Is Aurora the right note-taker for me?
Aurora makes your notes on the iPhone that hears the conversation.
Aurora suits you if you record meetings, interviews or lectures on an iPhone and want the transcript, the speakers and the summary made on that phone, with nothing joining the call. A meeting bot that joins the call suits you better if it has to record meetings you skip, or if you take calls on headphones, where the phone's microphone cannot hear the other side (why Aurora records from the room). As of October 2026, Aurora is an iPhone beta (iOS 18 or newer), free and by invitation.
Try a replica of the Aurora app.
A replica of the app on a sample conversation. Press record and the words arrive as they are spoken, each voice in its own lane. It is a script: nothing here uses your microphone.
Demo · it can't hear you
What Aurora does
01 · While it happens
Live, word by word.
Speech becomes text as it is spoken: punctuated, timed and readable while the meeting is still going.
- Streams while you talk
- Works offline once the models are installed
- Every turn timestamped
02 · Who said it
Every voice, kept apart.
Aurora tells the people in the room apart and gives each one a lane. When someone says who they are, it reads that out of the conversation and the transcript uses the name.
- Speakers separated on device
- Names stay with that conversation
- Each speaker in their own color
03 · When it is over
Summaries that stay yours.
A language model on the device writes the summary, the action items and the notes, and you can edit them. In development: ask what was decided and get back the moment it came from, or hear that it is not there.
- Summary and action items
- Edit the summary, tick off the items
- Ask Aurora, answered with a timestamp: in development
04 · Where it lives
iPhone now. Mac next.
Record on the iPhone you already carry. The Mac app is in development, on the same rule: no server in between.
- iPhone: private beta on TestFlight
- Mac: in development
- Plain-text export
What stays, and what can leave.
We won't tell you that nothing ever leaves your phone. Here is the short version; the Privacy Notice carries every path in full.
Stays on the device
- The recording
- Aurora captures and stores the recording on the phone that heard it, and keeps it there for seven days. The recording never syncs.
- Transcript and speakers
- Aurora writes the transcript and separates the speakers with models on the phone's own chip.
- Summaries, notes, Ask Aurora
- Aurora generates the summaries, the notes and Ask Aurora's replies with a language model on the device.
- Your library
- Aurora keeps your library in the app on your device, and in your own iCloud if you turn on sync. There is no Aurora account.
Leaves only when you…
- Download the models
- Once at setup, and when a model changes. Over cellular, anything above 100 MB waits for your OK.
- Send a diagnostic report
- Encrypted on the device. On a session report the switch that attaches the conversation's text and screenshots starts on; the recording has its own switch, and it starts off.
- Turn on conversation sync
- Off by default: the text of your conversations, in your own private iCloud. Never the audio.
- Export a conversation
- Plain text, to the app or place you pick, and nowhere else.
Some things move on their own, and none of them carries your words. Among them: your settings, in your own iCloud; an update check; your subscription status; and, without a subscription, the minutes you record, counted against your free monthly allowance.
Join the waitlist.
The iPhone beta runs on TestFlight, by invitation, and invites go out in waves. iOS 18 or newer; how invites work.
Where it stands, as of 19 October 2026.
Aurora is in beta and changes every week.
Available in beta
- Recording, live transcript and speaker lanes on iPhone
- Summaries, action items and notes on device
- Languages other than English
- The second pass that refines a finished transcript
- Sessions much longer than an hour
- Offline once the models are installed
- Plain-text export
- Conversation text syncing through your own iCloud, if you turn it on
In development
- Ask Aurora, grounded in the conversation you are in
- The Mac app
- Recognizing the same speaker in a later conversation
- Search and answers across conversations
Reviewed 19 October 2026 against the Aurora app source.
Questions about Aurora.
No. Transcription runs on your iPhone. You can separately choose to export the transcript as plain text, to sync its text (never the audio) through your own iCloud, or to include this conversation's content in a diagnostic report.
The Privacy Notice lists every network path the app can use and what each sends.
As of October 2026, Aurora is built for iOS 18 and newer. The phone we measure on is an iPhone 15 Pro, and we have no tested-device table beyond it yet. The Mac app is not released.
No. Aurora listens through the microphone of the device you are holding, in the room or next to the laptop.
It records what the iPhone hears. Beside a laptop speaker it captures both sides, with worse audio; with headphones on it hears only you.
Why Aurora records from the room has the setups that work. See In-person meetings for where it fits.
Nothing, as of October 2026. Pricing comes later, and testers hear about it first.
No. There is no account with us. The beta installs through Apple's TestFlight app with your Apple Account, and your settings follow your own iCloud.
Aurora transcribes conversations in languages other than English. No per-language accuracy figures are published.
When someone says who they are, an on-device model reads that out of the transcript and puts the name on the lane. There is no control for typing a name yourself.
Transcription and summaries run on the device, and recordings are not uploaded for transcription. The Privacy Notice lists every network path the app can use and what each sends.
Yes. Plain text is the only export format Aurora has.
In development. A macOS target exists in the source and there is no release.
The chat is in the build. An answer that cites the moment in this session's transcript it came from, or says the evidence is not there, is in development.
Available in beta. Aurora can show the next event on your calendar by reading it on the device; it uses no network to do it.
Join the waitlist on this page. Invites go out in waves, by email, when your invitation is ready.
Aurora records sessions much longer than an hour. No maximum duration is published for the beta.
