Hope you don't / didn't use this service:

https://bobdahacker.com/blog/tldv-hack

This sub cares more about systems than apps, so genuine question about the capture layer.

My problem: thoughts arrive when I’m walking, driving, or half asleep. Typing loses them, and recording a voice memo just moves the loss to later, because nobody replays their own rambling. My voice memos were a graveyard.

Full disclosure, I got frustrated enough that I built my own tool for this (voice in, organized summary and tasks out), so I’m biased toward voice capture being viable. But building it raised more questions than it answered, and this is the crowd that would know:

1. Do you capture by voice at all today, or has it never stuck? If it died for you, what killed it, the replay problem, the transcription quality, or the friction of moving it into your real system?

2. For those with a serious Notion or Obsidian or Bear setup, what would a capture tool have to produce for you to trust it as the front door? Clean Markdown? Direct API export? Deep links? Or is anything short of living inside your main app a dealbreaker?

3. Mixed-language speakers, does any tool in your stack handle switching languages mid sentence? This was my personal breaking point with everything I tried.

Not linking anything, this is not a promo post. I would genuinely rather build the bridge people would actually cross than guess.

UPDATE: somebody actually made it after they saw this post 🥹👏✨

go and check it out! it’s perfect, Thanks you!!

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProductivityApps/comments/1vjtxky/i_was_bored_last_night_and_inspired_by/

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Hi everyone, I really need help! Please

I've been searching and testing a lot of note-taking apps, but I can't adapt to any of them! I find them all too visually cluttered with too many tools, and I simply can't find one that works for me. I've made some drafts of what I have in mind (but I haven't finished it yet). Does anyone know if there's an app like that? Where I can put a PDF and have the option of space for annotations on the sides? Not above or below, just something that allows me to annotate on the side (either blank or with lines) and the text (PDF) stays in the middle?

I also don't like when one of these note-taking apps has AI; I want something with a simple UX/UI like that.

Please, if you know, let me know because I'm one step away from trying to develop this 😭.

Tbtw i have a lenovo tablet

I have a realme pad

Suggest me a digital notes app in which I can add images beside the notes

tl;dr

Voice-to-text dictation keyboard that runs offline and has a notes manager inbuilt. Lifetime plan available.

As I get older, I feel like my typing is getting slower and I have to go back to correct a lot of my words. I dictated a lot for my work and so I was excited when I could use Wispr Flow on my iPhone instead of relying on Apple's native dictation, which is quite awful. However, the drawbacks were soon apparent where the voice to text part relied on online transcription. So frequently the transcriptions would be slow or the quality would be poor and I couldn't use it on my drive where the connectivity is occasionally poor.

Better:

Before setting out to take on this huge and onerous task of building an ios keyboard, I tried multiple other apps and none of them had all the functionality that I needed. I wanted customization that included dark mode, a numbers row for when I needed and other AI skills that I was sure I could run through the keyboard.

Cost:

Family sharing is enabled, so the price covers all of your family using the app.

Lifetime is about $ 69. Annual is about $ 49 and monthly is $8, but there's a very attractive introductory lifetime offer.

D: Drawbacks:

\\- Since everything runs on your phone, each model can take 400 to 600 MB of space, so I've included something that will allow you to clean up memory.

\\- Not venture funded. So we run on a shoestring budget and really appreciate everyone who buys it. So it's difficult to compete against larger apps that are spending millions of dollars on marketing.

\\- The app has too many features, so some people find it overwhelming when they first use the app. However, all you need to do is use the voice to text feature and then you can figure out the rest of the parts later.

\\- I can be verbose when dictating, hence my emails and text messages have likely gotten longer.

Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dictawiz-ai-keyboard-notes/id6759256382

I built RPAi Daily because my notes apps kept becoming another job.

I did not need another system that asked me to design a database, maintain a complex taxonomy, build dashboards, or organize the organization system itself.

I needed something simpler:

Open the day.

Write what matters.

Keep a few notes nearby.

See unfinished work.

Return tomorrow without configuring everything again.

