Basil Private AI Note Taker
Record & Transcribe Meetings
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Clean transcripts and AI summaries from any meeting or file — 100% on your device. No cloud, no tracking. Now export to TXT, JSON,PDF, MD, or CSV. Private by design.
Basil is the on-device AI app for taking private meeting notes, transcriptions, and summaries — all without the cloud. Use it for live meetings or upload your audio and video files and get transcriptions with AI summaries.
Your voice, conversations, and meeting minutes stay secure and offline. No servers, no hidden tracking. Just fast, accurate AI that works anywhere — even in airplane mode.
Your data is never shared with any AI companies, it is never used to train any models.
Record live meetings or upload pre-recorded audio or video files.
Key Features
• On-Device Secure & Private – 100% private. No uploads, no sharing, no leaks, no AI cloud, no analytics.
• Offline Meeting Recorder – Capture voice, calls, and conversations without internet.
• Private Transcription – On-device AI converts speech to text instantly.
• Automatic Summaries – Get clear meeting minutes, action items, and highlights.
• Organize Notes – Searchable transcripts, export to CSV,TXT,JSON,PDF, share with your team.
• Hands-Free Recording – Siri Shortcuts & Action Button integration.
• 60 languages supported – Uses device language by default, or change it manually.
• Record live or upload audio files and get them transcribed and summarized on-device. Nothing shared.
• Choose between Apple's or WhisperKit's on-device transcription and summarization models.
• Calendar integration: reminders to start recording your meetings, meeting details from your calendar transferred to your recordings.
• One click record from notifications when your meetings start.
Perfect For
• Executives & Lawyers – Keep sensitive meetings fully private.
• Doctors & Professionals – Secure patient conversations with on-device AI.
• Students & Journalists – Record lectures and interviews anywhere.
• Teams – Capture, summarize, and share notes without risking privacy.
Why Basil?
Most AI note apps send your voice to the cloud. Basil doesn’t.
With Basil, your meeting recorder, transcription, and summaries are all offline — powered by Apple’s iOS foundation models.
Your conversations stay yours.
Fully GDPR compliant.
Languages supported:
- English (Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, UAE, UK, US)
- Chinese (Simplified and Traditional)
- French (Belgium, Canada, France, Switzerland)
- German
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal)
- Spanish (Latin America, Mexico, Spain)
- Turkish
- Vietnamese
- Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish
- and more!
If you use Apple's iCloud sync, your meetings and notes can sync.
Do you need a HIPAA or GDPR compliant AI note taker? Basil AI is the note taker for you.
Privacy Policy: https://basilai.app/privacy.html
Terms: https://basilai.app/terms.html
1.9.1
Two bug fixes:
- onboarding screens hid continue buttons on small screen phones
- deleting a recording now stays deleted even with icloud sync
The developer, Michael Stajer, 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
- TONSOR LLC
- Size
- 14.5 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
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Basil AI Pro Lifetime $199.00
- Basil AI Pro Monthly $9.99
- Basil AI Pro Yearly (Save 17%) $99.99
- Copyright
- © TONSOR LLC