Transcriptionist

Name: Transcriptionist
Rating: 4.1 (14 reviews)
Author: Wooji Juice Ltd

Fast, private, speech to text

Free · In‑App Purchases

14 Ratings
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Productivity
Developer

Wooji Juice Ltd
Language

EN
English
Size

108.6
MB

Transcriptionist quickly and privately converts speech from audio recordings — and video soundtracks — into text. Writing up notes for a meeting? Creating transcripts or subtitles for a podcast? Looking for just the right clip to cut out of a long recording? Or quotes for a news article? Need to remember what happened on game night? Or just want to remind yourself of what was said, without listening to the entire recording? Transcriptionist can help — in nearly 100 languages. Import the audio into the app, tap the transcribe button, and it will start to fill in the text that was spoken. Each piece is shown with a timestamp, and you can jump straight to the matching point in the recording to listen back to the original audio — at up to 2x speed. If each speaker was recorded with their own microphone, Transcriptionist will track who said what, when — and you can solo individual voices to pick out what someone said, even if another person talked over them. Copy and paste quotes into an article you're writing, or export the entire transcript in a range of formats, including PDF, HTML (web page), Markdown (blog post), SRT and VTT (subtitles), as well as formats suitable for importing into other apps — you can even create your own custom text-based formats with the built-in easy-to-use visual editor. If you edit podcasts with our popular Ferrite Recording Studio, you can send your finished Ferrite projects direct to Transcriptionist — along with chapter markers — and each track will be kept separate so you can identify who's speaking. You can also select paragraphs and export their audio in a choice of formats, suitable for editing in Ferrite or other apps — perfect for when you find the quote or highlight you needed. Transcription takes place on your device, not on our servers, so no audio or text is sent to us, and subscribers can make as many transcripts as they like — we don't charge per-minute or per-transcript. Terms of Service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.wooji-juice.com/privacy

Ratings & Reviews

4.1

out of 5

14 Ratings

Unclear how to export
11/19/2025

Dexter Dreaming Darkly
My goal is transcribe audio from meetings with clients into text, then to export said text to private AI to create a summary of the meeting. I love that transcription is handled privately on device, but for the life of me, I cannot figure out how to export the text. The user guide provides instructions to use the “Export” option in the file menu, which does not seem to exist, nor can I find the option anywhere else. I’ll probably reach out to the developer for support, but it shouldn’t be this hard. Using on an M5 iPad Pro.

Developer Response
Hello! You can export a transcript from an iPad by first opening the file, then tapping on the Document Menu (this is the one that has the name of the transcript itself, and a little V-shaped down arrow) and picking Export, then the type of file you want to export (HTML, Markdown, CSV, etc). This will open a standard iOS Share Sheet where you can pick where to send the exported file. If you need additional help, please get in touch by email, via the Contact Customer Support link inside the app, as we can’t provide detailed support via App Store review responses (by email, we can do things like send screenshots or dig into technical details if there’s a problem). Thanks!
Unclear how to export
11/19/2025

Dexter Dreaming Darkly

My goal is transcribe audio from meetings with clients into text, then to export said text to private AI to create a summary of the meeting. I love that transcription is handled privately on device, but for the life of me, I cannot figure out how to export the text. The user guide provides instructions to use the “Export” option in the file menu, which does not seem to exist, nor can I find the option anywhere else. I’ll probably reach out to the developer for support, but it shouldn’t be this hard. Using on an M5 iPad Pro.
Developer Response 11/21/2025
Hello! You can export a transcript from an iPad by first opening the file, then tapping on the Document Menu (this is the one that has the name of the transcript itself, and a little V-shaped down arrow) and picking Export, then the type of file you want to export (HTML, Markdown, CSV, etc). This will open a standard iOS Share Sheet where you can pick where to send the exported file. If you need additional help, please get in touch by email, via the Contact Customer Support link inside the app, as we can’t provide detailed support via App Store review responses (by email, we can do things like send screenshots or dig into technical details if there’s a problem). Thanks!
Fails more than it works
09/22/2023

newpolluter
First of all, this is a GUI for the OpenAI Whisper project. But as implemented on iOS in my first several tests, it has failed way more often than it has worked. Does your phone go to sleep because transcription is so slow? It fails with no notification. Is your audio file 32 bit? Again, it seems to fail without notification. I’m guessing here, since, again, there are no prompts or pop-ups to tell you what’s happening. The circular completion pie tells you something, but not if you turn away from your phone. Can you multi-task out of the app while transcription runs? I’m not sure, but I don’t think so. Also, it uses the file name to name the speaker, not the transcription file. So all of your transcriptions are by default called “Untitled,” even when you import audio. And your speaker is called “Episode 6” or whatever. Seems like it would be much improved with two settings: force phone to not sleep during transcription, and “name transcription file with audio file name.”

