Interview Transcribe
Speech to text, fully offline
Free · In‑App Purchases
Turn interview recordings into searchable transcripts — entirely on your device. No server, no tracking. One purchase for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
Interview Transcribe transcribes your interview recordings directly on your device. No account, no tracking, no server that ever sees your recordings.
Built for documentary work and journalism:
• On-device speech recognition via whisper.cpp
• Speaker detection with word-level confidence
• Full-text search across all projects
• Marker tracks for editing and topics
• Export to Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Premiere, and BWF with timecode
• Source protection by default — nothing leaves the device unless you explicitly allow it
WHY THIS APP
Dictation apps and cloud transcription services aren't built for sensitive documentary material. Interview Transcribe — called abgehört in German — came out of daily practice at bunt.schoen.laut Filmproduktion — a tool that treats source protection as a foundation, not an add-on.
UNIVERSAL PURCHASE
One purchase, three platforms: iPhone, iPad, and Mac. No subscription, no recurring fees. Restorable via your Apple ID.
PROJECT FORMAT
Every project is a self-contained .abgehoert bundle. AirDrop it, archive it on an external drive, hand it off to an editing suite — no conversion needed.
EXPORT TO YOUR NLE
XML for Final Cut Pro 11 with roles and markers. DaVinci Resolve with frame-accurate captions. Premiere markers. EDL. SRT, VTT, plain text. BWF with embedded transcript.
FREE MODE
You can try Interview Transcribe on up to three projects with five minutes of transcription each, free — plus one project with thirty minutes in one go, so you can take a real interview all the way through. Text export, with an "Interview Transcribe Free" watermark.
FULL VERSION
One-time purchase — unlocks unlimited projects, unlimited transcription length, every export format, source protection, cross-project search, and the iterative re-run engine. No watermark.
PRIVACY
Interview Transcribe processes your recordings on your device. There is no server backend, no account, no tracking. The app touches the network in only three places, and you start each of them yourself: the purchase via StoreKit, downloading a larger speech recognition model, and — if you explicitly release a single source for it — cloud transcription or cloud translation. Without that release, no audio leaves your device.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
iOS 17 or later · iPadOS 17 or later · macOS 15.5 or later · The Mac requires Apple Silicon (M1 or newer); Intel Macs are not supported.
CONTACT
Questions, bugs, feature ideas: apps@buntschoenlaut.de
Ratings & Reviews
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abgehört is now called Interview Transcribe in English. Same app, same projects, same purchase — only the name is new. On German devices it stays abgehört.
The developer, Peter Onneken, 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
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Information
- Seller
- Peter Onneken
- Size
- 26.6 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 15.5 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English and German
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Full Version $12.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 bunt.schoen.laut Filmproduktion