# Passing Thoughts: Voice Notes — Private, on-device AI memos > Private, on-device AI memos (iPhone/iPad app by CALIN AURELIAN GRECU.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/passing-thoughts-voice-notes/id6793355936 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [CALIN AURELIAN GRECU](https://appshunter.io/developer/6793355938) - Category: Productivity, Utilities - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 26.0 · 3 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-09-27 - Data updated: 2026-10-31 ## What is Passing Thoughts? Your notes stay with you. Transcription, search, and all AI reasoning run on your iPhone, and the app never sends your notes anywhere. Passing Thoughts is the voice notes app that remembers for you. Speak a thought and watch the words appear as you talk; Passing Thoughts saves it instantly, cleans up the transcript, gives it a proper title, and finds it again when you ask. WHAT IT DOES • Capture instantly — words appear on screen as you speak, and the recording is saved first, always. • Read it clean — messy dictation is groomed for readability, with the original transcript one tap away. • Ask your notes — type or dictate a question and Passing Thoughts shows the notes that answer it, in your own words, with the answering sentence in bold. It never writes an answer of its own, so it has nothing to make up. • Ask about time — "What's on this week?" or "What's on my schedule next month?" shows the notes dated in that period, reading "next Tuesday" from the day you wrote it. • Siri, when you want it — record, save a typed note or ask what's on this week by voice. Siri reads your notes out only if you turn on "Siri can read my notes"; it is off until you do. • Stay on top of things — open tasks and pending decisions surface for review, and an optional reminder can nudge you before a decision's deadline. PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE No account. No analytics. No tracking. Passing Thoughts has no server and never sends what you record or type anywhere. All AI runs on Apple Intelligence, on-device. Siri can read your notes only if you turn that on; Siri is Apple's, and may use Apple's Private Cloud Compute to answer. HONEST BY DESIGN Passing Thoughts never pretends. If a note is too long or not in English for AI features, it says so with a quiet label. Ask shows only your own notes, and when none of them answers, it says so instead of guessing. Requires iOS 26. AI features require Apple Intelligence. ## Is Passing Thoughts safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Passing Thoughts. ## Is Passing Thoughts legit? Passing Thoughts: Voice Notes has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Passing Thoughts is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.3.1 — 2026-10-29 Bug fixes and minor improvements ### 1.3 — 2026-10-22 • Siri, all the way. "New thought in Passing Thoughts" starts a voice note, "Add a thought to Passing Thoughts" saves a typed one, and Siri can open Ask, Search or Needs Review. • Ask your notes through Siri: "What's on this week in Passing Thoughts" or "What needs review in Passing Thoughts". Turn on Settings → Siri → "Siri can read my notes" and Siri answers out loud; with it off (the default), Siri opens the answer in the app and your notes stay with you. • With the switch on, your notes are in Spotlight, Siri can add a line to a note or rename it, and Shortcuts can find notes and read their text. • Share a note as plain text from Note Detail. • Search now matches your words only; Ask is where you search by meaning. Search tells you when what you typed looks like a question. ### 1.2 — 2026-10-06 • Ask now shows your own notes instead of writing an answer: the notes that answer your question, with the answering sentence in bold. Ask no longer writes an answer of its own, so it has nothing to make up. • Ask understands time: "What's on today?", "this week", "next weekend", "next month", "What's on my schedule?". A note that says "next Tuesday" is read from the day you wrote it. • "Due Friday", "before the 12th" and "until March 3" now mean that date, for parking and reminders. • Insight cards are gone. On the newest iOS they too often put unrelated notes together, so this release removes them rather than show you cards you can't rely on. Your notes are untouched. • More reliable on iOS 27 when Apple Intelligence declines a request. ### 1.1 — 2026-09-29 • Needs Review is better at finding your open tasks and pending decisions on iOS 27. • Insight cards are more careful about which notes belong together. • New: turn the AI features off in Settings → Processing. Capture, transcription and search keep working, and your insights come back when you turn them on again. • Removing a note from an insight card now reliably updates the card's wording. • The "too many notes" banner now suggests parking notes instead of deleting them. • You can now rate Passing Thoughts from Settings. ### 1.0 — 2026-09-27 No release notes. ## Apps similar to Passing Thoughts | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [EasyMeety](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/easymeety/id6802191636) | — | Free | Productivity | | [additem.to: AI Home Inventory](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/additemto-ai-home-inventory/id6753895173) | 5.0 (6) | Free | Productivity | | [Speakwise - AI Note Taker](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/speakwise-ai-note-taker/id6751740223) | 4.5 (89) | Free | Productivity | | [OptiSigns Digital Signage](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/optisigns-digital-signage/id1625305719) | 4.3 (4) | Free | Productivity | | [Leexi - AI Notetaker](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/leexi-ai-notetaker/id6740093190) | — | Free | Productivity | | [OptiSigns Admin](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/optisigns-admin/id1574826252) | 4.8 (1,256) | Free | Productivity | --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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