YostNotes: AI Notes & Audio
Rick Yost Productivity iPhoneiPadiPod touch
YostNotes: AI Notes & Audio is a free Productivity app for iPhone and iPad by Rick Yost. Requires iOS 18.6. Updated October 10, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 6 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 10
- 2026 · v2.9
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About YostNotes: AI Notes & Audio
Record the lecture. Get the notes. YostNotes records your classes, meetings, and calls, then writes them up for you: a full transcript, a summary of what actually mattered, and flashcards to study from. You listen. It writes. HOW IT WORKS 1. Tap record, then put your phone down and pay attention. 2. YostNotes transcribes every word, with speakers labelled. 3. You get a summary, the key terms, and a set of flashcards. Or skip the recording entirely. Paste or type any text and get the same summary back. WHAT YOU GET Full transcripts Every word, timestamped. Tap any line to jump straight to that moment in the audio. Long-press a line to fix it, and name a speaker once to update every line they said. Summaries that hold up An overview, the decisions, the action items, and the key terms. The parts you would have written down yourself if you had not been busy listening. Flashcards, generated One conversation becomes a study set. Review what was said instead of rereading it. A library you can search Folders, filters, and search across every note you have made. Find the meeting from three weeks ago without remembering when it happened. Photos alongside your notes Capture the whiteboard or the slide. It stays with the note it belongs to, and it travels with the summary when you share or export. Finishes without you Stop a recording and lock your phone. Transcribing and summarising carry on in the background, and YostNotes tells you when the note is ready. BUILT FOR Students recording lectures who would rather listen than type Professionals in back-to-back meetings who need the decisions and the action items Researchers running interviews who need an accurate record Anyone who thinks out loud and wants it written down PRIVACY CloudSync is end-to-end encrypted with a passphrase only you know. Your notes are encrypted on your device before they leave it, so we can never read them. We do not train on your data. POWERED BY CLAUDE Summaries, key terms, and flashcards are generated using Anthropic's Claude models. You stay the author and you stay in control. ALSO INCLUDED Markdown formatting, PDF export, sharing, and dark mode throughout. WHAT USERS SAY "I finally have one place for everything. My second brain feels real now." "Voice capture during walks changed how I work. Ideas land in YostNotes before I forget them." "Search alone is worth the price. I find old notes in seconds." PRICING Free to try. A subscription adds recording minutes, advanced AI features, and encrypted CloudSync. Monthly or yearly billing. Questions or feedback? We read everything and ship fast. Reach us at [email protected]. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
What’s new
Version 2.9 · Updated October 10, 2026
Version 2.9 takes notes in the language you speak. Record in Your Language YostNotes now detects the language being spoken and transcribes it in that language. Until now, every recording was transcribed as English. German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Japanese, Mandarin, Hindi, Arabic, and eight more run on our most accurate transcription model, and dozens of other languages are covered too. There is nothing to set: just record. Notes in the Same Language Summaries, key terms, flashcards, and folder summaries now come back in the language of what you recorded or imported. A German lecture gives you German notes, and the same goes for documents, web pages, and pasted text. Ask the chat for a correction in your own language and it answers in kind. The app's menus stay in English for now. Sharper Summaries Summaries, flashcards, and speaker naming now run on Claude Sonnet 5.5, Anthropic's newest Sonnet model. Questions or feedback? We read everything and ship fast. Reach us at [email protected].
App privacy
The developer, Rick Yost, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Purchases: Purchase History
- Contact Info: Email Address, Name
- User Content: Photos or Videos, Customer Support, Other User Content
- Identifiers: User ID
Used for: App Functionality
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- User Content: Audio Data
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
Used for: App Functionality
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