Transcriber: Subtitles & Notes
On-device transcripts & SRT
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Turn any video or audio file into an editable, timestamped transcript on your own device, then export YouTube-ready subtitles or clean text. Nothing is uploaded.
Transcriber turns a video or audio file into a transcript you can edit, with every word timed, using Apple's on-device speech engine. Nothing leaves your Mac, iPhone or iPad.
Pick a file, and the text appears as it is recognized. A ten-minute video takes well under a minute on Apple silicon. The words are grouped into subtitle cues the way YouTube and broadcast captions expect them, so the SRT you export drops straight into your video.
WHAT IT DOES
• Transcribes MP4, MOV, M4A, MP3, WAV, AIFF and anything else your device can play
• Keeps the moment every word was spoken, so subtitles land exactly on the speech
• Groups text into cues of two lines up to 42 characters, broken at sentence ends, commas and pauses (adjustable)
• Plays the file in the window with the current cue shown over the video as a caption, in a classic, boxed or outlined style, exactly as it will look in the SRT
• Edit any cue in place, split a cue at the cursor, merge two, or retime one. Find & Replace fixes a misheard name everywhere at once, and everything is undoable
• A Text view shows the transcript as readable paragraphs, with optional timestamps and Copy All
EXPORT
• SRT and WebVTT subtitles for YouTube and video editors
• Plain text as paragraphs, text with a timestamp on each paragraph for show notes and chapters, or Markdown with bold timestamps
• Save the project to come back to it later
LANGUAGES
• Everything Apple's on-device engines support: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Hindi and more through Apple's newest model, plus Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Dutch, Russian, Polish, Turkish, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Thai, Vietnamese and others through Apple's earlier dictation model
• Pick the language right in the window; the model downloads once, then works offline
ON THE MAC
• Drop files on the window or the Dock icon
• Watched folders: point Transcriber at a folder and every new file that lands in it is transcribed automatically, with the outputs you choose saved next to it
• Open at Login keeps it running quietly in the background
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• Transcription runs on your device's Neural Engine. There is no account, no analytics and no network feature of any kind
• The first use of a language downloads Apple's speech model for it; after that it works offline
Transcriber requires macOS 26, iOS 26 or iPadOS 26 and a device that supports Apple's on-device speech recognition.
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Information
- Seller
- Stephen Robles
- Size
- 2.7 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Stephen Robles
