A voice recorder for iPhone with a live transcript
Record on iPhone and watch the words appear, with the time on every line, on the phone. Recordings are never uploaded, and it keeps working with no signal.
A phone's recorder gives you a waveform and a length. Finding anything inside a recording means listening to it again, which is why most recordings are made once and never opened.
D-REC writes the words down while you record, on the phone, and puts the time on each line. When you open the recording again, the transcript is how you move through it: read, tap, and the audio plays from there.
Because the transcription happens on the phone, it works in a lift, on the underground, on a plane, and anywhere else with no signal.
Recordings can be shared to whatever you have installed, which on most phones includes your notes app, your mail, your messages, and the AI assistant you use. That share sheet is your iPhone's own, built from the apps you have, and D-REC never sees the list.
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Questions people ask
Does the iPhone app work offline?
Yes. Transcription runs on the phone, so no signal is fine.
Can I send a recording to another app?
Yes. Sharing opens the iPhone's own share sheet, so any installed app that accepts the file is an option.
Is the audio uploaded to transcribe it?
No. It never leaves the phone.
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