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LocalVoiceNote turns speech into text directly on your iPhone or iPad — built around Apple's own on-device intelligence, with privacy first.
Apple Speech comes first. On supported devices, LocalVoiceNote transcribes with Apple's built-in on-device speech recognition — the same engine the system uses — so you get fast, natural, low-power results with no setup and no account.
Apple Intelligence powers the thinking. On devices with Apple Intelligence, your transcripts are polished, summarised, and turned into actions entirely on-device. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is stored on a server, and none of it costs you a subscription.
Whisper keeps you covered. If Apple Speech isn't available for your device or your language, LocalVoiceNote falls back automatically to a bundled Whisper Large model. It ships inside the app, needs no download and no network, and covers languages and older devices Apple Speech doesn't reach — so transcription always works.
LocalVoiceNote is designed for fast capture: tap once to start recording, speak naturally, and watch your transcript appear live. Save transcripts automatically, rename them, search later, revise text, and translate supported content when needed.
Whether you are capturing meeting notes, voice memos, ideas on the go, lecture summaries, bilingual phrases, or quick dictated drafts, LocalVoiceNote keeps the workflow simple and local.
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A real tab bar. Tabs now stay put while you move around the app, and on iPad they move to a sidebar so a large screen stops being used like a phone
Search your notes with the system search field — scope it to titles, transcript or tags, and the keyboard gets out of the way as you scroll
A calmer recording screen. The status and timer moved into the top bar, the tab bar steps aside while you record, and the session-length hint only appears when you are actually approaching it
Live transcription no longer loses words between chunks. Audio is captured continuously instead of stopping and restarting, and repeated phrases from the recogniser are collapsed
Live Translate gained a status strip above the transcript: pick the target language, see whether it is translating, downloading a language pack or offline, and re-translate everything in one tap
Reading back during a recording no longer fights you — scrolling up pauses auto-scroll and a Jump to latest button brings you back
Copy in translate mode now offers the transcript, the translation, or both
Study dictionary: paste a whole list of words at once, Edit and Delete work from a word’s sheet, duplicates are caught, and the list shows which words are active for the language you are speaking
Translation fixes: line breaks and speaker turns survive, the language-pack download no longer appears unprompted, a cancelled download no longer leaves Translate spinning, and failures explain themselves with a Try again
Spoken actions understand “in an hour”, “tomorrow morning”, “every Monday and Thursday” and timers, in Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean too — with one-tap Undo on reminders, calendar events and alarms
Fixes: “take a photo in an hour” opened the camera immediately, a weekly alarm was titled “every”, and bare dates like “Friday” took the current clock time instead of 9am
Larger text sizes are handled throughout, up to the largest accessibility sizes; Reduce Motion now stops the recording animations, and the live controls read properly in VoiceOver
Version 3.4.0
In-App Purchases
LocalVoiceNote Pro
Unlock AI, audio import, and copy/share features
$5.99
The developer, Liang Cheng, 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.
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Accessibility
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Information
Seller
Liang Cheng
Size
602.7 MB
Category
Productivity
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
Apple Vision Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Languages
English and 4 more
English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese