Talk. It becomes
a note.
The voice-note app for your Apple Watch — and your iPhone, when the Watch stays home. Transcribed on-device with Whisper or Apple's own speech models — your choice. No cloud. No subscription. No clumsy hardware to charge. One time — yours forever.
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- Subscriptions
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- Extra hardware
- 100%
- On-device
The app
Every note. Every action item.
Right where you left it.
A quiet inbox for your voice. Recorded on Watch or iPhone, transcribed on-device, summarised into the things you actually need to do.
On your wrist
One tap. You're recording.
Superpowers
The stuff that makes
people say "wait, what?"
Little Watch-native tricks that no cloud recorder can pull off — because they need your wrist, on-device, in real time.
Double-tap = audio marker
Mid-recording, double-tap your Watch. A silent bookmark drops into the timeline right where the good bit is. Scrub straight to it later — no scrubbing, no guessing.
Marker words buzz your wrist
Set your own trigger words — 'action', 'follow up', your kid's name. The moment they're spoken on-device, your Watch taps you. You know something important just happened without pulling out your phone.
Chapters, automatically
Long meeting? MinuteHand cuts it into chapters by topic and speaker turn — locally. Jump to any section in one tap. No 90-minute audio blobs.
Silent record from the Watch
Long-press the crown, no screen, no sound, no red dot on your iPhone. Perfect for the idea you don't want to interrupt.
Calendar knows when to listen
Pick an event in your Apple Calendar and MinuteHand arms itself — the Watch starts recording at the meeting's start, stops at the end, and files the note under that event's title. Nothing runs when nothing's scheduled.
Action items → Apple Reminders
Every 'I'll send that Friday' becomes a real reminder in your list, with the due date parsed on-device and the audio snippet linked back. No copy-paste, no forgetting.
Auto-highlights on playback
The moments you double-tapped, the marker-word hits, and anything the summariser flagged — all pinned to the waveform. Your recording, pre-read.
Talk to your marker
Ask 'what did I mark at 12:04?' — the on-device chat answers with the exact snippet and the surrounding context. Your memory, indexed.
Honest comparison
Everything they do.
None of what they cost.
Same job, three very different bills — and a pile of things the cloud recorders simply can't do from your wrist.
Beyond Plaud & Pocket
Things a cloud recorder
structurally can't do.
Local-first isn't a compromise. It unlocks features that need your device, your contacts, your calendar — the things a subscription can never touch.
Live captions on your wrist
Watch the transcript stream in real-time on your Watch while you talk. Whisper.cpp on-device — Plaud and Pocket both need the cloud for this.
Ask your recordings
Chat with any note — 'what did I promise on Tuesday?' — answered by a local LLM on your iPhone. No prompt ever leaves the device.
Speakers with real names
Diarization plus your Contacts. 'Speaker 2' becomes Anna, once. Every future recording knows her voice — locally, never uploaded.
Auto-record from Calendar
Opt-in per event. The Watch starts and stops with your meeting. Nothing runs, nothing listens, when nothing's scheduled.
Open Vault, no lock-in
Every recording lives in the Files app as WAV + Markdown + SQLite. Move to Obsidian, back it up, or delete the app — your notes stay yours.
Redact before you share
One tap removes names, numbers, emails and addresses from the transcript before export. Detection runs on-device, always.
What makes it better
Built for the thought that just crossed your mind.
Watch, iPhone, or both
Raise your wrist, tap, talk — or just pull out your iPhone. Same app, same on-device transcription, no extra hardware either way.
Private by default
Whisper and Apple's speech models both run locally. Your audio never touches a server — because there is no server.
Works with zero signal
Airplane, tunnel, mountain, meeting room. If your Watch works, MinuteHand works.
Clean, structured notes
Not just transcripts. Summaries, action items and searchable topics — generated on-device.
Whisper or Apple. You choose.
Pick the on-device model that fits your voice, language and privacy needs. Switch anytime. No account required.
Export anywhere
Markdown, Apple Notes, Obsidian, email. Your words, your files, no lock-in.
How it works
Three taps.
No friction.
The whole point of a voice note is to not lose the thought. MinuteHand gets out of the way.
Open MinuteHand on your Apple Watch — or your iPhone, if the Watch stayed home. No unlock, no setup.
Ramble. Brainstorm. Dictate the email. As long as you need.
By the time you check your phone, the transcript, summary and action items are waiting.
Pricing
Pay once.
Own it forever.
No trials. No tiers. No "Pro". No renewal email in twelve months. The way software used to work — because that's the way it should still work.
- Apple Watch + iPhone app
- Whisper or Apple on-device transcription
- Unlimited recordings, unlimited length
- Summaries & action items
- Export to Notes, Obsidian, Markdown
- All future updates included
30-day money back. No account required.
Questions.
Do I need an Apple Watch?+
No — the Watch app is optional. MinuteHand works standalone on iPhone (iOS 17+). With an Apple Watch Series 6 or newer on watchOS 10+ you also get wrist recording and live captions. Use whichever you have on you.
Where does transcription happen?+
Locally, on your Watch and iPhone. Use Whisper or Apple's on-device speech models — whichever fits your voice, language and privacy needs. No audio ever leaves your device. There is no server for it to leave to.
How is this different from Plaud or Pocket?+
Plaud is a $159 recorder + $79–$239/year cloud subscription. Pocket is a $99–199 MagSafe device + optional $19.99/month for the good features, and everything runs through their cloud (GPT, Claude, Gemini). MinuteHand is €19 once, uses the Apple Watch you already wear, and never sends a single second of audio off your device.
What if the AI models get better later?+
You get every future update for free, forever. That's what 'one-time' means.