Offhand

Offhand turns your voice into structured, readable notes — entirely on your phone. Record voice notes, meetings, lectures and dictations; on-device AI transcribes your speech to text and rewrites it into a tidy note with a title, headings and action items. No cloud, no account. Everything stays on your phone. Nothing is uploaded, ever.

WHY OFFHAND IS DIFFERENT Most voice-to-text and AI note-taker apps upload your audio to a server and promise to be careful with it. Offhand can't leak your recordings to the cloud, because there is no cloud. Speech recognition (OpenAI's Whisper) and note structuring run as on-device AI, 100% offline on your phone.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Offline transcription — audio is processed by on-device AI, never uploaded • Notes encrypted at rest with SQLCipher; keys guarded by the Android Keystore • Unlock with your fingerprint or screen lock • No account, no ads, no tracking — usage and crash reports are off unless you opt in • Notes excluded from cloud backups • Encrypted backup file you control, to move notes to a new phone

STRUCTURED NOTES, NOT LOSSY SUMMARIES Offhand doesn't shrink a 2-hour meeting into three sentences. The on-device AI rewrites your transcript into a readable, detail-preserving note — headings, bullet lists, action items — and gives it a short title, so a rambling recording becomes a document you can actually use.

ALREADY HAVE RECORDINGS? Share any audio file into Offhand and it becomes a note like any other: WhatsApp voice notes, voice memos, Zoom recordings, lectures, interviews and calls. Share straight from the other app, or pick files with Import audio in Settings; several at once is fine, up to two hours each. Audio import is part of Offhand Pro.

OFFHAND PRO (OPTIONAL) The core app is free with no time limits. Offhand Pro adds your own note styles, PDF and Word export, smart calendar suggestions from your notes and the audio import above. Yearly with a 14-day free trial, or one lifetime purchase. Payments go through Google Play; your notes never leave your phone either way.

OPEN SOURCE The full source code is public, so the privacy claims aren't marketing — they're verifiable.

PERFECT FOR • Executives capturing meeting debriefs and decisions • Doctors dictating patient notes with confidentiality obligations • Lawyers and consultants recording privileged conversations • Journalists protecting sources and interviews • Anyone whose spoken thoughts are nobody else's business

WHAT IT NEEDS On-device AI needs a modern phone: Android 12+, 5+ GB RAM, and ~3 GB free storage for a one-time download. Offhand checks your phone at first launch and tells you honestly if it won't run well. Notes in English, German, Spanish, Hindi, Portuguese, Russian and Ukrainian.