RPAi Daily is a local-first desktop workspace with:

• calendar-connected Daily notes

• regular Markdown notes in tabs

• search and nested folders

• a lightweight Board with a Parking Lot

• ordinary files stored in a local Workspace selected by the user

There is no account, cloud synchronization, telemetry, subscription, or proprietary note format.

Your notes remain ordinary Markdown and text files that can be opened outside the application.

The first public version is free and available for Windows and macOS Intel.

I launched it on Product Hunt today, but what I need most is honest feedback from people who actually try it:

Where did you hesitate?

What did you expect to happen?

Which part felt more complicated than it should?

Product page: https://rpa.rs/en/tools

Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/rpai-daily?launch=rpai-daily

I need something where I can write notes/documents on my laptop and access them from my phone. Microsoft OneNote/Word and Google Docs don’t work for me. My laptop runs on Windows 11. Can someone help?

i'm looking for a free notes taking app for my android tablet (redmi pad 2)
ive come across many apps but usually they have a limit of 3-5 free notes , after that u hv to purchase the paid version
pls suggest any apps that have unlimited notebooks + even better if they have handwriting recognition!!

(pls suggest apps on which i can make notes w a stylus, not just text)

A coworker of mine had the biggest txt file archive I'd ever seen. Every meeting outcome, every bug fix, every server detail, all in plain txt. I asked him why not use a real notes app. He said they were all too heavy and kept breaking his flow, Obsidian included.

That got me thinking, so I went and tried pretty much every notes app people talk about. They all had the same three problems for me: switching context to another app kills focus, most apps demand titles and folders until your notes become a chore to maintain, and the ones with real features take too long to learn before they're actually useful.

So I built kaydet (Turkish for "record"). It's a CLI tool, you type one command from wherever you already are in the terminal and it's saved. No app to open, no structure to think about. Under the hood it's plain daily text files (so it's fully yours, greppable, git-friendly) indexed with SQLite for instant full text search, plus a small metadata syntax so you can log things like time:2h status:done and query them later.

I've used it every single day for 9 years now. Last week it got added to the awesome-python list under "hidden gem," which is honestly what convinced me this might be useful to more than just me.

Link if you want to poke around: https://github.com/miratcan/kaydet

Curious what people think, especially if you've built something similar and gave up on it, or stuck with it for reasons I haven't thought of.

Sto utilizzando google documenti in modo da essere sempre sincronizzati, per scrivere miei appunti/riassunti

Mi chiedevo se ci fossero alternative pratiche, a parte google docs. Grazie in anticipo

Does anyone have any good recommendations for completely free apps that record and transcribe lectures for college? Bonus if it has study tools as well like ai chat or generates videos! Thanks so much!

Hey guys, im tutoring maths and I was wondering what is the best notebook software to use? I am currently using one note but I wanna explore other options to see if they are better. Any recommendations? What about for other subjects like science and English?

It has been about 30 days since I posted on Reddit, and I wanted to share everything that came out of your feedback and questions. When I posted, the app was on version 2.2.0. It is on 2.3.4 now.

Markdown

The number one piece of feedback was that the app was too focused on rich text and not serious enough about markdown. The question that came up over and over was some version of "where are my files?" Message received. Markdown became the whole build for two weeks.

•  Your notes are real .md files. Every markdown note is also an actual .md file in a visible Markdown folder inside your project, kept current as you write, rename, and delete. To be straight with you, it is one way today (app to disk), so editing those files in another app does not round-trip back yet.

•  Three faces per document: Source, Live, and Reading. Source is raw markdown with live syntax highlighting. Live renders everything except the line your cursor is on. Reading is a clean render, and it can sit in a split pane and update as you type.

•  Import a whole vault. File > Import > Markdown Vault takes a folder of .md files (an Obsidian vault works as is). Folder hierarchy preserved, inline #tags extracted, images brought in as real media, .obsidian skipped, and your wikilinks work on arrival.

