Listenary: Transcribe & Search
Read along, find what was said
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Transcribe 3 titles free. Read along, then find the exact moment any phrase was said anywhere in your library. Fully on-device. One lifetime unlock, no subscription.
You know you heard it. You just can't find where.
Listenary lets you read along with long audio — lectures, interviews, audiobooks — and find the exact moment any phrase was spoken, anywhere in your library. All of it on your device.
READ THE SENTENCE YOU'RE HEARING
The current sentence highlights and scrolls itself. Keep it to a few subtitle lines, or read the whole thing like a document.
TAP A SENTENCE, HEAR IT
See something you want to hear again? Tap it and playback jumps right there. No more thumbing the rewind button.
SEARCH EVERY RECORDING YOU OWN
Search "confirmation bias" and get every moment it was spoken across your whole library, with timestamps. Tap a result and it plays. Substring search works for Korean, Japanese and Chinese, where word spacing isn't reliable.
HIGHLIGHT AND ANNOTATE
Long-press a sentence to file it under Important, Replay, Unclear, Quote or Idea, and add a note. Review only what you marked.
COME BACK THREE DAYS LATER
How far it rewinds depends on how long you were away. Resume from your last highlight, a little earlier, or right where you stopped.
BUILT FOR LONG FILES
A three- to five-hour file is processed in chunks. Start listening as soon as the beginning is ready, and closing the app resumes from the last finished chunk instead of starting over.
FULLY ON-DEVICE
No account, no uploads, no analytics SDKs. Your audio and transcripts never leave your device. Speech recognition uses Apple's on-device recognition.
SUPPORTED FORMATS
MP3 · M4A · M4B (DRM-free)
Note: protected audiobooks (Audible AAX, Apple Books) are not supported, and the app provides no DRM removal or downloading. It is for files you legally own.
LANGUAGES
Transcription: Korean, English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese
Interface: Korean, English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese
FREE
· All playback (speed, skip, sleep timer, chapters, lock screen controls)
· Transcribe 3 titles, first 60 minutes each
· Search within the current title
· 20 highlights
LISTENARY PRO (one-time purchase, not a subscription)
· Unlimited transcription
· Search across your whole library
· Unlimited highlights, notes and export
· Customizable smart rewind
Ratings & Reviews
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• See transcription progress right in your library — a progress ring and percentage appear over the cover while a title is being transcribed.
• Fixed speech dropping out for several seconds at a time, and words coming out garbled, in long recordings. This showed up most in audiobooks with chapter changes or background music.
• Long-press a title to re-transcribe it from the start. Use this to apply these improvements to books you have already transcribed.
The developer, Byoungho Kim, 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
- Byoungho Kim
- Size
- 1.6 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 3 more
- English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Listenary Pro Lifetime $5.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Kim Byoungho