HARKNOTE

On-device. Recording, transcription, speaker ID, summaries and Ask all run locally. Nothing is sent off your device for processing. Naming other people's voices from saved profiles is off until you turn it on.

No account. No sign-up, no profile, no cloud login. It just works.

No tracking. No analytics, no telemetry, no ads, no tracking SDKs.

Works offline. Once model assets are installed, recording and transcription do not need a cloud service.

Your choice of engine. NVIDIA Parakeet v3 or Whisper on both platforms, and you can transcribe a finished recording again with a different model. On iPhone, Parakeet transcribes 25 European languages and works out which one it’s hearing on its own; Whisper’s Large model is multilingual, its Base and Small models are English-only. On Android, Parakeet is the recommended default and covers the seven languages the app ships in; Whisper Tiny and Base are English-only. The app itself speaks English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch and Portuguese on both.

Summaries and Ask. A title, key points, decisions and action items after every session, plus a chat about what was said. Apple’s on-device model on iPhones with Apple Intelligence; Gemma 4 or Qwen3.5 through LiteRT-LM on Android phones that can run them; a built-in deterministic engine everywhere else.

Long meetings, safely. Speaker labels finish for hour-plus meetings, and a job interrupted by a crash or a closed app picks up where it left off instead of starting over.

Bring in what you already have. Find Recordings imports audio you recorded elsewhere. On iPhone, pick files from Files or iCloud Drive, or share from Voice Memos. On Android, HarkNote finds the voice recordings already on your phone, such as Voice Recorder clips, call recordings and voice notes. They transcribe on your device like any other session.

Apple Watch and Wear OS. Record on your wrist with no phone nearby and no internet. Sessions transfer to your phone when it’s back in range and are transcribed there. Audio goes to your own phone, never to us.

Big screens and foldables. On iPhone Duo, iPad, Galaxy Z Fold, Pixel Fold and tablets, the recording screen puts its controls beside the live preview, and Ask keeps the transcript beside the conversation. Fold or unfold mid-session and HarkNote keeps your place.

Meetings and exports. Optional read-only calendar access links a recording to its meeting. Share a transcript as text or SRT captions, or turn on Auto-export and every finished transcript and summary is written to a folder you choose.

Your originals, your rules. Original audio is kept until you delete it. Choose automatic deletion if you prefer, which only ever removes audio after its transcript is ready, and keep any single session’s original either way. Pick which microphone records; the recording screen shows the input it is really using.

Yours to keep. On iPhone, private Apple iCloud storage can keep your app database available on your own devices, and audio sync is your choice. On Android, everything stays in the app’s private storage unless you choose an export folder. Delete sessions anytime.

iPhone Duo: HarkNote adapts as you fold and unfold. The session you have open, and the save confirmation after a recording, stay on screen as the display changes.

Wide screens: unfolded on iPhone Duo, or on iPad, the recording screen shows its controls beside the live preview, and Ask keeps the transcript beside the conversation.

Foldables and tablets: on a Galaxy Z Fold, a Pixel Fold or a tablet, the recording screen shows its controls beside the live preview, and Ask keeps the transcript beside the conversation.

Nothing for us to hold. There is no HarkNote account and no server for your recordings, transcripts or voice profiles, so there is no copy of them anywhere but your own devices. The App Store privacy label reads Data Not Collected.

Other people’s voices stay anonymous. HarkNote can learn your own voice to label what you said. Naming anyone else from a saved voice profile is off until you switch it on, and a note explains what it does first.

Recording is never hidden. While HarkNote records, the system microphone indicator shows, along with HarkNote’s Live Activity on iPhone or its notification on Android.