# Transcribatron: Voice to Text — AI meeting notes & dictation

> AI meeting notes & dictation (iPhone/iPad app by Marc Maguire.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/transcribatron-voice-to-text/id6760924349 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Marc Maguire](https://appshunter.io/developer/1884726656)
- Category: Productivity, Utilities
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.5 · 43 MB
- Languages: American English, Arabic, Dutch, Canadian French, German (Germany), Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese and 8 more
- Released: 2026-08-20
- Data updated: 2026-09-26
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/transcribatron-voice-to-text/id6760924349/reviews.md

## What is Transcribatron?

Transcribatron turns your voice into clean, structured text - everywhere. One purchase, no subscription, no account - and transcription always runs on your device.

DICTATE IN ANY APP
A system-wide keyboard that records your voice and types polished text into Mail, Messages, Slack, Notes - anywhere you can type. Pick a style (formal email, bullets, casual) and it rewrites as it goes. Apple's dictation gives you raw text; this gives you finished text.

CAPTURE MEETINGS IN THE ROOM
Set your phone on the table and record the whole room - no bot, no calendar invite, no uploads. Get a full transcript plus an AI summary, action items, and decisions, using templates you control. Transcribatron tells speakers apart on-device - name them in the meeting and every line shows who said it. Built for boardrooms, 1:1s, interviews, and lectures.

A MEETING BUDDY IN YOUR CORNER
Turn on live coaching and a Buddy watches the conversation as it happens - surfacing heads-ups, opportunities, and the specific things you asked it to watch for, with a live chat that already knows what's been said. Live coaching runs on a cloud model, so it needs your own API key.

LISTEN TO ANYTHING
Turn any transcript, note, or imported document into audio. Natural on-device and cloud voices, karaoke-style word highlighting, lock-screen playback - or flip to RSVP speed reading and fly through it silently, one word at a time.

YOUR CHOICE OF AI - OR FULLY ON-DEVICE
Use the best model for the job - Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Grok with your own key - or keep the work on your device with the free on-device model, a one-time download (iPhone 15 Pro and later, and recent iPads). Your call, every time. Confidential conversation? Transcription always runs on-device - and on those devices the AI cleanup does too, so nothing has to leave your phone.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
No account, ever. Transcription always runs on your device - your recordings are never uploaded to us, because there is no server of ours to upload them to. Choose a cloud AI and only text is sent, using your own API key, straight to the provider you picked. Your keys stay in the Keychain.

ALSO INCLUDED
• Chat with any transcript to ask questions and pull quotes
• Import audio, video, links, and podcasts and turn them into clean notes
• Custom vocabulary so names and jargon come out right
• Connect your calendar to see upcoming meetings and link recordings to events
• Import documents (PDF, DOCX, EPUB) or scan pages - then listen to them read aloud
• Subtitles for imported videos: export .srt/.vtt, edit cues, burn them back in
• Translate your notes into 19 languages when you share them
• Two-way Obsidian sync - edit in your vault, changes flow back
• iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac
• A full Mac app with a global dictation hotkey, menu-bar companion, and system-audio capture for remote calls

ONE PRICE, NO SUBSCRIPTION
One purchase. Lifetime. 7-day free trial. No accounts, no servers, no monthly fees - because the work happens on your device.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lifetime | $8.99 | one-time |



## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 1.1 — 2026-08-21

Instant first launch.

Transcribatron is ready to record the moment you install it. Previously a new install waited on a large speech model to download before you could record anything. Now the app starts on a compact model that is ready right away, then upgrades itself in the background to the best model for your language.

### 1.0 — 2026-08-20

No release notes.

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