Recordist for iPhone

Help and support

Write to support@recordist.app with any question at all. A person reads every message and replies within one business day.

What it needs

Recordist for iPhone runs on iOS 26 or later and writes the transcript on the iPhone itself. The moments picked out of a conversation need an iPhone with Apple Intelligence, turned on in Settings, Apple Intelligence & Siri.

Recording a conversation

Press Record, and a card asks before anything records. It has words you can read to the people with you, and nothing records until you press “Yes, record”. The first time, iOS then asks whether Recordist may use the microphone.

You can lock the iPhone while it records. The recording carries on, and the Lock Screen shows how long it has been recording with a Stop button. You can also say “Record a conversation with Recordist” to Siri, and the same card opens.

When something looks wrong

No words appear yet. The first time you record in a language, iOS may still be fetching Apple's speech model for it. The recording has already started, and the words appear once the model arrives.

The recording paused. A phone call or another app took the microphone. Everything recorded so far is saved, and the recording starts again when you press Resume, in the app or on the Lock Screen.

There are no moments above the transcript. Moments need Apple Intelligence and at least thirty spoken words. If Apple Intelligence was turned off, turn it on in Settings, Apple Intelligence & Siri, and the moments appear the next time you open the conversation. You can also choose Pick out moments from the conversation's More menu. On an iPhone without Apple Intelligence the transcript is there in full.

Recordist cannot hear anything. Open Settings, Privacy & Security, Microphone, and turn Recordist on.

Keeping and deleting

Your conversations stay on your iPhone and are left out of its backups, so they do not come back if you restore or replace it. To keep one somewhere else, open it, press More, then Export, and choose Markdown, plain text or JSON. In the same menu, Delete this conversation removes its audio, transcript and notes from your iPhone.

Recordist for iPhone collects no data. How it handles what you record is on its privacy page.

Recordist is made by Havihi Digital Inc..