Petal - AI Voice Recorder
Ashok Pokharel Utilities iPhoneiPadiPod touchApple Watch
Petal - AI Voice Recorder is a free Utilities app for iPhone and iPad by Ashok Pokharel. Requires iOS 26.2. Updated October 24, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 31 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 24
- 2026 · v1.4
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About Petal - AI Voice Recorder
Petal turns your iPhone into a powerful, fully private voice recorder with real-time AI transcription. Every word is processed on-device using NVIDIA's Parakeet TDT model — no cloud, no account, no data leaves your phone. Ever. REAL-TIME TRANSCRIPTION, RIGHT ON YOUR DEVICE Speak and watch your words appear instantly. Petal uses a 600-million parameter neural network running entirely on the Apple Neural Engine. No internet connection required. Just fast, accurate speech-to-text that works anywhere. PRIVACY YOU CAN TRUST Unlike other transcription apps that send your audio to remote servers, Petal processes everything locally. No account, no data collection, no third-party access. Your voice stays on your device, period. BUILT FOR YOUR REAL LIFE - Record lectures, meetings, interviews, and personal notes - Get a clean transcript you can copy and share instantly - Pause and resume recordings without losing context - Review your full recording history with audio playback - Works without Wi-Fi, cellular, or any network connection POWERED BY NVIDIA PARAKEET Petal runs NVIDIA's Parakeet TDT 0.6B, a state-of-the-art ASR model compiled for Apple's CoreML. Cloud-quality accuracy with zero-latency, zero-cost, and complete privacy. WHO IS PETAL FOR? - Students recording lectures and study sessions - Professionals capturing meeting notes and action items - Journalists conducting interviews in the field - Writers and creators dictating ideas on the go - Anyone who values privacy and wants a simple, beautiful voice recorder WHAT MAKES PETAL DIFFERENT Most AI transcription apps are thin wrappers around cloud APIs. Petal is different. The entire AI model lives on your phone. No server. No subscription. No compromise on privacy. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
What’s new
Version 1.4 · Updated October 24, 2026
• Your recordings are safe: Petal saves the audio and the live transcript while you record, then finishes transcription in the background. • Smaller files: recordings use about a third of the storage. • Long recordings use less memory and keep your iPhone cooler. • Made for iPhone Duo: a grid for your history and a full-screen transcript, folded or unfolded. • A clearer Petal Pro screen.
App privacy
The developer, Ashok Pokharel, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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