How invites work

What the beta is

Aurora records a conversation, writes it down as it is spoken, separates the speakers, and summarizes it, on the iPhone in your hand. The beta is how you get it today. It is distributed through TestFlight, Apple's own beta program, and it costs nothing: pricing comes later, and testers hear about it first.

How invites go out

By invitation. There is no public link to the beta on this site. Each tester gets a personal TestFlight invitation from Apple, sent to their own address.
In waves. We invite people from the waitlist a group at a time, so every new tester can be answered when something breaks. We do not publish dates for the next wave. Your place in line records the order you joined in. A wave is chosen either by place in line or by random draw among everyone still waiting, and we may also invite someone who wrote to ask.
Two emails from us. One when you join, to say you're in and give your place in line, and one when your turn comes, to say your invite is out. Apple sends the TestFlight invitation itself, from TestFlight, to the same address. Nothing else from us, unless you also ticked the box for the newsletter.
Leaving. Every email has an unsubscribe link, or write to hello@auroraisyours.com. The Privacy Notice says exactly what is stored, where, and for how long.

What you need

An iPhone. Aurora's iPhone app is built for iOS 18 and later; that is the app's own minimum, taken from the project it ships from.
Apple's TestFlight app. Your invitation opens it, and the App Store will install TestFlight first if it is not there yet.
Room for the speech models, and a connection to fetch them once. They are downloaded on first launch, not bundled with the build.

We have not published a tested list of iPhone models, so we will not print one here. What we can say is on the home page: newer iPhones do the on-device work faster, older ones do it more slowly, and the Mac app is not released yet.

When your invite arrives

Open Apple's TestFlight invitation email on the iPhone you want to record with. TestFlight opens and offers the Aurora build.
Install it, the way TestFlight installs any beta.
Launch Aurora once with a connection. It downloads the speech models it needs. That is the one-time transfer the speech work depends on, and afterwards recording and transcription do not wait for the network.
From then on, recording, transcription, speaker separation and summaries run on the device, offline.

What works, and what does not

Two states, and we keep them honest. If something below is wrong, it is a bug in this page and we want to hear about it.

Available in beta

Recording, live transcript and speaker separation on iPhone.
Speaker names read out of the conversation when someone says who they are, and stored with that session.
Summaries, notes and Ask Aurora, generated on the device.
Offline after the one-time model download.
Calendar integration, and text export.
Languages other than English.
The second pass that refines a finished transcript.
Sessions much longer than an hour.
Syncing the text of conversations between your devices through your own iCloud, if you turn it on. The audio stays on the device that recorded it.

In development

The Mac app: not released yet.
Recognizing a named speaker automatically in a later meeting.
Searching across meetings.
Grounded answers from Ask Aurora, citing the moment in the transcript they came from.

If something goes wrong

Write to hello@auroraisyours.com. A beta is a conversation: tell us what you were doing, on which iPhone, and what happened instead. Bugs from testers are the reason this build exists.