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Whisper Notes - Speech to Text is #2 in Productivity Paid in Germany and charting in 30 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperSmashMelon LLC
CategoryProductivity
Price7.99 USD
Released
Rating★ 4.7 (697)
Version1.9.4
Age rating4+
First seen by us
24 Sep 2026
24 Sep 2026Installs (est.)100k+ worldwide
Whisper Notes - Speech to Text update history & changes
Last change · 91 events since 4 Apr 2023Full timeline ↓🌟Featured by Apple🌟Featured by Apple📦Updated to version 1.9.4✏️Description updated✏️New iPad screenshots📦Updated to version 1.9.3📈Hit #1📈Hit #1💰Price rise🆕First spotted by AppInsider
Full timeline · 91 events
- 🌟Whisper Notes - Speech to Text featured by Appleapps · NL
- 🌟Whisper Notes - Speech to Text featured by Appleapps · NL, SE
- 📦Whisper Notes - Speech to Text updated to version 1.9.4Live transcription while you record (Parakeet languages), cleaner speaker paragraphs, Apple Watch recordings kept even if the app closes mid-recording, and better stability.
- 🌟Whisper Notes - Speech to Text featured by Appleapps · NL
- 🌟Whisper Notes - Speech to Text featured by Appleapps · NL
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: description updated· NL
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: new iPad screenshots· NL, CO
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: new screenshots4 screenshots (was 4) · NL
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: description updated· CO
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: new screenshots4 screenshots (was 4) · CO
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: devices changed+ Watch
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: description updated· 14 countries
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: new iPad screenshots· 27 countries
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: new screenshots4 screenshots (was 4) · 14 countries
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: description updated· TW
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: new screenshots4 screenshots (was 4) · TW
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: description updated· SE
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: new screenshots4 screenshots (was 4) · SE
- 🌟Whisper Notes - Speech to Text featured by Appleapps · NL
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: description updated· RU
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: new screenshots4 screenshots (was 4) · RU
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: description updated· MX, AR
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: new screenshots4 screenshots (was 4) · MX, AR
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: description updated· KR
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: new screenshots4 screenshots (was 4) · KR
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: description updated· JP
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: new screenshots4 screenshots (was 4) · JP
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: description updated· IT
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: new screenshots4 screenshots (was 4) · IT
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: description updated· FR
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: new screenshots4 screenshots (was 4) · FR
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: description updated· ES
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: new screenshots4 screenshots (was 4) · ES
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: description updated· DE
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: new screenshots4 screenshots (was 4) · DE
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: description updated· CN
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: new screenshots4 screenshots (was 4) · CN
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: description updated· BR
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: new screenshots4 screenshots (was 4) · BR
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: description updated· ZA
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: new iPad screenshots· ZA
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: new screenshots4 screenshots (was 4) · ZA
- 📦Whisper Notes - Speech to Text updated to version 1.9.3A new app icon, one-tap recording on Apple Watch, more accurate speaker detection, and better stability.
- 🌟Whisper Notes - Speech to Text featured by Appleapps · CO, NL
- 🌟Whisper Notes - Speech to Text featured by Appleapps · NL
- 📈Whisper Notes - Speech to Text hit #1Top Paid · Productivity · FR
- 🌟Whisper Notes - Speech to Text featured by Appleapps · NL
- 📦Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: now updating weekly4 updates in 30 days, after a quiet two months
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: description updated· AE
- 📦Whisper Notes - Speech to Text updated to version 1.9.2Fixed starting a recording from Shortcuts. Auto-exported transcripts can now include the audio.
- 📦Whisper Notes - Speech to Text updated to version 1.9.1Se mejoró la estabilidad de la transcripción.
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: app got bigger533 MB → 686 MB (+29%)
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: description updated· 14 countries
- 📦Whisper Notes - Speech to Text updated to version 1.9.0Fixed file exports not responding, and improved stability when editing transcripts.
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: description updated· TW
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: description updated· SE
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: description updated· RU
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: description updated· NL
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: description updated· MX, CO, AR
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: description updated· KR
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: description updated· JP
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: description updated· IT
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: renamedWhisper Notes - Voce in Testo → Whisper Notes: Memo Vocali · IT
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: description updated· FR
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: description updated· ES
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: renamedWhisper Notes - Voz a Texto → Whisper Notes - Notas de Voz · ES
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: description updated· DE
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: description updated· CN
- ✏️Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: description updated· BR
- 📦Whisper Notes - Speech to Text updated to version 1.8.9Novedades
- Toca dos veces cualquier párrafo para editarlo ahí mismo.
- Inicia, pausa y detén grabaciones desde la pantalla bloqueada, el Centro de control o el botón de acción.
- Importa varios archivos a la vez.
- Exporta automáticamente las transcripciones nuevas a Archivos o iCloud Drive.
Mejoras
- Las grabaciones de varias horas ya se transcriben en cualquier iPhone.
- Las llamadas y las alarmas pausan la grabación en vez de terminarla.
- Ocupa menos espacio en tu iPhone.