Developer Response
Hello, and thanks for your feedback! We recommend keeping Transcriptionist the frontmost app while performing a transcription on iPhone, as transcribing speech into text requires a lot of memory and processing resources, and if you switch to another app, it will have to give up those resources to let the new app use them. We’re considering adding an option to keep the screen awake during transcription so you can keep an eye on the progress. If you’re encountering a technical problem beyond that (for example, an incompatible audio file), please get in touch with Customer Support from the Tools/Settings (“gear button”) menu inside the app so we can investigate that for you. Thanks!
Fails more than it works
09/22/2023

newpolluter

First of all, this is a GUI for the OpenAI Whisper project. But as implemented on iOS in my first several tests, it has failed way more often than it has worked. Does your phone go to sleep because transcription is so slow? It fails with no notification. Is your audio file 32 bit? Again, it seems to fail without notification. I’m guessing here, since, again, there are no prompts or pop-ups to tell you what’s happening. The circular completion pie tells you something, but not if you turn away from your phone. Can you multi-task out of the app while transcription runs? I’m not sure, but I don’t think so. Also, it uses the file name to name the speaker, not the transcription file. So all of your transcriptions are by default called “Untitled,” even when you import audio. And your speaker is called “Episode 6” or whatever. Seems like it would be much improved with two settings: force phone to not sleep during transcription, and “name transcription file with audio file name.”
Developer Response 09/25/2023
Hello, and thanks for your feedback! We recommend keeping Transcriptionist the frontmost app while performing a transcription on iPhone, as transcribing speech into text requires a lot of memory and processing resources, and if you switch to another app, it will have to give up those resources to let the new app use them. We’re considering adding an option to keep the screen awake during transcription so you can keep an eye on the progress. If you’re encountering a technical problem beyond that (for example, an incompatible audio file), please get in touch with Customer Support from the Tools/Settings (“gear button”) menu inside the app so we can investigate that for you. Thanks!
Not Understanding the High Ratings
09/09/2025

BasiliskEgg
Just downloaded and subscribed to this app and right away it repeatedly crashes every time I use the search and replace feature. And why am I having to use the search and replace feature? Because in practically every other sentence there are words that were transcribed incorrectly. The errors are so bad it’s difficult figuring out what was actually said to correct in the transcription. Does it do more than the transcribe feature in Apple Notes and Voice Memos apps? Yes. It will combine multiple separately-recorded audio tracks (say, from a Zoom recording), and include time stamps, allow you to edit/correct it’s errors, change the names it assigns to participants of the audio, etc. - which are all things I need - but with the errors and search/replace (for those errors) crashes make me question whether even the relatively low subscription fee is worth it.

Developer Response
Hello! I’m sorry to hear that you have encountered a crash while using the search and replace feature. If you get in contact with Customer Support using the link inside the app, we can look into that for you. As far as transcription accuracy goes, no AI transcription is perfect, but Transcriptionist includes a variety of different AI brain sizes — larger ones take up more space and run slower, but provide more accurate transcription — so you can choose the one that suits you best. If your device is powerful enough, we find the “Large (v3 Turbo)” to be a particularly good balance (I use it myself to transcribe hours of audio every week). Hope that helps!
Not Understanding the High Ratings
09/09/2025

BasiliskEgg

Just downloaded and subscribed to this app and right away it repeatedly crashes every time I use the search and replace feature. And why am I having to use the search and replace feature? Because in practically every other sentence there are words that were transcribed incorrectly. The errors are so bad it’s difficult figuring out what was actually said to correct in the transcription. Does it do more than the transcribe feature in Apple Notes and Voice Memos apps? Yes. It will combine multiple separately-recorded audio tracks (say, from a Zoom recording), and include time stamps, allow you to edit/correct it’s errors, change the names it assigns to participants of the audio, etc. - which are all things I need - but with the errors and search/replace (for those errors) crashes make me question whether even the relatively low subscription fee is worth it.
Developer Response 09/10/2025
Hello! I’m sorry to hear that you have encountered a crash while using the search and replace feature. If you get in contact with Customer Support using the link inside the app, we can look into that for you. As far as transcription accuracy goes, no AI transcription is perfect, but Transcriptionist includes a variety of different AI brain sizes — larger ones take up more space and run slower, but provide more accurate transcription — so you can choose the one that suits you best. If your device is powerful enough, we find the “Large (v3 Turbo)” to be a particularly good balance (I use it myself to transcribe hours of audio every week). Hope that helps!
Very nice transcription but minor improvement better
07/24/2024

BlueMountainClimber
Accuracy of transcription is acceptable though sometimes words are missing. It saves a lot of work to clearly understand the speaker.One improvement I am looking forward to is to collate the transcripted text in a clip with Ferrite so that some words may be positioned in the waveform to facilitate editing the corresponding clip. I mean it would be better to integrate the Transcriptionist Into Ferrite, or vice versa.It is a really good audio editor app!
Very nice transcription but minor improvement better
07/24/2024

BlueMountainClimber

Accuracy of transcription is acceptable though sometimes words are missing. It saves a lot of work to clearly understand the speaker.One improvement I am looking forward to is to collate the transcripted text in a clip with Ferrite so that some words may be positioned in the waveform to facilitate editing the corresponding clip. I mean it would be better to integrate the Transcriptionist Into Ferrite, or vice versa.It is a really good audio editor app!