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Scrub, skip ten, change speed. Hear what you actually said.
Android voice notes
Speak. Etch. Done.
The doctor rattles off two follow-ups, a referral and a “don’t do this for two weeks,” and you nod like you got it. You didn’t. Tap record — afterwards you have the words, a short summary, and a checklist of what you actually have to do.
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$3.99, once. No subscription, no account, no ads.
- Transcribes on-device
- No account
- No subscription
- Works offline
Mock appointment, real transcript. 1 minute 38 seconds.
For the moment someone talks faster than you can write
It is not a meeting-notes bot. It is the appointment, the counter, the phone call — the rooms where somebody says four things you have to remember and you get one shot at hearing them.
- Doctor, dentist, specialist
- Pharmacy or discharge nurse
- Car shop or home repair
- Parent–teacher conference
- Insurance, bank or utility, on hold then talking fast
- Someone showing you how a thing works, once
- A boss with four tasks in a hallway
- You, in the car, before it evaporates
Install it once so it is there the day you need it.
“The doctor spoke. I nodded. I had nothing.” 39 seconds.
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Talk
Tap record and say the thing before you lose it. Screen off is fine.
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Etch listens on the phone
Whisper runs locally. No upload, no waiting on a server, no signal required.
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Get something usable
A transcript you can search and fix, plus a summary and action items if you want them.
Watch a real first run
Four minutes, start to finish: the intro, an OpenRouter key fetched in a browser and pasted back, a model chosen, the on-device Whisper model downloading its one time, and then a recording that comes back as a transcript, notes, a summary, action items, a title and a tag.
Etch — Getting Started. 4 minutes 7 seconds.
Your voice stays on your phone
Transcription runs on the device with a Whisper model Etch downloads once. Not a stripped-down version that phones home for the hard parts — the whole thing, on your handset.
Which means it works in a basement, on a plane, and on a train through a tunnel. And there is no bucket of your recordings on a server somewhere, because there is no server.
Summaries and tasks, not a wall of text
A ten-minute ramble becomes three lines you will actually re-read, and a checklist of what you said you would do.
This part is optional and it uses an AI provider that you choose. Only the transcript text is ever sent — never the audio — and only to the endpoint you configured.
Fix what it misheard — once
Every speech model mangles unusual names. Etch heard NeoVetta as “NeoVetto”. So the transcript is editable, with find and replace built in: correct it once and every occurrence goes with it.
Then regenerate the summary and the fix carries through to your notes and tasks. Most apps make you live with the mistake, or re-run the same model and get the same mistake back.
Your AI. Your key. Your bill.
Point Etch at OpenRouter, OpenAI, Groq, xAI, DeepSeek, Mistral — anything that speaks the OpenAI chat format. Or at a model running on your own machine, so nothing leaves your house at all.
There is a free path: an OpenRouter key costs nothing and free models need no card. Etch tells you plainly that free providers commonly train on what you send, because you should know that before you send it.
The rest of it
Tags
Label notes and filter the list. Local only — tags are never sent anywhere.
Import audio
Drop in a voice memo or an interview recording and transcribe it the same way.
Export
Share or save the original WAV, or a smaller M4A. Your recording, your file.
Long recordings
Keeps going with the screen off. Splits automatically so nothing gets huge.
Light and dark
Cream and forest, or forest and cream. Set it and it stays set.
Straight answers
- Does my audio ever leave the phone?
- No. Transcription is on-device, always. There is no upload step and no NeoVetta server to upload to.
- What about the AI summaries?
- Only if you set them up. Then the transcript text — never the audio — goes to the provider you configured. What that provider does with it is governed by their policy, not ours.
- How do I set it up?
- Recording and transcribing need no setup at all. If you want summaries you add an AI provider once, which is the fiddliest part — so there is a four-minute walkthrough of the whole first run.
- Do I need an account?
- No. Etch has no login, no profile and no analytics.
- What languages?
- English only right now. The on-device model is English, and fed other languages it invents confident nonsense rather than failing. Multilingual is the next thing we want to build.
- Which phones?
- 64-bit ARM Android, version 8.0 or newer. That is nearly every Android phone sold since about 2017. It will not run on an emulator.
- How much?
- $3.99, once. No subscription, no in-app purchases, no ads, and no upsell later. If you point it at a paid AI provider for summaries, that bill is between you and them — we never see it.
- How long does transcribing take?
- Roughly the length of the recording, faster on a recent phone. It keeps running with the screen off and shows elapsed time while it works.
Not out yet
Etch is built and in final testing. When it reaches Google Play it is $3.99, once — no subscription, no account, no ads, and nothing to cancel later. English only to start, on 64-bit ARM Android 8.0 or newer.
Want to know the day it goes live? Email us and we will tell you, once. That is the only thing the address gets used for, and there is no list to unsubscribe from.