Voice Notes: Local Transcribe

Local Transcribe turns what you say into text, right on your iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Record, dictate or share a video and read it. The tasks you mention become a checklist. No account, no cloud, no subscription.

RECORD WITHOUT WORRY
• One tap starts a recording: in the app, from the Lock Screen widget or with the Action button.
• Audio is saved while you speak. A long lecture or interview is not lost if the app is closed unexpectedly.
• Long recordings keep transcribing when you leave the app.

RECORD ON APPLE WATCH
• One tap on the watch, from a complication or from the Smart Stack starts a recording. On Apple Watch Ultra, the Action button does it too.
• It works without your iPhone. The audio is saved on the watch in short pieces, so nothing is lost if the battery runs out.
• When your iPhone is near, the recording goes over by itself and is transcribed there. The watch shows what is waiting and what has arrived.
• Read your latest notes on the watch and tick off their tasks.

TASKS FROM WHAT YOU SAY
• Tap Task and say what needs doing, with a short pause between tasks: each one lands on your list.
• In any recording, say "to do: buy bread, call the doctor" and the note gets a checklist. Tap a task to hear where you said it.
• Every open task from every note in one Tasks list, and in a widget where you tick them off on the Home Screen.
• Need a date or an alert? One tap hands a task to Apple's Reminders.
• Edit, delete or add tasks at any time.

WIDGETS AND THE DYNAMIC ISLAND
• Record or say tasks from a Home Screen widget without opening the app. The time runs on the widget, in the Dynamic Island and on the Lock Screen; Stop opens the note.
• Small, medium and large widgets, a Lock Screen button, and Record and Task in Control Center.

FOLDERS AND SUMMARIES
• Sort notes into folders with a colour and a symbol, and filter the list in one tap.
• With Apple Intelligence, Apple's on-device model writes a title and a short summary, finds the tasks and suggests a folder. Nothing moves without your yes. Without Apple Intelligence, tasks are found by keywords.

DICTATE ANYWHERE
• Press the button in Control Center or the Action button and Local Transcribe opens already listening. Speak, pause, and the text is on your clipboard, ready to paste into any message.
• Punctuation your way: automatic, only what you say ("period", "new line"), or none. Capitals on or off.
• Save a dictation as a note with one tap, or have every dictation saved. The last 50 stay in a history.
• Dictation is free, up to two minutes at a time.

VIDEOS AND SUBTITLES
• Share a video (mov, mp4, m4v) to Local Transcribe and get its text. Only the sound is kept, not the video.
• Save subtitles as an .srt file next to the text and the audio, timed to the speech.

READ, FIX AND FIND
• Transcription on your device in German, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Hindi and more.
• Notes read like a document: a title, clear paragraphs. Tap a paragraph to hear exactly that part.
• Correct a misheard word or name once, in one note or in all of them, and future recordings get it right.
• Search all notes. A result opens the note and plays from that sentence.
• Translate a note into another language with Apple's translator on your device.

VOICE MESSAGES AND AUDIO FILES
• Share a voice message or an audio file (m4a, mp3, wav, opus, ogg) and read it instead of listening.

YOUR NOTES ARE YOURS
• Copy the text or save text, subtitles and audio to Files at any time.
• Nothing is uploaded. There is no account and no tracking.

FAIR PRICING
• Your first three transcriptions are free, at any length.
• After that, one purchase unlocks unlimited transcription. Pay once. No subscription.
• Recording, dictation, playback and saving your audio stay free.

Requires iOS 26 or later, and watchOS 26 or later for Apple Watch. Apple's speech and translation models are downloaded once by the system; after that, everything works offline.