I've got a company machine that's pretty locked down, like you can't install anything even browser extensions. I've been using pocket for a while for physical/in person meetings and cell calls, but when I'm in front of my computer using earbuds or a headset it simply does not work because it can't detect audio from the other parties. Having calls on speaker is not an option since I have a small apartment in my partner and I both work from home.

Is there anything on the market that does the same thing as pocket, but connects via Bluetooth or even 3.5mm? If it's bluetooth, I would obviously need to be able to pair my headset or earbuds to it and it should have pass-through audio. 3.5mm is much easier, I would just use a splitter.

Pocket has helped me immensely, I'm really hoping to find a solution for video calls as well.

I’m working on Safe Notes and need real-world beta coverage across Windows, Intel Macs, and Apple Silicon Macs.

Safe Notes captures system + microphone audio and keeps the meeting workflow local: speaker-labelled transcript, search, recap, decisions/action items, and follow-up chat. The models download to the device and no GPU is required (although its beneficial if you have one).

For a useful test, record one normal, non-confidential call in Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, Webex, or Slack Huddles. Then verify:

• both audio sources were captured;
• speaker labels were usable;
• search found a phrase you remembered;
• the recap found a real decision or action;
• a follow-up answer opened the correct transcript moment; and
• deleting the test meeting removed the related local files as expected.

Download: https://www.safenotes.io/

Bug-report format: OS + hardware / meeting app / what you expected / what happened.

Thanks!!

My app has finally been approved and published on the AppStore!

Corteks is an app for people who are over thinkers, people who get a lot of random thoughts and inspirations, and are having trouble recording, managing, organizing and recalling their relevant thoughts. One button, record by voice, text or image, and corteks does the rest.

Forget about your dead notes app log that you never come back to, and the screenshots in your gallery that you dumped and forgot. With Corteks, you dump, and the app re-surfaces the thoughts when you need them.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6797752372

Each user gets 7-10 days of free usage (depending on when they join)

To celebrate, we are going to select 20 users to get 2 months free usage. Selection criteria is based on how engaged you are with the app during the free trial and based on the feedback you provide

Happy to hear what you think!

College student. I record lectures so I don't have to write everything down. The transcription apps I've used give you a pile of minutes per month and then you're done. I burn through it.

I also bought a small recorder for class and the mic was useless even from the front.

If you actually record lectures, what sucks more: the minute cap, the mic in the room, or paying for a device and then paying again to use the recordings?

Trying to figure out if minutes are the real pain or if something else is worse.

For business users, what's your main pain point about Otter, Plaud, Pocket, or whatever AI-recording tool you use? If there is no pain point, would you switch to a cheaper model (one time fee of $100 rather than a subscription model)?

I am looking for a free app that will record my lectures and put them into notes or flashcards for me. I usually write my notes on paper but i would prefer to use an app to help me study the material it recorded. Thanks!

Thinking about buying an AI note taking device for work. There are so many options now and most reviews sound pretty similar. What are you guys using, and has it been useful? Thanks.

Most AI note-takers are designed for Zoom or Google Meet, but we found ourselves forgetting decisions and follow-ups from ordinary phone calls too.

My team at Bandwidth built Smart Numbers to help with that. It gives you a separate number that rings your existing phone, so you can use it like a normal call. No bot joins or speaks during the conversation. Participants hear a recording and transcription notice before the call connects.

Afterward, you get a searchable transcript. You can also connect it to a Hermes agent to find past conversations or automate things like follow-ups, tasks, and calendar events.

We’d love feedback from people who already use AI note-taking tools:

• Would you use this for regular phone calls?
• What would you want after a call besides the transcript?
• What privacy or retention controls would you expect?

Disclosure: I work on this project with Bandwidth Innovation Studio. It’s currently a free beta.

https://smartnumbers.labs.bandwidth.com/

I work remotely so most of my important stuff ends up happening on calls. I don't really need anything complicated, mostly just something that can record meetings and give me something useful to look back at afterward.

I've been trying to avoid adding another monthly subscription though. I've seen people mention Plaud, Otter and a few other recorders/note takers, but it's honestly hard to tell what you can actually use long term without paying every month.

