Cadence - Audio Transcription

Speaker Transcripts, Offline

Free · In‑App Purchases

Speaker-labelled transcripts from any recording, made on your iPhone or iPad. No account, no upload, and one Pro purchase that covers Cadence on your Mac too. Cadence turns an audio or video recording into a timestamped transcript that knows who was speaking. It transcribes on your iPhone or iPad: no account, no upload, and no per-minute billing. Import an interview, a podcast or a meeting recording from Files, and read it back as speaker-labelled turns instead of a wall of text. WHY CADENCE • Transcribes on device, so a recording you are not allowed to upload stays with you • Two engines are free and unlimited: no trial, no watermark, no sign-up, no cap • Speaker diarization included, not a separate paid add-on • Works offline once a model is downloaded KEY FEATURES Import from Files • Pick one recording or several at once, from Files or iCloud Drive • Video is transcribed from its audio track, so screen and meeting recordings work directly • Cadence keeps its own copy, so a recording still plays after the original file moves Choose your engine • Apple Speech is built into iOS, and it is the free default • Parakeet TDT v3 compact covers 25 European languages, free; full v3 and the English-tuned v2 are Pro • Whisper large-v3-turbo for 100 languages, detected automatically (Pro) • Download a model once, and delete it in Settings when you want the space back Know who said what • Speaker diarization via pyannote Community-1, a 22 MB download • Speaker-attributed turns with timecodes, in colors shared by legend and transcript • Rename a speaker once and every turn follows • Tell Cadence how many speakers to expect, for the recordings that need the help Play it back and read along • Play the source from 0.75x to 2x, with each word marked as it is said • Skip back or ahead 15 seconds, and let the transcript follow playback • Tap a turn to play from there Find anything you said • Search recording names and transcript text together, accents and case folded, so "jose" finds "José" • Open a result and its matches are highlighted in the transcript • Select and copy any passage More room on iPad • The library and the transcript side by side, in any orientation and in Split View • Drag recordings in from Files, Voice Memos or Mail • Export to plain text and SRT, free • Keyboard shortcuts for playback and find CADENCE PRO Free covers the core on two engines: Apple Speech, and Parakeet TDT v3 compact for 25 European languages. Unlimited transcription, diarization, playback and search. One purchase, with no subscription, adds: • The full-size speech models: Parakeet TDT v3 at full precision, the English-tuned v2, and Whisper for 100 languages • A queue, so you can start several recordings and Cadence works through them in turn • On iPad, briefs: decisions, action items and open questions, summarized on device • On iPad, two models compared side by side, with the differences marked • On iPad, export to WebVTT, Markdown, JSON and CSV Pro is one purchase for your iPhone, your iPad and your Mac. Cadence for Mac also adds Transcribe All. WHO IT'S FOR • Researchers and journalists working through interview recordings • Podcasters checking what was said in an episode • Anyone with meeting or lecture recordings, only useful once you can tell the speakers apart PRIVACY • Cadence never uploads your audio or your transcripts • No account, no analytics, and no third-party data collection • The only network traffic is downloading the speech models you choose, once REQUIREMENTS iPhone or iPad with iOS 26 or later. Briefs need Apple Intelligence. Keep Cadence open while a long recording transcribes.

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Cadence runs on iPad. The library and the transcript sit side by side, in any orientation, in Split View and in Stage Manager. Four things the iPhone leaves out come with it: drag and drop from Files, Voice Memos or Mail; export to every format; the brief, in an inspector beside the transcript; and two models compared side by side, with the differences marked. Also in this version: • Share audio or video to Cadence from the share sheet: a memo from Voice Memos, an attachment in Mail or Messages, or a file in Files. • Each recording picks its own model, language and speaker count, in a Transcribe sheet that lists every model with its download size. • Keyboard shortcuts, with a hardware keyboard: ⌘O to add recordings, ⌘F to find in a transcript, Space to play or pause, ⌥← and ⌥→ to skip 15 seconds. • Language lists are sorted by name rather than by language code, so German no longer comes before English. • Exports are saved with the right file extension, so a subtitle file opens in a video player without being renamed. Briefs need Apple Intelligence.

Version 1.4.0

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    Information

    Seller
    • Magenta Creations
    Size
    • 23.3 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.
    Languages
    • English
    Age Rating
    4+
    In-App Purchases
    Yes
    Copyright
    • © 2026 Magenta Creations
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    • Family Sharing

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