Quick Yap
Just talk
The mic moves the mouth; the character blinks and moves on its own. Pick how it moves, dress it up with a hat, or tell a story in three parts. Sharing sits behind a grown-up check.
For iPhone & iPad
Make your content talk.
Turn any character, mascot, pet, photo or drawing into a talking star for TikTok, Reels and Shorts. Talk, use your face, or pick an AI voice.
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- Your voiceTalk and the mouth follows
- Your faceFace ID tracking
- AI voiceType it, hear it
- Any soundSongs, memos, videos
Things other talking‑character apps don’t do.
We tried the apps people reach for, from photo talkers to cartoon studios. These six you'll only find in YipYappy.
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Moves land on the word.
Type {wave} or {surprised} into your lines and the character does it right on that word, whether an AI voice reads them or you read them off the teleprompter.
UsuallyYou drag each gesture onto a timeline.
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It stands in your room.
Turn on Stand in the room and your character stands on the desk or the floor, and stays put while you walk around it with the phone.
UsuallyA flat picture behind the character.
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Your arms move its arms.
Prop up your iPhone or iPad and step back. The front camera follows your arms and the character copies you live, like a mirror. Save the best ones as your own moves.
UsuallyDesktop software, or uploading a video and waiting.
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Pass the scene to a friend.
Send a two- or three-character scene. Your friend records their character's lines on their own phone and sends it back, ready to record the clip with everyone's voices. How it works
UsuallyEveryone crowds around one device.
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Reading practice, built in.
Read your lines from the teleprompter, then see words correct per minute, accuracy and any words missed, with a one-page report for the teacher.
UsuallyA separate reading app, or a stopwatch.
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Your own voice, no cloud.
Use the Personal Voice you made on your iPhone, or the free voices already on your device. Captions and lip-sync are worked out on the device too.
UsuallyPaid AI voices, credits and an account.
All of it works without an account, and nothing you record is uploaded. Private by design
Something for everyone
Talk, build, create
From a first-time five-year-old to a creator posting daily, there's a studio that fits.
Quick Yap
Pro Studio
Build the whole scene
Characters, voices, moves, scenes, frames, looks, effects and text, in 9:16, 1:1 or 16:9. Record in 1080p or turn clips into GIFs.
Create your own
Build a Yapper
Pick a type, from dogs and dinos to stick figures, then colors, face and accessories, or make any photo talk. Your characters work in every mode.
Home
Start anywhere
Swipe the cards for Quick Yap, Pro Studio, Send to a friend, Live Face or a new character, and tap who's on stage from your cast.
Draw it.
It talks.
It talks.
New in YipYappy
A doodle becomes a co-star.
Draw a character with a finger or Apple Pencil. YipYappy lifts it off the paper, adds blinking eyes and a talking mouth, and puts it on stage, ready for your voice.
- Kid-friendly. A guide shows where the face goes; small gaps in a drawing are closed for you.
- Head or whole body. Draw a talking head, or a body whose arms and legs bend and walk. Templates and hair styles give you a head start.
- See it talk, then tweak. Preview character plays it right away, and your strokes are saved, so you can come back and add a hat.
- Family-friendly Quick Yap. No ads or accounts, and sharing sits behind a grown-up check.
Your turn!
Send to a friend
Make a scene together, phone to phone.
Pick a scene made to send, like Knock knock, Guess what! or Thinking of you. Write both sides, record your lines and send it in Messages or AirDrop. Your friend opens it in YipYappy, records their part and sends it back, ready to record with everyone's voices.
- Made to send. Seven ideas for family and friends, from a knock-knock joke to a story chain or a question for Grandma.
- Answer in turn. Before each turn, the one before it plays, so it sounds like a real conversation.
- No account needed. The scene travels as a small file you send yourself. Nothing goes through a YipYappy server.
- Opens from Messages. Your friend taps the file, then Share, then YipYappy.
Everything in the studio
Made for creators
All the tools to go from idea to posted clip in a couple of minutes.
AI voices
Moves
Scenes
Cast and voice
Make any picture talk
Start from a selfie, your pet or a drawing, or describe one in Image Playground. YipYappy cuts it out, finds the face and gives it a mouth.
Lip-sync to anything
Talk into the mic, type a script for an AI voice, or use a sound, a song you own or a video's audio. Add royalty-free background music.
Write it for me
Stuck for words? Describe an idea and Apple Intelligence writes a short script, with moves and faces, right on your iPhone or iPad. Then polish it with Writing Tools.
Live Face
On iPhone and iPad with Face ID, your blinks, glances, head tilts and expressions become the character's.
Moves, faces and actions
Fifteen moves and thirteen faces, even mid-take, plus ready-made actions like Greet, Agree, I don't know and Celebrate that put a face and moves together. Characters without arms show the hand in a bubble.
Up to three on stage
Give each character its own lines and voice for a conversation, or take turns on the mic. The moves follow whoever is talking, and captions colour each one's words. Put any of them in front or behind.
Set the stage
Scenes that move
Animated backgrounds, looping videos, a photo you take or pick, a place Image Playground draws for you, or a green screen for editing later.
Your room as the stage
Film a live background with the back camera, or turn on Stand in the room and your character stands on your desk or the floor.
Themes, frames and subjects
One tap sets a background and frame together, or sort them by subject: Space, School, Party, Holidays and more. Size, turn and move any background or frame, or see them all in one big grid.
Your own stickers
Put emoji, Genmoji and the stickers from your keyboard on the stage, paste a cutout from Photos, cut one out of any picture, or describe one for Image Playground to draw. Make them bounce, spin or float, and keep them to use again. YipYappy characters come as stickers for Messages too.
Looks, effects and text
Film-style color looks, confetti, snow and glitter, plus titles in eight fonts and a scrolling news ticker for the Breaking News frame.
Edit, share, repeat
Edit, caption, share
Trim, join clips with transitions, add titles and music on a timeline, and make captions from the sound in one tap, all on your device.
Formats that are ready to post
Daily reaction, Birthday message, News explainer, Short interview, Story time, Fun fact, scenes for family and friends and more. Each sets the shape, length, a matching background and frame, the entrance, captions, music and reading pace, with moves timed into the script. Share one as a link.
My scenes
Save a set-up by name, with its character, scene, text and voice, and start the next episode or class assignment in one tap.
Shows and episodes
Turn a set-up into a show. Each episode starts ready to record, gets the show's intro and outro, and lands in its own folder.
Undo anything
Try ideas freely. Undo and Redo cover every change on the stage, one drag at a time.
Your first clip, guided
A short walkthrough takes beginners from picking a character to a saved clip, step by step.
Classroom and languages
Ready for the classroom
Lesson links set up the whole task for every student, with a teleprompter, reading practice and School mode. For teachers.
Scan a page
Photograph a book page or worksheet and its words become your character's lines, read right on your device.
English, Spanish and more
The app follows your device in English or Spanish, and the voices, captions and reading practice can use either. Translate puts a script into another language on your device, and the characters can speak it.
Private by design
Your camera and mic stay on your phone
On your device
Face tracking and lip-sync run on your device. Nothing is recorded unless you hit record.
Nothing to sign up for
No account, no ads and no tracking in the app.
Your clips are yours
Your clips are saved on your device. They only leave it when you share them.
Read the full privacy policy.
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