Phrase turns a 50-minute lecture into a note: a searchable transcript, a clear summary and organized sections, with the original audio attached. With Pro, it then turns that note into flashcards, quizzes and slide decks.
Start in the app, from Control Center or the Lock Screen, or on your Apple Watch. Then put the phone away.
A transcript, a summary and organized sections, ready when processing finishes.
“Where did she explain the second theorem?” Search the transcript, tap the line, listen again.
Flashcards, quizzes, mind maps and slide decks, all made from the same note.
You can follow each step: uploaded, transcribed, organized. The note appears only when every step succeeds, so a dropped connection never leaves you with a half-empty note before the midterm. If a step fails, you can try again.
The lecture plays with its transcript, the current line highlighted. Search the transcript, jump to the line and hear it in the professor’s own words. Search works the same for classes in Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
Ask for flashcards and get a deck built from this lecture. Quiz yourself with scoring and feedback, or see the topic as a mind map. Each one links back to the note, so you can check a surprising answer against the class itself.
Import the professor’s PDF handout, add up to 8 whiteboard photos to one note, or bring in a recorded seminar video. Each becomes a searchable note with its source attached, in an editor made for long notes with photos, formulas and diagrams.
Check the sound, interruptions, and permission before class.
Allow for playback speed and the part you have already heard.
Mark three timestamps per lecture, turn each into a question, then answer with the recording closed.
Paste eight formulas into any app and see which ones come out as pictures.
Plug in, keep the lid open, test from your seat, and copy the checklist before class.
Yes. Record in the app on iPhone, iPad or Mac, from the Control Center or Lock Screen control, or on Apple Watch. When the recording is processed, Phrase creates a note with the transcript, a summary and content you can edit, and the original audio stays attached.
More than 100. Phrase detects the language on its own, even when a lecture switches language partway through. Search works in Chinese, Japanese and Korean notes too, so those lectures stay searchable.
Yes. Open the recording, search its transcript and tap a line to hear that moment again. You can also copy the transcript, read it full screen, and follow the highlighted line as the audio plays.
Yes. With Pro, Phrase can turn a lecture note into flashcards, quizzes and mind maps, as well as slide decks and pages. Each one can link back to the note it came from, so you can check an answer against the lecture.
Yes. Phrase imports PDFs, up to 8 images per note, audio files and videos, so slide handouts, whiteboard photos and recorded seminars can become notes too.
Your library is stored on your device, with optional iCloud Sync with Pro. Recordings are uploaded for cloud processing, and AI requests send relevant content to the AI service. Follow your school’s recording policies and ask permission where required.
Free to download for iPhone, iPad and Mac, with an Apple Watch app for recording. Lectures become notes that stay 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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