# akou — Transcripts from your server

> Transcripts from your server (iPhone/iPad app by Sergio Fernandez Rubio.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/akou/id6820235234 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Sergio Fernandez Rubio](https://appshunter.io/developer/6819223383)
- Category: Productivity
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 3 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-10-20
- Data updated: 2026-10-31

## What is akou?

akou records on your iPhone and sends the audio to your own akou server, which turns it into text. You read the words while you speak, and once you stop you get the full transcript with every word timed. Tap any word to hear that moment.

akou for iPhone is the companion to akou, the open-source transcription server you run on your own computer. Your recordings go to your server and nowhere else. There is no account, no cloud service and no tracking.

What it does
- Live text while you record, from your server's streaming model.
- Start recording from the Action button, Control Center or the Lock Screen, with a Live Activity while it runs.
- Recordings wait on the phone when the server is out of reach and upload by themselves when it is back.
- Several servers, each with its own key. With a key that can read history, you also see the calls, dictations and files of your desktop akou.
- Workspaces to sort recordings, plus rename and delete.
- A widget with your recent recordings, and a Siri shortcut that summarises the last one on the phone.

Try it without a server
Tap "Try the demo" on the first screen. It loads sample recordings and a server that lives inside the app, so you can play recordings, tap words and record with live text. Nothing in the demo leaves your phone.

Open source
akou for iPhone is free software under the GNU GPL, version 3 or later.
Source: https://github.com/GeiserX/akou-companion
The akou server: https://github.com/GeiserX/akou

## Is akou safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess akou.

## Is akou legit?

akou has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for akou is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 1 release)

### 0.1.0 — 2026-10-20

No release notes.

## More apps by Sergio Fernandez Rubio

- [Pumperly](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pumperly/id6819223381)

All apps by Sergio Fernandez Rubio: https://appshunter.io/developer/6819223383

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