Offhand: Voice Notes to Text
Meetings and memos, pay once
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Record a meeting or import any audio file. You get a note with title, headings and action items, made on your iPhone. Free to start, Pro is a one time purchase.
You talk. You get a note with a title, headings and action items. Record a meeting, a lecture or a thought on a walk, and when you stop, Offhand turns it into a transcript and a structured note you can read, search and share. All of it happens on your iPhone with on-device AI. No cloud, no account, no subscription needed.
VOICE MEMO TO TEXT, MEETING TO NOTES
Offhand does not shrink a two hour meeting into three sentences. The on-device AI rewrites your transcript into a readable note that keeps the details, with headings, bullet lists and action items, and gives it a short title. A meeting becomes a document with decisions and next steps. A lecture becomes notes with sections.
ALREADY HAVE RECORDINGS?
Import any audio or video file and it becomes a note like any other. Voice Memos, Zoom recordings, screen recordings, lectures, interviews, and calls. For a video, Offhand takes the audio track and does the rest. Pick it with Import in Settings or share it from another app, up to two hours each. Your first three imports are free, one file at a time. After that, import is part of Offhand Pro.
BUILT FOR LONG RECORDINGS
Record up to about two hours. Transcription runs while you are still speaking, so even long meetings are ready moments after you stop. Recording continues when you lock the screen or switch apps. Transcription is saved as it goes, so if the app is interrupted, Offhand picks up where it stopped. Finishing a note keeps running after you leave the app, fully in the background on iOS 26 and newer.
FREE TO USE
- Unlimited recordings and notes
- Transcript plus a structured Summary note for every recording
- Search every word of every note
- Two folders
- Copy any section, share or save notes as text, recordings as WAV
- Encrypted backup and restore to move notes to a new iPhone
- App lock with Face ID, Touch ID or passcode
- Start and stop a recording from the Shortcuts app
- Three audio or video imports to try
OFFHAND PRO, PAY ONCE
One time purchase, or yearly with a 14 day free trial. No monthly plan. Pro adds:
- Meeting notes, Visit report and Legal note styles, plus your own styles, built from headings or described in plain words
- A different style for any note, and a style per folder, so everything recorded there comes out the same way
- Unlimited folders
- PDF and Word export, ready for clients and email
- Smart suggestions, calendar events and follow ups found in your notes
- Unlimited audio and video import, several files at once
- Backup with the recordings included
- Every new Pro feature as it ships
Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The yearly subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings.
WHY YOU CAN TRUST IT
Most voice to text and AI note apps upload your audio to a server and promise to be careful with it. Offhand cannot leak your recordings, because there is no server. Speech recognition (OpenAI Whisper) and note writing run as on-device AI, 100 percent offline. Turn on Airplane Mode and everything still works. Notes are stored in an encrypted database protected by your iPhone, usage and crash reports can be switched off in Settings, and the full source code is public, so you can check all of this yourself.
GOOD FOR
- Meetings and stand ups, decisions and action items captured
- Doctors, lawyers and consultants with confidentiality obligations
- Students turning lectures into notes
- Journalists and researchers
WHAT IT NEEDS
On-device AI needs a recent iPhone with enough memory and about 3 GB of free storage for a one time download. Offhand checks your iPhone at first launch and tells you honestly if it will not run well. Notes in English, German, Spanish, Hindi, Portuguese, Russian and Ukrainian.
Terms: https://dmytrosamoilov.com/offhand/terms-and-conditions.html
Privacy: https://dmytrosamoilov.com/offhand/privacy-policy.html
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Turn videos into notes. Pick a video or share one from any app, and Offhand takes the audio track, writes the transcript and the summary, all on your iPhone. Nothing is uploaded.
Were you here before 1.5? Thank you for testing Offhand while it was rough. Everything you made stays as it is, and Offhand Pro is yours on this iPhone for good, no purchase and no account. Pro lives on this iPhone only: deleting or reinstalling Offhand, or moving to a new iPhone, does not bring it back.
The free app now gets you to a finished note without a wall: unlimited recordings, a transcript and a Summary on every note, two folders, search, text and audio sharing, encrypted backup, and three imports to try.
Offhand Pro adds the Meeting, Visit and Legal styles, your own styles, a different style for any note, as many folders as you need, unlimited audio and video imports, PDF and Word export, smart suggestions, and backups with your recordings.
Also new: the review prompt arrives after your third recording instead of a week later.
The developer, Dmytro Samoilov, 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 Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
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Information
- Seller
- Dmytro Samoilov
- Size
- 105.4 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 6 more
- English, German, Hindi, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Offhand Pro Lifetime $59.99
- Offhand Pro Yearly $12.99
- Copyright
- © Dmytro Samoilov