VivaDicta - Speech to Text
Anton Novoselov Productivity iPhoneiPadiPod touchApple Watch
VivaDicta - Speech to Text is a free Productivity app for iPhone and iPad by Anton Novoselov. Rated 4.9/5 from 20 ratings. Requires iOS 18.0.
- Rating
- 4.9
- 20 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 113 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Sep 14
- 2026 · v3.11.0
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About VivaDicta - Speech to Text
Dictate Anywhere You Type Type 4x faster with your voice. Just speak, and AI turns your words into polished, ready-to-send text. Completely free. WORKS EVERYWHERE YOU TYPE One keyboard for all your apps. Dictate into Messages, WhatsApp, Email, Notion, or anywhere else - no app switching required. Your voice becomes text instantly. Swipe to switch between modes right from the keyboard. AI THAT PROCESSES YOUR SPEECH Raw transcriptions become polished text automatically. AI removes filler words, fixes punctuation, and formats everything perfectly. Use your clipboard or selected text as additional context. RUN AI ON YOUR DEVICE Process your text with AI that runs entirely on your device. VivaDicta recommends Apple Foundation Model on devices that support Apple Intelligence. If yours doesn't, including many devices on iOS 18, you can use other on-device AI models, fully offline. No API key, no internet, nothing leaving your device. KEYBOARD AI PROCESSING Select text or place your cursor, then pick an AI preset - translate, rewrite, summarize, and more. Works in any app, right from the keyboard. COMPLETELY FREE, NO EXCEPTIONS No subscriptions, no paywalls, no limits. On-device AI, custom keyboard, unlimited transcriptions - all free. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your voice never leaves your iPhone: - All transcription runs on your device - AI processing can run on-device with Apple Foundation Model or a downloadable model - Zero telemetry or tracking - No accounts or sign-ups required - Works in airplane mode Cloud AI is optional and always under your control. AI PRESETS 40+ built-in presets - rewrite, summarize, translate, and more. Create custom presets and mark favorites for quick access. SPEAKER LABELS Speaker-separated transcripts for meetings, interviews, and group chats - clear who said what. VIVA MODES Switch between AI-powered modes, each with its own AI settings. With Soniox, Gladia, or Speechmatics, transcripts can come back already translated. LIVE TRANSLATION Speak in one language and hear it back in another, in real time. Pick source and target, play it through your headphones, and adjust playback speed. 60+ languages, any-to-any. CHAT WITH YOUR NOTES Ask questions about one note, many, or across your entire library. Surface insights, action items, and key points. SMART AI SEARCH Find notes by meaning, not just keywords. Ask "what did I say about the pricing idea?" Fully on-device. REMINDERS AND EVENTS Turn notes into reminders and calendar events in the original language. Review and send approved items to Apple Reminders and Calendar. APPLE WATCH APP Record voice notes from your wrist. Tap and talk - they're transcribed on iPhone in the background. FULLY CUSTOMIZABLE - 16 AI transcription providers (local and cloud) - 20+ AI processing providers, including on-device models - Bring your own AI via any compatible API - Personal dictionary, word replacements, and custom tags - Save transcriptions to Obsidian automatically - Auto export to a folder of your choice KEY FEATURES - System-wide Voice keyboard with AI text processing - On-device Whisper and NVIDIA Parakeet - professional-grade transcription - Records through AirPods and Bluetooth headsets - On-device AI - Apple Foundation Model or a downloadable model you run offline - Live Translation - real-time speech-to-speech across 60+ languages - Chat with AI about one note or many, with Smart AI Search - Reminders and calendar events from your notes - iCloud sync across iPhone, Apple Watch, and Mac - Home screen widgets and Siri Shortcuts integration - Multi-language keyboard: Czech, French, German, Spanish, Russian - 100+ languages with auto-detection - Open source on GitHub PERFECT FOR - Quick messages and emails - Meeting notes and lectures - Voice memos and ideas - Journalists and writers - Developers and students - Anyone who thinks faster than they type Download VivaDicta. Your voice. Your words. Your device. Your privacy.
Ratings & reviews
4.9
20 ratings
What’s new
Version 3.11.0 · Updated September 14, 2026
Speaker labels now belong to the recording, not to the app. VivaDicta 3.11.0 makes speaker labels a per-mode setting and gets you back to more of the apps you dictate from. Speaker Labels Per Mode Speaker labels used to be one switch for the whole app, so a meeting and a quick note had to agree. Each mode now carries its own setting: a Meeting mode can label who said what while a Note mode returns clean prose from the same provider, with no trip to Settings in between. Your current setting carries over to every mode, so nothing changes until you want it to. Back to 19 More Apps Dictate from the keyboard and VivaDicta returns you to 19 more apps than before. Another 16 apps that publish no way back are now recognized as such, so instead of trying and failing they take you straight to the manual return with your recording already running. Apps That Lose Your Place Safari, Messages and Claude open a new tab, a new chat or a blank new message when VivaDicta sends you back, which is not where you were typing. A new Advanced setting, Skip Apps That Lose Your Place, asks you to swipe back for just those apps instead. Swiping back returns you exactly where you were. It is off by default, so the automatic return stays the same unless you turn it on. Quality of Life Cleaner endings: the filter that removes the phantom phrases speech models produce during silence had become slightly too eager in 3.10.1 and could trim a short real phrase off the end of a transcript. The keyboard session timeout now offers 30 seconds or 1 minute, instead of five options that mostly existed for testing. Two models moved on: Groq's qwen3.6-27b rate-limited every request it was given, and Cerebras retired gemma-4-31b, so anyone using either is carried forward automatically. The top-ten model list on the AI Providers screen has been remeasured, with Gemini's gemini-3.5-flash-lite entering at rank 10.
App privacy
The developer, Anton Novoselov, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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|---|---|---|---|
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