Kayit Transcribe Audio to Text
Private, On-device, Interviews
Free · In‑App Purchases
New in Kayit Pro: search inside every interview at once, by what was said. Transcribing, editing and export as text stay free, and nothing is sent to us.
A recording on your iPhone or iPad, in 100 languages, becomes a transcript you can search, edit and quote. Kayit runs on-device transcription models from Apple, NVIDIA and Whisper, so nothing is sent away to be transcribed, analyzed or logged.
Transcription, editing and text export are free, with no time limit. Kayit Pro adds what is built around the words: library-wide search, speaker separation and quotes that carry their audio.
Built for journalists, researchers, lawyers and clinicians: anyone whose work can't leave the device it was recorded on.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• The audio and the transcript stay in Kayit's own folder on the device
• No account, no sign-in, no analytics, no servers to receive anything
• One switch keeps your library out of iCloud Backup
FREE: TRANSCRIBE
• Three on-device engines: Apple, Parakeet and Whisper, chosen per recording for accuracy, speed or language
• Pick the language first; an engine that can't handle it is disabled and says why
• Send a recording from any app's Share menu, including Voice Memos
• MP3, M4A, WAV, AIFF, FLAC and most audio and video formats; from a video Kayit takes only the audio
• Your library is in Files, under On My iPhone or On My iPad: put recordings in, take transcripts out
• File interviews into projects and archive one when the story is filed
FREE: PLAY BACK AND EDIT
• The current word highlights as it plays, and the transcript scrolls to keep up
• Waveform scrubbing, 0.5x to 2x speed, 10-second skip; tap the elapsed time to jump anywhere
• Find in the transcript and set the reading size
• Edit the text where you read it: fix a name, split or merge paragraphs
• Timestamps survive edits, so playback and quotes stay aligned
• Name the speakers yourself, a paragraph at a time
• Export the whole transcript as plain text, free and unlimited
KAYIT PRO: SEARCH
• Search inside every transcript at once, not just the one you have open: the line, the speaker and the time
KAYIT PRO: SPEAKERS
• Automatic speaker separation labels each voice Speaker 1, Speaker 2 and so on; rename one and it applies everywhere
• Two separation methods: run it again with the other if the first was wrong, and your edits survive
• Save samples of your voice and Kayit names you in every interview after that
KAYIT PRO: QUOTES
• Select a passage, and Kayit saves the text, the speaker and its exact audio span
• Share a quote as text, Markdown or CSV, or with the trimmed audio clip it was taken from
KAYIT PRO: EXPORT MORE
• Export as PDF, Rich Text, Markdown, CSV or SubRip subtitles (.srt), with timestamps
• Send a whole interview to a colleague, transcript and audio in one zip, or AirDrop it to Kayit on your Mac
SUBSCRIPTION
Transcription, editing and text export stay free, with no time limit. Every section above marked Kayit Pro needs an auto-renewing subscription, which starts with a 14-day free trial. One subscription covers Kayit on iPhone, on iPad and on the Mac.
• Kayit Pro Monthly: $4.99 USD / month
• Kayit Pro Annual: $49.99 USD / year
Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings.
Terms of Use: https://kayit.press/terms
Privacy Policy: https://kayit.press/privacy
FIRST LAUNCH
Kayit downloads each model the first time it needs it, then runs offline. Parakeet is about 500 MB and Whisper about 600 MB; Apple's engine uses a language pack iOS downloads.
WHAT KAYIT DOES NOT DO
Kayit does not record: bring a recording in from Voice Memos, from Files or another app. The on-device AI insights are on the Mac and the iPad, not the iPhone. Voice samples are per device and do not sync.
REQUIREMENTS
• iPhone running iOS 26 or later
• iPad running iPadOS 26 or later, with 8 GB of memory or more for the larger models
Ratings & Reviews
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Ask this interview, on iPad. A new Ask tab beside the library takes a question about the interview you have open and shows up to three passages where it is answered, in the speakers' own words: tap one to go there. Kayit writes nothing of its own here. If nothing in the interview answers the question, it says so and shows the closest places it found instead. Part of Kayit Pro, and it runs on your iPad like everything else.
Search by meaning, not just by words. Settings offers a second way to look through your library: Kayit can find the passage that answers what you asked even when the speaker used none of the words you typed. It is optional and needs a one-time download of about 340 MB. Searching by words keeps working while it downloads, and it stays the way to find an exact quoted phrase.
Opening an interview no longer stops your music. Kayit takes over the audio only when you press play.
Listening looks different from reading. While a recording plays, the words it has not reached yet are dimmed, so where you are in the audio reads as an edge instead of a shaded word.
On iPad, tapping an entry in the outline now scrolls the transcript to that moment, not just the waveform.
A new app icon, drawn from the Kayit logo.
The developer, Detroit Game Studio, 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 .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Detroit Game Studio, LLC
- Size
- Up to 44.4 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Kayit Pro (Monthly) $4.99
- Kayit Pro (Annual) $49.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Detroit Game Studio, LLC
