The idea on a walk, the draft in the car, the thing you must not forget: record it from your iPhone, your Apple Watch or Control Center. Phrase turns the memo into a clear, searchable note, with your voice still attached.
Start from Control Center, the Lock Screen or your wrist. No hunting for an app while the idea fades.
A title, a summary and an organized body. The “um”s stay in the audio, where they belong.
It’s a real note in a real editor: rearrange blocks, add to-dos, keep building on it.
Turn action items into Reminders or a drafted message, each one after you approve it.
Ideas don’t wait for the right screen. Phrase records from the app, from the Control Center and Lock Screen controls, and from Apple Watch, and every recording lands in the same searchable library.
You spoke in circles; the note comes back straight. You can follow its progress, and what arrives is an organized note you can edit, never a half-finished one. Your exact words stay one tap away in the original audio.
“Remind me to call the venue” shouldn’t take three apps. The assistant reads the memo’s note and can prepare a reminder for you to confirm, or a message for you to review and send.
Find, copy, and check an available transcript before choosing your next step.
Follow the device, language, and audio checks if the transcript is unavailable.
Voice Memos matches transcript text as well as titles. See what each search field reaches, and what it misses.
Watch recordings arrive under a separate Watch Recordings item, not in the main list.
Voice Memos needs its iCloud switch on for each device and one Apple Account on both. Check those first.
Voice Memos gives you an audio file, and on recent iOS versions a transcript. Phrase treats the memo as source material: it becomes an editable note with a summary, stays searchable across your library, and can turn into reminders, drafts, outlines or study tools. The original audio stays attached.
Yes. Save the recording to Files from Voice Memos or any other app, then import it into Phrase. It becomes a note with a transcript and a summary.
More than 100. Phrase detects the language on its own, even when a memo switches language partway through. Search works in Chinese, Japanese and Korean notes too, so those memos stay findable.
Yes. The note can include to-dos, and the assistant can add action items to Reminders or draft a message from the memo, asking first where an action needs it. You send any email or message yourself.
Free to download for iPhone, iPad and Mac, with an Apple Watch app for recording. Memos 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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