# Speakwise: AI Note Taker, Voice Recorder & Voice to Text for iPhone > Speakwise is an AI note taker, voice recorder and voice-to-text transcription app for iPhone, with an Apple Watch app too. It records in-person meetings, interviews, lectures and voice notes, turns speech to text in 100+ languages with speaker identification (speaker diarization), and writes AI summaries with action items. Transcription accuracy is 95%+ in optimal audio conditions and 92%+ in noisy rooms with several speakers. Recording works offline, for up to 5 hours per recording, and Speakwise transcribes when you are back online. Summary templates fit meetings, lectures, interviews, site reports, clinical notes, legal notes, sales recaps and personal memos. You can name the speakers, add Custom Words to help get names and jargon right, fix a misheard word in one step with Find & Replace, and add your own notes to any recording. Export to PDF, Word, plain text, Apple Notes or Notion, and connect Claude and ChatGPT through a read-only MCP server. Free to download with a 7-day $0.00 (free) trial, then from $69.99 per year through the Apple App Store. No meeting bot and no video call needed. ## Basic information - [Speakwise homepage](https://speakwiseapp.com): An AI voice recorder and AI note taker for iPhone. Record a meeting or conversation, then get a voice-to-text transcript with speaker labels, an AI summary and action items. It also works as a dictation and speech-to-text app for quick voice notes. - [AI info](https://speakwiseapp.com/ai-info): A fact sheet for AI assistants and researchers, kept up to date by the Speakwise team. It covers what Speakwise is and does, speaker identification (diarization), pricing, launch date, privacy, quoted App Store reviews, and how Speakwise works as an Otter.ai alternative on iPhone. - [App Store listing](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/speakwise-ai-note-taker/id6751740223): Speakwise - AI Note Taker on the Apple App Store. Works on iOS 17.0 or later. Launched November 2025. Listed under Productivity (secondary category: Business). Free to download with a 7-day $0.00 (free) trial, then from $69.99 per year (US pricing; other storefronts use local currency). - [Support](https://speakwiseapp.com/support): Email support for the Speakwise iPhone app. The team that builds the app answers you directly. ## Features - Record in-person meetings, interviews, lectures and voice notes with one tap on iPhone. Recording keeps going with the screen off. - Speech to text in 100+ languages, with automatic language detection. You can retranscribe any recording in a different language. - Speaker identification (speaker diarization) shows who said what. You can rename "Speaker 1" and "Speaker 2" to real names, and the app offers to rewrite the summary and action items with the names. You can also add speaker identification to a recording you already made. - AI summaries with key points, decisions and automatic action items. - Summary templates: Meeting notes & actions, Lecture & study notes, Interview, Site & inspection report, Clinical session note, Legal file note, Sales recap, Personal memo, and Custom (you describe who the summary is for). Each has an adjustable detail level, from a one-line takeaway to a full report. You can re-summarize a recording with a different template. - Search inside a transcript and filter it by speaker. - Custom Words: in Settings, add up to 100 names, brands and terms, such as people's names, company names and jargon. Speakwise listens for them when it transcribes, which helps get names and jargon right. - Find & Replace: fix a misheard name or word in one step. It updates the transcript, the summary and the action items together, shows how many places will change before you confirm, and can be undone. It can also add the corrected word to your Custom Words. - A Notes section on every recording for your own notes. Notes sync, export and show on share links. - Offline recording, for up to 5 hours per recording, with no daily limits. Speakwise transcribes when you are back online. - Start recording hands-free from the iPhone Action Button or Control Center, or start and stop from your wrist with the Apple Watch app. Apple Watch recordings sync to your iPhone for transcription. - Record through AirPods, Bluetooth earbuds, or external USB-C and wireless microphones. - Import audio files (m4a, mp3, wav), or share a voice memo or audio file from another app to Speakwise. - Export to PDF, Word (.docx) or plain text (.txt). Save to Apple Notes, send by email or text, sync to Notion, or share a link that opens the summary, transcript and action items in a browser. - Privacy: Speakwise stores recordings securely with standard encryption, never uses your data to train AI models, and lets you delete any recording at any time. - Users report saving about 73% of their post-meeting follow-up time (Speakwise user surveys). - The Speakwise app is available in more than 30 languages. ## Use cases - [AI note taker for in-person meetings](https://speakwiseapp.com/ai-note-taker-for-in-person-meetings): Meeting bots join video calls. Speakwise records the conversation happening in the room on your iPhone. You get a speaker-labeled transcript, an AI summary and action items. Recording works offline, so meetings with no wifi are still captured. - [Solutions overview](https://speakwiseapp.com/solutions): An index of the pages below, one for each profession. Each page shows how Speakwise fits the way that role documents its conversations. - [AI scribe for