A pocket recorder that prints your day in editorial type. Capture a meeting, an idea, a half-remembered joke — get it back as a searchable, translatable, beautifully set transcript.
MinineSTT treats every recording like a page worth setting. Speakers are diarised, languages auto-detected, translations laid in column. The look borrows from a printed magazine that quietly arrives in the maker’s mailbox every month — warm paper, halftone shadows, type that wants to be read.
Apple on-device, Whisper, AssemblyAI, and Studio cloud. Switch per session; the editorial layout stays the same. Apple Speech keeps audio entirely on your phone — cloud engines route through our backend, never your keys.
Apple Translation on-device, or DeepL through our backend for harder pairs. Source and target read side-by-side like a bilingual magazine; results are cached so you only translate once.
Sessions, favourites, tags and translations drift across devices in the background — no spinners, no “import” buttons. Audio uploads only on demand, via S3 pre-signed URLs.
Drop a recording into a team; everyone gets a clean transcript, tagged, translatable, no cloud office required. Invite by code, optional password.
00:02A Did you end up booking that trip?
00:08B Almost. I’m waiting for the price to drop another fifty bucks.
00:16A Brave. What if it goes the other way?
00:22B Then I pay full price and learn a lesson.
00:02A 旅行你最后订了吗？
00:08B 差不多。我在等机票再降个五十块。
00:16A 挺敢赌的。涨了怎么办？
00:22B 那就原价买，长记性。
Dear reader,
I’m Mian. I built this App on evenings and weekends — sometimes between rounds of Valorant. Most of the reason it exists is the person sitting next to me at work.
His name is William. He has been my desk neighbour for nearly two years, and he is the funniest person I know. Two or three times an hour something leaves his mouth that makes the whole row stop typing. One afternoon I asked him, half-joking: if humans had been born with only two fingers, would we have invented computers sooner, or would our maths just have been a lot slower? He thought about it for a second and said, “Then pigs must live in a binary world.” Days are full of this. I keep dragging him into serious conversations — the origin of life, capitalism, politics neither of us understands — and he keeps taking them somewhere I cannot stop laughing at. (He also keeps a private taxonomy for office bathroom phenomena that does not belong on a homepage; on that point I will be editorial.)
After a while I started saving the good lines into a Discord channel, mostly so I could listen back. A year in, the clips were funny but unfindable. That was the moment I realised: this should probably be an App — record anything, transcribe everything, keep the seconds worth keeping. Translation went in too (investors do tend to like translation).
The look might feel a little unusual. I used to dread doing UI. For years an obscure company had been quietly posting a printed magazine to my address; I never asked them to stop, but I also never opened one. The afternoon I finally did, I realised paper has been doing things screens forgot how to do. Magazine styling has nothing to do with transcription, but this is a personal project, so I made the call I wanted to make.
If you end up using it for something half as ridiculous as William, I will be very pleased.
Designed for iPhone and iPad, iOS 18 and later. Free to record, free to read; Pro unlocks Studio engines, translation, sync and teams.