VAYS: Voice Recorder & Notes
Private, offline transcription
Free · In‑App Purchases
Vays is a FOREVER FREE voice notes app built around your voice and your privacy.
Record a thought, a meeting, a task, or a conversation with multiple people. Vays transcribes directly on your device, using models tuned for Polish and English. Your audio is not sent to the cloud.
Built for people who think out loud:
• Construction and site managers capturing decisions in the field
• Medical and clinical professionals, where accurate Polish transcription matters
• Product managers turning meetings into tasks
• Anyone whose best ideas come while walking, driving, or moving between meetings
What’s inside
• On-device transcription: your audio stays on your phone unless you decide otherwise
• Sessions (BETA): multi-speaker recordings with speaker recognition. Your own voice is recognized from a one-time voice profile, and other speakers can be named with a single tap
• Vays Dictation Keyboard: dictate in any app with on-device transcription
• Local Gemma AI: chat with your notes offline, without an account
• Polished transcripts: turn messy spoken language into clean, readable text
• Voice tasks: dictate a task and Vays turns it into a title, notes, and category
• Improve transcript: re-transcribe a memo using a larger Whisper model
• Device sync: notes from your iPhone can appear on your Mac
• No ads, no tracking, no account
Privacy by default
Vays is designed so your recordings stay yours. Recording, transcription, speaker separation, transcript polishing, and AI chat all run locally on your iPhone. There is no external AI service in the iOS data path. AI runs locally using Apple Neural Engine and the Gemma model.
The only network features are optional iCloud sync, without audio recordings, and optional pairing with your own Mac running Vays on your local network.
Optional companion: Vays for Mac
Vays for Mac is a paid desktop companion for people who want richer analysis, support for long recordings, and system-wide dictation mode. Notes recorded on your iPhone can automatically appear on your Mac.
Vays is built by one developer. Every piece of feedback is read, and every bug report is taken seriously.
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• Recording, redesigned: a fresh look and a more reliable recorder. New views, and you can pause mid-recording.
• On the Lock Screen: a clearer view of the recording in progress, on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island.
• Easier-to-read memos: no more walls of text! Paragraphs and interactive sections linked to playback.
The developer, ARVIND JUNEJA OUMM, 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
- ARVIND JUNEJA OUMM
- Size
- 40.7 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Apple Watch
Requires watchOS 10.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 4 more
- English, French, German, Polish, Spanish
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Patron $9.99
- Hi five $1.99
- Buy me a coffee $3.99
- Copyright
- © Arvind Juneja