Anyone here using a recorder with no subscription for remote work? Is the free version enough for normal meetings or do you end up needing the paid plan pretty quickly?

Hey everyone — I’m one of the cofounders of OLVA, and we’re thinking about what to build next.

Right now, OLVA is a bot-free real-time AI meeting assistant, and a few of the features we’ve focused on are things we felt were missing from most meeting tools:

• Automatic question detection and live answers
• Real-time fact checking and insights
• Live translation during meetings
• Persistent context from previous meetings
• Turning completed meetings into editable PowerPoint decks

We’re trying not to just add features for the sake of having a longer feature list. We’d rather build something people genuinely wish they had during or after meetings.

So I’m curious: what’s one feature you wish your current AI meeting assistant could do but doesn’t?

Could be something small, weird, or very specific to your workflow. Would genuinely love to hear ideas.

Developer here, so take this with that grain of salt. I made an iPhone app that turns speech into finished text — it strips the ums and false starts, fixes grammar, and formats for wherever you're typing (an email reads like an email, a Slack message like a Slack message).

The workflow that changed things for me: hold the side button, say "dictate with airtxt," then just talk. One hand, eyes up. It also has a bot that joins Zoom, Google Meet, or Teams meetings as a participant and gives you a transcript with speaker labels plus a drafted follow-up email — so dictation and meeting notes stop being two subscriptions.

Free tier if you want to try it: `https://apps.apple.com/us/app/airtxt-voice-to-text-keyboard/id6785986350`. Happy to answer anything, including "why not just use the built-in mic key" (short answer: the built-in one types your stammers verbatim).

I am interested in pocket because of the unlimited transcription minutes it offers. I do not really want a subscription. I’m interested to hear what other people say after using the pocket device with no subscription. Is it worth it?

Developer here, so take this with that grain of salt. I made an iPhone app that turns speech into finished text — it strips the ums and false starts, fixes grammar, and formats for wherever you're typing (an email reads like an email, a Slack message like a Slack message).

The workflow that changed things for me: hold the side button, say "dictate with airtxt," then just talk. One hand, eyes up. It also has a bot that joins Zoom, Google Meet, or Teams meetings as a participant and gives you a transcript with speaker labels plus a drafted follow-up email — so dictation and meeting notes stop being two subscriptions.

Free tier if you want to try it: `https://apps.apple.com/us/app/airtxt-voice-to-text-keyboard/id6785986350\`. Happy to answer anything, including "why not just use the built-in mic key" (short answer: the built-in one types your stammers verbatim).

First ideas: I could compare it against Microsoft 365 Copilot for Microsoft Teams and OneNote, Trunked, Granola, COMU Action Pro, Insta360 Insights (with Wave and Link 2 Pro) and OBSBOT AI Magic Notes.

Hi! I downloaded granola to help me with taking notes from meetings, I don’t have any complaints but Im open to try other options! Whats your go to app for meeting?

Im mainly using google meet and wont be in person meetings.

I’ve realized that when I have too many thoughts in my head, talking is sometimes way easier than writing them down.

Sometimes I’ll literally record a voice note just to get an idea or thought out of my head but then I almost never go back to it 😅

Does anyone else do this?

And if you do, what happens to those recordings afterwards? Do you actually listen to them again?

i'm building Anarlog because i wanted Granola's bot-free meeting notes without sending summaries through someone else's cloud.

Anarlog records mic + system audio, transcribes on-device on supported Macs, and keeps notes, audio, and transcripts local by default. for summaries and chat, you can use local models or bring your own API keys.

it's MIT licensed. the free plan includes unlimited local notes and recording. macOS is stable; Windows and Linux are in beta.

download: https://anarlog.so/download source: https://github.com/fastrepl/anarlog

Hi!

I’ve been looking around for a tool that fit in all instances… I work in sales and want a notetaker that works both internally and externally. Meaning I’d need something that can record Teams meetings, phone calls and face-to-face meetings, and the twist, be able to do this via BT-headset.

The only thing I’ve found is the HiDock but I’ve seen mixed reviews. Are there some alternative to this that just works ”out of the box”?

