Cadence - Audio Transcription

Cadence turns an audio or video recording into a timestamped transcript that knows who was speaking. It transcribes on your iPhone or iPad: no account, no upload, and no per-minute billing. Import an interview, a podcast or a meeting recording from Files, and read it back as speaker-labelled turns instead of a wall of text. WHY CADENCE • Transcribes on device, so a recording you are not allowed to upload stays with you • Two engines are free and unlimited: no trial, no watermark, no sign-up, no cap • Speaker diarization included, not a separate paid add-on • Works offline once a model is downloaded KEY FEATURES Import from Files • Pick one recording or several at once, from Files or iCloud Drive • Video is transcribed from its audio track, so screen and meeting recordings work directly • Cadence keeps its own copy, so a recording still plays after the original file moves Choose your engine • Apple Speech is built into iOS, and it is the free default • Parakeet TDT v3 compact covers 25 European languages, free; full v3 and the English-tuned v2 are Pro • Whisper large-v3-turbo for 100 languages, detected automatically (Pro) • Download a model once, and delete it in Settings when you want the space back Know who said what • Speaker diarization via pyannote Community-1, a 22 MB download • Speaker-attributed turns with timecodes, in colors shared by legend and transcript • Rename a speaker once and every turn follows • Tell Cadence how many speakers to expect, for the recordings that need the help Play it back and read along • Play the source from 0.75x to 2x, with each word marked as it is said • Skip back or ahead 15 seconds, and let the transcript follow playback • Tap a turn to play from there Find anything you said • Search recording names and transcript text together, accents and case folded, so "jose" finds "José" • Open a result and its matches are highlighted in the transcript • Select and copy any passage More room on iPad • The library and the transcript side by side, in any orientation and in Split View • Drag recordings in from Files, Voice Memos or Mail • Export to plain text and SRT, free • Keyboard shortcuts for playback and find CADENCE PRO Free covers the core on two engines: Apple Speech, and Parakeet TDT v3 compact for 25 European languages. Unlimited transcription, diarization, playback and search. One purchase, with no subscription, adds: • The full-size speech models: Parakeet TDT v3 at full precision, the English-tuned v2, and Whisper for 100 languages • A queue, so you can start several recordings and Cadence works through them in turn • On iPad, briefs: decisions, action items and open questions, summarized on device • On iPad, two models compared side by side, with the differences marked • On iPad, export to WebVTT, Markdown, JSON and CSV Pro is one purchase for your iPhone, your iPad and your Mac. Cadence for Mac also adds Transcribe All. WHO IT'S FOR • Researchers and journalists working through interview recordings • Podcasters checking what was said in an episode • Anyone with meeting or lecture recordings, only useful once you can tell the speakers apart PRIVACY • Cadence never uploads your audio or your transcripts • No account, no analytics, and no third-party data collection • The only network traffic is downloading the speech models you choose, once REQUIREMENTS iPhone or iPad with iOS 26 or later. Briefs need Apple Intelligence. Keep Cadence open while a long recording transcribes.