Offline apps for iPhone and iPad
Privacy-first apps that run entirely on your device: ScribeKit and Nashi. No cloud. No tracking. No account. Fair prices, nothing hidden.
Not “mostly offline.” Not “offline with analytics.” Actually, completely, verifiably offline.
Every app in the trulyoffline family runs entirely on your device. No exceptions.
The same architecture runs through everything we build.
Every app runs its core engine, speech recognition or a language model, directly on your iPhone or iPad. No server round-trips.
No analytics SDK, no crash reporter, no “anonymous usage data.” The only network calls are the ones you’d expect: downloading an optional model, and checking your purchase with Apple and, for ScribeKit Pro, RevenueCat.
Nashi is a one-time purchase. ScribeKit is free to use, and its Pro tier comes as a subscription or a single lifetime payment, your choice. No credits, no server bill hiding in the price.
Your data lives in the app on your device. Delete the app and it goes with it. There’s no copy on our side, because there is no our side.
Guides to offline transcription and on-device AI, and notes from building the apps.
Does your transcription app work with no internet? A 5-minute Airplane Mode test you run yourself, and what App Privacy labels and App Privacy Report prove.
9 min read
Dictation vs transcription: dictation types your words live into any text field; transcription turns a recording into timestamped text. Which to use on iPhone.
8 min read
Is there an offline transcription app for iPhone? Yes. How on-device speech to text works, its trade-offs, and eight things to check before you trust an app.
11 min read
trulyoffline is one independent developer building the apps I want on my own phone: software that works for you, not for an ad network, a data broker or a server you've never seen. Every app is a bet that people will pay a fair price for that.
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