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AltNotes - AI Voice Notes
Think it, Say it, Saved.
AltNotes records, transcribes, summarizes, and now lets you ask questions across your notes so answers, decisions, and next steps are easy to find.
- One‑tap recording
- Live transcription
- Summary + actions
- Ask AI across notes
Capture the thought now. Ask about it later.
Featured on
A clean recording surface with a live timer and waveform. Start in a second, stay focused.
On the App StoreMade for iPhone & iPad (Mac coming soon)
MeetingsLecturesInterviewsPodcastsStandupsVoice memos
How the app works
Five steps from audio to answers — designed to feel native on iPhone & iPad (Mac support coming soon).
- 01Capture
Record or import audio
One-tap lightning capture with native lockscreen widgets, action button support, and instant file import.
- 02Transcribe
Real-time neural transcription
Words flow in live as you speak with automatic speaker detection, punctuation, and sub-second latency.
- 03Synthesize
Structured AI distillation
Automatic executive summaries, key decisions, follow-up reminders, and smart tags ready in 0.4s.
- 04Actions
Instant action triggers
Dispatch recaps directly to email, schedule in-app reminders with native notifications, and copy formatted summaries with one tap.
- 05Ask AI · Deep Memory Recall
Ask your notes anything
Turn hours of past audio recordings into an interactive personal brain. Ask natural questions and receive precise answers with exact timestamped audio citations.
Core features
Minimal by design. Everything you need to capture, understand, and follow up — fast.
One‑tap recording
Start in a second. Big controls, a clear timer, and a calm surface built for one hand.
- Pause and resume
- Screen lock prevented while recording
- Clear source indicator
Ask AI
Ask your notes anything.
AltNotes turns your recordings into searchable memory. Ask about meetings, classes, interviews, ideas, or follow-ups and get focused answers from your saved notes.
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Private and secure by design.
Privacy is not a setting you have to find — it is how the app is built.
Encrypted
Your recordings and notes are encrypted, so your thoughts stay your business.
Share on your terms
Send any note as a quick link — even to people who don't have the app.
Product interface
A look at the screens that help you record, review, ask, and act on your notes.
Home / Library
Your notes stay close. Record, search, and jump back in fast.
Recording
One-tap recording with a calm surface and clear controls.
Live transcription
See words appear in real time — great for meetings, classes, and interviews.
Playback + summary
Review with audio controls on top and a clean summary below.
Ask AI
Chat with your notes to find answers, decisions, and follow-ups faster.
Full transcript
Readable, searchable text for fast scanning and precise review.
Auto Tasks
AltNotes organizes notes with AI-generated tags and suggests follow-ups automatically.
AI Crafts
Generate meeting minutes, posts, emails, and more from your notes.
Auto Tasks
AltNotes organizes notes with AI-generated tags and suggests follow-ups automatically.
Upload Audio
Import audio files from other apps or cloud storage.
Praised by professionals and creators
See how thousands of users capture ideas, record meetings, and accelerate their daily workflow.
SP
“AltNotes has completely changed how I capture business ideas during my daily commute. I talk naturally for 5 minutes and get instant executive summaries and action items ready to send to my team.”
PN
“I run my whole company from my phone between school runs. I record product decisions out loud and AltNotes turns them into a clean changelog and a weekly investor update.”
TB
“Our leadership offsites used to lose half their value to bad notes. Now I record each session and walk out with decisions, owners, and deadlines already written down.”
AR
“I dump complex architecture decisions into AltNotes verbally. Ask AI parses my rambling tech specs into clean Markdown technical docs and Jira tasks in seconds.”
NK
“After every user interview I hold the mic and think out loud for two minutes. AltNotes turns that into a tidy research summary my engineers actually read.”
EM
“As someone with ADHD, sitting and typing long notes is painful. AltNotes lets me speak freely for 2-hour lectures, and then turns the audio into exam study guides and quiz cards.”
OH
“I dictate lab observations while my hands are busy, and Ask AI lets me search six months of recordings for the one detail I half-remember.”
DK
“Dictating client deposition notes immediately after leaving court saves me 2 hours of typing every single day. The privacy & security standards give me total peace of mind.”
RT
“I capture post-consultation observations in seconds between patient visits. The live transcription accuracy and fast formatting save me hours of charting every week.”
MV
“AI Crafts is pure magic. I record a 10-minute episode brain dump while walking my dog, and AltNotes turns it into a complete podcast outline and newsletter draft.”
JW
“Live transcription during long subject interviews is a game changer. I can search exact quote timestamps with Ask AI and draft story outlines 10x faster.”
SL
“Recording prospect discovery calls and having AltNotes extract key pain points and action items instantly has doubled my follow-up speed. I can't work without it.”
CR
“I log every call from the car on the way to the next meeting. The summaries land in my CRM notes before I have even parked.”
Use cases
Short, real scenarios — from lectures to interviews to creative work.
Students
Record lectures, get a clean summary after class, and turn key points into tasks for revision.
Journalists
Capture interviews with live transcription, bookmark quotes, and export sections with timestamps.
Professionals
Turn meetings into minutes. Create follow‑up reminders and action items before you leave the room.
Creators
Brainstorm on the go. Generate drafts for emails, tweets, captions, and scripts from a single recording.
Latest from the Blog
Insights, guides, and workflows for voice-first productivity.
AI Crafts
Transforming Raw Voice Rants into Polished Content with AI Crafts
Turn 5-minute verbal brain dumps into structured blog posts, professional meeting minutes, executive summaries, or social threads with one tap.
Read article →ADHD & Focus
How AI Voice Notes Help ADHD Minds Stay Focused & Clear
Discover how AI voice notes help neurodivergent and ADHD minds eliminate cognitive friction and turn thoughts into actionable study guides.
Read article →Productivity
Voice Notes vs. Text Notes: Why Speaking is 3x Faster for Thinking
The human voice communicates up to 150 words per minute while typing averages 40. Discover why voice-first note taking unlocks superior clarity.
Read article →Ask AI
How to Search and Chat with Your Voice Notes Using Ask AI
Stop scrubbing through hours of audio recordings. Ask AI lets you query past meetings, interviews, and lectures with simple natural language questions.
Read article →How-To & Guides
How to Turn 60-Minute Meeting Audio into Actionable Minutes in 3 Steps
A step-by-step practical guide to recording meeting calls, eliminating manual note-taking, and generating clear action items using AltNotes.
Read article →Knowledge Management
Building a Voice-First Second Brain: How to Store & Recall Every Idea
Learn how to record audio thoughts on the go, structure raw ideas into clean knowledge bases, and instantly query your memory using Ask AI.
Read article →Velocity Benchmark
Speaking is 3.75x faster than typing.
The human voice communicates up to 150 words per minute while mobile typing averages 40. AltNotes bridges your thoughts to text without cognitive friction.
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AltNotes Voice Note150 WPM · 3.75x Faster
0 / 150 words
Natural spoken thought with zero typing fatigue60s Complete
Manual Keyboard Typing40 WPM · Fatigue & Typos
0 / 150 words
Requires 3.75 minutes for the exact same note40 Words / 60s
3.75x
Faster thought-to-text velocity
45 Min
Saved per 1-hour meeting transcript
100%
Zero typing friction on iPhone & iPad