Now fully local — and free

Record.
Transcribe.
Done.

Turn speech into clean text. No bots, no chat, no minute meter. On-device, private and free, with the cloud when you need it.

Local free & unlimitedNo account needed25 languagesWorks offline
snipnote / local / recording_04.m4a on-device
Audio12:41
48 kHznever uploaded
TranscriptEN · auto
Okay, the whole thing is simple — we ship on-device first.
Right, and local stays free. No meters, no upsell.
People just want their words back. That's it.
I'll send the notes right after this.
Your audioiPhone · on-devicePlain text
Less, on purpose

Everyone added an assistant.
We added a microphone.

SnipNote is a transcription app. Here is the long list of things it deliberately doesn't do.

Joining your meetings with a bot01
An account before your first recording02
Ads and tracking03
Forced uploads to someone's server04
A minute meter ticking as you talk05
An onboarding tour you'll never finish06
What's leftYour transcript.
The product

Transcription that gets out of the way.

Nothing to configure, nothing to learn. Open it, speak, read.

01 — SIMPLE

One screen. One result.

Record or drop in a file and get a clean transcript. Read it, copy it, export it. No formatting maze, no tabs to manage.

02 — PRIVATE

Your audio never leaves the phone.

Local mode runs the speech model on-device. Airplane mode welcome. Your audio is never uploaded, so there is nothing to leak.

03 — FREE

Free, and unlimited.

On-device transcription costs nothing to run, so it costs you nothing. No minute balance, no pay-per-talk, no surprise upgrade screen. On iPhones with Apple Intelligence, summaries are free too, right on the device.

04 — KEYBOARD

Dictate in any app.

The free SnipNote keyboard turns your voice into text in Messages, WhatsApp, Mail or Notes, with the same on-device model.

Two ways to transcribe

Local by default.
Cloud when you want it.

Same app, same button. Pick per recording — the text comes back either way.

LocalFree · On-device

Runs entirely on your iPhone. Private, unlimited, and free.

  • Works offline, no signal needed
  • Unlimited, no account needed
  • Your audio is never uploaded
  • 25 languages, languages detected automatically
Default mode
CloudOptional

Our servers take over when you'd rather they did. Uses minutes.

  • Best for very long recordings
  • Largest models, maximum accuracy
  • Syncs across iPhone and web
  • Choose it per recording, any time
When you want it
Local mode

Runs on your iPhone.
Not on our servers.

Download Parakeet Ultra once and transcribe in 25 European languages — Italian and English included — with automatic detection. The model lives on your device and runs on its Neural Engine.

Runs on
Neural Engine
One-time download
~630 MB
Languages
25 · auto-detect
Length limit
None
Audio upload
Never
Cost per minute
Free
How it works

Three steps. That's the whole app.

01

Record or drop your audio

Tap record for a live meeting or voice note, or import a file you already have.

02

It transcribes on-device

The local model runs on your phone. Fast, private, and works with no signal at all.

03

Copy, export, or share

Read the clean transcript, send it to someone, or export it as a file. Done.

Free · Private · Yours

Just your audio, written down.

Download SnipNote and transcribe all day for free. Local mode is on from the start.