Aiko Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience86.3% of reviews
Neutral4.2% of reviews
Negative experience9.6% of reviews

~ Based on 313 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Aiko

Is Aiko Safe?

Aiko appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Aiko is 93/100.

This assessment is based on 329 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

92.7% of ratings point to a safe experience
1.2% of ratings suggest some concerns
6.1% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 329 App Store ratings for Aiko.

Is Aiko Legit?

Aiko appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Aiko is 95/100.

Based on 95 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

全く役に立たない

良いレビューが多かったので購入したがはっきり言って役に立たない。文字起こしの精度は悪いし、日本語を直接録音すると難解なローマ字表記になってしまう。

Response from developer

残念な思いをされたとのこと、お察しいたします。こうした問題の多くは、元の音声データの品質が悪かったり、品質を向上させるためのアプリ設定が有効になっていなかったりすることが原因です。 --- Sorry to hear you had a bad experience with it. Most issues like these turn out to be bad source audio quality or the user did not enable app settings that improve the quality.

Scam!! Doesn’t work! !!!

Spent $24 and the thing couldn’t open a MP4 … I give zero stars if I could.. Stay away!!!!

買い切りなのが良い

他のサブスクで毎月払うより少し処理時間がかかるがこちらを一回買う方が良い。コスパが良いです。

The best

This is the best audio recorder/transcriber I’ve come across. I used to work in a noisy warehouse and could never hear our team leader during morning meetings. Using this, I was able to catch all the words even with the surrounding noise. Also great with non-English languages. It does what it’s supposed to do- simple as that.
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Ótimo

O melhor que encontrei.

Excellent app easy to use.

I absolutely love this app! Very clear and simple to use and you can copy and paste to anywhere. Definitely worth all the money I paid!

A fantastic app for language learners!

Aiko helps me create subtitles from Chinese videos without captions, making it much easier to study and understand native speech. Simple, accurate, and extremely useful. Thank you for this wonderful tool! 🙏

Great App - Thank You

For me it’s a great app. I have a bit of a problem remembering an entire conversation. This app has helped me quite a bit in recalling them. It is nice to have an instant replay to job my memory!

Fantastic!

Aiko is one of the most useful apps I’ve added to my workflow. The interface is clean, intuitive, and refreshingly minimal—there’s no clutter, just a tool that does exactly what it promises.

What sets Aiko apart for me is its commitment to local processing. Being able to keep both my audio recordings and transcriptions on-device provides a level of privacy and control that is increasingly rare. The transcription quality is excellent, setup is effortless, and the app stays out of the way so I can focus on my work.

Simple, fast, reliable, and privacy-focused. Highly recommended.
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Simply awesome

The app works great and it respects user’s privacy by not collecting data. It’s also the only app I’ve found where one can drag an audio from iMessage and drop it in the app to get a transcription, which is useful for users that use the phone in multiple languages.

Confusing

I paid, I downloaded, I opened it, and I'm confused about how to use it. You capture one note, you don't know where it went, then you start to record another thing, and you don't know where the first note went. It's so confusing. I really regret paying for this thing. Never pay for something you cannot try ever again.
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Doesn’t Work

I tried using this app instead of Otter.AI, but the tool got stuck transcribing the first few words in my recording over and over. I adjusted the settings to prevent the error, but doing so had no effect. Wish I could get a refund! In Otter, the transcription worked just fine with the same audio clip.
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Wizardry

I’m convinced there is some kind of dark art at work here. I record interviews with people around a table. It’s a challenging environment with people cross talking, but Aiko captures the conversations accurately so I can then organise them with AI and write my documents with it. Brilliant.

Décevante et peu pratique

Je déconseille fortement cette application. Je l’ai achetée en pensant obtenir un vrai outil de transcription, mais l’expérience a été très décevante.

Points négatifs :
- Impossible de transcrire correctement certains audios.
- Interface peu intuitive et désagréable à utiliser.
- Aucun résumé automatique, alors que c’est une fonctionnalité attendue aujourd’hui.
- Transcription très lente.
- Obligation de laisser l’application ouverte pendant tout le traitement.
- Si on ferme l’application, la transcription peut être perdue.

Au final j’ai payé pour une application qui me fait perdre du temps au lieu de m’en faire gagner. Je recommande de regarder d’autres alternatives avant d’acheter.
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Response from developer

Merci pour votre retour. Aiko est conçu pour la confidentialité, pas pour la vitesse à tout prix : vos fichiers audio restent sur votre appareil et ne sont jamais envoyés à un serveur. C’est très différent de la plupart des applications de transcription, qui peuvent être plus rapides parce qu’elles traitent vos fichiers audio dans le cloud. En contrepartie, la transcription peut prendre plus de temps, surtout sur iPhone/iPad, et iOS oblige Aiko à rester ouvert pendant le traitement. C’est une limitation du système. Aiko est un achat unique avec des transcriptions illimitées. La plupart des alternatives basées sur le cloud fonctionnent par abonnement, ont des limites d’utilisation, ou les deux. Elles ne sont donc pas directement comparables. --- Thanks for the feedback. Aiko is built for privacy, not speed at any cost: your audio stays on your device and is never uploaded to a server. That is very different from most transcription apps, which can be faster because they process your audio in the cloud. The tradeoff is that transcription can take longer, especially on iPhone/iPad, and iOS requires Aiko to stay open while processing. That is a system limitation. Aiko is a one-time purchase with unlimited transcriptions. Most cloud-based alternatives are subscriptions, have usage limits, or both, so they are not directly comparable.

Merci 🙏

C’est une des rares applications qui coche toutes les cases ! Un second merci au développeur pour sa participation active, la communauté des développeurs indépendants est vraiment formidable :)

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This is one of the few applications that ticks all the boxes! A second thanks to the developer for his active participation, the community of independent developers is really great :)
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Amazing app

Honestly one of my only reviews. Your app is very good and the fact that you provide shortcuts to batch multiple files is a nice touch.

Just works! (And works well!)

Very happy with how well it works on my Mac mini M1.

Tooooo expensive

It's free model
Pay 20$ to get complete mess, no summarization, nothing! It's too expensive and I won't use it because of quality. No trial period. Nothing.:.

Response from developer

Aiko is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. You pay once and get unlimited transcriptions, with no monthly fees or usage limits. Unlike many transcription apps, Aiko runs locally on your device. Your audio is not uploaded to a server, which is better for privacy but also means quality and speed depend more on the device and the audio quality. A trial is available from the app website.

Aiko Icon

The new icon appears quite dull and resembles many other app icons. I initially chose to try your app because of the cute icon that caught my attention and made me click. Please consider restoring the previous icon or designing a new one. Thank you!

Preferred the old icon

Not a big deal but preferred the old robot icon instead of this boring bar icon that looks like 5000 other apps with bar icons and looks designed by a toddler with crayons.

Apple is busy nerfing and making their own icons horrible and boring, no need for 3rd party developers to follow Apple’s lead, Apple’s “design” has been leading only on the frontiers of the ugly over the past year.
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