Transcribatron: Voice to Text
AI meeting notes & dictation
Free · In‑App Purchases
No subscription. No account. Nothing has to leave your phone. Buy once for the AI keyboard, meeting capture with speaker names, live Meeting Buddy & Listen read-aloud.
Transcribatron turns your voice into clean, structured text - everywhere. One purchase, no subscription, no account - and transcription always runs on your device.
DICTATE IN ANY APP
A system-wide keyboard that records your voice and types polished text into Mail, Messages, Slack, Notes - anywhere you can type. Pick a style (formal email, bullets, casual) and it rewrites as it goes. Apple's dictation gives you raw text; this gives you finished text.
CAPTURE MEETINGS IN THE ROOM
Set your phone on the table and record the whole room - no bot, no calendar invite, no uploads. Get a full transcript plus an AI summary, action items, and decisions, using templates you control. Transcribatron tells speakers apart on-device - name them in the meeting and every line shows who said it. Built for boardrooms, 1:1s, interviews, and lectures.
A MEETING BUDDY IN YOUR CORNER
Turn on live coaching and a Buddy watches the conversation as it happens - surfacing heads-ups, opportunities, and the specific things you asked it to watch for, with a live chat that already knows what's been said. Live coaching runs on a cloud model, so it needs your own API key.
LISTEN TO ANYTHING
Turn any transcript, note, or imported document into audio. Natural on-device and cloud voices, karaoke-style word highlighting, lock-screen playback - or flip to RSVP speed reading and fly through it silently, one word at a time.
YOUR CHOICE OF AI - OR FULLY ON-DEVICE
Use the best model for the job - Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Grok with your own key - or keep the work on your device with the free on-device model, a one-time download (iPhone 15 Pro and later, and recent iPads). Your call, every time. Confidential conversation? Transcription always runs on-device - and on those devices the AI cleanup does too, so nothing has to leave your phone.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
No account, ever. Transcription always runs on your device - your recordings are never uploaded to us, because there is no server of ours to upload them to. Choose a cloud AI and only text is sent, using your own API key, straight to the provider you picked. Your keys stay in the Keychain.
ALSO INCLUDED
• Chat with any transcript to ask questions and pull quotes
• Import audio, video, links, and podcasts and turn them into clean notes
• Custom vocabulary so names and jargon come out right
• Connect your calendar to see upcoming meetings and link recordings to events
• Import documents (PDF, DOCX, EPUB) or scan pages - then listen to them read aloud
• Subtitles for imported videos: export .srt/.vtt, edit cues, burn them back in
• Translate your notes into 19 languages when you share them
• Two-way Obsidian sync - edit in your vault, changes flow back
• iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac
• A full Mac app with a global dictation hotkey, menu-bar companion, and system-audio capture for remote calls
ONE PRICE, NO SUBSCRIPTION
One purchase. Lifetime. 7-day free trial. No accounts, no servers, no monthly fees - because the work happens on your device.
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Instant first launch.
Transcribatron is ready to record the moment you install it. Previously a new install waited on a large speech model to download before you could record anything. Now the app starts on a compact model that is ready right away, then upgrades itself in the background to the best model for your language.
The developer, Marc Maguire, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Purchases
- User Content
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
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Information
- Seller
- Marc Maguire
- Size
- 44.7 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.5 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.5 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 18.5 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 17 more
- English, Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Lifetime $8.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Marc Maguire