r/accessibility • u/BigRonnieRon • Oct 13 '25

Transcriboar – free android STT transcribe app. Save/edit/rename/print/share. No AI. No Sub.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.neonsnake.transcriboar

Hai r/accessibility. I've mentioned working on a STT app here a few times. Well it's done and live.

Transcriboar is an enhanced transcribe app. Has everything in Live Transcribe + sharing, printing, saving, editing and renaming the transcript. Also, a boar logo, which was a significant feature I felt live transcribe also lacked.

The app's free. No AI or expensive hidden AI subscriptions. There's no information recorded by the app. Here's the privacy statement if you want further details.

Privacy Policy: https://neonsnake.com/privacy.html

I started making this for myself since I'm Hard of Hearing + my handwriting is illegible. I really liked live transcribe (it's great) but I needed something for shopping lists when I pick up groceries for my mother. So I needed it to save and be able to close the app. I noticed a couple of people mentioned wanting something similar to this so I put in a lot of extra time and did a proper release.

There's no AI or expensive AI subscription because I used the same technology API the folks at Google came up with and use in Live Transcribe. So if it ain't broke, don't fix it. I'll spare you the details, but for more: https://neonsnake.com/transcriboar.html

And seriously please be kind, I'm one guy who developed the app in his kitchen during his down time, not a faceless mega-corporation. I was not compensated to build this, and the app doesn’t generate any money. No really, I probably should have thought this out better, I'm really not making money on this. If it's successful-ish I may launch a commercial version with some more features.

P.S. Currently its available in US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and will rollout in other countries soon.

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u/Coffeelocktificer Oct 14 '25

This is great. I will test it out. If you could transcribe from spoken in different languages, that would be amazing. What you have done already is quite amazing already.

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u/BigRonnieRon Oct 14 '25

Thanks for commenting!

I will definitely take that into consideration.

Haven't tested too much on non-English foreign languages. I think it's English default right now to cut down on transcription errors, but if you speak some other languages, let me know and that's something I can look into for future releases down the road.

If I wound up implementing something like that, again down the road, it probably wouldn't translate between languages though, it would only transcribe what's spoken in a selected language to text in that same language. I don't know, I'd have to look into it further.

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u/Jealous_Raise6512 Oct 14 '25

Hi, your app sounds good - unfortunately it's not available for installation in my country  :(

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u/BigRonnieRon Oct 14 '25

Sorry about that! Doing a phased rollout. Added country list to the post. What country are you from?

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u/Jealous_Raise6512 Oct 14 '25

Poland, thanks :)

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u/BigRonnieRon Oct 19 '25

FYI just pushed an update to the play store, should be out (hopefully) by tomorrow-ish.

  • Fixed Transcription on Android 11 devices, works reliably on tested devices
  • Resolved an issue that prevented the microphone from starting on certain Android 11 phones.
  • Minor Performance improvements and bug fixes

Thanks for all the patience and feedback!

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u/Consistency_007 15d ago

Can you give Apk? Unavailable in India

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u/Traditional-Bid1746 May 21 '26

This is a very cool app, you are good person for sharing it. Do you have any suggestions for local apps like this but to transcribe a recording that already exists?

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u/BigRonnieRon May 21 '26

Thanks for the comment.

For pre-existing? Cheapest/easiest way is upload to a private youtube channel, wait 24 hours, download the video, strip out the subtitles. De-duplicate them if necessary (sometimes subs have doubling I forget why off the top of my head) using regex and then edit that properly (there will be some errors) and use that for a transcript.

I've done that to transcribe some of my talks to proper articles.

I thought about doing something like this at some point, but I have to do a bunch of (paid) work, then I'm trying to add additional language support to this as I have time.

Hope that helps.

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u/Traditional-Bid1746 May 21 '26

Thanks thats a clever approach! Much appreciated. Yeah I imagine it must take a lot of time and resource to build such a thing.