MacWhisper for iOS

MacWhisper for iOS runs OpenAI's Whisper locally, so audio stays on your iPhone or iPad while it's being transcribed. You pick the model size yourself, trading speed for accuracy depending on how clean the recording is. The trade-off is hardware: on-device transcription needs an iPhone 13 or newer, or an iPad with an M-series chip.

You don't have to open the app to start a job. The share extension lets you send a voice memo or audio file from Messages, WhatsApp or the Files app straight into Whisper Transcription. You can also hit record and capture new audio in the app, then transcribe it as soon as you stop.

When you download a local model, the iPhone voice to text pipeline runs entirely on the device. That means an offline transcription session works in airplane mode, on a plane or in a basement with no signal. It's the feature that separates this AI transcription app from the browser tab you'd otherwise leave open.

A long recording is hard to skim, so the app generates an AI summary that pulls out the main points. You can also chat with a transcript and ask what was decided or who said what, which saves replaying an hour of audio to find one answer.

Whisper Transcription handles more than 100 languages, and it can auto-detect the one being spoken. That covers the usual suspects like English, Spanish, Japanese and Chinese as well as smaller ones, which matters if you work across borders or transcribe material that isn't in your native tongue.

Every transcript lands in an editor where you can correct names, cut filler and restructure text. Search scans the whole transcript, so you can jump to a phrase instead of scrolling through pages of raw speech.

The app connects to a range of AI providers, and you can bring your own API key to unlock summaries and chat without a subscription. If you'd rather not manage keys, the Assistant subscription bundles cloud transcription, translation and AI chat into one plan.