Private, on-device dictation for iPhone, iPad & Apple Watch. Speak, refine into your style, paste anywhere — no account, no cloud, no tracking.
Speak however it comes out. Inkrest turns your voice into clean, finished text — right on your iPhone and iPad, with nothing sent to a server.
Most dictation just transcribes. Inkrest goes further: it captures what you say, then quietly refines the "ums," the false starts, and the run-ons into clear, polished prose in the style you choose. Speak a half-formed thought; get back a finished paragraph.
And it all happens on your device. Speech-to-text and the AI rewriting both run locally on Apple silicon. No accounts. No servers. No telemetry. After a one-time model download, Inkrest works with no internet connection at all — on a plane, on a trail, anywhere. Your words never leave your device.
CAPTURE ANYWHERE
- A system keyboard that turns speech into refined text in any app
- A home-screen widget and the Action Button for instant capture
- A Share Sheet to clean up text you already have
- On Apple Watch: catch a thought from your wrist
- A Live Activity that keeps your session in the Dynamic Island and on the Lock Screen
BUILT FOR IPAD
Inkrest is a real iPad app, not a stretched-up phone screen — a wider dictation layout and a two-column settings view that make the most of the display. Dictate a note, refine it, and move on without leaving the page.
PICK YOUR STYLE
The same spoken note, refined for where it's going — Email, Message, Document, Bullets, or Verbatim. Let Inkrest choose, or set it yourself.
SPELLED THE WAY YOU MEAN IT
Curated dictionaries plus your own custom terms, so names, jargon, and product names come out right — without spelling them out loud.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
No analytics. No crash reporters. No ad SDKs. The only thing Inkrest ever sends over the network is a one-time model download. After that: silence.
NO SUBSCRIPTION. NO ADS. NO ACCOUNT.
Inkrest doesn't track you, doesn't show ads, and never asks you to sign in.
Your words, at rest.
I've tried a lot of dictation tools, but Inkrest stands out because of how it refines text based on where it's going. Being able to ramble a thought and have the app automatically format it into a clean Email, Bullet points, or a Document is a game-changer. I never lose a thought. Plus, the fact that it's a native iPad app (not just a stretched-out phone app) is a huge bonus.
Think out loud, privately
Bloodhawk24
It decouples my thinking from writing. I don’t have to worry about structuring my sentences when thinking out loud. I love the privacy. The fact that my thinking and sentences stay local gives me the peace of mind.
A productivity booster
Nichand1
I really like that it works on multiple apps, the keyboard is intuitive and auto-paste feature is a small but effective one that makes thoughts to words seamless.
Fixes a case where a short spoken instruction came back as a written-out
answer instead of the note you dictated.
Version 2.2.12
The developer, Lampblack Labs LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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