# Dicta: Voice to Text — Private offline transcription

> Private offline transcription (iPhone/iPad app by ORIOL FARRE BARCONS.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dicta-voice-to-text/id6783845874 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [ORIOL FARRE BARCONS](https://appshunter.io/developer/6783845876)
- Category: Productivity, Utilities
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 19 MB
- Languages: American English, Basque, Catalan, French (France), Galician, Chinese (Simplified, China), European Spanish
- Released: 2026-07-30
- Data updated: 2026-09-25

## What is Dicta?

The words appear while you speak.

Dicta turns your voice into text as you talk, entirely inside your iPhone. No spinner, no cloud, no account. Tap a button, speak, and watch the transcript grow.

— WHY DICTA —

REAL TIME
Text appears as you dictate and settles at every pause. You never wait for the recording to finish before you can read anything.

100 % ON YOUR PHONE
Audio and text never leave the device. No servers, no accounts, no ads, no tracking. Works in airplane mode.

PAY ONCE, KEEP IT
No subscription. You buy Dicta Pro once and it's yours. Other dictation apps charge more than a hundred euros a year for the same thing.

AI INSIDE THE PHONE
Automatic titles for every note, filler-word cleanup, summaries as bullet points or minutes, and task detection you can send straight to Reminders. Powered by a local model or by Apple Intelligence — not a single word leaves the device.

YOUR NOTES, IN MARKDOWN
Every note is saved as a .md file inside the Files app, ready for Obsidian, Notes, Mail or whatever you use.

— FREE —

• Real-time dictation, with no time limit and no cap on the number of notes
• Pick whichever transcription engine you like
• Searchable history
• Copy, share and export as Markdown
• Always works offline

— DICTA PRO —

One payment, no subscription:

• Sync through your own iCloud: your notes on all your devices
• Permanent access to your whole history, with no time window
• Import audio files: interviews, lectures, recorded meetings
• Receive audio from any other app's share sheet
• Cleanup and summaries with on-device AI, using your own templates
• Personal vocabulary: names and jargon always spelled right
• Separate the speakers in a conversation
• Export your entire history as a .zip
• Recording timer in the Dynamic Island and on the Lock Screen
• Start recording from Control Center
• Light or dark appearance and alternative app icons

— LANGUAGES —

Dicta transcribes around a hundred languages. The interface is available in Catalan, Spanish, English, French, Basque and Galician.

— PRIVACY, FOR REAL —

Dicta only connects to the internet when you ask it to: to download a transcription model and, if you turn syncing on, to store your notes in YOUR own iCloud account. Everything else happens inside your iPhone: the recording, the transcription, the titles and the summaries. There is no server of ours, because none is needed.

Made in Catalonia.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Dicta Pro | $3.99 | one-time |


## Is Dicta safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Dicta.

## Is Dicta legit?

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


## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 1.2 — 2026-08-17

More languages, fewer mix-ups, and your notes right where they belong.

• Hello, Simplified Chinese: Dicta is now available in 中文.
• See which language Dicta detected for each note and change it easily when needed.
• Duplicate notes are sorted out without losing anything.
• We have fine-tuned the app to make transcription more stable and reliable.

### 1.1 — 2026-08-01

• Your notes now sync through your own iCloud (Pro): they follow you across devices and survive a phone change. They go to your iCloud account, never to a server of ours.
• You can now send audio to Dicta from any app: share it from Voice Memos, Files or Mail and pick Dicta. The app opens and transcribes it on its own.
• Task detection: when a note is finished, Dicta finds the to-dos in it and offers to add them to Reminders. Nothing is written without your confirmation.
• Audio import now shows real progress, an estimated time remaining and a cancel button.
• First run is a single screen: choose transcription quality and start.
• The initial transcription language now follows your phone's language.
• New light or dark appearance in Settings › Appearance.
• Free users can try AI cleanup and summaries once.
• Faster model downloads with lower CPU usage.
• Several stability fixes for long recordings and background use.

### 1.0 — 2026-07-26

No release notes.

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