A conversation deserves your attention, not your typing. Aurora listens, writes and remembers on the phone in your hand, so the words stay with you — and stay yours.
The usual way to get notes from a conversation is to send the conversation away: uploaded, transcribed on someone else's server, handed back. Aurora is made for people who don't want that trade. It does the hearing, the writing and the summarizing on the phone itself, and when it isn't sure who spoke or what was decided, it says so instead of guessing. It is in a private beta, free while it lasts, and this page says exactly what it can and cannot do yet.
This is Aurora, running.
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. Ask what was decided and it answers with the moment it came from — or tells you it is not there.
- Summary and action items
- Ask Aurora, answered with a timestamp
- Honest when it does not know
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
- Captured and stored on the phone that heard it. Nothing sends it.
- Transcript and speakers
- Written and separated by models on the phone's own chip.
- Summaries, notes, Ask Aurora
- Generated by a language model on the device.
- Your library
- Lives in the app on that device. There is no Aurora account.
Leaves only when you…
- Download the models
- Once at setup, and when a model changes. Wi-Fi unless you allow cellular.
- Send a diagnostic report
- Encrypted on the device. One switch decides whether it carries this conversation's content, and on a session report it starts on — turn it off and nothing of the conversation goes.
- Turn on iCloud sync
- Off by default, and settings only: never audio, never transcripts.
- Export a conversation
- Plain text, to the app or place you pick, and nowhere else.
One thing moves on its own: a count of your remaining free minutes, kept in your own iCloud so a reinstall cannot reset it. It is a number, never words.
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 today.
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
- Ask Aurora, grounded in the conversation you are in
- Offline once the models are installed
- Plain-text export
Experimental in beta
- Languages other than English
- The second pass that refines a finished transcript
- Sessions much longer than an hour
In development
- The Mac app
- Recognizing the same speaker in a later conversation
- Search and answers across conversations
- Conversations syncing between devices
Reviewed 18 September 2026 against the Aurora app source.
Questions.
No. Transcription runs on your iPhone. You can separately choose to export the transcript as plain text or include this conversation's content in a diagnostic report.
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.
Nothing. Pricing comes later, and testers hear about it first.
