A recording on your iPhone or iPad, in 100 languages, becomes a transcript you can search, edit and quote. Kayit runs on-device transcription models from Apple, NVIDIA and Whisper, so nothing is sent away to be transcribed, analyzed or logged.
Transcription, editing and text export are free, with no time limit. Kayit Pro adds what is built around the words: library-wide search, speaker separation and quotes that carry their audio.
Built for journalists, researchers, lawyers and clinicians: anyone whose work can't leave the device it was recorded on.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• The audio and the transcript stay in Kayit's own folder on the device
• No account, no sign-in, no analytics, no servers to receive anything
• One switch keeps your library out of iCloud Backup
FREE: TRANSCRIBE
• Three on-device engines: Apple, Parakeet and Whisper, chosen per recording for accuracy, speed or language
• Pick the language first; an engine that can't handle it is disabled and says why
• Send a recording from any app's Share menu, including Voice Memos
• MP3, M4A, WAV, AIFF, FLAC and most audio and video formats; from a video Kayit takes only the audio
• Your library is in Files, under On My iPhone or On My iPad: put recordings in, take transcripts out
• File interviews into projects and archive one when the story is filed
FREE: PLAY BACK AND EDIT
• The current word highlights as it plays, and the transcript scrolls to keep up
• Waveform scrubbing, 0.5x to 2x speed, 10-second skip; tap the elapsed time to jump anywhere
• Find in the transcript and set the reading size
• Edit the text where you read it: fix a name, split or merge paragraphs
• Timestamps survive edits, so playback and quotes stay aligned
• Name the speakers yourself, a paragraph at a time
• Export the whole transcript as plain text, free and unlimited
KAYIT PRO: SEARCH
• Search inside every transcript at once, not just the one you have open: the line, the speaker and the time
KAYIT PRO: SPEAKERS
• Automatic speaker separation labels each voice Speaker 1, Speaker 2 and so on; rename one and it applies everywhere
• Two separation methods: run it again with the other if the first was wrong, and your edits survive
• Save samples of your voice and Kayit names you in every interview after that
KAYIT PRO: QUOTES
• Select a passage, and Kayit saves the text, the speaker and its exact audio span
• Share a quote as text, Markdown or CSV, or with the trimmed audio clip it was taken from
KAYIT PRO: EXPORT MORE
• Export as PDF, Rich Text, Markdown, CSV or SubRip subtitles (.srt), with timestamps
• Send a whole interview to a colleague, transcript and audio in one zip, or AirDrop it to Kayit on your Mac
SUBSCRIPTION
Transcription, editing and text export stay free, with no time limit. Every section above marked Kayit Pro needs an auto-renewing subscription, which starts with a 14-day free trial. One subscription covers Kayit on iPhone, on iPad and on the Mac.
• Kayit Pro Monthly: $4.99 USD / month
• Kayit Pro Annual: $49.99 USD / year
Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings.
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FIRST LAUNCH
Kayit downloads each model the first time it needs it, then runs offline. Parakeet is about 500 MB and Whisper about 600 MB; Apple's engine uses a language pack iOS downloads.
WHAT KAYIT DOES NOT DO
Kayit does not record: bring a recording in from Voice Memos, from Files or another app. The on-device AI insights are on the Mac and the iPad, not the iPhone. Voice samples are per device and do not sync.
REQUIREMENTS
• iPhone running iOS 26 or later
• iPad running iPadOS 26 or later, with 8 GB of memory or more for the larger models
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