Aurora is a fast, on device transcription app for people who live in meetings, podcasts, interviews, or calls and are tired of losing the important bits.
No cloud uploads by default. No black box servers. Just your audio, your device, your control.
One line pitch
Turn every conversation into clean, searchable text that never has to leave your device.
Why Aurora
Most transcription tools do this:
Stream your audio to a remote server
Store your content in someone else's database
Wrap it in a pretty dashboard and call it productivity
Aurora does the opposite:
Uses neural models that run locally on iPhone, iPad, and Mac
Keeps audio and transcripts on your devices by default
Lets you decide if and how you sync, export, or share
If you care about privacy, NDAs, or just not leaking your life to random servers, Aurora is built for you.
Core features
Live, streaming transcription Watch text appear while you speak. No waiting for uploads, no progress bars.
Smart session handling Start a session, lock the screen, and let Aurora handle the rest. Your words are captured and organized automatically.
Speaker awareness (diarization) Aurora detects when the speaker changes so you can follow who said what without manually editing every line.
Search your conversations Instantly jump to the moment where a keyword was mentioned and replay that part of the audio.
Export and share Export to text, markdown, or copy and paste into your notes, docs, or task manager.
Privacy by design Recording, transcription, and analysis are done on your device. You stay in control of what leaves it.
Who it is for
Founders and managers who live in calls and want high fidelity notes
Developers and creatives who want to capture ideas without touching the keyboard
Journalists, researchers, and students who rely on interviews and lectures
Anyone who does not trust their confidential conversations to random SaaS dashboards
How Aurora is different
Local first: The app is designed around on device processing, not as a thin shell over an API.
Opinionated about focus: Aurora is not trying to be your calendar, project manager, and CRM at once. It does one job: capture spoken information and make it usable.
No surveillance economy: No ad SDKs, no resale of behavioral data. The sustainability model is straight: you pay for the product, not with your data.
Roadmap (high level)
Better speaker labeling and editing
Smarter summaries and highlights using on device models or user controlled backends
Deeper integrations with note taking tools and task managers
Advanced search and filters across large archives of conversations
Positioning in one sentence
Aurora is the transcription tool for people who want the power of AI without handing their conversations to someone else.