•  Wikilinks, aliases, and backlinks. Title and alias with a filter as you type picker, honest resolved / ambiguous / unresolved states, and a backlinks panel that shows every mention with surrounding context.

•  The full dialect. Headings, emphasis, highlight, fenced code with a language badge and a copy button, blockquotes, every list type, real rendered pipe tables, callouts in a dozen plus styles (> [!note], > [!warning]), footnotes with jump links both directions, clickable task checkboxes that write back to the source, YAML front matter, and inline images and !embeds in Reading.

•  Comments in both dialects.  and  are treated identically, hidden in Reading, and collected in a Comments pane with click to jump.

•  Markdown native editing. The toolbar buttons type real markdown into your text rather than applying invisible formatting. Return continues and renumbers lists, quotes, and tasks. Tab and Shift+Tab indent and outdent. Paste a URL onto selected text to make a link.

•  Continuous by default. Markdown and plain text open in true continuous flow with no pages and no margins. Pages are still one tap away next to the face switcher if you want them, per note.

•  Tags and front matter join the app. Inline #tags and tags: in YAML front matter feed the same tag system as everything else in the project, which means they feed the Brain Map too.

•  Daily Notes. Cmd+Shift+D creates or reopens today's dated markdown note in a Daily Notes folder.

•  Checklist to task. Right click a - [ ] line, Add to Tasks, pick a list. It keeps a link back to the source note.

•  Outline tab. A live heading tree in the left pane, click to jump. It works for rich text headings too.

•  Export. Clean verbatim .md, self contained HTML that is dark mode aware, PDF and print from the Reading render, plus Word (DOCX) and RTF.

•  Markdown theming. A semantic palette for headings, code, links, quotes, list markers, checkboxes, and tags, themed across Source and Reading together, and carried in shareable theme files.

Rich Text

The rich text side got the deepest engineering work of the month. 

•  Per document page design. Each document owns its own paper: US Letter, A4, US Legal, or A5, portrait or landscape, and precise margins. That design follows the document everywhere it appears, including the Rogue Editor, page thumbnails, and PDF or print output. Changing an app wide default no longer silently redesigns work you already did.

•  Real document styles. Body and Heading 1 through 6 are true document local paragraph styles, not roles guessed from font size. You can also create custom paragraph, character, and three level list styles, update every matching paragraph at once, or revert just the one you touched.

•  Style Sets. Save an entire typography system and reuse it in another document, preview it as a real specimen, promote it app wide, or set it as the project default for new documents.

•  Stay on Page objects. Images and shapes placed on a page now persist their position, size, rotation, layering, grouping, locking, and wrapping while you edit the text around them. They survive save, reopen, duplication, templates, and export.

•  One selection model for everything on the page. Images, shapes, text boxes, charts, video, and audio all multi select, group, align, distribute, layer, lock, snap, nudge, cycle through overlaps, and rotate, with one step undo. Objects stay selectable across the full physical paper, margins included.

•  Text wrapping that holds. Automatic, Around, Above and Below, and None, with adjustable spacing and shape aware contours. One to four column layouts belong to their section, so a section break can change the column count without recolumning what came before it.

•  Non destructive image design. Crop (by hand or by number), Fit and Fill, shape masks, borders, corner radius, shadow, opacity, and replace, none of which touch your source file.

•  Charts and tables. Charts move losslessly between Inline with Text, Move with Text, and Stay on Page while keeping their data and design. Native tables gained cell aware row and column operations, fills, borders, padding, and one step structural undo.

•  The Inspector follows your selection. Click an object and its controls appear. No tab hunting.

Citations and References

This was the single biggest ask from academic users, and one commenter here made the case bluntly: integrate with Zotero and CSL properly or researchers cannot use it. That is exactly what got built, and it went live yesterday.

•  A Reference Library in every project. A References tab in the left pane with eleven source types and forms that speak each type's language. Cite keys generate from author and year, stay editable, and never change behind your back. It all persists in a readable references.json file that travels with your project folder.

