Lyonesse: AI Notes & PDF Chat

Private offline notes & study

Free · In-App Purchases

Transcribe your meetings and interviews, then get AI summaries and ask questions across everything you save. It all runs on your device, no internet needed. Record a meeting or lecture and read the words as people speak. Ask a question about what was said, get a summary in seconds, and find any moment later with search. The transcription and AI run on your device. Lyonesse is a private workspace for the things you record and the documents you read. Recording, transcription, summaries, speaker labels, and Q&A happen locally. There is no cloud transcription provider, so it keeps working with no internet and your audio is not uploaded to be processed. No account to create. Optional iCloud sync is off by default. WHAT YOU CAN DO - Transcribe live recordings, or import an audio or video file you already have. On Mac you can also capture system audio from any app, call, or video playing on your device. - Get AI summaries in the style you want: concise, bullets, action items, or a structured outline. - Ask Lyonesse: chat across your whole library. Notes, transcripts, PDFs, and images, with follow-up questions and citations back to the source. - Read your documents. Import a PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint file or an image, then summarize it, pull out the key points, or ask it questions. - Run a private meeting assistant: link your calendar, see full-screen live captions, get on-device speaker labels, and turn a recording into drafted minutes with action items. PICK YOUR ENGINE Lyonesse ships Apple Speech and a downloadable Parakeet model for transcription, plus Apple Intelligence and a downloadable Qwen 3 model for on-device AI. Auto picks the best one available for your language and device. In our published LibriSpeech benchmark, Apple's Speech API outperformed the Whisper models Lyonesse used to ship (read it at lyonesse.app/blog/apple-speech-api-benchmark.html). BUILT FOR STUDY AND WORK - Turn a recording into study sheets, meeting minutes, or follow-up notes with Smart Drafting. - Organize notes into Projects that file themselves, then ask questions across a whole project. - Export to PDF or text with an optional summary, Q&A, and full transcript. Send action items to Apple Reminders. - Full-text search across recordings, transcripts, documents, and action items. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Your recordings, documents, and transcripts stay on your device. Recording, transcription, summaries, speaker labels, document analysis, and Q&A run on-device, with no cloud AI provider in the loop. A private alternative to cloud tools like Otter, Fireflies, Rev, and ChatPDF. Works on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with transcription and summaries in 15 languages. Lyonesse is free to download and there is a free tier. For unlimited use, choose a subscription or a one-time Lifetime purchase. No per-minute fees. Privacy Policy: https://lyonesse.app/privacy.html Terms of Service: https://lyonesse.app/terms.html

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A NEW NAME AND A NEW ICON The app is now called Lyonesse. Same app, same library, same on-device privacy — a new name and a lighthouse icon to go with it. Nothing moves on your device and nothing needs re-importing. START A RECORDING FROM ANYWHERE A Lock Screen widget, a Control Center button, Siri and Shortcuts, and a menu bar recorder on the Mac with real menu commands. Ask a question by voice, and voice commands now work in every language the app speaks. CAPTURE NOW, PROCESS LATER Record on the move and let a more capable device do the AI work. Choose which of your devices processes a note, or defer processing entirely until later. SPEAKER LABELS IN FAR MORE LANGUAGES Recordings in Norwegian, Turkish, Croatian, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic and many more now get speaker labels and per-word timings — previously they got neither. Voice profiles let the app recognise a speaker it has met before and name them for you. A REAL PLAYER Playback speed, skip forward and back, and chapters that jump to the moment a topic starts. EXPORT THE WHOLE LIBRARY Export a project, your entire library, or a Markdown vault for other note apps. Exports can carry real timestamps, and subtitle files (SRT and VTT) are built from actual timings rather than an estimate. BUSINESS CARDS BECOME CONTACTS Photograph a card and add it straight to Contacts, or share it as a contact file. BETTER ANSWERS Answers cite their sources on every AI tier now, not only Apple Intelligence. A question asked in one language finds answers written in another, and long documents summarise properly instead of stopping short. TURN AUTOMATIC SUMMARIES OFF A new switch stops summaries being created automatically. Generating one by hand still works. CLEARER TRANSCRIPTS Fixed several causes of corrupted transcripts: words run together in live captions, the closing words of a recording dropped, and speech lost between the sections of a long recording. ALSO FIXED Siri speaks an answer once instead of twice. Long recordings keep their audio and their speaker labels all the way to the end. The Privacy and Terms links open again. Everything still runs on your device.

The developer, JOSIP MARKOVIC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .

  • Data Not Linked to You

    The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

    • Identifiers
    • Usage Data
    • Diagnostics

Privacy practices may vary based, for example, on the features you use or your age. Learn More

The developer indicated that this app supports the following accessibility features. Learn More

  • Supported Features

    • VoiceOver

    • Voice Control

    • Larger Text

    • Dark Interface

    • Differentiate Without Colour Alone

    • Sufficient Contrast

    • Reduced Motion

    • Captions

Provider
  • JOSIP MARKOVIC
Size
  • 60.5 MB
Category
  • Productivity
Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
  • iPhone
    Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
  • iPad
    Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later.
  • Mac
    Requires macOS 26.0 or later.
  • Apple Vision
    Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
Languages
English and 13 more
  • English, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
Age Rating
4+
In-App Purchases
Yes
  • Inscribe Annual USD 34.99
  • Inscribe Monthly USD 9.99
  • Inscribe Unlimited USD 69.99
Copyright
  • © Markovic Software, obrt za usluge