

Pricing

VoiceInk is $9.99/month.

Yakki is $12/month, but also offers $99/year and a $149 lifetime option for users who prefer not to subscribe indefinitely.

The bottom line

VoiceInk's AI prompts are genuinely cool and something I wish Yakki had. If post-dictation text transformation is your main workflow, give VoiceInk a look. But if you need meetings, batch processing, speaker identification, or wide language support, Yakki does more. Simple as that.