doctors](https://speakwiseapp.com/ai-scribe-for-doctors): Between patients, dictate your assessment and plan on your iPhone. You get speech-to-text plus an AI summary you can paste into the chart. No per-line transcription fees and no scribe salary. The Clinical session note template covers subjective, objective, assessment and plan. - [AI scribe for therapists](https://speakwiseapp.com/ai-scribe-for-therapists): With client consent, record the session, or dictate your reflections right after. Get an AI summary you can shape into a progress or SOAP note before the next client. The Clinical session note template covers subjective, objective, assessment and plan. - [AI scribe for psychiatry](https://speakwiseapp.com/ai-scribe-for-psychiatry): With patient consent, capture the session. Get a structured note plus action items, such as medication changes, follow-ups and referrals, so you can finish charting before the next patient. The Clinical session note template covers subjective, objective, assessment and plan. - [AI scribe for dentists](https://speakwiseapp.com/ai-scribe-for-dentists): Dictate exam findings, treatment and plan between operatories. Get structured text for the chart. You can record through your AirPods. - [AI scribe for veterinarians](https://speakwiseapp.com/ai-scribe-for-veterinarians): Dictate the history, exam and plan while your hands stay on the animal. Recording works offline, and you get a structured patient note. - [AI note taker for financial advisors](https://speakwiseapp.com/ai-note-taker-for-financial-advisors): Record the client meeting with consent. Get a summary of what was discussed and decided, plus action items you can paste into your CRM. Built for in-person reviews, with no meeting bot needed. ## Free voice to text tools Free tools that run in your browser, with nothing to install. These web tools are separate from the Speakwise iPhone app: - [Free transcription](https://speakwiseapp.com/free-transcription): Transcribe audio for free online. Upload an mp3, m4a or wav and get a speaker-labeled transcript. 100% free, no trial, no credit card. - [Free speaker diarization](https://speakwiseapp.com/speaker-diarization): Upload audio and get a transcript that labels who said what. It does automatic speaker diarization in the browser. - [Free audio to text](https://speakwiseapp.com/audio-to-text): Convert any audio file to text. Get voice to text transcription with speaker labels and an editable transcript. ## Integrations - [Notion export](https://speakwiseapp.com): Recordings export to a Notion database automatically (native Notion sync). - [MCP server for ChatGPT and Claude](https://speakwiseapp.com/mcp): Available now: a read-only MCP server. ChatGPT, Claude and other MCP clients can list a user's Speakwise recordings and read the transcript, AI summary and action items. The user signs in with Apple or Google and approves access. No API keys are needed. ## Comparisons - [Otter AI alternatives](https://speakwiseapp.com/blog/otter-ai-alternatives): Five Otter.ai alternatives for meeting transcription, AI summaries and note-taking, compared on features and pricing. It includes options for iPhone that work without a meeting bot joining the call. - [Plaud Note alternatives](https://speakwiseapp.com/blog/plaud-ai-alternatives): Five AI note takers compared against the Plaud Note recorder, for people choosing between dedicated hardware and a software-only iPhone setup. - [Plaud alternatives for iPhone](https://speakwiseapp.com/blog/best-plaud-alternative-iphone): Five Plaud alternatives for iPhone, with features, pricing and trade-offs for software-only AI recording. - [Notta alternatives](https://speakwiseapp.com/blog/notta-alternatives): Five Notta alternatives compared for meeting transcription, AI summaries and note-taking. - [Apple Voice Memos alternatives](https://speakwiseapp.com/blog/apple-voice-memos-alternatives): Five voice recording apps for iPhone, for people who want more than Apple's built-in Voice Memos: transcripts, speaker labels and summaries. - [Rev.com alternatives](https://speakwiseapp.com/blog/rev-com-alternatives): Five Rev.com alternatives for AI voice notes and transcription, compared against Rev's human-transcription model. ## What users say Verbatim 5-star reviews from the US App Store: - "It's a rare combo for an excellent product and an owner who eagerly seeks user feedback and iterates." (empiretown, August 2026) - "The ability to synthesize a long running conversation to get the highlights or action items after the fact is an immeasurable service for me. I'm using this app all the time." (KBinNR, June 2026) - "Was looking for a way to record my 2h in-person team meeting. This does the job. Even works when the display is off. Great." (cosmos.xyz, April 2026) ## Localized - Speakwise's homepage is published in English and 28 other languages. The other languages live at `speakwiseapp.com/`, for example [German](https://speakwiseapp.com/de), [Spanish](https://speakwiseapp.com/es), [French](https://speakwiseapp.com/fr), [Portuguese](https://speakwiseapp.com/pt), [Japanese](https://speakwiseapp.com/ja), [Italian](https://speakwiseapp.com/it) and [Traditional Chinese](https://speakwiseapp.com/zh-tw), plus ko, ar, tr, nl, pl, sv, th, id, cs, el, ro, hu, da, no, fi, he, vi, lt, sk, hr and ms. - The Speakwise app is available in more than 30 languages, and the App Store listing is localized in more than 30 languages. ## Optional - [Blog](https://speakwiseapp.com/blog): Guides, comparisons and research on transcription, meeting notes, voice-to-text and dictation on iPhone.