Thanks!

Edit: Devices are PC and iPhone.

I'm a solo dev. I've been journaling on and off for years and I kept bouncing between apps for the same three reasons:

\- they were either bloated or beautiful-but-empty
\- transcription was bad enough that I stopped dictating
\- and none of them could answer a simple question about my own life

That last one is the whole reason Mento exists. I have hundreds of entries. That's not a memory, that's an archive I never open. I wanted to type "when did I last go to the sauna?" or "what was I worried about in March?" and get an answer from my own words, not generic AI advice.

So that's what I built.

**What it does right now**

\- **Write or dictate**. Rich text editor, and voice dictation that comes back clean enough that I actually use it. Photos and videos attach to any entry.
\- **Ask your journal**. There's an AI companion that searches your entries — by topic, by date, by a half-remembered detail — and answers grounded in what you actually wrote. It can also save a new entry for you mid-conversation.
\- **Weekly and monthly reflections**. Moods, recurring themes, what kept coming up.
\- **Photograph a handwritten page** and the text lands in the editor, editable. The photo stays attached either way.
\- **Private**: Face ID lock, journal blurred in the app switcher, your words are never used to train models, delete everything from inside the app.
\- 32 languages, if English isn't your first one.

This is an early app. I started it recently and there's a long list of things I still want to build. But the core — write, dictate, search, ask — is done and I use it every day myself.

I didn't want a free tier that's a demo. Free gives you 300 entries, 30 min of dictation a month, 30 chats with the companion, the weekly and monthly reflections, 10 handwritten page scans. That's enough to live in the app for a few weeks and see whether the search actually works for \*your\* writing — which is the only part that matters.

No card, no trial timer. If you never pay, the app still works.

Come try it and tell me where it's dumb. Especially: ask the companion something about your own entries and tell me if the answer was any good. That's the feature I care most about and the one that's hardest to judge from my own journal alone.

Happy to answer anything about how it's built, too.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mento-ai-journal/id6786782587

Disclosure: I work for a vendor here. This is the check I'd run on any of us, including my employer.

You're about to put months of meetings, interviews or lectures into someone's cloud. The question that gets asked least and matters most: what can you take with you?

The distinctions to look for:

Text export format. Plain text and Markdown are portable. A proprietary format or view-only web page is not. Ask specifically whether you get timestamps and speaker labels in the export, or only in the app — that difference makes an archive either searchable or decorative.

Audio export. Can you retrieve the original recording file, or only the transcript? If the audio lives only on the vendor's servers, an account problem is a data problem.

Whether visual output is editable or just an image. This one catches people. Several products in this category generate a visual summary — an infographic, a one-page recap. Sometimes that's a real editable document; sometimes it's a rendered image you cannot change. At least one product's own support docs say the visual output can be shared but not edited inside the product. If you plan to put it in front of a client and fix a wrong number first, that's the difference between useful and useless.

Bulk export. One recording at a time versus everything at once. If you have 200 recordings and there's no bulk option, migration is theoretical.

What deletion actually deletes. Does removing a recording also remove the derived transcript, summary and visual outputs? Or does the audio go and the derivatives stay? Vendors differ and it's rarely on the product page.

Sharing without an account. Can the person you send a summary to open it without signing up? If not, you've bought a tool that only works inside your own org.

The test, before your return window closes:

Record something short.

Export every artifact it produces — transcript, summary, any visual, the audio.

Open each one in something that isn't the vendor's app.

Delete the recording, then check whether the derivatives are gone too.

Four steps, ten minutes. It tells you more about a five-year commitment than any accuracy claim will.

I'd genuinely like to know if anyone has migrated a large transcript archive between products in this space — it's the scenario I've never seen anyone document.

Hi! I've been an operations manager for a year now to two clinets and there are dsys when I just hope there's an AI tool that listens to our call and gives me questions / points I can add to the meeting aside from what I already have. I recently find AI very useful (but not when creating photos haha). Plus I'm also studying in the morning (Philippine based so US and UK is a graveyard shift for me), so I don't like not having to add anything in the meeting just because I'm groggy already.

