# WizardNote: AI Voice Recorder — Private transcription, offline > Private transcription, offline (iPhone/iPad app by cbrdn.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wizardnote-ai-voice-recorder/id6792017579 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [cbrdn](https://appshunter.io/developer/6792017701) - Category: Productivity, Business - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 18.0 · 21 MB - Languages: American English, Czech, French (France), German (Germany), European Spanish - Released: 2026-07-24 - Data updated: 2026-10-18 ## What is WizardNote? WizardNote turns your voice into finished notes. Tap once to capture a thought, meeting, or idea — the app transcribes it right on your iPhone and saves it as a markdown note to a folder you choose. A perfect companion for Obsidian. NO REQUIRED SUBSCRIPTION, NO ACCOUNT • Transcription runs entirely on device (Whisper) — works offline • Recordings, transcripts, and notes stay with you; no telemetry • Pro is a one-time purchase; WizardNote Cloud is an optional subscription FREE FEATURES • One-tap recording that keeps going with the screen locked • On-device transcription in many languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Czech and more, even mixed), with a background queue • Summaries via ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini: the app prepares the transcript with instructions, you paste it into the chat and paste the reply back. Your chat subscription is enough, no API key needed • Markdown notes, player, archive, audio sharing • Action Button, Control Center, widget, Siri, Live Activity WIZARDNOTE PRO (one-time) • Automatic AI summaries with action items — Apple Intelligence, your own server (LM Studio/Ollama, incl. Tailscale), OpenAI, Anthropic, or Azure AI Foundry (your own keys, stored in Keychain only) • Tasks: action items from summaries as a checklist • More accurate transcription models • On-device speaker recognition — who said what, with speakers you can rename • Save directly to your own folder — e.g. an Obsidian vault on iCloud • Or to Apple Notes — automatically via a shortcut • Summary templates for meetings, lectures, or journaling; share note/transcript/summary • Shortcuts: find a note (searches transcripts, not just titles), pull its transcript, summary, tasks or whole markdown note, stop a recording, hand an audio file over for transcription • Notes label AI content: provider and model in the frontmatter, and a line under the summary stating that a model wrote it WIZARDNOTE CLOUD (optional subscription) • AI summaries without your own keys or servers — monthly or yearly, with a quota of transcript hours and optional top-ups • Transcription still happens on your iPhone; only the transcript text goes to the WizardNote server in the EU (Microsoft Azure) • The subscription renews automatically until you cancel it in your Apple ID settings Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://wizardnote.app/privacy Great for quick notes, meetings, ideas on the go, journaling, and getting tasks out of your head into your system. ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | WizardNote Pro | $9.99 | one-time | ## Is WizardNote safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess WizardNote. ## Is WizardNote legit? WizardNote: AI Voice Recorder has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for WizardNote is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 2.5 — 2026-10-15 • WizardNote Cloud: an optional subscription for AI summaries without your own keys or servers. Transcription still happens on your iPhone; only the transcript text goes to our server in the EU (Microsoft Azure) • Speaker recognition (Pro): the transcript is split by who is speaking. Rename speakers and the names carry over to the transcript, summary, and tasks • Apple Notes: save notes to Notes instead of a folder — automatically via a shortcut, or with a button in the recording's detail • Summary templates: your own instructions for meetings, lectures, or journaling. Pick a template for any individual recording too • Transcription language now also offers German, French, and Spanish • Permission prompts now display correctly in Czech ### 2.4 — 2026-10-13 • Summaries via ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini, even without Pro and without an API key: the app prepares the transcript with instructions, you paste it into the chat and paste the reply back • WizardNote now speaks German, French, and Spanish. Microphone and Reminders permission prompts appear in your language • Task due dates: "day after tomorrow" is no longer tomorrow, and "on Wednesday" is no longer today • Fixed the closing quote around the source phrase in reminder notes ### 2.3 — 2026-10-03 Version 2.3 — fixes and small improvements TASKS AND NOTES • The note in your output folder is rewritten after every task change — a checked-off task shows up in Obsidian right away. • Translation fixes: strings that appeared in Czech for English users (widget, model download and