VAYS vs SonWeave Notes

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.

One of the most capable offline transcription apps - built for people who want powerful AI notes without sending recordings to a developer-operated cloud service. Turn meetings, lectures, interviews, voice memos, audio, and video into searchable notes. Automatically identify different speakers, chat privately with your transcript, and create summaries - on your device by default, with optional Apple Private Cloud Compute for summaries and chat. ONE PURCHASE. NO SUBSCRIPTION Many transcription apps use recurring plans that can cost $100 or more every year. SonWeave is available as a one-time purchase. Pay once and use the included features without a recurring subscription. No ads. No account. No tracking. OFFLINE SPEAKER DIARIZATION SonWeave does more than convert speech into text. On-device speaker diarization detects different voices and shows who said what. • Automatically separate and label speakers • Follow conversations with timestamped speaker sections • Rename, correct, or merge speaker labels • Include speaker names when exporting transcripts and subtitles • Process speaker detection locally on your device CHAT WITH YOUR TRANSCRIPT Ask questions about any recording instead of reading the entire transcript again. • Ask for decisions, facts, explanations, or action items • Continue with natural follow-up questions • Receive answers grounded in the transcript • Chat in your preferred language • Use on-device transcript chat by default, or opt in to Apple Private Cloud Compute on compatible devices RECORD AND TRANSCRIBE • Record meetings and conversations with a live transcript • Import audio and video from Files, Photos, Voice Memos, WhatsApp, and other apps • Start from Shortcuts, Control Center, the Action Button, or the Share Sheet • Choose Automatic, Compatibility, or High Accuracy transcription • Select from more than 100 language options • SonWeave automatically shows the transcription engines available for your selected language and device LOCAL AI NOTES Turn long recordings into useful information on your device by default. Optional Apple Private Cloud Compute is available for summaries when you choose to enable it. • Generate concise summaries • Extract key points and action items • Divide long recordings into chapters • Create study questions • Clean up filler words and improve formatting • Add custom vocabulary for names and specialist terms ORGANIZE, TRANSLATE, AND EXPORT • Search across your transcripts • Organize recordings into folders • Keep transcripts and recordings in sync across your Apple devices with optional iCloud Sync • Add bookmarks and personal notes • Translate transcript text • Export as PDF, TXT, Markdown, Word, SRT, or VTT • Export subtitles with timestamps and speaker labels • Recover deleted notes from Recently Deleted PRIVATE BY DESIGN Transcription and speaker detection run locally. Transcript chat and summaries run locally by default; on compatible iOS 27 devices, you can opt in to Apple Private Cloud Compute. SonWeave has no account system, advertising, analytics, or tracking. Optional iCloud Sync uses your private iCloud account. If you enable Apple Private Cloud Compute, the transcript text and questions needed for summaries and chat are sent to Apple. Content is also sent when you explicitly export, share, or use Open in AI. After the required models are installed, core recording and transcription features can work offline—even without an internet connection. Some features, languages, and processing modes depend on device capabilities and may require a one-time model download. Optional Apple Private Cloud Compute requires iOS 27, a compatible Apple Intelligence device, internet access, and explicit consent. Processing speed and output quality vary with the device, recording length, selected language, and audio quality.