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Voice to notes. Ready to edit.

Record on iPhone, iPad, Mac or Apple Watch, or bring in audio and video you already have. Phrase transcribes it and writes a note with a title, a summary and sections you can edit. The original stays attached.

Recordings, audio files and videoTranscripts in 100+ languagesNo half-finished notes

From speech to a finished note, in four steps

  1. Record or import

    Record in the app, or bring in audio files and video. For a video, Phrase keeps the original and transcribes its sound.

  2. Transcribed

    Every line gets a timestamp, and speakers can be labeled.

  3. Organized

    A title, an emoji, a summary and sections you can edit.

  4. Your note is ready

    It appears once every step succeeds. If one fails, you can retry, and no empty note is left behind.

Recording

Start a recording where you are.

A live waveform, a big red button and nothing in the way. Start in the app, from Control Center or the Lock Screen, on your Apple Watch or on your Mac. Then put the phone down and stay in the conversation.

Live waveformPause and resumeApple Watch and Control Center
Progress you can see

You see each step. You get a complete note.

Phrase shows each step as it happens: uploading, transcribing, organizing. The note appears once every step succeeds, so a dropped connection never leaves a half-empty note in your library. If something fails, you can retry. Your recording is uploaded and processed in the cloud to create the note.

Every step shownRetry if it failsProcessed in the cloud
Search across languages

Find the words you remember.

Search looks inside every note, not only the titles. It finds a word even in the middle of a Chinese, Japanese or Korean sentence.

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The transcript you keep

A transcript you can search, replay and check.

The transcript sits next to the audio. Search it, copy it, read it full screen or follow along as it plays. Tap any line to hear that moment again and check the note against what was said.

Search the transcriptTap to replayFollows playbackCopy and full screen
The source viewer: the meeting audio with a scrubber and a speaker-labeled transcript, with Rachel’s line at 12:41 highlighted while it plays.
100+ languages

Transcribed in the language you speak.

Phrase detects the language on its own, even when a conversation switches partway through. These are some of the languages it transcribes.

  • Afrikaans
  • Shqip
  • العربية
  • Azərbaycan
  • Euskara
  • Беларуская
  • বাংলা
  • Bosanski
  • Български
  • Català
  • 中文
  • Hrvatski
  • Čeština
  • Dansk
  • Nederlands
  • English
  • Eesti
  • Suomi
  • Français
  • Galego
  • Deutsch
  • Ελληνικά
  • ગુજરાતી
  • עברית
  • हिन्दी
  • Magyar
  • Bahasa Indonesia
  • Italiano
  • 日本語
  • ಕನ್ನಡ
  • Қазақ тілі
  • 한국어
  • Latviešu
  • Lietuvių
  • Македонски
  • Bahasa Melayu
  • മലയാളം
  • मराठी
  • Norsk
  • فارسی
  • Polski
  • Português
  • ਪੰਜਾਬੀ
  • Română
  • Русский
  • Српски
  • Slovenčina
  • Slovenščina
  • Español
  • Kiswahili
  • Svenska
  • Tagalog
  • தமிழ்
  • తెలుగు
  • ไทย
  • Türkçe
  • Українська
  • اردو
  • Tiếng Việt
  • Cymraeg
FAQ

Voice to notes, answered.

What audio can Phrase turn into notes?

Recordings you make in Phrase on iPhone, iPad, Mac or Apple Watch, audio files you import, and video. For a video, Phrase keeps the original and transcribes its sound. You can also start a note from a PDF, photos or a blank page.

What does the finished note include?

A title, an emoji, a summary, the transcript and organized sections you can edit. The original recording or video stays attached to the note.

What happens if processing fails halfway?

The note appears only after processing succeeds. A failed or canceled task leaves no empty note behind, and you can retry a failed task.

Which languages are supported?

Phrase transcribes recordings in 100+ languages and detects the language on its own, even when speakers switch partway through. Search looks inside every note and finds a word even in the middle of a Chinese, Japanese or Korean sentence.

Phrase for Apple devices

Stop typing what you already said.

Free to download for iPhone, iPad and Mac, with an Apple Watch app for recording. Your notes live on your devices and sync through your own iCloud with Pro.

Start with up to 100 notes and one free media-to-note conversion. Pro adds unlimited notes, further conversions, AI features and iCloud sync, with the current usage allowance shown in the app.

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