There has been a few Yik Yak clients produced, but it seemed as though most required you to be a developer to utilize them. This knowledge has been rolled up into a Windows client, written in .Net with a WPF interface, utilizing a custom client API. It is written in C# and has a crude user interface. It also supports utilizing a proxy, so Tor can be utilized with the application.
Not all features are supported though. Peek locations are not support, get top yaks for my area, et cetera. Handles are also not supported as of the latest upload. But it does support creating new users, importing existing users, setting a longitude and latitude for these users, posting, commenting and voting. If there is immediate interest in these features that are lacking, then I can add them upon request if there are no developer types utilizing this specific application.
The executable can be downloaded from the following drop box link:
Yik Yak for Windows
There is no map component to this application yet, so the latitude and longitude will need to be acquired by another method, such as the following website:
LatLong.net
If you are the more cautious type and wish to review the source code without disassembling it, there is also a GitHub repository available. The code is currently in the form of a Visual Studio 2013 project. If you do not have Visual Studio 2013, a free version can be downloaded from Microsoft as the following link:
Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows Desktop
Once the situation with Visual Studio 2013 is squared away, you can download the code from the following page:
Source Code for Yik Yak Windows Client
The API will undoubtedly change, so this application may fall out of sync and cease to function, although backwards compatibility will most likely be reasonable preserved for those who do not update their application (until deprecation decay wears away).
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