# Open Summary — Record, transcribe & summarise

> Record, transcribe & summarise (iPhone/iPad app by Amir Iskandar.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/open-summary/id6779967127 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Amir Iskandar](https://appshunter.io/developer/1896582329)
- Category: Productivity, Business
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 16.4 · 48 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-09-09
- Data updated: 2026-10-31

## What is Open Summary?

Open Summary turns your meetings into clean, shareable minutes — and keeps everything on your device.

It records a meeting in parts, transcribes each part, stitches them together, and summarises the result into well-structured Markdown meeting minutes you can share or export.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• No backend and no accounts. We run no servers and collect no data.
• Your audio, transcripts, and minutes are stored as plain, human-readable files on your device — visible in the Files app.
• Your API keys live in the iOS keychain and are never logged.
• Audio and requests go straight from your device to the provider you choose. Nothing passes through us, because there's nothing to pass through.

BRING YOUR OWN PROVIDER
• Start free: Groq's free tier does both transcription and summarisation on a single key — no credit card.
• Or use OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, a self-hosted Whisper server, or Ollama.
• Works with any OpenAI-compatible transcription endpoint and with Anthropic or any OpenAI-compatible chat endpoint.
• Built-in cost estimates help you pick a model with no surprises.

BUILT FOR REAL MEETINGS
• Background recording — keeps going when the app is backgrounded or your phone is locked.
• Import existing audio and add it to a meeting.
• Long recordings are automatically split for transcription on audio boundaries (no re-encoding, no quality loss).
• Edit transcripts and name speakers before summarising.
• Choose your summary language.

EXPORT AND SHARE
• Share or copy minutes as Markdown or PDF.
• Export a whole meeting — or all your meetings as a backup — as a single ZIP bundle.

Open Summary is for anyone who wants useful meeting notes without handing their conversations to yet another cloud service.

## Is Open Summary safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Open Summary.

## Is Open Summary legit?

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


## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.1.0 — 2026-09-10

No release notes.

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## More apps by Amir Iskandar

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All apps by Amir Iskandar: https://appshunter.io/developer/1896582329

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