# VAYS: Voice Recorder & Notes — Private, offline transcription

> Private, offline transcription (iPhone/iPad app by ARVIND JUNEJA OUMM.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/vays-voice-recorder-and-notes/id6763947081 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [ARVIND JUNEJA OUMM](https://appshunter.io/developer/1782767786)
- Category: Productivity, Utilities
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 39 MB
- Languages: American English, French (France), German (Germany), Polish, European Spanish
- Released: 2026-05-01
- Data updated: 2026-10-07

## What is VAYS?

Vays is a FOREVER FREE voice notes app built around your voice and your privacy.

Record a thought, a meeting, a task, or a conversation with multiple people. Vays transcribes directly on your device, using models tuned for Polish and English. Your audio is not sent to the cloud.

Built for people who think out loud:

• Construction and site managers capturing decisions in the field
• Medical and clinical professionals, where accurate Polish transcription matters
• Product managers turning meetings into tasks
• Anyone whose best ideas come while walking, driving, or moving between meetings

What’s inside

• On-device transcription: your audio stays on your phone unless you decide otherwise
• Sessions (BETA): multi-speaker recordings with speaker recognition. Your own voice is recognized from a one-time voice profile, and other speakers can be named with a single tap
• Vays Dictation Keyboard: dictate in any app with on-device transcription
• Local Gemma AI: chat with your notes offline, without an account
• Polished transcripts: turn messy spoken language into clean, readable text
• Voice tasks: dictate a task and Vays turns it into a title, notes, and category
• Improve transcript: re-transcribe a memo using a larger Whisper model
• Device sync: notes from your iPhone can appear on your Mac
• No ads, no tracking, no account

Privacy by default

Vays is designed so your recordings stay yours. Recording, transcription, speaker separation, transcript polishing, and AI chat all run locally on your iPhone. There is no external AI service in the iOS data path. AI runs locally using Apple Neural Engine and the Gemma model.

The only network features are optional iCloud sync, without audio recordings, and optional pairing with your own Mac running Vays on your local network.

Optional companion: Vays for Mac

Vays for Mac is a paid desktop companion for people who want richer analysis, support for long recordings, and system-wide dictation mode. Notes recorded on your iPhone can automatically appear on your Mac.

Vays is built by one developer. Every piece of feedback is read, and every bug report is taken seriously.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Buy me a coffee | $3.99 | one-time |
| Hi five | $1.99 | one-time |
| Patron | $9.99 | one-time |


## Is VAYS safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess VAYS.

## Is VAYS legit?

VAYS: Voice Recorder & Notes appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for VAYS is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.0 — 2026-10-07

• Recording, redesigned: a fresh look and a more reliable recorder. New views, and you can pause mid-recording.
• On the Lock Screen: a clearer view of the recording in progress, on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island.
• Easier-to-read memos: no more walls of text! Paragraphs and interactive sections linked to playback.

### 1.9 — 2026-08-30

What's New?
iOS 1.9.0

New languages and more reliable recording.

- Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Hindi. Choose a language in Settings or during initial setup, and Vays will automatically select the multilingual NVIDIA Nemotron speech model, around 650 MB and fully offline. Speaker separation works in these languages too.
- Recording in the car is now much more resilient. Following the fix in 1.8.5, Vays can now wait through longer microphone interruptions, such as navigation prompts or longer phone calls, and resume recording automatically.
- New speech engine: 28% faster in our benchmark, with no more stray characters in short Polish utterances.
- Lighter speaker recognition. The new speaker model is more than 50% smaller and uses much less memory. It will download again the first time you use it.
- Settings now tell you what's actually happening. A new "Active Engine" row shows which model is transcribing the selected language, and download buttons show the correct model name.
- Notes with no detected speech now say so clearly instead of showing an empty row. The audio is always kept for playback.
- After updating, you'll see a short "What's New" screen once, without blocking anything.

### 1.8.6 — 2026-08-17

This update rebuilds the first-run experience and improves reliability and transparency:

• New welcome tour: choose your recording style, Transcribe or AI Memo, and the app downloads the required models up front while clearly showing what works without them
• Transcribe is now the default mode: fast and reliable on every iPhone, with AI Memo just one tap away
• New: Device Check in Settings. It runs the same steps as a real recording and shows green, orange, and red flags so you can see what your iPhone can handle. If the system closes the app during the test, you’ll see which step caused it
• No recording gets lost. If AI analysis is interrupted, your note is still saved with the completed transcript. Failed recordings also get clear recovery options, including “Save transcript as memo”
• Improved stability on iPhones with less memory thanks to smarter AI model management
• More private: the app no longer looks for a Mac on your local network until you pair one yourself
• Replay the welcome tour anytime in Settings > App

### 1.8.5. — 2026-08-11

An update focused on recording reliability.

• Notifications and calls no longer interrupt recordings. Vays now resumes recording automatically, including when using CarPlay.
• Apple Watch now clearly tells you if the system cannot access the microphone instead of showing a recording that is not actually capturing audio.
• The Activity Log now tracks processing progress and can show which stage was reached before something went wrong.
• Fixed the expired Discord support link.

If something is not working, send us the Activity Log from Settings. It does not contain your recordings or transcripts, and it now provides much more useful diagnostic information.

### 1.8.4 — 2026-08-03

Critical fix - debugg now shows what really happens when app crashes and there is a new transparency layer on connections when sync to mac

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