Voice recorder & transcription
Record meetings, interviews, and quick notes, or import your Voice Memos. You can read the words a few minutes later in any of 25 languages.
“Nothing is sent to the cloud. Privacy first.”
What it does
01 · Quick controls
The recording keeps going while the phone is locked. A paused card says Open to Resume, and the app picks up the same recording.
02 · Quick controls
Switch apps and the recording keeps its place at the top of the screen. Touch and hold the island for Pause and Stop.
03 · Quick controls
The widget has a red Record button. While you record it shows the time with Pause and Stop, and its glow follows your voice.
04 · New in 1.1
Tap Speakers on a finished transcript and each turn gets its own label, with up to 8 voices told apart on your iPhone.
05 · New in 1.1
Turn on Remove filler words for clean text, in new and existing transcripts. Switch it off and the words come back.
06 · New in 1.1
Tap Stop and you're back in your recordings while the words stream in. It keeps going when you lock the phone or switch apps.
07 · Languages
Pick one of 25 languages so the app doesn't have to guess, or turn on Auto and it works the language out, even when a recording mixes languages.
08 · Playback
Tap a line to hear that moment. Keep holding on the waveform for 10-minute precision in long recordings.
09 · Search
Search covers every recording and transcript, and each recording gets a name from its opening words.
10 · Audio in, text out
Import recordings from Voice Memos, Files and other apps. Copy, share or save the transcript as plain text, or share the audio.
How it works
Record from the app, Control Center, or a Home Screen widget, and pause, resume, or stop from the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. You can also import audio from Voice Memos, Files, and other apps.
Choose the spoken language so the app doesn't have to guess. If your recordings mix languages, turn on Auto and the app works the language out as it transcribes. You can also transcribe a single recording in another language without changing your default.
Tap Stop and you're back in your recordings while the words stream in. Tap a line to hear that moment, search all recordings and transcripts, and copy, share or save the text.
Auto, speaker labels and all 25 languages work on iPhone 12 Pro, 13 Pro, 14 and newer.
Why offline matters
Recording, transcription and speaker detection all happen on your iPhone. There is no account and no upload, the app has no analytics, and it works in airplane mode.
App Store privacy label: Data Not Collected. We never upload, store, or see your recordings or transcripts.
Use cases
Turn a recorded lecture into a searchable transcript without scrambling to keep up with notes.
Learn morePull exact quotes and separate your questions from the answers with speaker labels, without uploading a source's voice anywhere.
Learn moreCapture what was said, see who said it, and search it later, without a bot joining the call.
Learn moreDictate daily notes, journal entries, or first drafts offline on your iPhone.
Learn moreRecord a thought and get the transcript automatically, entirely on-device.
Learn moreRecord in the language you're learning and read back exactly what you said.
Reviews
Great app for older iphones
It can transcribe in many languages. Works pretty well. Nothing is sent to the cloud. Privacy first.
Удобный диктофон с расшифровкой
Приложение очень простое в использовании. Можно записать аудио прямо в нём и потом расшифровать, а можно загрузить готовый файл и получить текст почти моментально. Здорово, что приложение можно бесплатно скачать и попробовать перед покупкой, чтобы проверить, насколько хорошо оно распознаёт язык.
A handy voice recorder with transcription
The app is very easy to use. You can record audio right in it and transcribe it later, or upload a ready-made file and get the text almost instantly. It's great that you can download the app for free and try it before buying, to check how well it recognizes the language.
Gets the job done!
Great and simple app. I use it to transcribe meetings and very happy that the contents is only stored locally and never goes in the cloud.
Serdecznie polecam
Pomaga w codziennym życiu i funkcjonowaniu. Najlepsza aplikacja z której korzystałem do tej pory!
I wholeheartedly recommend it
It helps with everyday life and getting things done. The best app I've used so far!
Very nice
Simple, useful, work offline. Nice!
Op
Wszystko działa elegancko. Polecam.
Op
Everything works nicely. I recommend it.
Fit for me
Works simply and quickly 👍
From App Store reviews, chosen by us and quoted as written. Translations are ours. All reviews on the App Store
Before you download
Simply Transcribe requires iOS 26 or later. We'd rather tell you this upfront than have you find out after downloading.
iPhone SE (2nd generation), iPhone 11, iPhone 12, iPhone 13
The app transcribes English, without speaker labels or Auto. Everything else works the same.
iPhone 12 Pro / Pro Max, iPhone 13 Pro / Pro Max, iPhone 14 and newer
The app transcribes all 25 languages, with speaker labels and Auto.
Pricing
Recordings under 5 minutes are free. One purchase unlocks longer recordings for good, with no subscription and no minute quota. Your audio is saved either way.
The App Store shows the price in your local currency before you buy.
FAQ
Yes. Recording, transcription and speaker labels all run on your iPhone, in airplane mode or anywhere with no signal.
No. Nothing you record or transcribe leaves your phone unless you share it yourself. If you turn on naming recordings by place, Apple Maps looks up the place name; only that name is kept on your iPhone.
Yes, since 1.1. Turn on Auto and the app works the language out as it transcribes, even when one recording mixes languages. You can keep picking the language yourself so the app doesn't have to guess. Auto works on iPhone 12 Pro, 13 Pro, 14 and newer.
Yes. Tap Speakers on a finished transcript and each turn gets its own label, with up to 8 voices told apart on your iPhone. You can rename a speaker or move a passage to the right one. Speaker labels work on iPhone 12 Pro, 13 Pro, 14 and newer.
Yes. Turn on Remove filler words in Settings. It's off until you turn it on, and switching it off brings the words back.
Yes. It keeps going when you lock the phone or switch apps, and a transcription that gets cut off picks up where it stopped.
The first transcription after you install the app takes about a minute longer while your iPhone prepares the speech model. After that, transcriptions start right away, and there's nothing to download.
The app requires iOS 26 or later and runs on iPhone SE (2nd generation), iPhone 11 and newer. iPhone 11, 12, 13 and SE transcribe English; iPhone 12 Pro, 13 Pro, 14 and newer get all 25 languages, speaker labels and Auto.
Yes. Pick your default once, and transcribe a single recording in another language without changing it.
No. Recordings under 5 minutes are free. One purchase unlocks longer recordings for good, with no minute quota.
iPhone 12 Pro, 13 Pro, 14 and newer support all 25 languages: English, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, and Ukrainian. iPhone SE (2nd generation), iPhone 11, 12, and 13 transcribe English.
We never collect your recordings or transcripts. Since version 1.1, the app has no analytics, and its App Store privacy label is Data Not Collected. This website uses separate, optional GA4 and Microsoft Clarity analytics only if you select Accept.
Yes. Settings includes an Erase All Recordings and Transcripts action. Bundled language models remain installed so the app stays ready.