Correcciones
- Se corrigió un congelamiento al abrir algunas transcripciones largas.
- Mejoras de estabilidad en toda la app.… more - 📈Whisper Notes - Speech to Text hit #1Top Paid · Productivity · CO
- 💰Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: price rise800.00 JPY → 980.00 JPY · JP
- 📈Whisper Notes - Speech to Text hit #1Top Paid · Productivity · IN
- 📈Whisper Notes - Speech to Text hit #1Top Paid · Productivity · MY
- 📈Whisper Notes - Speech to Text hit #1Top Paid · Productivity · ZA
- 📈Whisper Notes - Speech to Text hit #1Top Paid · Productivity · PL
- 📈Whisper Notes - Speech to Text hit #1Top Paid · Productivity · TH
- 📈Whisper Notes - Speech to Text hit #1Top Paid · Productivity · TR
- 🌟Whisper Notes - Speech to Text: featuring lifted it to #34 (from #87)Top app a pagamento · IT
- 🌟Whisper Notes - Speech to Text featured by Appleapps · BR, DE, NL
- 🌟Whisper Notes - Speech to Text featured by Appleapps · IT, NL
- 🌟Whisper Notes - Speech to Text featured by Appleapps · NL
- 🌟Whisper Notes - Speech to Text featured by Appleapps · ES
- 📈Whisper Notes - Speech to Text hit #1Top Paid · Productivity · NL
- 🌟Whisper Notes - Speech to Text featured by Appleapps · NL
- 📈Whisper Notes - Speech to Text hit #1Top Paid · Productivity · ES
- 🌟Whisper Notes - Speech to Text featured by Appleapps · DE
- 🆕Whisper Notes - Speech to Text first spotted by AppInsider#5 in Top Paid · Productivity · United Kingdom
- 🌟Whisper Notes - Speech to Text featured by Appleapps · BR, DE
- 📦Whisper Notes - Speech to Text version 1.8.8No release notes
- 🆕Whisper Notes - Speech to Text released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
4.7 ★
697 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#2
Productivity PaidMeasured
New ratings a week
48
▲ +21% vs the 2 weeks before
Measured
Whisper Notes - Speech to Text at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-08. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
Whisper Notes is an offline speech-to-text transcription app for iPhone and iPad that converts meetings, lectures, and voice memos into accurate text with speaker labels, targeting journalists, researchers, and professionals who prioritize privacy. The app holds the #1 spot in paid productivity charts in the Netherlands and Poland, while ranking within the top five in several other major European markets including Sweden, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, and the UK (implied by proximity), indicating strong regional traction for its one-time purc
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Whisper Notes - Speech to Text on the App Store
App details
App ID
6447090616
Publisher
SmashMelon LLC
On the store since
Apr 2023
3 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 18.0+
iPhone XS and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad · Watch
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
37
AR BN BG CA HR CS DA NL EN FI FR DE …
Size
691 MB
Also listed in
Utilities
App privacy Measured
Whisper Notes - Speech to Text declares it collects no data at all — the rarest and most private label on the App Store.
Declared label
Data Not Collected
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
Whisper Notes - Speech to Text downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. App Store downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where Whisper Notes - Speech to Text's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
Indonesia
Italy
Canada
Mexico
Sweden
Spain
Russia
Turkey
Thailand
Malaysia
India
Vietnam
Philippines
Saudi Arabia
United Arab Emirates
Argentina
South AfricaApps near Whisper Notes - Speech to Text on the chart
Productivity Paid, around #2.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.7 ★
697 ratings
Measured
Ratings
697
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
48
▲ +21% vs the 2 weeks before
Written reviews a week
1.5
US App Store
Recent ratings
4.6★
vs 4.4★ lifetime
Review momentum
82/100
faster than 90% of Productivity apps
New ratings by country (12)
| Country | New ratings a week | Share | Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before |
|---|---|---|---|
 United States | 13 | 31% | ▲ +16% |
| Germany | 7.8 | 19% | ▲ +20% |
 China | 3.8 | 9% | ▼ -30% |
 Netherlands | 3 | 7% | ▼ -44% |
 Brazil | 2.5 | 6% | ▲ +40% |
 Taiwan | 2.2 | 5% | ▲ +20% |
| United Kingdom | 1.8 | 4% | – |
 Japan | 1.8 | 4% | – |
 Poland | 1.6 | 4% | – |
 France | 1.5 | 4% | – |
 South Korea | 1.5 | 4% | – |
 Australia | 1.2 | 3% | – |
App Store ratings in the countries we track, 4-week average.
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about Whisper Notes - Speech to Text
From the 57 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users highly value the app's privacy, one-time payment model, and accuracy for English dictation, often citing it as a lifesaver for meetings and note-taking. However, significant complaints focus on frequent crashes, inability to stop recordings, and poor performance with non-English languages or specific device models.
Mixed but leaning positive (67% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for its features and content, and being useful. The main complaints are about crashes and bugs, and price and subscriptions. Recent reviews are more positive than earlier ones.
