Date	Author	Comment
2026-05-14	St*****	I use Transcriptionist daily, to transcribe podcasts, YouTube videos, and any audio content. I love being able to choose from various “brains” to balance speed and accuracy, export formats include everything you could need, and it’s on iPhone and iPad as well!
I use Transcriptionist daily, to transcribe podcasts, YouTube videos, and any audio content. I love being able to choose from various “brains” to balance speed and accuracy, export formats include everything you could need, and it’s on iPhone and iPad as well!
2025-11-19	De*****	My goal is transcribe audio from meetings with clients into text, then to export said text to private AI to create a summary of the meeting. I love that transcription is handled privately on device, but for the life of me, I cannot figure out how to export the text. The user guide provides instructions to use the “Export” option in the file menu, which does not seem to exist, nor can I find the option anywhere else. I’ll probably reach out to the developer for support, but it shouldn’t be this hard. Using on an M5 iPad Pro.
My goal is transcribe audio from meetings with clients into text, then to export said text to private AI to create a summary of the meeting. I love that transcription is handled privately on device, but for the life of me, I cannot figure out how to export the text. The user guide provides instructions to use the “Export” option in the file menu, which does not seem to exist, nor can I find the option anywhere else. I’ll probably reach out to the developer for support, but it shouldn’t be this hard. Using on an M5 iPad Pro.
2025-09-09	Ba*****	Just downloaded and subscribed to this app and right away it repeatedly crashes every time I use the search and replace feature. And why am I having to use the search and replace feature? Because in practically every other sentence there are words that were transcribed incorrectly. The errors are so bad it’s difficult figuring out what was actually said to correct in the transcription. Does it do more than the transcribe feature in Apple Notes and Voice Memos apps? Yes. It will combine multiple separately-recorded audio tracks (say, from a Zoom recording), and include time stamps, allow you to edit/correct it’s errors, change the names it assigns to participants of the audio, etc. - which are all things I need - but with the errors and search/replace (for those errors) crashes make me question whether even the relatively low subscription fee is worth it.
Just downloaded and subscribed to this app and right away it repeatedly crashes every time I use the search and replace feature. And why am I having to use the search and replace feature? Because in practically every other sentence there are words that were transcribed incorrectly. The errors are so bad it’s difficult figuring out what was actually said to correct in the transcription. Does it do more than the transcribe feature in Apple Notes and Voice Memos apps? Yes. It will combine multiple separately-recorded audio tracks (say, from a Zoom recording), and include time stamps, allow you to edit/correct it’s errors, change the names it assigns to participants of the audio, etc. - which are all things I need - but with the errors and search/replace (for those errors) crashes make me question whether even the relatively low subscription fee is worth it.
2025-03-21	CW*****	Wow, what a few months makes and I'm happy to see some UX improvements. So I'm back to evaluating this application. I would like to see better integration from Ferrite to Transcriptionist. It's also confused why I cannot use large brain on my iPad Pro when I have more than enough on device space. Why tease it and then say I cannot have it? Looking to bump to 4 or 5 star in the future.
Wow, what a few months makes and I'm happy to see some UX improvements. So I'm back to evaluating this application. I would like to see better integration from Ferrite to Transcriptionist. It's also confused why I cannot use large brain on my iPad Pro when I have more than enough on device space. Why tease it and then say I cannot have it? Looking to bump to 4 or 5 star in the future.
2024-07-24	Bl*****	Accuracy of transcription is acceptable though sometimes words are missing. It saves a lot of work to clearly understand the speaker. One improvement I am looking forward to is to collate the transcripted text in a clip with Ferrite so that some words may be positioned in the waveform to facilitate editing the corresponding clip. I mean it would be better to integrate the Transcriptionist Into Ferrite, or vice versa. It is a really good audio editor app!
Accuracy of transcription is acceptable though sometimes words are missing. It saves a lot of work to clearly understand the speaker. One improvement I am looking forward to is to collate the transcripted text in a clip with Ferrite so that some words may be positioned in the waveform to facilitate editing the corresponding clip. I mean it would be better to integrate the Transcriptionist Into Ferrite, or vice versa. It is a really good audio editor app!
2024-02-13	To*****	I’ve been running this on my MacBook Pro with the largest model and it’s been great. Very happy with the app.
I’ve been running this on my MacBook Pro with the largest model and it’s been great. Very happy with the app.
2024-01-16	Us*****	What I really need and I would LOVE to pay for is a transcribe option in Ferrite!! My dream intergration would be automated "Show Notes" in the notes part of the info panel. Having to send to another app to transcribe and another app to write the show notes is a mess I would pay to get out of!
What I really need and I would LOVE to pay for is a transcribe option in Ferrite!! My dream intergration would be automated "Show Notes" in the notes part of the info panel. Having to send to another app to transcribe and another app to write the show notes is a mess I would pay to get out of!
2023-09-22	ne*****	First of all, this is a GUI for the OpenAI Whisper project. But as implemented on iOS in my first several tests, it has failed way more often than it has worked. Does your phone go to sleep because transcription is so slow? It fails with no notification. Is your audio file 32 bit? Again, it seems to fail without notification. I’m guessing here, since, again, there are no prompts or pop-ups to tell you what’s happening. The circular completion pie tells you something, but not if you turn away from your phone. Can you multi-task out of the app while transcription runs? I’m not sure, but I don’t think so. Also, it uses the file name to name the speaker, not the transcription file. So all of your transcriptions are by default called “Untitled,” even when you import audio. And your speaker is called “Episode 6” or whatever. Seems like it would be much improved with two settings: force phone to not sleep during transcription, and “name transcription file with audio file name.”
First of all, this is a GUI for the OpenAI Whisper project. But as implemented on iOS in my first several tests, it has failed way more often than it has worked. Does your phone go to sleep because transcription is so slow? It fails with no notification. Is your audio file 32 bit? Again, it seems to fail without notification. I’m guessing here, since, again, there are no prompts or pop-ups to tell you what’s happening. The circular completion pie tells you something, but not if you turn away from your phone. Can you multi-task out of the app while transcription runs? I’m not sure, but I don’t think so. Also, it uses the file name to name the speaker, not the transcription file. So all of your transcriptions are by default called “Untitled,” even when you import audio. And your speaker is called “Episode 6” or whatever. Seems like it would be much improved with two settings: force phone to not sleep during transcription, and “name transcription file with audio file name.”

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