HarkNote
Christopher Knuteson Productivity iPhoneiPadiPod touchApple Watch
HarkNote is a paid Productivity app for iPhone and iPad by Christopher Knuteson. Rated 5.0/5 from 1 ratings. Requires iOS 17.0. Updated October 19, 2026.
- Rating
- 5.0
- 1 ratings
- Price
- 4.99 USD
- on the App Store
- Size
- 28 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 19
- 2026 · v1.2.5
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About HarkNote
HarkNote is a private voice recorder and meeting transcription app. Recording, transcription, speaker labels and summaries all run on your iPhone. There is no account, no sign-in, no analytics and no cloud. Your audio and your notes never leave the device unless you share them yourself. WHAT IT DOES • Record meetings, interviews, lectures and voice notes, or import audio from the share sheet • Transcribe offline with NVIDIA Parakeet or Whisper, running on your iPhone • Speaker labels tell who said what, and finish even for two and three hour meetings • Summaries, key points, action items and decisions with Apple Intelligence on supported iPhones, with an honest fallback when it is not available • Ask questions about a recording and get answers from the transcript, on device • Transcribe a finished recording again with a different model whenever the audio is still on your iPhone • Apple Watch companion: record on your wrist and hand the audio to your iPhone, with an optional live preview while you speak • Calendar-aware: see today's meetings and start a recording from the list • Control Center and Live Activity controls so a recording is one tap away PRIVATE BY DEFAULT • No account, no telemetry, nothing phones home • Your recordings stay in your own iCloud Drive and your notes in your private iCloud database, never on our servers • A save receipt tells you exactly when a note is safely stored, so you can put the phone away BUILT FOR LONG SESSIONS Hour-long meetings are normal. If the app is closed mid-way, processing picks up where it left off instead of starting over, and the card tells you how long it has been running and how long is left. Languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch and Portuguese. HarkNote is a one-time purchase. No subscription.
What’s new
Version 1.2.5 · Updated October 19, 2026
• Find Recordings: bring in recordings you already have. Tap FIND on Sessions, or long-press the HarkNote icon and choose Import Recordings. Pick as many audio files as you like from Files or iCloud Drive, or share them from Voice Memos. They transcribe on your device like any other session, and nothing is uploaded. • Sharing several recordings to HarkNote at once now imports every one of them, not just the first.
App privacy
The developer, Christopher Knuteson, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
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:
- Other Data: Other Data Types
Used for: App Functionality
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