Ciji Transcribe: Voice to Text
Audio to text, on your phone
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
You already have the recording. This turns it into text.
Bring in a meeting, a lecture, an interview — a file from a phone, a watch, a voice recorder, or one somebody sent you — and read it back as words with timestamps. The recognition runs on the device you are holding. Nothing is uploaded, and there is no account.
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Read it, and find the moment
• Every line carries the time it was said; tap one and the audio plays from there
• Playback from half speed to two and a half times, for the parts worth slowing down
• Skip back or forward ten seconds without losing your place
• Select and copy any line straight out of the transcript
Who said which line
• Work out how many people were talking and attribute each line to one of them
• Runs as a separate step on a transcript that already exists, so nobody waits for it who does not want it
• No length limit — an hour-long meeting costs more time, not more memory
• Two ways to read the same transcript: plain, or with every line marked
Fix what it got wrong
• One person split into several? Tick them and merge them back into one
• Give a speaker a name and it is used everywhere, including in exported files
• Move a single line to somebody else when a short interjection landed with the wrong voice
• Start the speaker step over without touching a word of the text
Take it with you
• Export as plain text, timestamped, one line per segment
• Or as a subtitle file that plays alongside the original recording
• With the speakers marked, or without — a transcript is read for what was said, and who said it is a second question
• Goes out through the sharing sheet, so it can be saved, mailed or sent anywhere
Choose how it listens
• Eleven recognition models to download, from small and quick to large and careful
• Each one says what languages it handles and what it does poorly, so the choice is yours to make
• Run a second model over the same recording and keep both results side by side
• Delete a model when you want the space back; download it again whenever
Long recordings, handled
• Pause a transcription and pick it up later from where it stopped
• Leave the screen and it keeps going
• Progress is shown as position in the audio, with an estimate of what is left
• The screen stays awake while it works, because a locked phone is a stopped job
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What runs where
• Recognition and speaker identification run on your device, in your hands
• Your recordings are never uploaded, and there is no account to create
• Models are downloaded once, from an open-source project, and then work without a network
• The app is free and supported by ads
• Every model and library it builds on is credited inside the app, with its licence
Worth knowing before you download
• The app does not record audio. It reads recordings you already have.
• A recognition model has to be downloaded before the first transcription — a few hundred megabytes, kept until you delete it.
Good for:
• Reading back a meeting instead of listening to it again
• Finding the one thing that was said, by its timestamp
• Handing somebody a written record of a conversation
• Subtitling a recording you already made
Ratings & Reviews
- This app hasn’t received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.
- Smoother, more reliable experience with under-the-hood improvements.
The developer, Yuan-Yi Chang, 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 Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Yuan-Yi Chang
- Size
- 71.3 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 2 more
- English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Contains
Advertising
- Copyright
- © 2026 AINFO
