Avenotes for iPhone

Record lectures on your iPhone. Leave with the notes.

Avenotes records the lecture and writes the transcript. The audio is deleted as soon as it’s ready. What you keep is the words, and a recap of what was covered and what is on you.

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Free: your transcript and recap after every meeting. See the plans

Three steps, one of them a question

Get the app

Avenotes for iPhone is on the App Store, for iOS 26 or later. Sign in with Google, Apple or a code sent to your email.
Ask, then tap Start

Ask everyone first. Then tap the one big Start at the bottom of the screen and put the phone where it can hear. It hears the room through the phone’s microphone.
Lock the phone if you like

The app keeps listening when the phone is locked. A class never ends by itself: tap End when it is over. Your recap, usually seconds after it ends.

What you leave the lecture hall with

The transcript, with each voice labelled. Name the lecturer once and the name carries into the transcript and the recap.
Your recap, written for you. What was covered, topic by topic; your action items, each with its deadline when one was said; and the jargon and terms to learn.
Every class’s tasks in one list. Your action items from every recap land in Tasks, grouped by the meeting they came from.
Bad Wi-Fi? It keeps listening. It holds up to five minutes of what’s said and fills in the transcript, with the right times, once you’re back online.
iPhone, Mac and web. One account. Your meetings are there when you sign in.
A voice memo you already have. Import the recording, up to 3 hours and 2 GB, and get its transcript and recap.

Pro plan

Help while the lecture is still going

In a class, Avenotes explains: what this means, the key idea, why it matters. It never gives you lines to say.

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Keep up with a 3-hour lecture

The live transcript puts the words on your phone as they are said.
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Explain that

The last thing said in plain words: jargon, acronyms, idioms, and what the speaker actually means.
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Catch me up

What you missed, and whether anything is on you.

Good to know

It is not a voice recorder. Audio deleted once your transcript is ready, so there is nothing to play back: you keep the words.
It hears the room. No app on an iPhone can hear a class playing in your headphones or in another app; for an online class, use Avenotes on a computer.
In Safari instead of the app, keep the screen open: an iPhone pauses listening in the browser when the screen is locked.
It needs a connection. It rides out a drop of up to five minutes, no more.
A transcript can mishear a word. Check anything that matters against the lecture itself.

Questions students ask

Can I listen to the lecture again later?

No. Avenotes deletes the audio once your transcript is ready. You read the lecture instead: the transcript, and the recap on top of it.

How long can a lecture be?

A class has no time limit; what it counts against is your plan’s minutes, which the plans page lists. On a very long one the recap can end early, and the terms, last, are what it loses first.

Do I need permission to record a lecture?

Ask first, every time, and stop if anyone objects. The app shows you what to say before each meeting, and Recording consent has the rest.

What about a class on Zoom?

A phone hears only its own microphone. For an online class, see Transcribe a Zoom class.

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Try it on your next lecture.