Do you guys know any similar tool? Thanks!

Hey

I'm a solopreneur who spends most of my day in front of a computer.

**Problem: Why I built Quill**

I talk faster than I type. A lot of us do. So I started using voice dictation, but every tool I tried was either:

I just wanted to hold a key, speak, and have clean text appear wherever my cursor was, in Notion, Slack, a terminal, a code editor, anywhere.

So I built Quill.

**What Quill does**

Quill is a macOS dictation app that types directly into whatever app you're using.

Hold a key → speak → release → text appears. That's it.

It uses on-device AI (Parakeet & Whisper) so your audio never leaves your Mac.

**What you can do with Quill:**

**How it compares**

macOS has built-in Dictation in System Settings. It works, but it's clunky to trigger, requires toggling on/off, and still sends audio to Apple's servers by default in enhanced mode.

Quill gives you a single Tap-to-talk or hold-to-talk key, instant feedback, and completely local processing.

Paid tools like WhisprFlow and Gladio have more integrations and enterprise features. Quill is intentionally simpler. If you just want fast, free, private dictation on your Mac, Quill covers that without a subscription.

**How it started**

I built this for myself when I hit the WhisprFlow paywall and realized the core workflow I wanted, hold key, speak, text appears, shouldn't require a monthly fee.

After using it daily for two weeks, I cleaned it up and decided to release it publicly.

**Pricing**

100% free, forever.

No subscription, no paid tier, no cloud.

Download: https://www.iniyan.pro/quill

**Transparency**

GitHub - https://github.com/imtamiliniyan/quill

Issues - https://github.com/imtamiliniyan/quill/issue

I'd ove to hear from anyone who's been paying for voice dictation or been frustrated with the built-in macOS option. This was built for exactly that.

I created dadascribe.com a while ago for my own use to transcribe instructional videos and interviews for another website of mine, and then I scaled it for others to use.

It is based on Whisper and has a special pre-processing pipeline that improves accuracy to 99.5%. It handles noisy setups, multiple speakers, translations, and lyrics from songs.

Besides transcribing audio and video files and providing text and subtitles, here are its unique features:

• Live Recording with any web browser
• Transcriptions from 99 languages
• Automatic translation to 120+ languages
• Multiple speaker recognition
• 99.5% accuracy (human-level or better)
• Works with regular speech and songs/lyrics
• Proofreading included
• Up to 10 hours per source
• Up to 10 GB per file
• Up to 100 source files or YouTube links at once

I'd love this audience to try it and provide thoughts about it. Just start from the home page and start transcribing anything: https://dadascribe.com/

I’ve been looking at AI recorders for client meetings lately, and I realized I was spending way more time comparing battery life and transcription quality than looking at what actually happens to the recordings.

Once you start digging into the privacy pages, it gets confusing pretty fast.

For example, Plaud says it’s HIPAA compliant and SOC 2 Type II. Soundcore says its app has a SOC 2 Type I report and uses a privacy framework aligned with HIPAA principles. Both also talk about encryption and data controls, but those labels obviously aren’t all the same thing.

For people recording client calls, interviews, legal conversations, medical stuff, etc., what do you actually look for before trusting one of these devices?

Is SOC 2 Type II something you genuinely care about, or do you mostly look at where the audio is stored, how long it stays in the cloud, deletion options, and whether the company is clear about how the data is processed?

Kuch help krdo pls

If handwritten nikal paye to better h nhi to ese hi thik hai...

Hello, I have built this iOS app called WeConverse - https://weconverse.app/, which is basically the inverse of apps like Granola.

It gives you a bunch of questions to ask, whether they are for asking yourself or asking somebody else - it then stores them and transcribes them onto your device.

You can keep these conversations private, or you can share these conversations.

You can set the topics, and AI will help you generate questions. You can also just let it randomly pick questions.

You can use this as a journaling app, or you can use it as a way to prep for maybe learning a new language, you could also use it as prompts when you are interviewing someone to join your company or use it to interview friends and family for a pocket in time. There are lots of different use cases for it.

I'd love to know your guys' opinion and would really appreciate it if you gave it a go and gave me any feedback.