Voice notes for iPhone and Apple Watch
Record on your iPhone or your Apple Watch. Your iPhone turns it into text on the device itself, and clear reminders and events go into Reminders and Calendar.
Illustration of the interface, not a screenshot. The sentences shown are made up.
The watch and the phone are both full ways to record, with the same two buttons while you speak. Transcription happens on the iPhone.
Apple Watch
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Got it wrong? Tap Cancel. Recordings shorter than 2 seconds are discarded automatically.
Every recording from the watch and the phone lands in one list, newest first, with its date, its length and the first words of the transcript.
What you read has misheard words corrected, filler words removed and punctuation added. The transcript underneath is left untouched.
Reminders go into Apple’s Reminders and events into Calendar, not into yet another to-do list inside the app.
Names of people and products are the easiest to mishear. Enter what was heard and what it should be.
Lock with Face ID is off by default. Turn it on and the list and its contents need Face ID or your passcode each time you come back.
Illustration of the interface, not a screenshot. The sentences shown are made up.
The same on the watch and on the phone. Mark what matters as you say it; the rest happens after transcription.
Finished the proposal today. The client liked the second option best.
Tap Highlight when you reach the important part. Once transcribed, that sentence is marked in yellow, and the recording gets a star in the list.
Pick up the dry cleaning tomorrow at 3 pm.
Tap Remind when you say something you want to be reminded of. That sentence becomes a reminder directly, with no confirmation step. If it is wrong, tap Undo.
Which sentence you tapped on is estimated from how far through the recording you were, not located word by word. It is most accurate when a recording covers one thing; with several sentences in one recording, it can land on the one next to it.
The sentences shown are made up.
You said “remind me”, or both the time and the task are clear. It goes into Reminders or Calendar as soon as transcription finishes, and can be undone with one tap.
No time given, the time has already passed, or it is hard to tell whether it is a to-do at all. It is listed under that recording with the reason, and written only when you tap Add.
Repeating items are currently only shown in the app. They are not added to Reminders or Calendar yet.
“Tomorrow” and “next Monday” are counted from when you recorded, not from when the recording was processed.
After 30 seconds in a row with nobody speaking, recording stops by itself and the trailing silence is trimmed. A recording with no speech at all is not saved.
A recording made on the watch is sent to the iPhone it is paired with and transcribed in the background, even while the phone is locked.
If the phone is not nearby, the recording stays on the watch and is sent when you are back. The watch deletes it only after the phone confirms it has received it.
Recordings shorter than 2 seconds are discarded automatically, so an accidental tap does not leave an empty note.
A recording that is too quiet is not handed to the speech model, which sometimes makes up words from background noise. It shows “Nothing heard” and can still be played back.
Every recording keeps its audio, so you can listen again or transcribe it again. You delete recordings one by one in the app.
Recording, transcription and recognising reminders all happen on your devices. The app does not connect to any server, call any third-party service, or use a cloud model.
No accounts and no sign-in.
About 216 MB, currently installed with the app, and working as soon as it is installed.
Recordings and transcripts stay in the app’s own storage on your devices.
Reminders and Calendar are Apple’s apps. Whether what is written there syncs through iCloud depends on your own iCloud settings.
Murmo Notes is still in development and has not been released. There is nothing to download yet, and no waiting list to join.
Not yet. Murmo Notes is still in development and has not been released.
An iPhone with iOS 26 or later. An Apple Watch with watchOS 26 or later is optional: you can start a recording on either one. Transcription happens on the iPhone, so the watch is used paired with an iPhone. The iPhone also works fully on its own.
No. Murmo Notes has no accounts and no sign-in.
They are stored on your iPhone, and the app does not connect to any server. The privacy policy has the details.
No. The recording stays on the watch and is sent once you are back near the phone. It is deleted from the watch only after the phone confirms it has received it.
The original recording is always kept. You can listen again or tap Transcribe Again. For names that keep being misheard, add them under Settings, Custom Words, and both past and future recordings are corrected.