Record a lecture, meeting or your own explanation – Earnote transcribes it with Whisper and writes a structured note with tasks, flashcards and a PDF study sheet. Speech recognition runs on your iPhone, iPad or Mac, and on iPhone 15 Pro and later even the note is written on-device. No account, no ads, no subscription. Free and open source (MIT); optional one-time Pro on iPhone/iPad.

Hi Product Hunt! I'm Louis, a 21-year-old computer science student from Germany. I built Earnote because I could never keep up taking notes in lectures – and every tool I found uploaded my recordings and wanted a monthly subscription. As a student I didn't want either. How it works: put your phone on the table and record (or share a voice memo, an interview or a lecture video to the app). Earnote transcribes it with Whisper right on the device and writes a note: summary, the tasks and deadlines that were actually mentioned, flashcards to quiz yourself and a PDF study sheet. On iPhone 15 Pro and later even the note is written on the phone, so it works in airplane mode. No account, no ads, no subscription. Everything you need is free; there's an optional one-time Pro on iPhone/iPad (speaker detection, asking questions about a note, translation). The Mac app is free and open source (MIT). I'd love to hear: what's missing in your study or meeting workflow? I read every comment.

I like that the transcription stays on the device and there's no account. I'm on Android though. Whisper runs fine on phones these days, so is an Android version something you'd look at, or does the on-device note writing depend on Apple's own models?

Love that Earnote writes the lecture notes right on the device, so my recordings never have to leave the machine for a subscription.

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Lecture & meeting notes, written on your device

Lecture & meeting notes, written on your device