LocalScribe — AI Meeting Notes
Jon Briggs Productivity iPhoneiPadiPod touch
LocalScribe — AI Meeting Notes is a free Productivity app for iPhone and iPad by Jon Briggs. Requires iOS 26.4. Updated July 5, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 14 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Jul 5
- 2026 · v1.3
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About LocalScribe — AI Meeting Notes
LocalScribe turns conversations into structured notes — privately. Record any meeting, lecture, interview, or thought. LocalScribe transcribes it and writes a clean, organized summary with sections, decisions, and action items. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT. The free tier runs 100% on your device — audio, transcription, summaries, and chat all stay on the Neural Engine using Apple's iOS 26 speech engine and Apple Intelligence. No accounts, no analytics, no upload. PREMIUM — TWO TIERS. For top accuracy in noisy rooms and tough accents, Premium adds cloud transcription (Deepgram Nova-3) and richer summaries (Claude Opus 4.8, with GPT-4o for everyday formats): • Starter — $14.99/month, 10 hours of cloud features • Pro — $34.99/month, 30 hours of cloud features On Premium, audio is sent to Deepgram for transcription and the transcript text is sent to Anthropic (and, for some formats, OpenAI) for the summary — none of these providers train on your data. Want a sensitive recording to stay fully on-device? Flip the per-recording "No-Cloud" toggle and it never leaves your phone. MANY SUMMARY STYLES — pick what fits your recording: • Clean Summary, Meeting Minutes, Executive Summary • Action-Item Summary, Decision Log, Follow-Up Email Draft • Q&A Format, Speaker-Labeled summaries, Timeline Notes • Study Notes and Flashcards (for students) • Clinical and behavioral-health note formats (drafts for licensed clinicians to review) • Word-for-Word Verbatim — plus templates for sales, legal, healthcare, teaching, and research. 20 LANGUAGES — English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Turkish, Polish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Thai, Swedish. CHAT WITH YOUR RECORDINGS. Ask "what did Sarah decide about the deadline?" — the AI reads the transcript and answers. SPEAKER LABELS. LocalScribe works out who's speaking and lets you tap a label to assign real names — corrected everywhere at once. REFERENCES & DIAGRAMS. Tap "Add References" and LocalScribe surfaces verified Wikipedia links for the things your recording mentioned, plus timeline and process diagrams drawn from the summary. CALENDAR INTEGRATION. See your upcoming meetings; tap one to start a recording auto-tagged with the title and attendees. EXPORT ANYWHERE. Share as Markdown, formatted PDF, editable Word (.rtf), or plain text. AirPrint supported. PDFs auto-mirror to iCloud Drive. WORKS ACROSS YOUR DEVICES. iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with an Apple Watch remote to start and stop recordings from your wrist. Recordings sync via iCloud, end-to-end encrypted by Apple. PRIVACY PROMISE: • Free tier: recording, transcription, summaries, and chat are always on-device. • Premium cloud features: audio is sent to Deepgram for transcription; transcript text is sent to Anthropic (Claude) and, for some summary formats, OpenAI (GPT-4o). None of these providers train on your data. The per-recording No-Cloud toggle keeps any recording fully on-device. • No analytics SDKs. No ads. No data brokers. No accounts. Free tier: 5 recordings per month, or 60 minutes of audio — whichever comes first. Resets on the 1st of each month. Premium: Starter $14.99/month (10 hours of cloud features) or Pro $34.99/month (30 hours). Cancel anytime through iOS Settings. Perfect for lawyers, therapists, clinicians, real-estate agents, sales teams, students, journalists, and researchers. Requires iOS 26. AI summaries and chat require a device that supports Apple Intelligence; recording and transcription work on any iOS 26 device. Terms of Use (EULA): https://localscribe.net/terms Privacy Policy: https://localscribe.net/privacy
What’s new
Version 1.3 · Updated July 5, 2026
This update fixes a batch of reliability issues: • Speaker names you type in "Who's speaking?" are now used in your summaries • Recordings marked "No Cloud" truly stay on-device everywhere • Deleting a recording now fully removes its audio and search data • Cloud transcription and summaries no longer fail when the screen locks • Chat and "Ask LocalScribe" work on longer recordings • Fixed transcript and summary issues for non-English recordings • Speaker-detection, tone analysis, and various stability fixes
App privacy
The developer, Jon Briggs, 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:
- User Content: Other User Content
Used for: App Functionality
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