FAQ

No. Dictation, file transcription and meeting recording turn speech into text on the device itself, on both. Turn off your wifi and carry on to check. Wavenote+ is the exception, and only for text: to rewrite a dictation, summarise a note or answer a question about your notes, the text goes to our server and on to an AI service. If you wrote a profile in Settings, a short copy goes with it. Our server doesn't keep the text, only a count of requests. On the iPhone, Wavenote+ asks before any note text leaves it. A crash report carries none of your words.

No. The trial is 48 hours of everything on any Mac or iPhone, Wavenote+ included, with no card and no account. After that, dictation stops until you buy Wavenote ($4.90 once on this site) or subscribe to Wavenote+.

Rewriting. Hold the key, ramble, and out comes the email, message or list you meant, in wording you set, and you can set it per app. It also lets you speak one language and write in another, summarises meetings, answers questions about your notes, turns notes into tasks, names one thing to do today, and drops the device limit. It's $4.90 a month or $49 a year and includes the app, so you pay for one or the other, never both.

Yes, in beta on TestFlight for now. You get the app and the Wavenote keyboard, on the same account as your Mac. Join from the Download page. It isn't in the App Store yet.

Yes, if it has an Apple chip and runs macOS 27 or later. Intel Macs aren't supported. The first time you pick a language, Wavenote downloads what it needs to hear it: about 480 MB for English, about 540 MB for Japanese.

Yes, on any iPhone with iOS 27 or later. The same app runs on iPad.

Add the Wavenote keyboard in Settings and it types like any other. Apple doesn't let a keyboard use the microphone, so the mic key opens the Wavenote app for a moment, and your words come back into the field you were in. While Wavenote stays ready, the next dictation starts right from the key. Full Access is only how the words get back. Without it, they're left on your clipboard to paste.

Yes, through your own iCloud Drive. Our server never sees your notes. When iCloud Drive is on, a new install keeps notes and tasks there, so a meeting recorded on the Mac opens on the iPhone. Your vocabulary and languages sync through iCloud too. You can keep notes on one device instead, in Settings.

Wavenote covers 2, in any mix of Macs and iPhones. Wavenote+ covers every device you own. You can free one yourself in Settings, under Licence.

Yes. Sign in with your purchase email on your Mac and your iPhone, with no password, and it works on both. Once the iPhone app is in the App Store, a purchase made there shows up on your Mac the same way.

It keeps working until the period you paid for ends. Then rewriting, translation, summaries, answers and tasks stop. The app stays yours: dictation, file transcription, recording and your notes carry on.

Yes. Dictation, file transcription, recording and your notes need no connection, on either device. Only Wavenote+ does. If the app can't reach us to check your licence, it keeps working on the last answer for 30 days, so a long flight is fine.

Your raw transcript goes in instead, right where you were typing. No network, a timeout or a lapsed subscription all end the same way. A failed rewrite never costs you your words.

22 of them: 18 European languages, plus Japanese, Korean and Chinese in both scripts. English is the best supported. The European ones need no switching, even inside one sentence.

Yes. On the Mac it hears both sides of a call, your microphone and the call's sound, and offers to record when another app starts using the microphone. On the iPhone it records what the microphone hears, so put a call on speaker. The recording and transcript come with Wavenote. A summary needs Wavenote+.

Yes. On the Mac, a transcribed file saves as plain text, SRT, VTT or Markdown. Any note exports as Markdown or PDF, on the Mac or the iPhone.

Yes. We refund a purchase made on this site within 30 days, whatever the reason. Write to hello@getwavenote.com. A refund ends the licence on every device. When the iPhone app reaches the App Store, Apple refunds what you buy there at reportaproblem.apple.com.