Parley: Dictation & Meetings

Parley turns your voice into text on your iPhone two ways — and both run on the same transcription that powers Parley, your copilot for the high-stakes conversations of sales, negotiation, and interviews. TYPE BY VOICE, ANYWHERE Switch to the Parley keyboard in any app — Messages, Mail, Notes, anything with a text field — tap the mic, and your words type themselves in at the cursor. Put it on the Action Button and dictation starts without even switching keyboards. Stop and pick it up again without being bounced out of the app you are in. AI polish takes out the filler and the slips of the tongue while keeping every sentence you said. Fix a word once and Parley remembers how you say it. The keyboard also types: English and Zhuyin panes sit next to the mic, and your saved name, phone numbers and addresses are one tap away. RECORD THE MEETINGS YOU HAVE IN PERSON Put the phone on the table and a live, speaker-separated transcript arrives while people are still talking — the coffee shop, the customer's office, the table where nobody opens a laptop. What you keep is a record you can read, search, and quote from, not a wall of undifferentiated text. ALSO IN THE APP • A library of your recordings to browse, search, and file into folders you create, rename, and delete right on the phone • Import an audio file you already have and get it transcribed like a recording • The recording and the open microphone show on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island • Personal and organization spaces, with sharing and moving between them • Finished recordings survive a dead network: they queue on the phone and sync themselves once you are back • English and Traditional Chinese throughout, following your iPhone's language • System, light, and dark appearance BRING YOUR OWN STACK Parley is open source, and the point is that the meeting layer stays yours. On the desktop you pick the transcription vendor and the model provider that fit your cost, privacy, language, and latency requirements — Parley is the interface, not another closed AI bundle. On iPhone, signing in gets you hosted transcription with no API key to manage and a free tier that covers everyday use. ONE ACCOUNT, TWO DEVICES Recordings and transcripts sync to your Parley account, so a meeting you caught on the phone opens on the Mac app — where the deeper work happens: the report with clickable timestamps, what each side committed to, action items, a scorecard on how you delivered, and full-text search across every meeting you have ever recorded. The phone is the capture end; the desktop is where the reading happens. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO Parley for iPhone is honest about the platform. iOS gives no third-party app access to system audio, so this app does not record phone calls, FaceTime, or sound from other apps, and it never pretends otherwise. Online meetings belong on the Mac app, which can capture system audio properly. The phone owns the room you are sitting in. YOUR DATA Parley uses the microphone only while you record or dictate, and iOS shows its orange microphone indicator the whole time. If you turn on keeping the microphone ready after dictation, the indicator stays on for that window, but nothing is recorded or sent until you tap the mic. You can delete your account and personal data permanently from Settings → Account → Delete Account. The privacy policy has the full detail. Parley is Apache-2.0 licensed. Source: github.com/pathorsAI/parley