Private Transcribe

Turn speech into text without sending your voice to anyone's server. Private Transcribe runs Whisper AI directly on your phone: record, transcribe, and keep every word on-device. It even works in airplane mode.

WHY ON-DEVICE MATTERS
Most voice-to-text and transcription apps upload your audio to the cloud. Private Transcribe never does. The speech recognition model runs locally on your phone, so your recordings, meeting notes, memos, and ideas stay yours — and speech to text keeps working with no internet at all.

HOW IT WORKS
1. Download a speech model once (starting at 78 MB)
2. Tap the microphone and speak
3. Read, edit, copy, share, or export your transcript

CHOOSE YOUR ENGINE
• Quick (78 MB) — fastest results for short voice notes
• Balanced (148 MB) — the everyday recommendation
• Accurate (190 MB) — better with background noise and accents
• Professional (539 MB) — high accuracy for meetings and interviews
• Best (574 MB) — Whisper large-v3-turbo, the most accurate model that runs on a phone
English-optimized models are the fastest. Multilingual models transcribe 99+ languages: Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Arabic, and more.

MADE FOR
• Voice notes and voice memos that become editable text
• Meeting notes and interview transcription
• Lectures and study recordings
• Dictating drafts, emails, and ideas — hands-free voice typing
• Private journaling by voice

FEATURES
• Works fully offline after a one-time model download
• Import audio and video files — voice memos, meetings, lecture videos, podcasts (m4a, mp3, wav, aac, mp4, mov); videos contribute their audio track
• Pause and resume; keeps recording when the screen locks or you switch apps
• Custom vocabulary so names and jargon come out spelled right
• Back up and restore all transcripts as a file you keep
• Import audio and video files — voice memos, meetings, lecture videos, podcasts (m4a, mp3, wav, aac, mp4, mov); videos contribute their audio track
• Pause and resume; keeps recording when the screen locks or you switch apps
• Custom vocabulary so names and jargon come out spelled right
• Back up and restore all transcripts as a file you keep
• Timestamps for every line — view, copy or share a timestamped transcript
• Searchable, editable transcription history grouped by date
• Word counts and playback for every recording
• One-tap copy and share, optional auto-copy to clipboard
• Keep recordings, or auto-delete the audio and keep only the text
• Pin the spoken language or let Whisper detect it
• Dark theme, haptic feedback, no account ever

FREE APP, ONE-TIME PRO
Private Transcribe is free to use, supported by ads. Pro is a single one-time purchase — no subscription:
• Removes all ads permanently
• Translates speech from 99+ languages into English text
• Exports transcripts as .txt files or .srt and .vtt subtitles with timestamps

PRIVACY, PLAINLY
There is no sign-up and no server that receives your audio. Recordings and transcripts are stored only on your device and can be deleted anytime from Settings.

If your voice is worth writing down, it's worth keeping private.

Recent changes:
• Transcription keeps going when you switch apps
• Share audio or video to Private Transcribe, or use “Open with”
• Titles: imported files keep their name; rename any transcription
• Tap a line to play from there, at 0.75× to 2×
• Edits carry into timestamps and subtitles; Pro adds .vtt
• Audio not yet transcribed waits in a list, even after a crash
• Transcripts are now in your phone’s backup
• Fixed: importing from Files, Downloads and Drive
• Transcribed on your device, never uploaded