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. Transcription happens on the phone, with no cloud speech service. No account needed. Early beta note: while the beta runs, your recordings and transcripts are also uploaded to the developer for benchmarking (see below).
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, unlocked for everyone during the beta). 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 by design, with a beta exception
Transcription runs on your phone with an open-source speech model. There is no cloud transcription. The exception is the early beta: to benchmark and tune speech models, the app uploads every recording, its transcript and summary, your feedback, basic device information and transcription performance measurements to Offword's own server, and the developer may listen to and read them. Nothing is sold or shared. Uploads stop when the beta ends.
- After the beta, audio and transcripts stay on your phone and nowhere else. During the beta they are also uploaded to Offword's server, kept until the beta ends or you ask for deletion.
- No account. No sign-up. No email address.
- No ads, no tracking, and no data sales, ever. Your data is deleted on request (support@offword.app).
- Uninstall the app and everything stored on the phone is gone. Beta uploads are deleted when you ask.
Free to use
Recording and transcription on your phone are free. A paid Pro tier is coming later, and every Pro feature is unlocked for everyone during the beta. 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
- All Pro features are free during the beta. Pro will be a one-time purchase, never a subscription.
- 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 (planned, not built yet)
- Voice naming: recognise and name recurring speakers (planned, not built yet)
- Notifications, alerts and reminders generated from your transcripts on the phone (planned, not built yet)
- No cloud transcription, ever
Get Offword for Android
Download the app directly from this site. Google Play is coming later.