Personal productivity and notes
AI voice note apps
Apps that record spoken thoughts, transcribe them (often on-device for privacy), and turn them into organized notes, journal entries, tasks, reminders, and searchable memory.
Built for: People capturing ideas by voice
Projects since May 04
111
Different builders
105
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
▼ -56%
AI is the core
64%
Projects per week
Mostly mobile app (68%), web app (14%), ai agent or bot (7.2%) · from r/SideProject, r/SaaS, r/ShowYourApp, r/IMadeThis
Latest
- Echo MSG — Transcribes forwarded WhatsApp voice notes into copyable text replies, with summaries for longer notes.“Echo MSG: forward a WhatsApp voice note and get copyable text back in the chat”
- Scryon — Records phone calls and turns them into searchable transcripts, AI summaries, key points, and action items.“I built an Android app that turns phone calls into notes, looking for feedback”
- Quadern — Records voice notes and turns them into transcripts with titles, summaries and tags, using a ChatGPT plan or on-device offline transcription.“Quadern - a voice notes app for Android that transcribes with your ChatGPT plan or fully offline”
- Porchlight — Prompts older people with questions read aloud, records and transcribes their spoken answers, and shares them with family members who can listen and reply with voice notes.“Porchlight - tap one button, answer a question out loud, and your family keeps the story. Looking for testers for the recorder”
- Harma — Lets families save voice notes, photos and written memories with the story and emotions behind them, building a timeline for children to explore later.“I built an app that keeps the story behind your photos, so your kids know who their family really was”
- Wake: Ultimate Field Notes — Records voice memos and displays the recorded sound as visuals.“i built a voice memo app that lets you see the sound in a pretty way.”
- Records and organizes voice notes on Android, as a fork of an abandoned open-source app.“Forked an abandoned Android voice-notes app”
- Lets users speak journal entries and transcribes them to text on-device.“Would you use a journaling app that transcribes your voice instead of typing?. Please answers the following question....”
- Echo — Turns spoken voice recordings into automatically created notes and a personal keyword dictionary.“Stupid simple notes app”
- Outloud — Turns recorded voice memos into titled notes with extracted to-do lists and keeps the audio and transcript.“I think out loud way faster than I type, so I built an app that cleans up my rambling”
- ttyl audio journal — Lets users record an audio message and schedule it to be delivered to themselves or others in the future.“ttyl audio journal just crossed 1,000 recordings”
- Agentsy — Turns spoken or typed thought captures into tasks using AI, with drafted emails and documents attached.“Big milestone, iOS app released!! Exceptionally easy Voice -> Tasks with draft emails/docs prepared”
- Transcribes spoken voice notes on-device and turns them into notes with a title, summary and action items.“Built a Mac voice-notes app, then found out three of its main features had never actually worked”
- Records free-form voice entries, saves and organises them privately, and surfaces recurring patterns in the user's thoughts.“Would you use a private voice journal that doesn’t talk back?”
- Tonot — Records voice notes and converts them into titled, summarized, searchable transcripts that can be organized and exported.“I built Tonot - an iPhone app for turning quick voice thoughts into usable notes”
- Cassette — Records voice notes on iOS and transcribes them to text locally on the device.“Cassette - retro speech to text”
- WhatsApp Voice Transcriber — Adds a transcribe button to WhatsApp Web voice messages and summarizes or answers questions about them using the user's own AI API key.“[Self Promotion] I built a WhatsApp Web voice-message transcriber that has no backend — you bring your own Groq/OpenAI key”
- Records voice notes via a hold-volume-button gesture, transcribes them to text, and stores them in the app for later review.“An App to record voice notes speech-to-text at night without activating the screen”
- Records a spoken note from the lock screen, transcribes it on-device, and saves it as a timestamped markdown file in an Obsidian vault.“I built a one-button voice recorder that drops notes straight into your Obsidian vault. Looking for feedback.”
- LifeTally — Stores free-form text or voice log entries about daily events and answers natural-language questions by searching those logs.“Life Logging App: LifeTally - hoping for your feedback and review”
Most discussed
- SpeakON — Captures voice notes from a physical button press while the iPhone is locked and saves them as Notes.“I built a physical button for capturing notes without unlocking the iPhone”
- Olly — Records spoken thoughts from the Lock Screen or Apple Watch and turns them into structured, filed notes on-device.“I built an app to stop losing my own thoughts (I have ADHD and it was genuinely affecting my life)”
- Combine Voice Memos + — Merges multiple selected Apple Voice Memos recordings into one audio file.“My tiny iOS utility app passed 100 paid downloads after 80 days — here’s what I learned”
- MemoryLane — Sends one personal life-story question per day by SMS or WhatsApp and stores the voice or text replies as an organized memoir.“Built a bot that asks one question per day via SMS/WhatsApp. You answer with voice or text. After a year, you have 365 memories of your life story. Launching soon. Feedback wanted.”
- Dumpy — Captures voice or typed notes from a small wearable device and organizes them with an LLM and automatic transcription.“Dumpy - AI Powered Voice Note Capture device (ADHD)”
- Vox — Captures spoken thoughts from a locked phone and automatically sorts them into tasks, ideas, and reminders grouped into related threads.“Spent months on this and I'm almost giving up. honestly don't know if anyone would pay for it”
- Blurto — Captures spoken thoughts from a lock screen or watch tap and automatically sorts them into tasks, ideas, watch lists, or places.“Amazon laid me off while I was visiting my mom. Today I'm launching the ADHD app I built instead of crawling back to corp.”
- Lets users speak journal entries and transcribes them to text on-device.“Would you use a journaling app that transcribes your voice instead of typing?. Please answers the following question....”
- Records speech on-device and turns it into notes inside a local, Obsidian-style note-taking app.“I built a private version of obsidian + wispr flow. We want your feedback!”
- VoiceJournal AI — Turns spoken voice recordings into written journal entries and gives a mood score with pattern tracking.“1 month post-launch, 99 downloads, mostly from paid. How do I crack organic?”