Whisper Notes

Whisper Notes transcribes interviews, lectures and meetings for people who need recordings to stay on their own device. It works without an internet connection or account.

• Recording and imports: Record in the app or import audio such as MP3, M4A and WAV files, including recordings shared from Apple's Voice Memos on iPhone.
• Speaker labels: Separate speakers with labels and timestamps, rename them throughout a transcript, and preserve their names in SRT and VTT exports.
• Multilingual transcription: Parakeet V3 covers European languages, Whisper provides broader language coverage, and SenseVoice handles Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Cantonese; Mac users can use Whisper Large V3 Turbo.
• Mac dictation and meetings: The direct-download Mac edition adds system-wide voice typing and automatic recording of Zoom, Teams and Google Meet meetings; the Mac App Store edition doesn't include these functions.
• Local transcript analysis: On Mac, AI generates titles and summaries and answers questions about longer recordings; the direct-download edition also lets Claude and other AI assistants search recording history, read transcripts and transcribe files through a local MCP connection.

The app is paid and runs on iPhone, iPad and Apple Silicon Macs. iPhone support starts at iPhone 12 with iOS 18. Intel Macs aren't supported, and the larger Whisper model has a recommendation of at least 8GB RAM. Audio and transcripts stay on-device, with no cloud sync, analytics or tracking. Recording transcription starts after recording finishes, with text appearing progressively during processing. iPhone doesn't include AI summaries.