Jotley: Voice to Summary

Jotley turns what you say — and what you watch and read — into notes you'll actually use.

Hit record, talk through an idea, a meeting, a lecture, or a walking monologue — and Jotley hands you back a clean transcript and a sharp summary. Drop in a YouTube link or a web article and get the same treatment. No typing. No cleanup. No copy-pasting between apps.

Built natively for Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Synced seamlessly over iCloud. Drops straight into your Obsidian vault on Mac if that's where you live.

WHAT IT DOES

• Record anywhere — Capture voice on iPhone, iPad, or Mac. System audio capture on macOS means you can record meetings, calls, and anything else playing through your speakers. • One tap from anywhere — Quick-record widgets on your iPhone Home Screen, Live Activities on the Lock Screen, and a menu bar icon on Mac. Recording is always one tap or one click away, no matter where you are. • Meeting detection (Mac) — Jotley notices when a call starts — Zoom, Meet, Teams, FaceTime — and offers to record it. Never miss the first five minutes of a meeting because you forgot to hit record. • Accurate transcription — Industry-leading speech-to-text turns long recordings into readable text, fast. • Pull in YouTube and the web — Paste a YouTube link and get the full transcript plus a summary. Drop in a web article and Jotley turns it into a clean, summarized note. Research, lectures, podcasts on YouTube, long-form articles — all in your library next to your own recordings. • Smart summaries — AI distills your notes into the key points, action items, and decisions — so you spend less time re-reading and more time doing. • iCloud sync — Start a note on your phone, finish it on your Mac. Your library follows you across every Apple device, private and secure. • One-click Obsidian sync (Mac) — Record on your iPhone, walk back to your Mac, and the transcript and summary are already a markdown file in your Obsidian vault. Pick the folder once in the Mac app. Every note after that lands there automatically — formatted, linkable, and ready to weave into the rest of your second brain. Requires Obsidian desktop on macOS. • Native and fast — Built in Swift with SwiftUI. No Electron. No web wrapper. Just a real Mac and iOS app that feels right.

WHO IT'S FOR

• Founders and operators capturing ideas between meetings • Students turning lectures — live or on YouTube — into study-ready notes • Writers and creators working through drafts out loud • Consultants, sales folks, and PMs processing call after call • Researchers and learners pulling articles, videos, and podcasts into one searchable library • Mac-based Obsidian users who want voice-in, markdown-out — without the manual export dance • Anyone who thinks faster than they type

PRIVACY FIRST

Your notes live in your iCloud — and your Obsidian vault stays on your Mac, where it belongs. You control what gets shared and what stays private.

REQUIREMENTS

• iOS 26+ / iPadOS 26+ / macOS 26+ • iCloud account for sync across devices • Obsidian desktop on macOS (optional) for one-click vault sync

Download Jotley and stop losing ideas to the gap between thinking and writing.

Terms of Use (EULA): https://jotley.ai/tos