preparation, other messages). OTHER • After your third finished note, the app asks once for an App Store rating. ### 2.2 — 2026-10-02 Version 2.2 — tasks under control and a model that finishes preparing in the background. TASKS • Delete all tasks of a recording at once, from the recording detail or the Tasks tab • While deleting, you can also turn tasks off for that recording — later summaries no longer create them • The note in Obsidian is rewritten right away so its checklist matches the app MODEL PREPARATION • Preparing the transcription model keeps going when you leave the app — until now it stopped within seconds and started over when you came back • On iOS 26 the system shows the progress and preparation finishes in the background CONSENT FOR SENDING DATA • Settings → Sending consents lists every endpoint that sends the transcript out, with Allow or Revoke — after a reinstall there used to be nowhere to grant consent • Saving a new such endpoint asks for consent right away • Declining consent leaves your default endpoint as it was ALSO • New icon — the sparkle from the app header instead of the hat • Error messages for the microphone, recording, transcription, export and summaries are now in English — they used to show up in Czech ### 2.1 — 2026-09-18 Version 2.1 — Shortcuts, AI content labelling, and recording that survives. SHORTCUTS (Pro) • Find Notes — searches transcript text, not just titles • Get Note Text — summary, transcript, tasks, or the whole markdown note • Get Tasks from Note — a list to feed the next step of an automation • Stop Recording and Transcribe Audio File — a file from another app straight into the queue • The read actions work even when the app is not running • "Record a Note" stays in the free app — Action Button, Control Center, widget and Siri are unchanged AI CONTENT LABELLING • Notes carry a `generated_by` line in the frontmatter with the provider and model that wrote the summary • A short line under the Summary heading states that the text was generated by an AI model and should be checked against the transcript • Transcripts are not labelled — a transcript is a record of speech, not generated text CONSENT FOR SENDING DATA • Consent applies to a specific recipient, not to a provider — a second self-hosted server or a different Azure gateway asks again • Settings → Sending consents lists every recipient you approved, each with a Revoke button; after revoking nothing is sent there and the endpoint stops being the default • The app also asks for consent in a recording's detail, right before sending — not only when switching providers in Settings • The "Own infrastructure" flag is only suggested from the address of a new endpoint; turning it on is the user's decision RECORDING RELIABILITY • Recording keeps going when AirPods connect or disconnect mid-session — until now it stopped silently and the rest was never saved • Opening another recording's detail while recording no longer ends the recording • A recording cut short by a crash or a shutdown comes back whole; until now it showed up as zero seconds with an empty transcript • The Live Activity disappears after a crash instead of counting up on the lock screen for a recording that no longer exists • Audio imported from another app is no longer lost when a second import is already running NOTES, QUEUE AND PURCHASE • If a note cannot be written to your chosen folder, the app says so — until now the failed write passed silently • "Try again" after a failed write only repeats writing the note; the finished transcript and summary are not recomputed • A transcript the system killed halfway can be finished with "Finish transcription" — it used to stay stuck • The transcription queue keeps going in the background even after the system terminated the app • Edits made during a long transcription or summary (title, speaker names, flags) are no longer overwritten by the result • An unfinished Pro purchase is completed — the app no longer stays paid without being unlocked ## Apps similar to WizardNote | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Diktator!](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/diktator/id6781886922) | — | Free | Productivity | | [Vox.md - Quick Capture Notes](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/voxmd-quick-capture-notes/id6758967337) | 4.5 (2) | Free | Productivity | | [Jot Transcribe](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/jot-transcribe/id6766447330) | 4.6 (9) | Free | Productivity | | [Caflou](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/caflou/id1353381461) | — | Free | Productivity | | [Bleep - Visual Ideas & Notes](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bleep-visual-ideas-and-notes/id1638417383) | 4.6 (18) | Free | Productivity | | [Memo AI - Voice Notes Taker](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/memo-ai-voice-notes-taker/id6757826242) | 4.9 (61) | Free | Productivity | --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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