[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":169},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-en-020_yakki-dictation-ios-voice-notes-app-launch":3,"blog-translations-020_yakki-dictation-ios-voice-notes-app-launch":158},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"date":139,"description":140,"draft":141,"extension":142,"image":143,"meta":144,"navigation":145,"path":146,"publishDate":139,"readingTime":147,"seo":148,"stem":149,"tags":150,"translationKey":156,"__hash__":157},"blog_en/blog/en/020_yakki-dictation-ios-voice-notes-app-launch.md","Yakki for iPhone: Dictation That Feels Like Magic",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":130},"minimark",[9,13,16,19,24,27,30,33,37,44,50,56,62,68,71,75,78,81,84,87,91,118,121],[10,11,12],"p",{},"Today I am releasing Yakki 1.0 for iPhone on the App Store.",[10,14,15],{},"If you already know Yakki as the little dictation app that lives in your Mac menu bar, this is the other half of it: the same idea, now in your pocket. Tap the mic from inside any app, Messages, Mail, Slack, Notes, Docs, talk the way you actually talk, and clean, formatted text appears where your cursor already is. Punctuated. Filler words stripped. Shaped for wherever you happen to be typing.",[10,17,18],{},"I have wanted to build this for a long time, and I am genuinely happy with how it turned out.",[20,21,23],"h2",{"id":22},"the-problem-honestly","The problem, honestly",[10,25,26],{},"Typing on a phone is the slowest thing you do on it. Most people speak roughly three times faster than they thumb-type, and yet we all sit there poking at a pane of glass.",[10,28,29],{},"The built-in iOS dictation was supposed to fix this. It doesn't, really. It hands you an unpunctuated word-soup that you then clean up by hand, and it forgets everything the second you tap out. The apps that genuinely fix it mostly send your voice off to their servers, keep your transcripts, and lock you into a subscription to get anything useful.",[10,31,32],{},"I wanted the fast part without that trade.",[20,34,36],{"id":35},"what-actually-shipped","What actually shipped",[10,38,39,43],{},[40,41,42],"strong",{},"A voice keyboard that works everywhere."," This is the important one. Yakki is a keyboard, not a separate app you dictate into and then copy-paste out of. So it works in every text field on the phone, the same way your normal keyboard does.",[10,45,46,49],{},[40,47,48],{},"7 AI formatting modes."," General, Email, Chat, Docs, Notes, Code, and Meeting. The same rambling thought comes out casual in a Slack reply and buttoned-up in an email. \"Hey, can we push the 3pm to tomorrow?\" dictated in Messages lands as a clean, punctuated text. The same idea dictated in Mail comes out structured like an email instead.",[10,51,52,55],{},[40,53,54],{},"Meeting mode with speaker labels."," Record a meeting, an interview, or a lecture of any length in the background. A Live Activity in the Dynamic Island keeps the recording alive even when the keyboard loses focus, and you get a who-said-what transcript you can search and translate afterward.",[10,57,58,61],{},[40,59,60],{},"Already a Mac customer? You are already Pro."," Sign in on iPhone with the same Yakki account, the email you bought with, and Pro unlocks automatically. No second purchase. Cross-device history sync between the Mac and the iPhone is coming in the next release.",[10,63,64,67],{},[40,65,66],{},"And it looks the way I wanted it to look."," I am biased, but the main app has a retro interface inspired by some of the best industrial design out there, with details I genuinely enjoyed crafting. I wanted it to feel like its own thing, not another flat white rectangle.",[10,69,70],{},"There is more inside: translation, replayable recordings, searchable history, and the ability to re-run an old transcript through a different mode, so a raw meeting dump becomes tidy bullet points in one tap.",[20,72,74],{"id":73},"a-straight-answer-on-privacy","A straight answer on privacy",[10,76,77],{},"I want to be precise here, because the iPhone story is genuinely different from the Mac one, and I would rather tell you than have you find out.",[10,79,80],{},"On the Mac, Yakki transcribes fully on-device. On iPhone, it does not. iOS simply won't let a keyboard extension run a speech model like that, both by policy and inside the tight memory budget a keyboard gets. So on iPhone, transcription runs in the cloud through ElevenLabs Scribe.",[10,82,83],{},"Here is what that does and does not mean. Your audio is transcribed and then immediately discarded. Nothing is retained on Yakki's servers. Your transcripts and recordings live on your device and sync through your own private iCloud with CloudKit, not through any database we own. In practice, we could not read your history if we wanted to, because there is no copy of it on our side. No ad trackers. No selling your voice.",[10,85,86],{},"On-device transcription on iPhone is on the roadmap as a Pro option. I am not going to claim it before it ships.",[20,88,90],{"id":89},"pricing","Pricing",[92,93,94,101],"ul",{},[95,96,97,100],"li",{},[40,98,99],{},"Free."," General dictation mode, 1,000 transcribed words per month, no account games.",[95,102,103,106,107],{},[40,104,105],{},"Pro."," Everything: all 7 modes, unlimited words, Meeting mode, translation, and sync.\n",[92,108,109,112,115],{},[95,110,111],{},"$9.99 / month, with a 7-day free trial",[95,113,114],{},"$99.99 / year, with a 7-day free trial",[95,116,117],{},"$149.99 lifetime, one time, if you would rather just own it",[10,119,120],{},"If you have been thumb-typing your way through your day, give the voice a turn. I think it feels a little like magic, and I don't say that lightly.",[10,122,123],{},[124,125,129],"a",{"href":126,"rel":127},"https://apps.apple.com/us/app/yakki-voice-to-text-keyboard/id6754668404",[128],"nofollow","Download Yakki on the App Store",{"title":131,"searchDepth":132,"depth":132,"links":133},"",3,[134,136,137,138],{"id":22,"depth":135,"text":23},2,{"id":35,"depth":135,"text":36},{"id":73,"depth":135,"text":74},{"id":89,"depth":135,"text":90},"2026-07-01","Yakki is now on iPhone. A voice keyboard that works in every app, 7 AI formatting modes, background meeting recording with speaker labels, and your data staying in your own iCloud. 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