Reviews of Whisper Memos - Speech to text

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List of user reviews and ratings for Whisper Memos - Speech to text

Total ratings

4.60 (Rating count: 382)

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Review summary

Users praise Whisper Memos for simple, fast transcription and strong Apple ecosystem integration (Watch, Vision Pro, email/Drafts). Helpful features include summaries and easy GTD-style notes. Recurrent negatives include privacy/data handling concerns, reliability issues with long recordings, weak customer support, intrusive upgrade banners, and limited in-app help. When it works, it's a powerful on-the-go transcription tool, but privacy, reliability, and UX friction are common pain points.

Pros

Simple, fast, and reliable transcription that just works on iPhone and Apple Watch.
Strong Apple ecosystem integration (Watch complications, Vision Pro support, easy sharing to email/Drafts, and transfers to other apps).
Helpful features like automatic email transcripts, summaries, and brain-dump/task-capture for work and life.
Good value for money with a reasonable annual pricing.
Excellent for on-the-go capture (driving, commuting) with quick voice memos and easy transfer.

Cons

Privacy and data handling concerns: transcripts or audio can be delivered to unknown recipients or other people's recordings.
Reliability issues: recordings can stop unexpectedly during long sessions.
Customer support responsiveness is weak; emails go unanswered and the 'contact us' option sometimes doesn't work.
Intrusive upsell banners push higher-tier subscriptions at startup.
Limited in-app help and some settings (e.g., language) don't apply as expected.

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User Reviews

Recent rating average: 4.60

All time rating average: 4.60

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Date	Author	Comment
2026-07-08	ma*****	Does what it's supposed to & more. Continually updating with more features.
Does what it's supposed to & more. Continually updating with more features.
2026-07-02	Aa*****	This rock solid voice memo transcription app is so far beyond all other apps like it that it might end your search instantly. It’s easy to use, extensible, affordable, and has a thoughtful interface. I’ve been disappointed by handfuls of other apps that are 2x+ the cost of Whisper Memos but also have 15 minute recording limits, have no integration capacity, or just stink at transcription. Whisper Memos excels at its purpose in spades.
This rock solid voice memo transcription app is so far beyond all other apps like it that it might end your search instantly. It’s easy to use, extensible, affordable, and has a thoughtful interface. I’ve been disappointed by handfuls of other apps that are 2x+ the cost of Whisper Memos but also have 15 minute recording limits, have no integration capacity, or just stink at transcription. Whisper Memos excels at its purpose in spades.
2026-06-16	Ot*****	The app is great. Works as promised. The developer is very responsive. and integrations are great.
The app is great. Works as promised. The developer is very responsive. and integrations are great.
2026-06-14	ly*****	No issues and very accurate
No issues and very accurate
2026-06-04	Mi*****	I wanted to record this review using Whisper itself because it’s one of the few dictation apps that actually works. Most dictation apps have weird quirks, don’t get updated, or fail in small but frustrating ways. This app is worth the money because the developer keeps putting real effort into it. The changes are not always huge, but the app keeps moving forward with new models, new features, and steady improvements. Most importantly, it works reliably. When everything else fails, this works. That’s amazing, and I highly recommend it. It’s worth the investment. I do have one feature request: I’d love to see light LLM processing beyond summaries. For example, cleanup grammar, remove repetitions, lightly rewrite while keeping the original style, or format the output as meeting notes, a text message, or a polished paragraph. Right now, I have to copy the text to the clipboard, paste it into ChatGPT, process it there, and then bring it back. That feels unnecessary. These common LLM cleanup and formatting features would make a lot of sense as part of this application.
I wanted to record this review using Whisper itself because it’s one of the few dictation apps that actually works. Most dictation apps have weird quirks, don’t get updated, or fail in small but frustrating ways. This app is worth the money because the developer keeps putting real effort into it. The changes are not always huge, but the app keeps moving forward with new models, new features, and steady improvements. Most importantly, it works reliably. When everything else fails, this works. That’s amazing, and I highly recommend it. It’s worth the investment. I do have one feature request: I’d love to see light LLM processing beyond summaries. For example, cleanup grammar, remove repetitions, lightly rewrite while keeping the original style, or format the output as meeting notes, a text message, or a polished paragraph. Right now, I have to copy the text to the clipboard, paste it into ChatGPT, process it there, and then bring it back. That feels unnecessary. These common LLM cleanup and formatting features would make a lot of sense as part of this application.
2026-06-02	Ka*****	This is an amazing new app for me to note down my thoughts from my watch. The quality of the transcription is amazing. It send an email with a nice subject header title. This is want to use for transcribing your notes on the go on your Apple Watch.
This is an amazing new app for me to note down my thoughts from my watch. The quality of the transcription is amazing. It send an email with a nice subject header title. This is want to use for transcribing your notes on the go on your Apple Watch.
2026-05-20	Be*****	Love this app for my watch. I'm a stay at home working mom. Being able to tap record my quick thought or thing I need to remember so that I can review at the end of night to add things to grocery list or checklist is amazing! I've need something like this for years since I can't carry a Pena ND paper with me everywhere. Dirty hands cooking no biggie I tap the scrron on my watch with my nose and save my memo! Love this app!
Love this app for my watch. I'm a stay at home working mom. Being able to tap record my quick thought or thing I need to remember so that I can review at the end of night to add things to grocery list or checklist is amazing! I've need something like this for years since I can't carry a Pena ND paper with me everywhere. Dirty hands cooking no biggie I tap the scrron on my watch with my nose and save my memo! Love this app!
2026-05-18	bl*****	This app is completely useless. You need to pay at least a few bucks a month for something you typically use only a few times a day, yet it is super slow. It is so slow, it is unbearable. You can imagine the computation is very low for the inference, but it is terribly slow. This should be worth less than $1 a month at most, but they dare to charge $4 a month even with a discount. It is worth nothing. Besides, you lose your purchase status from time to time. In the past few months, my purchase has disappeared a few times, and I have to restore it every time.
This app is completely useless. You need to pay at least a few bucks a month for something you typically use only a few times a day, yet it is super slow. It is so slow, it is unbearable. You can imagine the computation is very low for the inference, but it is terribly slow. This should be worth less than $1 a month at most, but they dare to charge $4 a month even with a discount. It is worth nothing. Besides, you lose your purchase status from time to time. In the past few months, my purchase has disappeared a few times, and I have to restore it every time.
2026-05-14	Wi*****	I love the Whisper Memos app. It has increased my productivity and my ability to track conversations and extract key elements of the meetings by coupling it with ChatGPT. I love how it automatically sends me my transcript when I stop recording. I simply cut and paste it into ChatGPT, and it gives me a summary of my call and captures any of my assigned tasks. There may be simpler solutions. But this is the most cost-effective and easiest.
I love the Whisper Memos app. It has increased my productivity and my ability to track conversations and extract key elements of the meetings by coupling it with ChatGPT. I love how it automatically sends me my transcript when I stop recording. I simply cut and paste it into ChatGPT, and it gives me a summary of my call and captures any of my assigned tasks. There may be simpler solutions. But this is the most cost-effective and easiest.
2026-04-26	we*****	Simple and actually works with iPhone and Apple Watch
Simple and actually works with iPhone and Apple Watch