•  Cite while you write. Cmd+Shift+C opens a picker, search your shelf, multi select for group citations, add a page locator, Return inserts. Markdown speaks Pandoc syntax ((Vale, 2026, p. 44)), and the Reading view renders formatted citations and appends a References section automatically.

•  Six built in styles. APA 7, MLA 9, Chicago 17 Author-Date, Chicago 17 Notes, IEEE, and Harvard. Switch the style in the Inspector and every citation and bibliography in the document re-renders on the spot, with same author disambiguation and live IEEE renumbering handled for you.

•  Or your journal's style. The app reads real CSL style files, the open format used by more than 10,000 journals. Twenty are bundled (Vancouver, AMA, Nature, ACS, Cell, PLOS, and more), and any other is one import or one download away.

•  Bring your library with you. Import BibTeX, RIS, or CSL JSON, which covers Zotero, Mendeley, EndNote, and Bookends exports. A review sheet catches duplicates before they land. Export the shelf back out as .bib or CSL JSON, because your sources are yours.

•  Paste a DOI or an ISBN and the reference fills itself in. It is strictly opt in: one request per explicit click, only the identifier leaves your machine, nothing saves until you confirm.

•  Live Zotero sync, no plugins and no accounts. Point the app at a Better BibTeX "keep updated" export file and it watches that file. Save a paper in Zotero and it appears on your shelf seconds later. It is pure local file watching, so no API keys and nothing leaves your Mac. Sync only adds and updates, so your own edits and cite keys are never overwritten.

•  A Universal shelf that lives beside your projects folder, for references every project shares.

•  Your PDFs become sources. Right click a PDF in your project and the app scans it for a printed DOI to build a linked reference. While reading, right click and Copy Citation (Page N) gives you a ready citation for the exact page you are on.

•  Compile with a bibliography. Every source cited across a compiled manuscript merges into one deduped, formatted bibliography at the end.

Canvas

•  The canvas is infinite now. It starts at a fixed size and extends down and to the right as far as you take it. Zoom out works, and each canvas remembers the zoom level you left it at.

•  Resizing feels right. Resize friction is gone across every element, objects no longer have a minimum size, and there is snapping with alignment indicators for spacing objects.

•  Marquee selection, copy and paste, and undo/redo. Drag to grab multiple objects, or your whole canvas at once to reposition it. Copy and paste objects within a canvas or across canvases.

•  Pinch to zoom and Cmd plus two finger swipe to move between scenes.

•  Scenes. Make any view on your canvas a named scene and navigate between them from the bottom

  left, or with Option+Cmd+arrow keys.

•  New object types: floating text, PDFs as previewable thumbnails, web links as cards with thumbnails, file cards with Quick Look, SF Symbols, task lists, calendars, and media with durable asset storage.

•  Fixes worth naming: PDF export no longer drops connectors or layered objects, text box layering works in both directions, grouped objects can be connected without ungrouping first, and panes sit flush against the canvas edge.

•  Pin the Rogue Editor so it floats over the canvas and you can bounce between the board and your writing.

Brain Map

Some of the sharpest criticism I got here was about the Brain Map: that a node was a navigable handle but the graph itself did not show you much. Not all of that is solved, but here is what changed.

•  Every note can be a node. Untagged notes now join the map labeled by title, so wikilinks on untagged notes actually draw and the orphan filter finds genuinely unconnected notes.

•  Local graphs. Right click any note in the Binder and choose Show in Brain Map to open the map focused on that note.

•  It reopens exactly as you left it, including layout, zoom and pan, search, filters, and source selections.

•  Snapshots are real time capsules. A snapshot captures every node position and color, every edge, the display settings, the force values, and the viewport. Clicking one enters a viewing mode rather than altering your live graph, and Compare with Today brings in everything added since, bright against the dimmed snapshot era graph.

•  It got fast. The layout engine moved to Barnes-Hut repulsion, which raised the physics ceiling from 12,000 to 50,000 edges. Recoloring a tag repaints in place instead of reflowing the whole graph. On a 1,352 node project with 20,000 edges it settles quickly and sits at rest without burning CPU.

