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Voice notes
Apps that turn spoken notes into written notes and drafts. We track 13 of them: each one researched on its maker's own pages, with every figure read from an official source and linked to where it came from.
6of 13
run on Mac
3of 13
run on Windows
2of 13
run on Linux
11of 13
on iPhone or iPad
6of 13
on Android
3of 13
say speech stays on the device
2of 13
are open source
Counted from the 13 entries below, as each maker's own pages list them.
| App | Works offline | Speech processed on the device | Types into any app | Rewrites or formats with AI | Custom words or vocabulary | Free plan | Recordings can train the maker's models | Keeps audio on the maker's servers | Sends text to a third-party AI | A month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Letterly | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | $19.99 |
| AudioPen | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | · | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | · |
| SpeakApp AI | · | · | · | Yes | · | · | · | Yes | Yes | · |
| Audionotes | · | No | · | Yes | · | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | · |
| Whisper Memos | · | No | · | Yes | · | · | · | · | Yes | · |
| Cleft | Yes | Yes | · | Yes | · | Yes | No | · | Yes | · |
| Just Press Record | · | Yes | · | · | · | · | · | No | · | · |
| Flint | · | Yes | · | Yes | · | Yes | · | No | Yes | · |
| Whispering | No | No | No | Yes | · | Yes | · | No | Yes | · |
| Speech Note | Yes | Yes | Yes | · | · | · | · | No | No | · |
Yes or no as each maker's own pages state it; a dot means the pages do not say. Every cell opens the sentence it comes from.
All 13
- Letterly
Letterly · iPhone, Android, Mac, Windows, Web
A voice dictation and AI note-taking app that converts spoken input into written text for notes, emails, messages and meeting recordings.
- AudioPen
Nicheless, Inc. · Web, iPhone, Android, Chrome
A voice notes app that turns spoken thoughts into clearly written text in a style you choose, on the web, iPhone, Android and Chrome.
- SpeakApp AI
VoicePop Inc. · iPhone
A speech-to-text app that records voice notes, meetings and lectures and can summarize, rewrite or translate the transcription.
- Voicenotes
Voicenotes · Web, iPhone, Android, Mac, Windows
An AI app that turns spoken thoughts and recorded meetings into organized notes, summaries and follow-ups across your devices.
- Audionotes
Audionotes · iPhone, Android, Web, Mac
An AI note taker that turns voice, audio, video and text into structured notes on iPhone, Android, the web and Mac.
- Whisper Memos
Median Tech, s.r.o. · iPhone
An AI voice recorder for iPhone and Apple Watch that delivers transcriptions and summaries of your voice memos to your email.
- Cleft
Cleft · iPhone, iPad, Mac
A voice-first note-taking app that turns spoken thoughts into structured notes and can send them to tools such as Notion, Apple Notes and Obsidian.
- Just Press Record
Open Planet Software · iPhone, iPad, Mac
An audio recorder for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch that records with one tap and transcribes your recordings.
- Flint
Flint · iPhone, Android
A voice notes app where you speak and Flint transcribes and summarizes your voice into clear notes, from to-dos to stories.
- Voicepal
Voicepal Limited · iPhone
A voice-first writing app that helps you go from a spoken idea to a first draft.
- Talknotes
Talknotes · Web, iPhone, Android
An AI voice notes app that records spoken notes and turns them into structured text such as task lists, transcripts and blog posts.
- Whispering
Epicenter · Mac, Windows, Linux
An open-source desktop app from Epicenter that records your voice and transcribes it with local or cloud models, keeping the output as plain text files.
- Speech Note
mkiol · Linux
A Linux app for note taking, reading and translating with offline speech-to-text, text-to-speech and machine translation.