LocalLens: On-Device AI
Videos, audio & images to text
$2.99 · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Turn private media into useful text. Transcribe, capture on-screen words, search, translate, summarize, ask with citations, and export—without uploading files.
Turn videos, recordings, and photos into searchable text—privately, on your iPhone or iPad.
LocalLens finds the words hidden in your media. Import a lecture, meeting, interview, voice memo, screen recording, or image to get a time-coded speech transcript and recognized on-screen text without uploading the source file.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• Transcribe speech from video and audio
• Extract text from photos and video frames
• Search every recognized passage locally
• Jump from a result to its exact moment
• Translate recognized passages on device*
• Create private summaries and ask questions with cited answers**
• Export as TXT, Markdown, SRT, VTT, or JSON
• Import from Photos, Files, or the Share Sheet
• Lock your library with Face ID or device passcode
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Recognition runs on your device. Your media, transcripts, recognized text, translations, summaries, and answers are not sent to developer servers. No account, no ads, no tracking, and no third-party analytics.
PAY ONCE
One purchase. No subscription.
*Translation availability depends on languages supported by Apple and may require downloading language resources.
**Summary and Ask AI require a device and language supported by Apple Intelligence. Core transcription, OCR, timeline, search, translation, and export remain available without them. If a selected Apple speech resource is not installed, iOS may download it from Apple without sending your media.
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The developer, Guangzhou Ciyou Network Technology Co., Ltd., 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
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Information
- Seller
- Guangzhou Ciyou Network Technology Co., Ltd.
- Size
- 5 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 and 11 more
- English, Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 CiyouTech
