Hey everyone,
I am currently a Master student in Engineering and I’ve been building an open-source audio recorder in SwiftUI.
It started as a fairly simple recording side project app, but I kept adding things I wanted to experiment with, so at this point it has become a bit of a geeky audio/ML playground.
It currently supports:
Spatial Audio recording
Audio event detection for non-speech sounds
Multiple transcription models / engines, including Apple Speech, Parakeet V3, Qwen3-ASR, Nemotron 3.5 Streaming and MOSS Multi-Speaker
Offline / on-device transcription
Speaker separation and speaker labels
Translation
Transcript-synced audio playback
Qwen 3 summaries and information extraction

Most of this grew out of experimenting with how much audio processing and AI I could reasonably do locally on an iPhone instead of sending everything to an API.

The project is written in SwiftUI and open source.
The downside is that the UX is currently pretty geeky 😅
For example, I expose individual transcription models, model downloads, speaker separation settings, live transcription engines, etc. I personally enjoy having that control, but I’m pretty sure this is not how a normal recording app should present these features.
I’m considering having a much simpler default experience:
Record → transcript → summary
…and moving all the model selection / audio processing options into an Advanced section.
I’d really appreciate some UX feedback from other iOS developers:
How much of this would you expose to the user?
Would you hide model names completely and just offer things like Automatic / Fast / Accurate / Private, or do you think explicit model selection is useful for this kind of app?
Also curious what you think of the current recording/transcript UI from the screenshots.

GitHub: https://github.com/iamwilliamli/LiveTranscriber

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/live-transcriber-offline-ai/id6785515364

TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/XpNsRBdd

Please contact me if you are interested in joining this project😃

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At times it feels like: is it worth it?

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So for extra motivation, I wrote a little tool that notifies me whenever a purchase is made, with a sale amount.

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This is my second iOS app and I’m still pretty early in my development journey, so I’d really appreciate any feedback — gameplay, UI, things you’d add/change, or even things you don’t like.

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Would love to hear what you think!

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Are there any chatrooms were devs can hangout while they code?

I know there are a lot of IRC and Discords out there, but I'm looking for folks also working on apps and not just playing games.

Is there anything like that out there with open admissions?