# abgehört — Interview transcription, local

> Interview transcription, local (iPhone/iPad app by Peter Onneken.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/abgehort/id6806540670 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Peter Onneken](https://appshunter.io/developer/1896522697)
- Category: Productivity, News
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 238 MB
- Languages: American English, German (Germany)
- Released: 2026-09-10
- Data updated: 2026-10-12

## What is abgehört?

abgehört transcribes your interview recordings directly on your device. No account, no tracking, no server that ever sees your recordings.

Built for documentary work and journalism:

• On-device speech recognition via whisper.cpp
• Speaker detection with word-level confidence
• Full-text search across all projects
• Marker tracks for editing and topics
• Export to Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Premiere, and BWF with timecode
• Source protection by default — nothing leaves the device unless you explicitly allow it

WHY THIS APP

Dictation apps and cloud transcription services aren't built for sensitive documentary material. abgehört came out of daily practice at bunt.schoen.laut Filmproduktion — a tool that treats source protection as a foundation, not an add-on.

UNIVERSAL PURCHASE

One purchase, three platforms: iPhone, iPad, and Mac. No subscription, no recurring fees. Restorable via your Apple ID.

PROJECT FORMAT

Every project is a self-contained .abgehoert bundle. AirDrop it, archive it on an external drive, hand it off to an editing suite — no conversion needed.

EXPORT TO YOUR NLE

XML for Final Cut Pro 11 with roles and markers. DaVinci Resolve with frame-accurate captions. Premiere markers. EDL. SRT, VTT, plain text. BWF with embedded transcript.

FREE MODE

You can try abgehört on up to three projects with five minutes of transcription each, free — plus one project with thirty minutes in one go, so you can take a real interview all the way through. Text export, with an "abgehört Free" watermark.

FULL VERSION

One-time purchase — unlocks unlimited projects, unlimited transcription length, every export format, source protection, cross-project search, and the iterative re-run engine. No watermark.

PRIVACY

abgehört processes your recordings on your device. There is no server backend, no account, no tracking. The app touches the network in only three places, and you start each of them yourself: the purchase via StoreKit, downloading a larger speech recognition model, and — if you explicitly release a single source for it — cloud transcription or cloud translation. Without that release, no audio leaves your device.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

iOS 17 or later · iPadOS 17 or later · macOS 15.5 or later · The Mac requires Apple Silicon (M1 or newer); Intel Macs are not supported.

CONTACT

Questions, bugs, feature ideas: apps@buntschoenlaut.de

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vollversion | $12.99 | one-time |


## Is abgehört safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess abgehört.

## Is abgehört legit?

abgehört appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for abgehört is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.0.5 — 2026-09-25

Import
• Start timecode from camera files: MOV and MP4 files with a timecode track now bring their timecode along — FCPXML and EDL start at the right point instead of 00:00:00:00. Recorder WAVs also provide the frame rate.

Vocabulary
• Names and terms can now also be separated by semicolons or one entry per line, not just commas.

Shortcuts
• Three actions for the Shortcuts app: Get Transcript as Text, Export Transcript, Import Recordings (iOS 18 and later). Encrypted projects stay invisible to Shortcuts.

### 1.0.4 — 2026-09-22

English
• The English interface is now truly complete — including error messages, exports, date and number formats.
• On a new installation, the transcription language follows your device language. If you already use abgehört, your setting stays as it is.

Reliability
• If the app was closed in the middle of a transcription, the source used to stay on “running” forever. Now it is ready again on the next launch and can be restarted.
• “Import audio” inside a project showed every file greyed out — fixed.
• After starting a transcription, the source list shows the progress right away, without reopening the project.

### 1.0.3 — 2026-09-19

Gaps get reported instead of disappearing
• When speaker detection hears speech somewhere and no text is there, abgehört now says so. One tap jumps there and plays.
• This happens mostly when two people talk at once — the follow-up question that lands inside the answer.

Picking up after you switch away
• Switch to another app during a transcription and you no longer come back to a run that simply stopped. abgehört resumes it by itself, from the point where it had to pause.
• iOS still doesn't allow computing in the background — the app has to stay in front for the run.

Speaker separation
• The automatically detected speaker count is no longer capped hard at four. A round table of five or six is no longer folded together, as long as each voice holds enough of the talking.

Language
• The English interface is complete.

### 1.0.2 — 2026-09-16

Weniger fehlende Passagen
• abgehört dekodiert jetzt mit Beam Search. Setzt eine Aufnahme mit Musik oder Geräusch ein, geht der Satz danach nicht mehr verloren.
• Sätze an den internen Abschnittsgrenzen der Transkription werden nicht mehr verworfen.
• Floskeln, die die Spracherkennung in Stille oder Musik erfindet (etwa „Gracias.“), werden herausgefiltert.

Export
• TXT- und Markdown-Export setzen Timecodes auch innerhalb langer Absätze, am Satzanfang.

Außerdem
• Beim Start erscheint das aktuelle App-Logo.

### 1.0.1 — 2026-09-13

Genauere Transkripte
• Die Transkription schreibt deutlich seltener Sätze, die in der Aufnahme gar nicht vorkommen.
• Verdächtige Wiederholungen werden zuverlässiger zum Nachhören markiert, auch wenn echter Text dazwischen steht.

Mehr Überblick
• Fortschrittsanzeige für Transkription und Sprechererkennung, mit Prozentangabe und Balken.
• Wurde eine Sprechererkennung unterbrochen, räumt abgehört das beim Öffnen des Projekts auf und sagt dir, was fehlt. Das Transkript bleibt vollständig erhalten.

Schneller und zuverlässiger
• Die Sprechererkennung nutzt mehrere Prozessorkerne und ist deutlich schneller.
• „Sprecher neu erkennen" ordnet auch bei langen Aufnahmen zeitgenau zu.
• Ein fertiger Modell-Download unterbricht keine laufende Transkription mehr.

Außerdem
• Neue Seite „Lizenzen" in den Einstellungen mit allen verwendeten Open-Source-Bestandteilen.

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