# Zone: AI Voice to Text Dictate — Offline dictation keyboard

> Offline dictation keyboard (iPhone/iPad app by ZAYD khan.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/zone-ai-voice-to-text-dictate/id6830955448 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [ZAYD khan](https://appshunter.io/developer/6830955450)
- Category: Productivity, Utilities
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 36 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-11-06
- Data updated: 2026-11-08

## What is Zone?

Talk instead of typing. Tap the mic on your keyboard, speak, tap the check, and your words land where you were typing. iPhone speech recognition runs on your phone.

Zone is a free AI dictation keyboard, voice notebook and meeting recorder. No account, no subscription, no weekly word allowance. Download a speech model once and iPhone dictation works offline, on a plane, underground or in Airplane Mode.

WHY PEOPLE USE ZONE
- A real keyboard with a mic. Type with autocorrect and suggestions, or speak when your thumbs would rather not.
- Your words, with the punctuation you choose. Switch between casual, very casual, formal and excited styles. Undo a dictation with one tap.
- Dictation history you can search, copy together or insert again from the keyboard. Choose how long to keep it, including Until I delete.
- Voice notes from the Action Button, a Control or a Shortcut. Start, stop and keep the result in Notes.
- Meeting mode. Keep the recording, get a transcript, label speakers, correct the text, listen back and export it. Interrupted recordings keep their audio and can resume; Zone records gaps instead of pretending nothing happened.
- Backup and export. Save all notes, dictation history, meeting transcripts, speaker names and meeting audio to Files. Choose On My iPhone or iCloud Drive. Import a backup without replacing your existing library. Optional folder backups retain previously saved records.
- Apple Watch companion. Dictate or type a note with watchOS text input, save it on the Watch and queue it for your iPhone. Notes stay on the Watch until the phone confirms receipt.
- iMessage companion. Browse recent saved text and insert it into the conversation draft. You choose when to send.
- Organized settings, a choice of speech models, personal vocabulary, light and dark appearances, and start/stop feedback you control.

GET STARTED
1. Open Zone and download a speech model. The default is about 250 MB on supported newer iPhones; smaller models are available.
2. Allow the microphone and turn on dictation. While it stays on, iOS shows its microphone indicator. Choose when it turns off after inactivity, or turn it off yourself.
3. Add the Zone keyboard in Settings and allow Full Access.
4. In Messages, Mail, Notes or another text field, switch to Zone, tap the mic, speak and tap the check.

If dictation is off, the keyboard opens Zone to record because iOS does not give keyboard extensions microphone access. Return to your text field and insert the result.

YOUR DATA, YOUR CONTROL
Zone does not collect your words, run analytics or show ads. iPhone recognition runs locally. Speech model downloads need internet access; the keyboard does not contact the network. Full Access lets the app and keyboard share text through a private container on your iPhone, including recent dictations and up to 64 characters before the cursor for spacing, capitals and names.

Exports go only where you choose. iCloud Drive sync is handled by Apple. Watch text input uses watchOS dictation or its keyboard and follows your Apple settings. Calls you answer and system events can still interrupt a microphone recording; Zone cannot override iOS.

Zone code is licensed under MIT. The repository is private during beta, with a public source release planned. Third-party models and libraries retain their own licenses.

English recognition for now.

## Is Zone safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Zone.

## Is Zone legit?

Zone: AI Voice to Text Dictate has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Zone is 50 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.0 — 2026-11-06

No release notes.

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