Voice-to-text on iPhone that never leaves the phone
Whittle writes down what you say while you say it, entirely on your iPhone or iPad. When you stop, it gives the note a title and a tidy version in your own words, with the exact transcript kept underneath. No account, no servers, no subscription.
How it works
Tap record and talk. The words land on the page as you speak, straight from Apple's on-device speech engine: a fast transcriber for the screen and an accurate one for the saved note. Recordings of any length are written out in full. A phone call or Siri pauses the recording, and switching headphones keeps it going.
When you stop, Apple Intelligence writes a title, suggests tags and tidies the notes without the ums and false starts. Flip between the tidy Notes and the exact Transcript any time. Tap any sentence to hear it, and tap a word to fix it.
Why on-device matters for transcription
A voice note is often the most private thing on a phone: a half-formed plan, a meeting, a diary entry. Whittle never sends the audio anywhere to be transcribed, so there is nothing to upload, nothing to store on someone else's server, and nothing to leak. It also means it works on a plane or in a basement with no signal.
What else it does
- Notebooks and tags for Work, Home, Ideas, or whatever you name them.
- Search every word, across titles, notes, translations and transcripts.
- With Apple Intelligence, Rewrite a note as an email, a message or meeting minutes, and Ask your notes a question.
- Translation of a finished note, on-device, with the original a tap away.
- Start recording from a widget, Control Center, the Lock Screen, the Action button, Siri or the Apple Watch app.
- Export as text, Markdown, PDF or audio, or keep a folder of Markdown files up to date.
- Recently Deleted keeps a removed note for 30 days.
Pay once
Your first 25 notes get every feature. After that, Whittle Pro is $9.99 once: no subscription, all future features included. Read the help pages or the privacy policy.
Questions
- Does Whittle work without an internet connection?
- Yes. The transcript is written by Apple's on-device speech engine, and the title and tidy notes by Apple Intelligence on the device. The language pack downloads once ahead of time; after that, recording and transcribing need no connection.
- Is my voice uploaded anywhere?
- No. Audio and text stay on your iPhone or iPad. If you use iCloud, note text syncs through your own private iCloud, and recordings sync only if you turn on Sync recordings with iCloud. Whittle has no account and no servers.
- How much does Whittle cost?
- Every feature is free for your first 25 notes. Whittle Pro removes the cap for $9.99, once. There is no subscription, and Pro covers your family through Family Sharing.
- Which iPhones does it run on?
- Any iPhone or iPad with iOS 26 or iPadOS 26. The live transcript, notebooks, translation, search and sync work on all of them. Tidy notes, titles, tags, Rewrite and Ask your notes need Apple Intelligence (iPhone 15 Pro or later); without it, notes are titled from their first words.
- Which languages can it transcribe?
- Every language Apple's speech engine transcribes in its own script. The title and notes come back in the language you spoke, and a finished note can be translated on-device.
- Can it transcribe an existing recording?
- Yes. Import an audio file, or choose Save to Whittle in the share sheet from Voice Memos, Files or WhatsApp. Whittle writes it out in full, with the transcript synced to the audio so a tap on any sentence plays from there. Recordings from the Apple Watch app are sent to the iPhone and transcribed there too.