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NOTE 014 · TUE 09:42
Okay, quick note after the stand-up. Priya owns the onboarding copy, due Thursday. Marco is blocked on the Android build until the new keys arrive. And remind me to book the dentist.
↑ Press the key to hear it. Sound on.
Fig. 1 — Press the key. A real 12-second note, transcribed on the device.
Section 01 — Why
00:14 · said once, in a kitchen in Lisbon
Earshot is built like a pocket recorder: one key, one counter, one job. Here is the whole manual.
Section 03 — Field recordings
What people record
Tap a tag to hear how people use it. Drag them around if you like; they don’t mind.
Tray 03 · 8 tags · drag me
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Lectures
01:12:40
Interviews
00:48:15
Stand-ups
00:14:02
Groceries
00:00:38
Dreams
00:02:51
Voice journal
00:06:30
Site visits
00:22:10
Lyrics
00:01:44
01:12:40
Lectures
Every lecture, searchable by what was said
Record a 90-minute seminar and get chapters, key terms and the three things the lecturer repeated.
00:48:15
Interviews
Two voices, labelled, ready to quote
Speaker labels and timestamps make every quote easy to find and check against the audio.
00:14:02
Stand-ups
Blockers and owners, pulled out for you
Earshot lists who is doing what, and what is stuck, before the call has ended.
00:00:38
Groceries
Say it once, get a list sorted by aisle
“Eggs, the good yoghurt, and something for Sunday.” It becomes a checklist, milk included.
00:02:51
Dreams
Catch it before it fades
Lock Screen recording starts in under a second, in the dark, without unlocking.
00:06:30
Voice journal
A diary you can talk to
Weekly summaries show what came up most, and how the tone of your notes changed.
00:22:10
Site visits
Snag lists, spoken while you walk
Gloves on, phone in pocket. The snag list is written before you are back in the van.
00:01:44
Lyrics
Hum it, find it again by humming
Melody notes are tagged by key and tempo, so a half-idea from last year is one hum away.
Section 04 — Playback
Scroll to play it back.
00:44
PRIYA
MARCO
PRIYA
MARCO
DANI
PRIYA
DANI
PRIYA
MARCO
PRIYA
Summary
Keys: Marco, Thu. Copy: Dani. Ship Friday.
Section 05 — Inside the app
Five screens you’ll
actually use
No dashboards, no workspaces. Scroll, and the phone shows each screen as it comes up.
9:41
87%
● REC · STAND-UP
00:04:12
“…Priya owns the onboarding copy, due Thursday.”
Chapter 01 / 05 — Record
One key. It starts before you look.
The record key sits where your thumb already is. Press it from the Lock Screen, the Action Button or your Watch, and the tape counter is running before the screen has finished waking.
Start time
0.4 s
Longest note
no limit
Chapter 02 / 05 — Transcript
Every voice, labelled.
Earshot hears who is speaking and keeps their name across notes. Tap any word and the audio jumps to that second.
Speakers
up to 8
Languages
38
Chapter 03 / 05 — Summary
Three lines, not three pages.
When you stop, you get the gist: decisions, owners and dates. Switch to action items or full minutes when you need them.
Summary time
2 s
Chapter 04 / 05 — Ask
Ask it like you’d ask a colleague.
Type a question in plain words. Earshot answers with the exact clips, from every note you have ever recorded.
Search
on the device
Answers
link to the second
Chapter 05 / 05 — Folders
Filed before you think about it.
Move five notes into a folder and Earshot learns what belongs there. Stand-ups, lectures and grocery lists sort themselves.
Learns from
5 notes
Rules
stay on your phone
Section 06 — A day on tape
Six notes, one Tuesday.
08:40
Stand-up · Office
Keys by Thursday, copy by Friday.
3 action items
11:15
Lecture · Room 2.14
Attention is a budget, not a switch.
52 min → 3 lines
13:30
Walk · Rua Augusta
The widget should show the last line, not the title.
