LocalLens: On-Device AI

Turn private media into useful text. Transcribe, capture on-screen words, search, translate, summarize, ask with citations, and export—without uploading files.

Turn videos, recordings, and photos into searchable text—privately, on your iPhone or iPad.

LocalLens finds the words hidden in your media. Import a lecture, meeting, interview, voice memo, screen recording, or image to get a time-coded speech transcript and recognized on-screen text without uploading the source file.

WHAT YOU CAN DO • Transcribe speech from video and audio • Extract text from photos and video frames • Search every recognized passage locally • Jump from a result to its exact moment • Translate recognized passages on device* • Create private summaries and ask questions with cited answers** • Export as TXT, Markdown, SRT, VTT, or JSON • Import from Photos, Files, or the Share Sheet • Lock your library with Face ID or device passcode

PRIVATE BY DESIGN Recognition runs on your device. Your media, transcripts, recognized text, translations, summaries, and answers are not sent to developer servers. No account, no ads, no tracking, and no third-party analytics.

PAY ONCE One purchase. No subscription.

*Translation availability depends on languages supported by Apple and may require downloading language resources. **Summary and Ask AI require a device and language supported by Apple Intelligence. Core transcription, OCR, timeline, search, translation, and export remain available without them. If a selected Apple speech resource is not installed, iOS may download it from Apple without sending your media.