Yapr
Product Design · Full-Stack Development · Motion Design · Privacy Architecture
Near-black #09090b ground with a single red accent (#FF3000) borrowed from the marketing site's Swiss accent. The app ships four themes — Dark, Dim, Dawn, Light — all built from one token system.
Yapr is the transcription tool we wished existed — free, private, fast. No word limits, no audio retention. A two-part build: a full standalone web app and a Swiss-disciplined marketing site.
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Designed for the long haul
Users don't tap a button and leave — they spend real time in this interface. Recording. Waiting. Reviewing. If any one of those phases feels dead, they'll switch tools. So we made every second of it enjoyable. Four themes shift outward from the center in a smooth ripple instead of the usual jarring swap. Most people won't consciously notice. Everyone feels it. That feeling is why they come back.
Magnetic interactivity
Small delights are what people remember about a tool. On desktop, the record button pulls toward the cursor with spring physics — a subtle gravitational field within a 120px radius. The first time you notice it, you grin. Grinning users tell their friends.
The recording experience
Recording feels vulnerable — you're being listened to by software. A live 32-bar waveform proves the recording is working, in real time, via Web Audio API with zero React re-renders. Processing cycles through rotating phrases so you're never staring at a frozen spinner. The point isn't the tech — it's the calm.
Swiss marketing discipline
The marketing site has five seconds to convince a stranger this isn't another half-baked wrapper. So it runs a completely different design system — a strict Swiss grid, black and white, #FF3000 red accent. Restraint signals seriousness. First impressions convert.
Nine languages, woven in
International users won't settle for 'good enough English' — they won't even try. Nine languages across every marketing page and every app surface means every visitor arrives to a product that feels built for them specifically. Not translated. Built. That's the difference between a sign-up and a bounce.
Industry-leading reliability
Every piece of infrastructure has downtime. Sometimes it's measured in seconds per year — but for a productivity tool, even seconds are enough to break a user's flow and lose them to a competitor. We don't tolerate breaking flow. So Yapr continuously monitors its transcription pipeline and falls over to a secondary provider the instant the primary slows down or fails. The user never sees the handoff. Just sub-2-second processing, every single time. Reliability is how a free tool becomes a daily habit.
Zero trust, zero retention
The single biggest reason people hesitate to record anything sensitive: they don't trust what the service does with it afterward. So Yapr deletes audio the instant transcription completes. Nothing stored. Nothing logged. Nothing recoverable. AES-256 in transit, zero-retention at rest. Privacy here isn't a setting — it's the architecture. Remove the hesitation, and users record more.
A wrapperresilient system.
Delivered
March 2026
