Private Transcribe Voice Notes

Speech to text that never leaves your phone. Private Transcribe turns voice to text right on your device with Whisper AI: record or import audio, transcribe it offline, and keep every word private. It even works in airplane mode.

WHY ON-DEVICE MATTERS

Most voice to text and transcription apps upload your audio to the cloud. Private Transcribe never does. The speech recognition model runs locally on your phone, so your recordings, meeting notes, voice memos and ideas stay yours — and speech to text keeps working with no internet at all.

HOW IT WORKS

1. Download a speech model once (starting at 78 MB)

2. Tap the microphone and speak, or import an audio or video file

3. Read, edit, copy, share or export your transcript

AUDIO TO TEXT, VIDEO TO TEXT

Turn recordings you already have into text: voice memos, meetings, lectures, interviews, podcasts and videos (m4a, mp3, wav, aac, mp4, mov). Videos contribute their audio track, so video to text works offline too.

CHOOSE YOUR ENGINE

• Quick (78 MB) — fastest results for short voice notes

• Balanced (148 MB) — the everyday recommendation

• Accurate (190 MB) — better with background noise and accents

• Professional (539 MB) — high accuracy for meetings and interviews

• Best (574 MB) — Whisper large-v3-turbo, the most accurate model that runs on a phone

English-optimized models are the fastest. Multilingual models transcribe 99+ languages: Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Arabic and more.

MADE FOR

• Voice notes and voice memos that become editable text

• A voice recorder that types: meeting notes and interview transcription

• Lectures and study recordings

• Dictation: drafts, emails and ideas by voice — hands-free voice typing

• Private journaling by voice

FEATURES

• Speech to text fully offline after a one-time model download

• Watch the text appear while your recording is transcribed

• Pause and resume; keeps recording when the screen locks or you switch apps

• Custom vocabulary so names and jargon come out spelled right

• Timestamps for every line — view, copy or share a timestamped transcript

• Find words in a transcript, and search your whole history

• Edit any transcript; history grouped by date, with playback and word counts

• One-tap copy and share, optional auto-copy to clipboard

• Keep recordings, or keep only the text and let the audio go

• Back up and restore all transcripts as a file you keep

• Pin the spoken language or let Whisper detect it

• The app speaks your language: English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Japanese, Korean and Chinese

• Dark theme, haptic feedback, no account ever

FREE APP, ONE-TIME PRO

Private Transcribe is free to use, supported by ads. Pro is a single one-time purchase — no subscription:

• Removes all ads permanently

• Translates speech from 99+ languages into English text

• Exports transcripts as .txt files or .srt and .vtt subtitles with timestamps

PRIVACY, PLAINLY

There is no sign-up and no server that receives your audio. Recordings and transcripts are stored only on your device and can be deleted anytime from Settings.

If your voice is worth writing down, it's worth keeping private.