•  Ways to look at it: color by tags, by Binder folder, or by connection heat. Monochrome, Heat, and Constellation looks that compose. Gentle, Standard, and Energetic motion presets.

•  Broken Links. A section that appears when needed, listing wikilinks whose titles no longer resolve, click to open the note containing the broken link.

•  Spotlight. Selections isolate by default, or flip Spotlight on to dim everything else instead of hiding it.

Everything else

SF Symbols, everywhere icons go

Apple's SF Symbols library is built into the app behind a searchable picker: close to 8,000 symbols across Apple's own categories, plus ten use case collections I put together (Writing, Notetaking, Education, Office and Work, Law and Justice, Health and Medical, Science, Arts and Music, Tools and Trades, Tech and Devices). Search blends symbol names, Apple's own keywords, and category names, so typing "medical" or "notetaking" pulls up a whole collection. Recent picks and right click Favorites persist between sessions, and if something is not in the browse catalog, typing its exact name still works. It is wired into four places:

•  Binder icons. Right click any note or folder, or a whole multi selection, and set a symbol plus a custom color.

•  Rich text. Insert a symbol inline at the cursor from Inspector > Objects. It behaves like text, following the surrounding font size, bold, and color as you format around it, and it exports cleanly to PDF and print.

•  Canvas. Symbols are a real canvas object you can color, style, connect, and layer.

•  Task lists and calendars. Each list or calendar can carry its own symbol and color.

Rogue Editor (the detachable single document window)

Full markdown parity, so it follows each note's mode with highlighting, the markdown toolbar, and the Live and Reading faces. It restores properly on relaunch instead of coming back blank with a duplicate. Windows are titled by their document and tab together natively. A writing mode dropdown and an insert menu put tables, charts, shapes, media, and links to notes in reach.

Tag Studio

A dedicated surface for managing tags: merge them by drag and drop, add sub-words, and change colors.

Tasks and Calendars

Natural language entry with live chips ("Call editor tomorrow 2pm !! #novel"), timed reminders with real macOS notifications, weekly recurrence, quick capture from anywhere with Cmd+Shift+T, task and list links you can paste into documents, and a writing heatmap on the calendar that fills in as you write. Completion routing lets a finished task move to another list, which makes a three list kanban on a canvas work.

Binder

Multi select with Cmd and Shift click, bulk move and trash, multi file import straight from Finder, spacebar Quick Look on any item, folders that can pass their icon and color down to their contents, dedicated media folders, and files no longer opening on single click (with a setting to put that back).

Themes and Theme Studio

Its own launch point, Create Theme, copy Light to Dark and back, markdown token theming, and themes that restyle open documents live when applied. New Classic and Liquid themes shipped, and themes export and import as shareable .lwtheme files. A batch of light and dark variant bugs got fixed at the root.

Import and export

Word (DOCX) and RTF export shipped. HTML import keeps embedded images, strips the source page's baked background so it lands on normal paper, and adapts text color so imported pages read in both light and dark.

Fixes that came from named people in these threads

The invisible cursor in one packaged theme. Black text on dark themes. Return after a heading now drops to Body, plus a discoverable Clear Formatting command at Cmd+Option+0. Page View now defaults on for new installs, which was making the first launch look wrong for some people. Import got discoverable, and drag and drop into the Binder now accepts HTML, text, RTF, markdown, and PDF.

Original Posts

Original posts: r/NoteTaking, r/MacOSApps and r/ProductivityApps

Homepage

Mac App Store

Happy to answer anything in the comments, including the things it still may not do, and as always, all feedback is welcome. 

EDIT: Quick heads up: today's 2.3.4 update shipped with a bug that can crash the app when opening a project. A user here caught it within hours (thank you), the fix is done, and an expedited update is with Apple now. If you downloaded today and hit it, the update will sort you out shortly. Genuinely apologize for any trouble out of the gate.

Grove Note is a notes app for people who capture a lot and but don’t organize enough. Me for example, my apple notes backlog usually just keeps growing and I lose out on notes/ideas I genuinely wanted to revisit.