Filed to Ideas
15:05
Client call · Zoom
They want the export in Notion by the 12th.
Sent to Notion
19:20
Kitchen · Voice memo
Saffron, lemons, the good rice.
Reminders · 3
23:10
Bedside · Hum
(humming, 0:18)
Melody saved
Section 07 — Where notes go
Sends to the tools you already open.
1 tap
Notion
Each note as a Markdown page, speakers and timestamps kept
1 tap
Obsidian
A vault note with [[links]] to people and projects
1 tap
Slack
A 30-second clip plus its transcript, as a link
1 tap
Google Docs
The full transcript, headings per speaker
1 tap
Things
Action items become to-dos with the due date
1 tap
Todoist
Same, into the project you pick once
Auto
Reminders
“By Thursday” turns into a Thursday reminder
Auto
Calendar
Notes file themselves under the meeting
Section 08 — Spec sheet · Doc ES-PRIV-24
Private by construction,
not by policy.
Earshot was designed so there is nothing to leak. These are the numbers, not promises.
Airplane-mode test · 30 days
41 / 41
notes recorded, transcribed and summarised with the network off
On the device (Neural Engine / NNAPI) ¹
0 bytes ²
Optional · end-to-end encrypted (XChaCha20-Poly1305)
No
Everything except sync
Until you delete it. Deletion is immediate and final.
38 for transcription · 14 for summaries
Cure53, July 2026 · report public ³
¹ iPhone 12 and later, Pixel 6 and later, Macs with Apple silicon. ² Crash reports are opt-in and never contain audio or text. ³ Summary and full report linked from the Press kit.
Rev 2.4 · 18 Sep 2026
4.1%
Word error rate on our 400-note test set
3:52
Minutes to transcribe an hour, iPhone 12
0 B
Audio sent to our servers, ever
Section 09 — Field reports
4.8 out of 5, from people
who talk to their phones.
12,400 ratings across the App Store and Google Play. A few of our favourites.
App Store
I coded 212 interviews before Christmas. The speaker labels alone saved me a month of rewinding.
Priya Raman
PhD student, Leeds
Google Play
I talk into it walking the site with gloves on. By the time I’m in the van the snag list is written.
Marco Bellini
Site manager, Turin
App Store
Stand-up notes used to be my job. Now they’re a folder that fills itself and I just read the summary.
Hana Sato
Product lead, Osaka
Google Play
Transcripts are the best I’ve tested on Nigerian English. Wish exports kept my highlights, though.
Daniel Okoye
Journalist, Lagos
App Store
On-device was the only way I could use it for session notes. It’s fast, and nothing leaves my phone.
Clara Weiss
Therapist, Vienna
App Store
Half-melodies at 2am used to vanish. Now I hum, it labels the key, and I find it by humming again.
Lucas Ferreira
Songwriter, Porto
Section 10 — Price list · Rev 2.4
Free until it’s
worth paying for.
Start free with 300 minutes a month. Only transcribed audio counts; silence is never billed.
Prices in USD. Students get Pro at 50% off with a university email. Plans are billed by the App Store or Google Play.
Section 11 — Revision history
What’s new in 2.4
We ship every two weeks and write it down like a manual.
2.4.1
Speaker labels now survive airplane mode
2.4
Ask your notes
2.3.2
Transcription is 38% faster on older iPhones
Section 12 — Troubleshooting
Questions, answered.
Still stuck? The help centre has 15 short guides, and a human answers email within a day.
Arjun · Support · replies in about 3 h
Does it work in airplane mode?
All of it. Recording, transcript and summary run on the phone.
Does Earshot work without internet?
Yes. Recording, transcription, summaries and search all run on your phone. Only sync needs a connection.
Can you read my notes?
Which phones are supported?
How accurate is it with accents?
What counts as a minute on the free plan?
Can I record meetings and calls?
Section 13 — Get it
Your next thought is
four seconds away.
Free on iPhone, Android and Mac. No account, no card.