Local Transcription - Whisper

Transcribe your voice directly on your iPhone — completely offline, no cloud, no data sharing. Your recordings never leave your device.

How It Works Choose between two on-device transcription engines: Whisper, a powerful open-source AI model, or Apple's own Speech engine running on the Neural Engine. Both work fully offline — pick whichever fits your device and needs, from lightning-fast and compact to highly accurate.

Key Features • Record & transcribe instantly — start a recording directly in the app • Two on-device engines — Whisper (multiple model sizes) or Apple Speech, with a live preview as you speak • Smart Titles — automatic, on-device AI headlines for your transcripts (Apple Intelligence devices) • Import audio files — MP3, M4A, WAV, AIFF and more • Import Voice Memos — share recordings from the Voice Memos app directly • Extend transcripts — append new recordings or audio files to any existing transcript • Multi-select — select several transcripts in any order and merge, copy or export them together • Edit & export — copy, share or save as TXT, Markdown or JSON, with clean auto-generated file names • Save to folder — one tap to save a transcript into your chosen cloud folder (iCloud Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox…) • Stats — track words spoken this week and see how much typing time you've saved • Storage insights — see exactly what's using space on your device and free it up in one tap • Multilingual — English, German, French, Spanish, Italian and many more • Model selection — Tiny (32 MB) to Medium (515 MB), all optimised for iPhone with CoreML

100% Privacy Since everything runs locally on your device, your voice data never leaves your iPhone. No accounts, no subscriptions, no external servers required — ever.

Perfect For – Transcribing meetings and interviews – Converting voice memos and podcast recordings to text – Dictating notes and ideas hands-free – Students capturing lectures – Accessibility and assistive use

Notes • AI models must be downloaded once (Wi-Fi recommended) • Transcription speed depends on the chosen model/engine and iPhone generation • Apple Speech requires iOS 26 or later