VAYS — Private voice notes with on-device AI

Privacy by construction

Not privacy as a checkbox. Privacy as the architecture.

The most sensitive thing — your voice — never has to leave the device. Transcription, clean-up, summaries, local chat and Quick Tasks run on Apple hardware first.

No tracking

No analytics SDK, no behavioral profiles, no hidden telemetry.

On-device AI

Parakeet, WhisperKit and Gemma run locally on your device.

Polish first

Built around real Polish transcription, not English-only assumptions.

Your Mac as compute

Local pairing opens an iPhone-plus-Mac workflow with no cloud backend.

What it does

One voice workspace. Four Apple surfaces.

Capture on iPhone or Watch. Process on device. Understand and chat locally. Continue on Mac.

Capture

Record & Transcribe

Record a thought or import old audio and turn it into clean text with Parakeet, in Polish or English.

Quick Tasks

Dictate a task and let VAYS structure the title, notes and category — on device.

From your wrist

Capture a thought on Apple Watch and it lands in your library automatically — nothing to set up.

Understand

Local Chat

Ask questions about your notes with Gemma running locally — no account, no cloud round-trip.

Summaries & Refine

Get structured summaries, and refine only the shaky passages while the confident text stays untouched.

Speaker diarization Mac

See who said what, label speakers, and build a private on-device voice library.

Own your data

Cross-device sync

Notes captured on iPhone or Watch appear on your Mac through local Bonjour pairing — no server in between.

Backup & Restore

Export your memos, recordings, voice library and chats into a single archive you control.

No ads, no account

A privacy-first workflow that simply doesn't need to track you to work.

Where it runs

Free on your phone. Pro on your Mac.

Start free on iPhone and iPad. Unlock the desktop-grade tools on Mac when you need them.

iPhone & iPad

Free

Record, transcribe & import audio
Quick Tasks & Local Chat
On-device, no account

App Store

Mac

Free to download · Pro unlock

Everything on iPhone, on a bigger canvas
Speaker diarization & voice library
Live Translation, Presenter & Backup

Mac App Store

Apple Watch

Included

Capture a thought from your wrist
Syncs into your library
Nothing to set up

Because the AI runs on your device, VAYS works best on a recent iPhone or iPad and an Apple Silicon Mac.

Why VAYS

The voice apps everyone names — and where VAYS is different.

An honest, side-by-side look at VAYS next to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper and Whisper Notes.

	VAYS	Wispr Flowcloud dictation	SuperwhisperMac · on-device	Whisper Noteson-device
Processing	On your device	Cloud	On your device	On your device
Works fully offline
No account required
Polish-first transcription	Built for it	Multilingual	Via Whisper	Via Whisper
System-wide dictation	Coming*
Chat with your notes	Yes, local
Voice → structured task
Speaker diarization	Yes — advanced panel		Basic
Cross-device note library
Price	Free · Pro on Mac	Subscription	Subscription / lifetime	One-time

* System-wide dictation ships in the direct-download (non-App Store) Mac version.

Based on publicly available information (June 2026); competitors' features and pricing change over time.

Did you know?

While building VAYS, we built something bigger.

VAYS KIT is the private-AI foundation behind the app — a reusable Swift package for Apple platforms. The project is focused on building the backbone for sovereign AI: solutions that run fully on your own hardware, with complete privacy and control on your side.

VAYS KIT

Built once. Reused forever.

Audio

AI

Sync

Privacy

Processing

Payments

Built on VAYS KIT

VAYS Live

Private voice notes, transcription, local chat and tasks across iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch.

VAYS MED In development

Transcribe medical visits and dictate clinical documentation — fully on-device, where patient data must never leave the room.

Learn more →

Your product

The same sovereign-AI foundation, ready for your domain — private by design, running on your own hardware.

Under the hood

Open-weight AI, packaged for Apple-native products.

VAYS KIT brings transcription, a local LLM, diarization, storage, sync and monetization into one reusable stack.

Built on models from

Parakeet · Sortformer

Gemma

silicon

Parakeet TDT v3

NVIDIA ASR through FluidAudio and CoreML

ASR

Gemma

Google open-weight LLM via a custom llama.xcframework

LLM

WhisperKit

Alternate on-device transcription path

ASR

Speaker diarization

On-device speaker turns and a local voice library

DIARIZE

Bonjour + HTTP

Local Mac and iPhone discovery and sync

SYNC

StoreKit 2

Reusable Pro unlock and feature access

PRO

FAQ

Questions, answered.

Does VAYS work offline and keep my data private?

Yes. Transcription, summaries, local chat and Quick Tasks run on your device by default — your audio doesn't have to leave it. No account, no tracking, no cloud pipeline.

Does VAYS support Polish?

Polish is first-class. VAYS is built around real Polish transcription with Parakeet, not English-only assumptions, and both the app and this site are available in Polish and English.

How much does VAYS cost?

It's free on iPhone and iPad. On Mac it's free to download with a Pro unlock for desktop-grade tools — speaker diarization, Live Translation, Presenter and Backup.

How is VAYS different from Wispr Flow, Superwhisper or Whisper Notes?

Those are dictation and transcription tools — and Wispr Flow runs in the cloud. VAYS keeps processing on-device, is Polish-first, and is a full voice workspace: notes, local chat, structured tasks and speaker diarization, free to start.

What is VAYS KIT?

VAYS KIT is the private-AI foundation behind the app — a reusable Swift package for sovereign, on-device AI with full privacy and control on the user's side. It powers VAYS today and use cases like VAYS MED (medical transcription) next.

Which devices do I need?