Captionify is a powerful, privacy-focused tool for real-time speech recognition and translation. Built for accessibility and global communication, Captionify uses the on-device Moonshine Voice model or Apple Intelligence model (for iOS devices that support) to provide high-accuracy transcriptions and translations without ever sending your audio to the cloud. Powered by the public Moonshine Voice project, and Apple Intelligence for transcript summaries.
Key Features:
- Real-time Transcription and Translation: High-performance, on-device speech-to-text using Moonshine Voice.
- Instant Translation: Seamlessly translate between 7+ languages using Apple’s secure Translation framework.
- AI Summarization: Get the gist of long meetings or lectures with Apple Intelligence-powered summaries.
- Privacy First: All audio processing and translations happen entirely on your device.
- Organization: Save transcripts and audio (optional recording and playback), categorize, search and share your transcripts for future reference.
- Language Learning: Use your own AI model API key to generate an on demand breakdown and grammar lessons of a selected sentence in the transcript.
- Text to speech on translated live captions, transcript, and conversation mode.
- Apple Watch companion app: use it as a remote, secondary display for live captions, and an option to use the watch as a mic for the app.
7 languages: English (en-US), Japanese (ja-JP), Spanish (es-ES), French (fr-FR), German (de-DE), Chinese (zh-CN), Korean (ko-KR)
There is an error when downloading the tiny model for Spanish. It will not let me download it (Download failed: HTTP 404 for encoder_model.ort)Also, when choosing the default language I want to translate from (i.e., Español), when I close and reopen the app, my preferences for that language are not saved. Also, it doesn’t seem to pick up any Spanish being spoken. If I use the default language (Japanese, I think), it does detect audio of the speaker speaking. But since they aren’t speaking Japanese, it’s not useful. Even though no words in the audio are being detected, I don’t see a location where I can see the saved recordings either. It isn’t under “saved transcripts”, unless that is only for when words are detected.When clicking “start”, the 0:00 on the right never increases. I’m not sure the cause.The green bar indicating it is detecting sound, it will show words, but only on the default language. And I have to click “TV Mode” first and then exit
The developer, Jonathan Gregorio, 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.
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
Seller
Jonathan Gregorio
Size
180.4 MB
Category
Education
Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 26.2 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
