High-quality on-device transcription. Easily convert speech to text from meetings, lectures, and more. The transcription is powered by OpenAI's Whisper running locally on your device. Nothing leaves your device. You can export the transcription as subtitles too. It has a word-replacement feature to let you automatically fix common mistakes. Aiko favors accuracy over speed. It does not do live transcription while recording. It does not currently have speaker detection. Try the trial first. See website. Note: Sharing from Voice Memos on iOS 26 does not work because of a iOS 26 bug outside of my control. Supports audio in 100 different languages: Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Azerbaijani, Bangla, Bashkir, Basque, Belarusian, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Latin, Latvian, Lingala, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Marathi, Mongolian, Māori, Nepali, Norwegian, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Sanskrit, Serbian, Shona, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish, Yoruba The app was made possible thanks to Whisper by OpenAI and whisper.cpp by Georgi Gerganov. ■ FAQ ‣ Can I edit the text in the app? I don't plan to support any editing. Export the transcription and edit it in a proper text editor. ‣ Why is the app so large? The app delivers the highest quality transcription on the market for 100 different languages. Rather than asking why it's so large, the real question is how is it so small. ‣ Why is the transcription so slow? The app favors accuracy over speed. However, performance is expected to improve in the coming months. ‣ Why must I keep the iOS app open while it transcribes? iOS apps are fundamentally restricted from operating in the background for extended periods. ‣ Can I delete some of the languages to save space? This is unfortunately not possible. The model has all the languages stored together in a way that makes it impossible to remove just some languages. More FAQs on the website. ■ Technical details The app uses the Whisper medium or small model on iOS depending on available memory and the large v3 model on macOS. ■ Privacy The transcription is done locally on your device. Nothing leaves your device. ■ Support You can contact me through the feedback button in the app.
| Size | 1.7 GB |
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| Initial release | |
| Price | $24.00 |
| Platforms | Mac, iPhone, Apple Vision, and iPad |
| Languages | English |
| Category | Productivity |
| Website | sindresorhus.com/aiko |
| Compatibility | |
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| iPhone | Requires iOS 26.0 or later and a device with the A12 Bionic chip or later. • iPhone XS • iPhone XS Max • iPhone XR • iPhone 11 • iPhone 11 Pro • iPhone 11 Pro Max • iPhone SE (2nd generation) • iPhone 12 mini • iPhone 12 • iPhone 12 Pro • iPhone 12 Pro Max • iPhone 13 Pro • iPhone 13 Pro Max • iPhone 13 mini • iPhone 13 • iPhone SE (3rd generation) • iPhone 14 • iPhone 14 Plus • iPhone 14 Pro • iPhone 14 Pro Max • iPhone 15 • iPhone 15 Plus • iPhone 15 Pro • iPhone 15 Pro Max • iPhone 16 • iPhone 16 Plus • iPhone 16 Pro • iPhone 16 Pro Max • iPhone 16e • iPhone 17 Pro • iPhone 17 Pro Max • iPhone 17 • iPhone Air • iPhone 17e • iPhone 18 Pro • iPhone 18 Pro Max • iPhone Duo |
| iPad | Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later and a device with the A12 Bionic chip or later. • iPad Pro (11‑inch) • iPad Pro (11‑inch) Wi‑Fi + Cellular • iPad Pro (12.9‑inch) (3rd generation) • iPad Pro (12.9‑inch) (3rd generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular • iPad mini (5th generation) • iPad mini (5th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular • iPad Air (3rd generation) • iPad Air (3rd generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular • iPad Pro (11‑inch) (2nd generation) • iPad Pro (11‑inch) (2nd generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular • iPad Pro (12.9‑inch) (4th generation) • iPad Pro (12.9‑inch) (4th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular • iPad Air (4th generation) • iPad Air (4th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular • iPad (8th generation) • iPad (8th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular • iPad Pro (11-inch) (3rd generation) • iPad Pro (11-inch) (3rd generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular • iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (5th generation) • iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (5th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular • iPad mini (6th generation) • iPad mini (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular • iPad (9th generation) • iPad (9th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular • iPad Air (5th generation) • iPad Air (5th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular • iPad (10th generation) • iPad (10th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular • iPad Pro (11‑inch) (4th generation) • iPad Pro (11‑inch) (4th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular • iPad Pro (12.9‑inch) (6th generation) • iPad Pro (12.9‑inch) (6th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular • iPad Air 11-inch (M2) • iPad Air 11-inch (M2) Wi-Fi + Cellular • iPad Air 13-inch (M2) • iPad Air 13-inch (M2) Wi-Fi + Cellular • iPad Pro 11-inch (M4) • iPad Pro 11-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular • iPad Pro 13-inch (M4) • iPad Pro 13-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular • iPad mini (A17 Pro) • iPad mini (A17 Pro) Wi-Fi + Cellular • iPad (A16) • iPad (A16) Wi-Fi + Cellular • iPad Air 11-inch (M3) • iPad Air 11-inch (M3) Wi-Fi + Cellular • iPad Air 13-inch (M3) • iPad Air 13-inch (M3) Wi-Fi + Cellular • iPad Pro 11-inch (M5) • iPad Pro 11-inch (M5) Wi-Fi + Cellular • iPad Pro 13-inch (M5) • iPad Pro 13-inch (M5) Wi-Fi + Cellular • iPad Air 11-inch (M4) • iPad Air 11-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular • iPad Air 13-inch (M4) • iPad Air 13-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular |
App's data is regularly updated.
Last update:
| Mac | Requires macOS 26.0 or later. |
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| Apple Vision | Requires visionOS 2.0 or later and a device with the A12 Bionic chip or later. |
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- The app now requires iOS 26. - Improved performance.
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