Offline voice to text

Your words.
Still yours.

Record or import audio, turn it into an editable transcript on your iPhone, and export it when you’re ready. No account. No cloud workspace.

  • No account
  • Local notes
  • TXT · SRT · VTT
An editable transcript in Speech Notes
The local notes library in Speech Notes

From spoken thought to useful text—
without giving up your audio.

A focused workflow

Press record.
Leave with text.

Speech Notes keeps the essentials together: the original audio, a verbatim transcript, and the tools to clean it up and take it elsewhere.

01

Capture what matters

Record a lecture, interview, meeting, memo, or voice idea—or import an audio file you already have.

Recording audio in Speech Notes
02

Turn speech into text

Transcribe on device, then keep the recording and transcript together as one easy-to-find note.

On-device transcription in progress
03

Read, edit, search

Fix the wording, rename available speaker labels, play back audio, and search across your transcript text.

Searching transcript text in Speech Notes

Privacy first

A notebook,
not a cloud.

Speech Notes is designed around an on-device workflow. Your personal note library stays on your phone, with no account required and no audio upload for local transcription.

01No sign-up
02No ads
03No cloud workspace
Privacy settings in Speech Notes
Export options for TXT, SRT, and VTT

Take the text with you

Made to leave
the app.

Copy or share your transcript, or export a file that fits the next step in your workflow.

TXT
Writing, notes, and archives
SRT
Timed subtitles for video
VTT
Web captions and media tools

One simple tool

For the words
worth keeping.

01

Lectures

Review spoken material as searchable, editable text.

02

Interviews

Keep the recording close while you refine the transcript.

03

Meetings

Capture a conversation without inviting a meeting bot.

04

Voice ideas

Turn a thought into text before it disappears.

Your device, your choice

Choose the transcription engine available to you.

Transcription engine options in Speech Notes

Speech Notes

Keep the recording.
Own the words.

Private audio notes with editable transcripts, ready to export.

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