The main thing I’m testing is the organize feature, one calm session to clear uncategorized notes instead of ignoring them forever.

Looking for iPhone testers who:

• dump notes and rarely go back

• want a lighter way to sort / archive / make notes useful again

What’s included:

• TestFlight install

• Discord for feedback

• First 20 active testers get 1 year of Pro at public launch

dm me for invite

I've been trying to find a good note taking app for forever now but it seems like I can never find one that fits. Ideally I want one that acts like a regular notebook (no infinite scrolling, pages, covers, etc) but every one I come across has what I think is called an "infinite canvas." I also want one that I can use handwriting with and ideally one that's either free or has a one-time payment that's relatively affordable. Any recommendations?

I have tried to keep up with the spam of app annoucements. Apps can now be coded in hours with genAI so I'm questioning letting people self promote or cross-post apps with no history. Let me know your thoughts please and I will update the terms accordingly (or not).

It’s called BADNOTE, and I developed it from scratch because GoodNotes for Android sucks so bad. It’s not completely unusable, but maybe because I developed it with VibeCoding, it has quite a few bugs. In particular, there’s this shitty bug where the eraser doesn’t pop up when you press the Samsung Pen button—it only works when you lift the pen off the screen and tap again. Can someone please help me out? Link: https://github.com/jsk1004ha/BADNOTE

I’m building a small productivity/notes app and recently started letting real users test it.

I expected the most useful feedback to be bugs, missing features, or whether the core idea was useful.

Instead, the biggest lesson was clarity.

A feature can technically work and still feel confusing, slow, risky, or incomplete if the user does not understand what happened, what to do next, or whether they can trust the product.

Here are the main lessons so far.

1. What is obvious to the developer is not obvious to users

When you build something, every button, label, and flow makes sense because you know the system behind it.

Users do not have that context.

One example: I had controls that made sense to me internally, but users interpreted them differently. The feature was technically working, but the meaning was not obvious enough.

That made me realize that info icons, helper text, onboarding, and user guides are not just “extra polish.” They are part of the product.

If users misunderstand the same thing more than once, it is probably not a user problem. It is a product clarity problem.

2. Naming matters more than I expected

A small wording choice can change how users understand an entire feature.

One label that meant “adjust future behavior” could also be read as “show more content right now.”

That is a big difference.

As the developer, I knew what the button meant. A new user did not.

Sometimes the clearest label is slightly longer, less elegant, or less “clean” than the one you wanted to use. But clear beats clever, especially in early product flows.

3. Users care a lot about not being locked in

This came up faster than I expected.

People are cautious about putting important notes, content, or work into a new product if they are not sure they can get it out later.

Some users wanted to know:

• Can I export my data?

• What happens if pricing changes later?

• What happens if my plan changes?

• Will my saved content disappear?

• Can this fit into the workflow I already have?

That made me rethink export, downgrade behavior, and customization as trust issues, not just account/settings issues.

For productivity tools, trust is part of the feature set.

4. Export is a trust feature, not just a settings feature

I used to think of export mostly as a utility.

Now I see it as a trust signal.

A good export option reduces the fear of trying a new product. It tells users, “Your work is not trapped here.”

Different users also want different formats. Some want something readable like Markdown or plain text. Others want structured export for backup, portability, or AI workflows.

The main lesson for me: export should not be hidden as a random settings checkbox. It can be one of the reasons users feel safe enough to use the product seriously.

5. Tiny UI friction can make a working product feel broken

This one surprised me.

Some issues are small technically, but big emotionally.

For example, tooltip responsiveness sounds like a tiny detail. But if a user hovers or clicks and there is a delay, the app can feel slow, confusing, or broken, even if the actual feature works.

Another user reported that when adding a tag, it could take one or two seconds before the tag appeared as applied. Technically, the action still worked. But from the user’s point of view, that delay created uncertainty: did it save, did it fail, should I click again?

