Every word you say, written down on your own phone.
Offword records conversations and voice notes and turns them into text right on your Android phone. The audio and the transcript never leave it. No account, no cloud, no one listening in.
Okay, so the plan for Thursday is to move the site visit to the morning.
That works. I can bring the revised drawings and the permit copy.
Great. Can you also check whether the crane is booked for nine?
I'll call them after this
How it works
Three steps, all on the phone in your pocket.
Pick a microphone
Use the phone's own mic or a Bluetooth headset. A small wearable is on the way.
Press record
Watch the transcript appear as you talk, or just capture the audio and let the phone transcribe it later.
Read, copy, keep
Every recording is saved with its transcript on your phone. Delete it whenever you want.
Two ways to record
Choose per recording. You can switch any time.
Realtime
The transcript is written live while you speak. Good for meetings, interviews, and anything you want to read back right away.
Record only Pro
Capture now, transcribe later (a Pro feature, coming soon). Offword does the work while your phone is idle and charging, so long recordings cost you almost no battery during the day.
Record from wherever the sound is
Your phone's mic
Put the phone on the table and press record. Nothing else to buy.
Bluetooth headsets
Any Bluetooth headset or earbuds that work for calls. Handy when the phone stays in your pocket.
Offword wearable Soon
A small open-hardware Bluetooth wearable built on the open Omi protocol. It records for days on its own and syncs to your phone when you are back in range.
Private because it stays put
Transcription runs on your phone with an open-source speech model. There is no Offword server for your recordings to go to.
- Audio and transcripts are stored on your phone and nowhere else.
- No account. No sign-up. No email address.
- No analytics, no ads, no tracking.
- Uninstall the app and everything it recorded is gone.
Free to use
Recording and transcription on your phone are free. A paid Pro tier is coming later. Speech recognition always runs on your phone, in every tier.
Free Available now
- Realtime mode: live transcription while you record
- Phone mic or Bluetooth headset
- Transcripts saved as plain text files on your device
- Shareable
- No search, no batch mode, no backup
Pro One-time purchase, coming soon
- Batch mode: record now, transcribe later while idle and charging, including from the upcoming Offword wearable
- Encrypted, searchable transcript vault on your device
- Encrypted automatic backup to Google Drive (and iCloud on iOS later), where the cloud provider never sees plaintext
- Voice naming: recognise and name recurring speakers
- Notifications, alerts and reminders generated from your transcripts on the phone
- No cloud transcription, ever
Get Offword for Android
Download the app directly from this site. Google Play is coming later.