Lyonesse vs Parallask

Record a meeting or lecture and read the words as people speak. Ask a question about what was said, get a summary in seconds, and find any moment later with search. The transcription and AI run on your device. Lyonesse is a private workspace for the things you record and the documents you read. Recording, transcription, summaries, speaker labels, and Q&A happen locally. There is no cloud transcription provider, so it keeps working with no internet and your audio is not uploaded to be processed. No account to create. Optional iCloud sync is on by default and can be switched off in Settings. WHAT YOU CAN DO - Transcribe live recordings, or import an audio or video file you already have. On Mac you can also capture system audio from any app, call, or video playing on your device. - Get AI summaries in the style you want: concise, bullets, action items, or a structured outline. - Ask Lyonesse: chat across your whole library. Notes, transcripts, PDFs, and images, with follow-up questions and citations back to the source. - Read your documents. Import a PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint file or an image, then summarize it, pull out the key points, or ask it questions. - Run a private meeting assistant: link your calendar, see full-screen live captions, get on-device speaker labels, and turn a recording into drafted minutes with action items. PICK YOUR ENGINE Lyonesse ships Apple Speech and a downloadable Parakeet model for transcription, plus Apple Intelligence and a downloadable Qwen 3 model for on-device AI. Auto picks the best one available for your language and device. In our published LibriSpeech benchmark, Apple's Speech API outperformed the Whisper models Lyonesse used to ship (read it at lyonesse.app/blog/apple-speech-api-benchmark.html). BUILT FOR STUDY AND WORK - Turn a recording into study sheets, meeting minutes, or follow-up notes with Smart Drafting. - Organize notes into Projects that file themselves, then ask questions across a whole project. - Export to PDF or text with an optional summary, Q&A, and full transcript. Send action items to Apple Reminders. - Full-text search across recordings, transcripts, documents, and action items. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Your recordings, documents, and transcripts stay on your device. Recording, transcription, summaries, speaker labels, document analysis, and Q&A run on-device, with no cloud AI provider in the loop. A private alternative to cloud tools like Otter, Fireflies, Rev, and ChatPDF. Works on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with transcription and summaries in 15 languages. Lyonesse is free to download and there is a free tier. For unlimited use, choose a subscription or a one-time Lifetime purchase. No per-minute fees. Privacy Policy: https://lyonesse.app/privacy.html Terms of Service: https://lyonesse.app/terms.html

Most planners assume you do one thing at a time. Parallask doesn't. Build your day as a timeline. Tasks have real durations, so they can overlap, sit side by side, or leave deliberate gaps. The shape of the plan is the plan. Drag a bar to move it, drag its edge to make it longer, tap a gap to fill it. Then give it a start time and walk away. At the appointed moment the plan begins on its own, counting down on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, with the app closed. Each task announces itself as it starts. Nothing needs you to be watching. TIMELINE EDITOR Lay out tasks by dragging. Parallel work sits on its own lane instead of being squeezed into a list. Switch to Task List whenever you'd rather read than drag. RUNS ITSELF Schedule a plan for a time and the days it repeats. Reminders arrive ten minutes before it starts, and the countdown reaches your Lock Screen without you opening anything. A SESSION YOU CAN SEE While a plan runs, the whole timeline plays out with a moving playhead: what's on now, what's next, how long is left. A HISTORY THAT STAYS PUT Finished runs are kept exactly as they ran. Rewrite the plan afterwards, or delete it entirely, and the record of that morning is unchanged. LABELS Five colour-coded labels, named by you and shared across plans, so a glance at the week tells you what kind of day it is. YOUR DAY STAYS YOURS No account. No sign-in. No server, no analytics and no tracking of any kind. Everything you create lives on your device and nowhere else. FREE AND MAX Parallask is free: one plan of your own, the five built-in label colours, and starting sessions whenever you like. Parallask Max adds: - Unlimited plans - The full label colour palette - Scheduling plans to start on their own Max is available as a monthly or annual subscription, or as a one-time lifetime purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation, and subscriptions can be managed or cancelled in your App Store account settings. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when a subscription is purchased. Terms of Use: https://www.parallask.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.parallask.com/privacy Parallask requires iOS 26.2 or later.