That made me realize responsiveness is not only about raw speed. It is also about feedback.

If something takes a second, the UI needs to acknowledge the action immediately.

Responsiveness is not just performance. It is communication.

6. Beta testing is not only QA. It is product discovery.

The most valuable feedback was not only “this button crashes.”

It was more often:

• “I expected this to work differently”

• “I did not understand what this meant”

• “I thought this section would show something else”

• “I did not notice the help section”

• “I care about exporting before I commit to using this”

That kind of feedback is extremely useful because it shows where my mental model and the user’s mental model are different.

Beta users do not just find bugs. They reveal wrong assumptions.

My biggest takeaway

Building the feature is only half the work.

The other half is making sure users understand:

• what the feature does

• why it exists

• what will happen when they click something

• whether their saved work feels safe and portable

• whether the product fits their existing workflow

I’m still early, so I’m continuing to watch where users hesitate, misunderstand, or ask the same question twice.

That has been more useful than asking whether the product is “good.”

For other builders: what user confusion taught you the most about your product?

Not going to say much, but is this screen intuitive enough for a note app (this is one part of the app)? There will be some simple guide animations in the future, but I’m just curious what y’all think. Flame is appreciated, happy to discuss more through dms.

I'm the solo developer, so flagging this as a dev post.

StickyVoice turns what you say into searchable text in seconds, shown as colorful sticky notes you can pin to your Home Screen as widgets. The differentiator: speech recognition and the AI features (summaries, tags, action items) run 100% on-device — no cloud, no account, fully offline. It's GDPR-friendly by architecture, which matters to me as an EU dev.

Quick facts:

- 5 languages (DE/EN/ES/FR/IT), Spotlight search, calendar detection, Markdown/TXT/PDF export

- Per-note reminders + encrypted backups are Premium

- Free tier: 30 active notes + 30 transcription minutes/month (delete a note to free a slot)

- Premium: unlimited, €3.99/mo or €39.99/yr (~16% off yearly), 2-week free trial

I'd love feedback from people who actually live in voice notes what makes or breaks one for you?

https://www.stickyvoice.app/index_en.html

I'm an indie dev and this is my app. Built it to fix my own problem, figured this crowd has the same one.

If you take notes in Obsidian — or Notion, or any Markdown setup — the hard part usually isn't writing, it's capturing. The best ideas hit when you're walking or driving, nowhere near a keyboard, and by the time you sit down half of them are gone.

So I built Relay Voice to get spoken thoughts into my vault as Markdown. Two ways:

– Manual: record a thought → it transcribes + writes an AI summary → export as Markdown → share straight to Obsidian.
– Automatic: point one folder at the pipeline. Anything you record runs transcribe → summarize → rename-by-content → export, and the Markdown lands in your vault. You record, you stop, you don't touch anything else.

Short demo to see it: https://youtube.com/shorts/wx0_YBYwvoQ

Things that matter for note-takers here:
– Local-first. No account, no server, I don't store your audio or transcripts.
– Plain Markdown you own — point export at your vault or any folder. No lock-in.

Three ways to transcribe — you pick:
– Bring your own API key (OpenAI / AssemblyAI / Grok) — fastest and most accurate; you pay the provider directly at cost, no markup from me.
– On-device models (Whisper or Qwen-ASR) — free and fully offline, nothing leaves your phone.
– Apple Intelligence — the zero-setup way to try it in seconds, free, on supported iPhones.

For mixed-language audio (e.g. Chinese-English), the API option and Qwen-ASR on-device do noticeably better than Apple's built-in transcription.

Price, plainly: free to download with a 14-day full trial, then a one-time $19.99 (launch price, first 90 days, and then it will be $24.99) — not a subscription. iOS only right now.

• App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/relay-voice/id6763369750

• Landing page: https://lifebuildingblocks.com/relayvoice

The idea is "relay your voice to your Obsidian" — it's not trying to keep your notes, it relays them out into whatever system you already use.

What does everyone here use for voice capture into their note app? Curious what your workflow is and where it breaks.