Voice-first AI notes app for Apple — iPhone & iPad

Speak it, and it becomes
a note you can find.

Voice-first and Apple-native. Speak or jot — Notabe transcribes on your device, titles and tags every note, and finds anything by what it means.

iOS 17+ iPadOS 17+Free to start
Notabe — All Notes
Notes
All Notes842
Recent46
This week19
Untitled3
Tags
Product ideas38
Standups64
Reading & quotes71
Half-thoughts120
Idea for the onboarding flow
Voice · 0:382h
product ideasonboarding
What I want from next quarter
Voice · 1:121d
planninghalf-thoughts
Standup — pricing experiment
Voice · 0:543d
standupspricing
Line from the Herzog interview
Typed1w
reading & quotes
Grocery run, and a reminder
Voice · 0:192w
errands
Idea for the onboarding flow
Voice note · transcribed on device · 0:38
Summary

A quick spoken sketch of a lighter onboarding: open straight into capture, defer the account step, and let the first note teach the interface.

Worth revisiting before the next build — the point is to reach a saved note in one tap.

Tags
product ideasonboardingcapture+ add
The vanishing thought

You had the thought.
Then you lost it.

You speak faster than you type — but a voice memo you never label is a thought you never find again. Notabe turns the moment you speak into a note you can actually return to.

3×
Faster to speak than type
Talking runs past 150 words a minute; thumb-typing barely clears 40. Capture at the speed of the thought.
0steps
To file it
No folder to pick, no title to write. Speak, and Notabe transcribes, titles, and tags it for you.
1sentence
To find it again
Ask by meaning — even a vague phrase — and the right note surfaces, not just a title match.
How it works

One tap in.
One clear note out.

STEP 02

Organize

Notabe auto-titles each note and suggests a few tags. Accept, edit, ignore. The vocabulary stays yours — nothing is forced.

product ideas
Six pieces

A notebook that thinks
about what's in it.

No assistant, no chatbot, no copilot. Notabe knows your notes — and quietly organizes them so you don't have to.

FEATURE · 01

Voice capture, transcribed on device

Tap and talk. Apple's on-device speech turns your voice into clean text — the audio never leaves your iPhone or iPad. Jot or share text too; every path lands as a note.

On-device transcription · voice, text, or share
FEATURE · 02

Auto-title & auto-tag

Every note gets a clean title and three to five tags, drawn from what you actually said. Free and Pro. No setup, no menu.

Title + tags on every note · all tiers
Pro
FEATURE · 03

Semantic search

Search by what you meant — not the exact words. “That thing about pricing” actually finds it. Embeddings, not keywords.

"that idea about slow mornings" → found 3 notes
Pro
FEATURE · 04

The Graph

Notabe draws the quiet connections between your notes — a living map of what relates to what, so a thought from March meets the one you had this morning.

A living map of connected notes
FEATURE · 05

Short AI summaries

Tap Summarize on a long note or transcript and get a calm, short recap — enough to know what's inside at a glance, no wall of text.

Summarize → a short, plain recap
FEATURE · 06

Private by design

Audio is transcribed on device and never uploaded. AI calls log only a prompt hash — never the text itself. iCloud private sync, not Notabe's servers. No account to create.

On-device audio · prompt hashes only · iCloud
Designed for Apple

Built on Apple's stack.
Not a wrapper. Not a port.

SwiftUI on iPhone and iPad. Liquid Glass throughout. SwiftData for your notes, CloudKit for sync, on-device speech for transcription. The way Apple builds its own apps.

Liquid Glass interface

Capture bar, list, inspector — every navigation surface uses the native iOS 26 / iPadOS 26 material. Translucent, depth-aware, alive.

SwiftUI on every device

Same Swift codebase on iPhone and iPad. SwiftData for your notes, async/await for capture. No Electron, no React Native — the fastest path Apple's own engineers take.

SWIFTUI

No account needed

Your notes are yours the moment you open the app. Identity lives on device and syncs over iCloud — no email, no password, nothing to sign into.

Open and start — no login

Apple In-App Purchase

Subscriptions through Apple. Family Sharing supported. One tap to cancel — no retention emails, no chase.

Family Sharing
Cancel in Settings

CloudKit sync

End-to-end through Apple's identity stack. Your notes follow your Apple ID. No separate sync server, no extra password.

Privacy

Your audio never
leaves your device.
Full stop.

Voice is transcribed on your iPhone or iPad with Apple's on-device speech — the recording is never uploaded. Only the resulting text is used to title, tag, and summarize. That AI processing happens at Google (Gemini) and Anthropic (Claude) under their commercial terms — they don't keep your inputs, and we don't opt into training.

