Offhand: Private Voice Notes

Offhand turns your voice into structured, readable notes - entirely on your phone. Record voice notes, meetings, lectures, and dictations; on-device AI transcribes your speech to text and rewrites it into a tidy note with a title, headings, and action items. No cloud, no account, no subscription. Your audio and your notes never leave your device.

WHY OFFHAND IS DIFFERENT
Most voice-to-text and AI note-taker apps upload your audio to a server and promise to be careful with it. Offhand can't leak your recordings to the cloud, because there is no cloud. Speech recognition (OpenAI's Whisper) and AI note structuring run 100% offline on your phone. Turn on airplane mode — everything still works.

PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE
• Offline AI transcription - audio is processed on device, never uploaded
• Notes encrypted at rest with SQLCipher; keys guarded by the Android Keystore
• Unlock with your fingerprint or device credential
• No account, no ads, no tracking - crash reporting is off unless you opt in
• Screenshots blocked on note screens; notes excluded from cloud backups

STRUCTURED NOTES, NOT LOSSY SUMMARIES
Offhand doesn't shrink a 2-hour meeting into three sentences. The on-device AI rewrites your transcript into a readable, detail-preserving note - headings, bullet lists, action items - and gives it a short title, so a rambling recording becomes a document you can actually use.

BUILT FOR LONG RECORDINGS
Record up to ~2 hours. Transcription runs while you're still speaking, so even long meetings are ready moments after you stop. Recording survives screen-off and app switching.

FREE AND OPEN SOURCE
No subscription. No in-app purchases. No "premium private mode" - privacy is the default, not an upsell. The full source code is public, so the privacy claims aren't marketing — they're verifiable.

PERFECT FOR
• Executives capturing meeting debriefs and decisions
• Doctors dictating patient notes with confidentiality obligations
• Lawyers and consultants recording privileged conversations
• Journalists protecting sources and interviews
• Anyone whose spoken thoughts are nobody else's business

WHAT IT NEEDS
On-device AI needs a modern phone: Android 12+, 5+ GB RAM, and ~2.5 GB free storage for a one-time model download. Offhand checks your device at first launch and tells you honestly if it won't run well. English transcription today; more languages are on the roadmap.

Your voice. Your notes. Your phone. Download Offhand and turn what you say into notes you'll actually read - privately.