Featured project · 2026

PressNote

Privacy-first live-event notes. Record, transcribe, translate and draft — 100% on your device.

Platform

macOS 26+ · iPadOS 26+ soon

Stack

SwiftUI · on-device AI

Privacy

Nothing leaves your device

Site

pressnote.app

PressNote turns live audio into finished, publishable output — entirely on your device. Point it at a keynote, a lecture or an interview and it records, transcribes in real time, translates across six languages, and drafts a clean note, with zero signal and nothing sent to a cloud. One private on-device engine, two audiences: journalists filing coverage from the field, and students capturing lectures they can actually study from.

Nothing leaves your device

Recording, transcription, translation and drafting all run on-device. No account, no upload, no cloud, no telemetry.

Works with zero signal

Built to run offline. On a plane, in a basement press room or a concrete lecture hall, it just works — no connection required.

Real-time on-device AI

Apple Intelligence transcribes and drafts as you record, live. Suggestions are always opt-in, never auto-applied.

PressNote on iPad — Record & translate every word, live: on-device speech recognition with side-by-side English and Portuguese transcription.

PressNote on iPad — Cover events with a live blog: flag moments, add notes and let Apple Intelligence summarise it into a live blog.

PressNote on iPad — From class to Word, PDF, done: turn any lecture into clean notes and export to Word, PDF, Markdown or text.

PressNote on iPad — Built to work with no signal: download speech models and translation packs over Wi-Fi before the venue.

How it works

Record

Capture any event, class or interview with live audio levels. Fully offline — no signal, no account, no setup.

Transcribe

Speech becomes text in real time, on-device, with punctuation and speakers as the words are spoken.

Translate

Flip the transcript across six content languages instantly — English, Português, Español and more.

Draft

Apple Intelligence turns the raw transcript into a clean, publishable note or a study-ready summary.

What makes it different

100% on-device, always offline

Nothing is uploaded, ever. No account, no servers, no telemetry. Your recordings and notes never leave the device — the privacy is architectural, not a setting.

Two audiences, one engine

Tuned for journalists filing coverage from the field and students capturing lectures. Switch the output style; the same private on-device engine drives both.

Six content languages

Transcribe and translate across English, Português, Español and three more — live, on-device, and with no connection required at any point.

Powered by Apple silicon

The on-device models need an M-series chip on iPad or Mac. That's the trade for real-time transcription and drafting with genuinely zero cloud.

Learn more at pressnote.app

For Mac · iPad coming soon · Requires Apple silicon