It's out
ScribeKit, the second app in the trulyoffline family, is on the App Store today.
Download ScribeKit on the App Store →
Free to use. No account. No telemetry. And, for the first time in this family, an optional Pro tier. More on that below, because we owe you a straight explanation.
What ScribeKit is
ScribeKit turns speech into text on your phone. Record a meeting, a lecture, an interview or a voice note, or import an audio file, and a few moments later you have a timestamped transcript you can search, play back line by line, copy and share.
The part that makes it a trulyoffline app: the speech model is inside the app. Not downloaded on first launch, not fetched from a server, not "processed securely in the cloud." It is in the bundle you install from the App Store, and it runs on the Neural Engine in your device. The audio you record is written to your phone's storage and stays there.
That is also why the download is about half a gigabyte. We would rather ship the model than ask you to trust a server.
Who it's for
Anyone who records things that are not theirs to share. Therapists and doctors with session notes. Lawyers with client calls. Journalists with sources. Students in lectures. Or anyone who simply thinks "upload my voice to a transcription service" is a strange thing to do in 2026.
What you get for free
- Transcription in 25 languages with automatic detection, powered by NVIDIA's Parakeet model, built into the app.
- Record in the app, with Pause and Stop right on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, or import from Files, or share an audio file from any other app.
- 10 new transcriptions a month, recordings and imports up to 30 minutes each.
- Timestamped segments you can tap to hear the audio behind them, playback, search, favorites, sort and filter, copy and share.
None of this expires: the 10 free transcriptions reset every month, with no trial and no watermark.
What ScribeKit Pro adds
- No monthly limit.
- Recordings and imports up to 3 hours (90 minutes while a Whisper model is active).
- Five downloadable Whisper models, from Tiny to Large (large-v3-turbo), for 100+ languages and stronger accents. Downloaded once, then fully offline.
- Custom folders.
- Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets: one-tap recording, your latest transcripts.
- Export everything, audio and transcripts, as a ZIP.
Pro costs $1.99 a month, $9.99 a year with a 7-day free trial, or $19.99 once for lifetime access. Prices vary a little by country.
Why there is a subscription at all
We have said on this site that our apps have no servers, so you should not pay for servers. That is still true. Online, ScribeKit checks your Pro status with RevenueCat when it opens or returns to the foreground, sending an anonymous ID and your purchase history, never audio or text. Beyond that it goes online only when you download a Whisper model or buy or restore Pro.
What ScribeKit does have is ongoing work. Speech models improve every few months and each one has to be converted, tested on real devices and tuned for memory. Every iOS release changes something about audio sessions, Live Activities or widgets. That work does not stop after launch, and a one-time price on a free app would not fund it.
So the core of the app is free, Pro pays for the ongoing work, and you choose how: monthly, yearly, or once. If you dislike subscriptions, Lifetime is the honest answer and we mean it as one. It is a single payment for the Pro features of ScribeKit, including the ones we add later.
The privacy label
Because Pro is sold through the App Store, ScribeKit's privacy label is not "Data Not Collected" the way Nashi's is. It shows one item: Purchase History, not linked to you, not used for tracking. Apple processes the purchase, and a purchase-validation service (RevenueCat) receives an anonymous installation id and your purchase record so Pro can be restored on your other devices. Nothing else leaves the phone. No audio, no transcripts, no analytics, no crash reports. The privacy policy spells it out.
Thanks
If you try ScribeKit and something is wrong, or a language you need transcribes badly, write to the email in the app. It is a real inbox, read by the person who built the thing.