VoiceMemoAI vs Lightning Notes

Record in-person meetings and lectures on your iPhone, then let AI turn them into summaries, decisions and to-dos. Web meetings on Mac, in-person meetings on iPhone: all in one place with iCloud sync. Your audio is never sent to AI. Only the text is. WHAT YOU GET - In-person meetings and lectures on iPhone: record face to face and get an AI note with a summary, decisions and to-dos. - Web meetings on Mac: the Mac app records the audio your Mac plays plus your microphone as two tracks, with no bot in the meeting. Works with Zoom and Microsoft Teams. With iCloud sync, those notes appear on your iPhone too. - Speaker labels ("You" / "Them") are available for Mac meeting recordings. iPhone recordings do not have speaker labels. - Live captions while you record (display only, processed on your device). - Meeting titles: if a calendar event matches, its title becomes your recording's title. Otherwise AI names it for you. - Tap any line of the transcript to jump to that moment in the audio. - Full-text search across titles, notes, transcripts and tags, plus a month/week/day calendar of your recordings. - Markdown export: share notes from the share button to Mail, AirDrop or note apps like Obsidian, or paste them into any AI chat. Turn on Auto Export in Settings and each finished AI note is also exported as Markdown to iCloud Drive or Google Drive (one-way export). - Record in 3 seconds: "Hey Siri, record with VoiceMemoAI", the Lock Screen widget, or the Action Button on supported models. - Mic sensitivity control, Bluetooth mic support, long recordings, templates for meetings, lectures and the Cornell method, and a personal dictionary for names and jargon. - Finder-style folders to sort by project or class. YOUR AUDIO IS NEVER SENT TO AI - Transcription runs on your device. - Your audio is never sent to AI. Only the transcribed text is passed to the AI (Gemini) to write the notes, and only when you ask for a note. - If you turn on iCloud Library Sync (off by default), your audio files sync through your own iCloud too. You can turn off "Also Sync Audio" to sync only notes and transcripts. PLANS - Free: AI notes for up to 120 minutes of recordings each month. - Pro, $8.99 per month: AI notes for up to 30 hours of recordings each month, and meeting recording on Mac. - Pro also includes "Redo in High Accuracy": regenerate a note from its saved transcript with a higher-accuracy AI model, for up to 10 hours of recordings per month (each redo counts at least 30 minutes). This is separate from the 30 hours of AI notes. - Extra 30 Hours, $3.99: a one-time add-on for Pro subscribers who use up their monthly 30 hours. Adds 30 hours of AI notes and does not expire. - Pro renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage it in your Apple Account settings. - VoiceMemoAI is a Universal Purchase: the same subscription works on iPhone and Mac. Zoom and Microsoft Teams are trademarks of their respective owners. VoiceMemoAI is not affiliated with them. Please respect the recording laws and the policies of your organization and meeting participants. Some U.S. states require consent from all participants. Terms of Use (EULA): https://daibutsu7.github.io/voicememoai-docs/terms-en.html Privacy Policy: https://daibutsu7.github.io/voicememoai-docs/privacy.html

Record. Transcribe. Summarize. All on your device. Transcription and speaker separation run entirely on your iPhone — no audio ever leaves your device. Stop the recording and on-device AI works out who said what, producing a speaker-labeled transcript. Then choose local AI or Cloud AI to write the meeting notes. Supported by ads, with all core features available without a subscription. ------------------------ Key Features ------------------------ ■ Accurate Transcription — On-Device Apple's speech recognition engine processes your audio entirely on-device. Meetings, lectures, interviews — transcribed without sending audio anywhere, and reliable even for long recordings. ■ Automatic Speaker Separation Speaker separation runs automatically on your iPhone once recording stops, identifying who said what across multi-participant conversations. Voice fingerprints are learned over time, so names get assigned automatically in later meetings. Manual editing is always available. ■ AI Meeting Notes — Your Choice of AI · On-device AI: No internet required; nothing leaves your iPhone. Needs 6 GB RAM or more (iPhone 13 Pro and later). · Cloud AI: DeepSeek V4-Flash via OpenRouter, streamed in real time. API data is not used for model training, and only Zero Data Retention (ZDR) endpoints are used, so the provider does not store your data to disk. ■ Speaker Summaries & Person Profiles (Cloud AI) See each participant's role, key points, and behavior in the meeting. Across up to 30 past meetings, AI builds a profile of a person's role, communication style, and projects. ■ Action Items, Extracted (Cloud AI) Cloud AI meeting notes also pull each person's action items into the Tasks tab. Set yourself among your people to see your tasks apart from everyone else's. Each task keeps the line it came from and links back to its meeting; move it from Needs confirmation to In progress to Completed, also right on the meeting's screen. Tasks stay on your device. ■ Dictionary Correction (Custom Terms) Register company names, product names, and jargon, and the app fixes where speech recognition misheard them — "Tower Electric" becomes "Towa Electric". An on-device language model checks each fix reads naturally in context, so unrelated passages are left alone. Fixes can be reviewed, reverted one at a time, and applied to past meetings. ■ Audio & Video File Import Import external audio or video recordings and run them through the same transcription and speaker separation pipeline. ■ Share & Export Export as PDF, choosing which sections to include (summary, speaker summaries, transcript). Speaker colors and tables are preserved. Text and audio sharing are also supported. ■ Privacy-First Architecture Transcription, speaker separation, and local summarization all run on-device. Cloud AI is opt-in — leave it off and no recording content ever leaves your iPhone. ■ Folder Organization Organize meetings into folders by project, client, or topic. ■ Full-Text Search Search titles, summaries, and transcripts. Find any meeting by keyword in seconds. ■ Edit Transcripts Fix recognition errors directly in the app and save an accurate record. ■ Control From the Lock Screen Elapsed time appears on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island while recording, with pause, resume, and stop right there. Add the Control Center button to start recording without launching the app. ■ Backup & Restore Export meetings, transcripts, and speaker data to a file and restore it on another device or after reinstalling. You keep the file; nothing goes to an external server. ------------------------ Requirements ------------------------ · Transcription, speaker separation, file import: iPhone 12 or later (A14 chip), or iPad with M1 or later · Local AI summarization: 6 GB RAM or more (iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone 14 series, iPhone 15 and later) · Audio/video formats: WAV, M4A, MP3, MP4, and other common formats --- Take back your meetings. No subscription required.