What people like
- Features & content: “Found a great feature in settings to get rid of um’s and uh’s automatically”
- Useful: “Highly, highly recommended!!!!!”
- Price & subscription: “The Price is Right, –much obliged”
- Ease of use: “The primary interface is easy to use”
Common complaints
- Crashes & bugs: “Errors in Farsi dictation”
- Price & subscription: “I will be asking for refund”
- Useful: “Other than that, the app works well”
- Features & content: “Did not work at all, even with the more advanced model option”
About Whisper Notes - Speech to Text
Whisper Notes turns meetings, lectures, interviews and voice memos into accurate text with speaker labels, 100% offline on your iPhone and iPad. One-time purchase, no subscription. Trusted by 70,000+ journalists, researchers and professionals.
■ Record and import
- Record from the Lock Screen, widgets, Control Center, the Action button, Apple Watch, or "Hey Siri".
- Import from WhatsApp, Voice Memos, Photos or Files, several at once.
■ Transcribe
- 101 languages through Whisper, detected automatically, even when speakers mix languages.
- Choose your on-device model: Parakeet, Whisper (OpenAI's open-source model) or SenseVoice, plus Apple Speech on supported devices with iOS 26.
- Speaker labels (speaker diarization) show who said what. Rename each speaker.
■ Edit and export
- Double-tap any paragraph to fix a word.
- Export TXT, Markdown or SRT subtitles with timestamps and speaker labels. Works for videos too.
- Auto-save every new transcript to Files or iCloud Drive.
■ Private by design
Your audio never leaves your device. Turn on airplane mode and Whisper Notes works exactly the same, which matters when the recording is an interview, a client meeting, or anything you wouldn't put on someone else's server.
■ One-time purchase
No subscription, no in-app purchases, no ads. Not satisfied? Settings → Request Refund.
■ Quick answers
Does Whisper Notes work completely offline? Yes. It transcribes on your iPhone or iPad, so it works in airplane mode. The built-in Parakeet model covers 25 European languages offline from the first launch; for other languages, download Whisper or SenseVoice once in the app.
Can it transcribe WhatsApp voice messages? Yes. Share a voice message to Whisper Notes and it is transcribed offline.
Does it identify speakers? Yes. Tap ⋯ on a note → Detect Speakers, and each passage is labeled by speaker.
Which model is best for Chinese, Japanese or Korean? SenseVoice, built for Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Cantonese.
Is there a time limit? Each recording can be up to 24 hours long.
Which iPhones are supported? Whisper Notes needs iPhone 12 or newer.
Your notes live only on your device, so deleting the app deletes them. Export what matters.
Questions? [email protected] · whispernotes.app
■ Record and import
- Record from the Lock Screen, widgets, Control Center, the Action button, Apple Watch, or "Hey Siri".
- Import from WhatsApp, Voice Memos, Photos or Files, several at once.
■ Transcribe
- 101 languages through Whisper, detected automatically, even when speakers mix languages.
- Choose your on-device model: Parakeet, Whisper (OpenAI's open-source model) or SenseVoice, plus Apple Speech on supported devices with iOS 26.
- Speaker labels (speaker diarization) show who said what. Rename each speaker.
■ Edit and export
- Double-tap any paragraph to fix a word.
- Export TXT, Markdown or SRT subtitles with timestamps and speaker labels. Works for videos too.
- Auto-save every new transcript to Files or iCloud Drive.
■ Private by design
Your audio never leaves your device. Turn on airplane mode and Whisper Notes works exactly the same, which matters when the recording is an interview, a client meeting, or anything you wouldn't put on someone else's server.
■ One-time purchase
No subscription, no in-app purchases, no ads. Not satisfied? Settings → Request Refund.
■ Quick answers
Does Whisper Notes work completely offline? Yes. It transcribes on your iPhone or iPad, so it works in airplane mode. The built-in Parakeet model covers 25 European languages offline from the first launch; for other languages, download Whisper or SenseVoice once in the app.
Can it transcribe WhatsApp voice messages? Yes. Share a voice message to Whisper Notes and it is transcribed offline.
Does it identify speakers? Yes. Tap ⋯ on a note → Detect Speakers, and each passage is labeled by speaker.
Which model is best for Chinese, Japanese or Korean? SenseVoice, built for Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Cantonese.
Is there a time limit? Each recording can be up to 24 hours long.
Which iPhones are supported? Whisper Notes needs iPhone 12 or newer.
Your notes live only on your device, so deleting the app deletes them. Export what matters.
Questions? [email protected] · whispernotes.app
Latest updates
1.9.4
Live transcription while you record (Parakeet languages), cleaner speaker paragraphs, Apple Watch recordings kept even if the app closes mid-recording, and better stability.
1.9.3
A new app icon, one-tap recording on Apple Watch, more accurate speaker detection, and better stability.
1.9.2
Fixed starting a recording from Shortcuts. Auto-exported transcripts can now include the audio.
Store changes
What Whisper Notes - Speech to Text changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
Description updated
New iPad screenshots 
New screenshots
4 screenshots (was 4)
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