# Riffie — AI for Thinking Out Loud

> AI for Thinking Out Loud (iPhone/iPad app by Zeb Dropkin.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/riffie/id6758258663 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Zeb Dropkin](https://appshunter.io/developer/1857868123)
- Category: Productivity, Lifestyle
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 26.0 · 65 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-07-09
- Data updated: 2026-10-13

## What is Riffie?

Your best thinking rarely waits for a keyboard.

It happens on a walk. In the car. Staring out a window with no good place to write it down. The idea is right there, half-formed and worth chasing, and the moment it arrives is the worst possible moment to start typing.

And some thoughts don't want to be typed at all. They want to be talked through: said out loud, answered, sharpened with every pass. Thinking out loud can break through where typing can't.

Riffie is AI for thinking out loud. Frontier-model depth, with the one thing voice AI keeps taking away: the space to finish a thought.

Tap once and talk.
Riffie never cuts you off. Pause to find the word. Backtrack. Ramble. A long pause isn't a cue to jump in. The mic stays hot. You decide when a thought is finished. Long, half-formed thoughts are exactly where the good stuff lives. A second tap sends your message.

You don't press play on the answer.
The reply plays itself the second it lands, so you can keep moving. As the text streams in, so does the audio. In other apps the audio is an afterthought. Here it is the point.

Some thoughts need a different listener.
A pragmatist who tells you what to do. A challenger who pushes back. An improviser who says yes and builds on it. Switch mid-conversation when the thinking changes shape. Same thought, different pressure.

Talk to the models you already trust.
Move freely between Claude, GPT, and Gemini. Riffie is the voice layer on top. The depth is theirs. The flow is yours.

When one conversation isn't enough, make it a project.
Group the conversations that belong together. Riffie gathers what matters across them and keeps only what you approve. Memory you shape, not memory that decides for you. The next walk picks up where the last one ended.

Built for motion, not the desk.
Playback holds steady through headphone swaps, route changes, and network blips. It doesn't drop the thread when the signal does.

Talk now, read it later.
Every word, both sides, is saved as searchable text and synced across your devices through your own iCloud, not our database. The idea you had on a Tuesday walk is still there when you go looking in March. Flip one switch and your conversations land on your Mac too, as markdown files you can open, search, or drop into whatever you write in. Leave whenever you want and take all of it with you.

Also in Riffie:
Audio Sharing: Share any reply as audio, with a visual share card built in. You can also share the text or a full transcript.
Playback Controls: Adjust the speed, and scrub to jump back or ahead.
Summaries: Riffie can sum up a long conversation at any point, ready to read or copy out.
Attach a File: Drop a text file into Riffie's folder in iCloud Drive and bring it into a chat. Long files are summarized first so they don't crowd out the conversation.
Voices: Choose from a range of AI voices, and give each persona its own voice.
Response Length: Switch between longer, more thorough responses and shorter, more direct ones.
Custom Dictionary: Riffie can learn the names and words you use and improve its dictation.

Riffie is free to start, with Pro when the thinking gets heavier.

Keep walking. Keep talking. Work it out.
Riffie. Your voice-first home for frontier AI.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Riffie Pro | $129.99 | per year |
| Riffie Pro | $12.99 | per month |


## Is Riffie safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Riffie.

## Is Riffie legit?

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


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.0.6 — 2026-09-25

Updated models, fixed bugs, improved overall experience. Yours, Riffie

### 1.0.5 — 2026-09-10

Small fixes and behind the scenes work in this one.

New around here? Riffie is AI for thinking out loud: frontier AI in a home built for voice. Talk as long as a thought needs, and the reply plays back automatically, no play button to hit. Switch mindsets mid-conversation: a pragmatist who tells you what to do, a challenger who pushes back, an improviser to riff with. Group conversations into projects that build a memory you oversee, so what matters sticks and the noise stays out. Every word, both sides, is saved as searchable text and synced across your devices through your own iCloud.

The space to finish a thought is the whole point.

### 1.0.4 — 2026-08-20

Bring your notes into the conversation

Drop a text file into the Riffie folder in iCloud Drive, under Inbox. Tap the paperclip while the keyboard is up and it's waiting there, ready to bring into a chat. Long files get summarized first, so a big document doesn't crowd out the conversation.

Also in this version:

The typing field is taller and easier to tap into.

Fixed: Back sometimes landed you on the main list instead of where you were.

### 1.0.3 — 2026-07-28

Turn on Riffs, and the conversation you had on this morning's walk is
waiting on your Mac when you sit down. Riffie writes your chats to a Riffie
folder in iCloud Drive as markdown files, ready to open, search, or drop
into whatever you write in. They are copies, so editing them never changes
anything in Riffie.

Long conversations can summarize themselves now. Tap Summarize and you get
the thread so far, in a form you can read or copy somewhere else.

The voices sound better. Same voices, same names, upgraded underneath.
Riffie reads links as site names instead of spelling them out letter by
letter, and when it skips something it cannot read aloud, like a block of
code, it says so instead of going quiet. Replays match the speed you set.

New around here? Riffie is AI for thinking out loud: frontier AI in a home
built for voice. Talk as long as a thought needs, and the reply plays back
automatically, no play button to hit. Switch mindsets mid-conversation: a
pragmatist who tells you what to do, a challenger who pushes back, an
improviser to riff with. Group conversations into projects that build a
memory you oversee, so what matters sticks and the noise stays out.

The space to finish a thought is the whole point.

### 1.0.2 — 2026-07-24

Riffie now wears its colors. The colorwave behind the recording button runs through the app: over every chat and project in your list, along the speed dial, marking your choice in every picker, and on buttons that now match the icon on your home screen. And trying Riffie got simpler: your first conversations run at the full Pro level, no account or card needed. 

New around here? Riffie is AI for thinking out loud: frontier AI in a home built for voice. Talk as long as a thought needs, and the reply plays back automatically, no play button to hit. Switch mindsets mid-conversation: a pragmatist who tells you what to do, a challenger who pushes back, an improviser to riff with. Group conversations into projects that build a memory you oversee, so what matters sticks and the noise stays out. 

The space to finish a thought is the whole point.

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