Tap, speak, done. Tonota turns your voice into text on your iPhone — organize it into folders, search every word, and choose when to export or share it.
Scan to openFree · iPhone 12 or later · iOS 17+
Features
Capture a thought, a conversation, or a meeting. Stop recording and get a transcript on your iPhone, or use live dictation to see words appear as you speak. Edit, copy, and share your notes.
Recording, transcription, and AI tools run on your device. No account or cloud processing. Download the required models once, then work offline. You choose when to export or share.
Turn a transcript into a summary, action points, a translation, or clearer writing. Use built-in tools or create up to five of your own. Choose a local language model, including Apple’s system model on supported devices.
Place the cursor on a sentence and press play to hear that part of your recording. Follow the highlighted text as it plays, and keep the freedom to select, copy, and edit. Suggested by Nicky Xu.
Record from your wrist, even when your iPhone is away. Capture up to two hours with the screen off, then sync to iPhone for transcription. Browse recent recordings and play audio on your watch.
Long recordings are saved and shown section by section, so you can read before the whole transcript finishes. After an interruption, continue from the last saved position when a saved checkpoint is available.
Choose up to three tools to run automatically on completed transcripts under 1,500 characters. Drag to set the order; each works from your original text and appends its result. Requires an available local language model.
Capture an idea with Siri or Shortcuts, a long press on the app icon, or the Tonota control on your Lock Screen or in Control Center (iOS 18+).
Keep recordings in folders and search titles and transcripts. Select multiple memos to move or delete, and export text with original audio to a folder you choose.
Appending AI results removes sentence-playback timestamps for that memo; ordinary audio playback remains available.
Tonota processes recordings, transcriptions, and AI tools on your device. Download the required models first, then work offline. You choose when to export or share your notes.
Languages
WhisperKit auto-detects your language. You can also pin one in Settings.
Open Source & Models
Tonota uses open-source on-device AI libraries and downloadable local models. Their notices stay available for review.
Requirements
Tonota is built by one developer. Your reports directly shape what gets fixed and what gets built next.
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