LocalScribe: Voice to Text

The private transcription app with on-device Whisper and live captions.

Record meetings, lectures, and interviews — see words appear as you speak. Your audio never leaves your iPhone. No cloud, no accounts, no surprise bills.

▸ LIVE CAPTIONS WHILE YOU RECORD
Most offline transcription apps make you wait. LocalScribe shows captions in real time as you speak — ideal for lectures, accessibility, and live note-taking.

• Real-time captions powered by Apple's on-device speech engine, in supported languages
• Keeps recording when you lock the screen or switch apps
• Tap any sentence later to jump to that moment in the audio

▸ ACCURATE WHISPER TRANSCRIPTION
After recording, LocalScribe runs a full Whisper pass on-device for higher-accuracy text with timestamps — handling accents, technical terms, and proper names that cloud apps miss.

• Automatic language detection across 100 languages
• Whisper Tiny, Base and Small (Free) — downloaded once, then fully offline
• Whisper Medium and Large V3 Turbo for best-in-class accuracy (Pro)
• Custom vocabulary: teach Whisper your names and jargon (Pro)
• Uncertain words are marked so you know exactly what to double-check
• Edit any line inline, find any word, copy or share the text

▸ IMPORT ANY AUDIO
Drop in voice memos, meeting recordings, podcasts, or video files. LocalScribe extracts the audio and transcribes it locally.

• Import from Files, or share to LocalScribe from Voice Memos and any other app
• m4a, mp3, wav, aiff, and video formats
• Pick the Whisper model per import
• 10-minute file limit on Free; unlimited on Pro

▸ 100% ON-DEVICE PRIVACY
Cloud transcription services have been named in privacy lawsuits for recording without consent. LocalScribe was built so that can never happen to you.

• Audio never uploaded — processed entirely on your iPhone or iPad
• No account required — open the app and record
• Works fully offline once a Whisper model is downloaded
• No analytics on your transcripts, no ad personalization based on your audio

▸ EXPORT THE WAY YOU WORK
• Free: TXT export
• Pro: SRT and VTT subtitles, PDF, Markdown, RTF (opens in Word and Pages)
• Share via AirDrop, Mail, Messages, or any app

▸ ORGANIZED AND AT HAND
• Search across every transcript, with matching snippets in the list
• Tags, favorites, and auto-delete after 30 or 90 da