What you say is yours.
We're just the notebook.
No training data
Google and Anthropic commercial API terms forbid training on customer input. We honour them.
No account
No email lists, no password to forget. Your identity stays on your device and syncs over iCloud.
On-device transcription
Your voice becomes text on your iPhone or iPad. The audio itself is never sent anywhere.
iCloud sync
End-to-end through Apple's CloudKit. We don't run a separate sync server.

Speak.Find.Remember.

Three verbs. One notebook. On iPhone and iPad.

Honest scope

What it's not.

Five things Notabe refuses to be. The notes category is full of them. We picked a different shape.

Not this
A voice recorder full of clips you never open
A chatbot stitched onto a notes app
A web app pretending to be native
A folder tree to maintain
Keyword-only search
This
Notes you can read, search, and return to
A quiet AI that transcribes, titles, and files
Real SwiftUI on iPhone and iPad
Tags suggested, in words you'd actually use
Search by what you meant, not the exact words
Two devices, one notebook

Apple-native,
end to end.

iPhone for the moment you speak — a thought, a recap, a reminder. iPad for the wider canvas when you sit down to read and organize. One iCloud account, one notebook.

iPadOS 17+
iPad
The wider canvas
Notabe — Notes
Notes
Recent
Summary

Where you make sense of it.

Read transcripts, follow the Graph of connected notes, sort into collections, and search your whole notebook. Same notes, same iCloud account.

Liquid Glass CloudKit sync
Pricing

Pay for the inference,
not the chrome.

Free is a real notebook with a taste of the AI. Pro turns on everything.

Free
$0
Free forever
A real notebook, with a taste of the AI.
  • Voice & text capture, transcribed on device
  • Auto-title & auto-tag on every note
  • 5 AI summaries per month
  • Manual edits, tags & collections
  • iCloud sync across iPhone and iPad
FAQ

Nine answers, in full.

Free forever — voice and text capture with on-device transcription, auto-title and auto-tag on every note, 5 AI summaries a month, and iCloud sync. Pro is $9.99/month or $59.99/year (Save 50%) — every AI feature unlimited: semantic search by meaning, unlimited summaries, the Graph of connected notes, similar notes, collection suggestions, tag normalization, ask your notes, and daily resurfacing.
Free gives you the whole notebook — voice and text capture, on-device transcription, auto-title and auto-tag on every note, 5 AI summaries a month, and iCloud sync across iPhone and iPad. Pro ($9.99/mo · $59.99/yr) turns on every AI feature unlimited: semantic search by meaning, unlimited summaries, the Graph, similar notes, collection suggestions, tag normalization, ask your notes, and daily resurfacing. If you capture daily and want the AI doing real work, you want Pro.
Yes. Your voice is transcribed on your iPhone or iPad using Apple's on-device speech — the audio is never uploaded. Only the resulting text is used to title, tag, and summarize, and that AI processing happens at Google (Gemini) and Anthropic (Claude) under their commercial terms — they don't keep your inputs, and we don't opt into training. Every AI call logs only a prompt hash, never the text itself. You can disable AI processing entirely in Settings.
Transcription runs on your device using Apple's speech recognition. For the rest: Google Gemini for the everyday calls (summaries, auto-titles, auto-tags, tag normalization), Anthropic Claude Sonnet for the creative work (collection naming), and Voyage AI for the multilingual embeddings that power semantic search, the Graph, and similar-note discovery. We pay per call; you don't.
No. There's no sign-up, no email, no password. Your identity lives on your device and syncs over iCloud, so the same notes and the same plan follow you across your iPhone and iPad automatically.
Yes, via iCloud. Same Apple ID, automatic. Sync is end-to-end through Apple's CloudKit; we don't run a separate sync server.
Yes. Voice is the fast path, but you can type a note directly, or share text into Notabe from any app with the share sheet. Every path gets the same auto-title, tags, summary, and search.
You drop to a Free account. You keep on-device capture, transcription, auto-title and auto-tag on every note, and 5 AI summaries a month; the unlimited Pro features (semantic search, unlimited summaries, the Graph, collections, resurfacing) pause. Your notes, edits, and tags all stay — nothing is deleted. Reactivate anytime.
Because voice-first capture belongs on the device that is always with you, and Notabe is built natively in SwiftUI for the best transcription and interface Apple allows. A Mac or web client may arrive later; it is deliberately not a launch surface.
Edit it in a tap, or ignore it. Titles and tags are suggestions; nothing is locked in, and the vocabulary stays yours.

A notebook that listens.
On the Apple device you already have.

Native iPhone. Native iPad. One iCloud account, one notebook. Start free, or turn on every AI feature with Pro at $9.99/mo.

Free to start · No account needed · Apple In-App Purchase