Manual · Part 2 — What it does
Six things it does. Nothing it doesn’t.
Earshot is a recorder first. The transcript, the three-line summary and the answers all happen on your phone, after you press stop. This is the whole manual, in the order you will use it.
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Chapter 01 — Record
One key, and it’s already listening.
Press the key on the lock screen, the Action button or your watch. Earshot starts in under a second and keeps going with the screen off, through calls and app switches, for up to four hours per note.
Lock screen · Action button · Watch · Widget
4 h 00 min
AAC 64 kbps mono · 29 MB per hour
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● REC · STAND-UP
00:04:12
“…Priya owns the onboarding copy, due Thursday.”
A
B
C
A
Tape counter. Tap it to drop a bookmark.
B
Live level, so you can see it hears you.
C
The key: tap to stop, hold to pause.
Fig. 1 — Record screen
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Chapter 02 — Transcribe
The words arrive while people are still talking.
The transcript is written on the phone as the audio comes in, with a label for each speaker and a timestamp on every line. Tap a line to hear it again. Nothing is uploaded, so there is nothing to wait for.
38, switchable mid-note
Up to 8 labelled voices
4.2 % in our tests (English, quiet room)
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TRANSCRIPT · 2 SPEAKERS
PRIYA
04:02
Onboarding copy is mine. I’ll have a draft by Thursday.
MARCO
04:09
I’m blocked on Android until the new signing keys arrive.
PRIYA
04:16
Can we ask Hana to chase the keys today?
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B
C
A
Speakers are counted and named as they join.
B
The line you’re hearing, highlighted.
C
Tap any line to play it from that second.
Fig. 2 — Transcript screen
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Chapter 03 — Summarise
Three lines instead of forty minutes.
When you stop, Earshot writes a summary you can read at a red light: who owns what, by when, and anything you asked it to remember. Action items become reminders with one tap.
3 lines, or a full page on request
Reminders · Things · Todoist
Meeting · Lecture · Interview · Memo
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SUMMARY · STAND-UP · 14 MIN
Three things to remember
01
Priya: onboarding copy, due Thursday
02
Marco: blocked until the Android keys arrive
03
Hana to chase the keys today
#standup
#android
#launch
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B
C
A
A title written from what was said.
B
Who owns what, and by when.
C
Suggested tags. Keep them or bin them.
Fig. 3 — Summary screen
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Chapter 04 — Ask
Ask last Tuesday what it said.
Type a question and Earshot answers from your own notes only, with the exact line it came from. It can’t invent anything about a meeting it never heard.
Every note on this phone
The note, the speaker, the second
Yes, the model runs on the device
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ASK YOUR NOTES
What did Priya say about the budget?
2 CLIPS · 0.4 S
BUDGET REVIEW · MON
▶ 04:12
“We keep the budget at forty, and cut the print run.”
1:1 PRIYA · THU
▶ 11:48
“If the budget moves, onboarding slips a week.”
A
B
C
A
Ask in plain words, not keywords.
B
How many clips matched, and how fast.
C
The exact second it was said. Tap ▶ to hear it.
Fig. 4 — Ask screen
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Chapter 05 — Organise
Folders that fill themselves.
Notes file themselves by calendar event, place or speaker. Search reads what was said, not just the titles, so “that thing about the Android keys” finds the right minute.
Calendar · Location · Speaker
Full text across every transcript
On device · optional encrypted iCloud
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FOLDERS · FILED FOR YOU
Library
Stand-ups
+1 NEW
24
Lectures
12
Groceries
31
Interviews
8
Dreams
5
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B
C
A
Filed for you. No rules to set up.
B
This morning’s stand-up, filed by calendar.
C
Speaker folders collect every note with that voice.
Fig. 5 — Folders screen
Appendix A — Spec comparison
How it compares, in plain terms.
Voice memo apps record. Meeting bots transcribe calls from a server. Earshot does both jobs, on the phone in your pocket.
Feature
Earshot
Memo app
Meeting bot
Records in person, not only calls
Yes
Yes
No
Joins your video calls
Never
No
Yes, as a guest
Transcript made on the phone
Yes
Some languages
No, in the cloud
Three-line summary
Yes
No
Yes
Ask questions across notes
Yes
No
Paid plan
Works in airplane mode
Yes
Yes
No
Price
Free · Pro $6/mo
Free
$10–30/mo
Compared with the voice memo app that ships with the phone and the three most-installed meeting bots, September 2026. Replace with your own comparison before launch.
Appendix B — Get it
Your next thought is
four seconds away.
Free on iPhone, Android and Mac. No account, no card.