One tap
Press it, and start talking.
Tap again to stop. You only see “saved” once the note is really on your phone, so a tick always means it worked.
Apple’s dictation does the listening and puts the punctuation in. It runs on the phone. Stopping mid-sentence to think doesn’t end anything, and it keeps going with the screen locked, which is the point if you are driving.
Or don’t touch it at all. Say “Hey Siri, capture this” and it opens and starts listening. There is a Home Screen widget and a Lock Screen one, and you can share text, links or pictures in from other apps.
Say nothing and nothing is saved. If the words come out wrong, you still have the recording. A long one tells you five minutes before it reaches the 45-minute limit, rather than stopping on you.
Today
Everything from today, in one list.
Whatever you captured today, from every project, without going into each one to find it. The Inbox holds what hasn’t been filed yet. Today shows the lot.
Searching looks everywhere, filed or not, and puts the closest answer at the top rather than the newest. Half-remember a note and type the two or three words you do remember — the more of them you type, the better it gets.
No filing
It files itself, and it never guesses.
Start a note with a project’s name and it goes there. You can give a project other names it answers to. If nothing matches, or two projects answer to the same word, it waits in your Inbox. Every note tells you why it ended up where it did.
If you keep moving the same sort of note into the same project yourself, it starts offering that project — and it tells you why, so you can disagree. It waits until you have done the same thing three times, it never counts its own suggestions as proof, and it still doesn’t file anything. You tap, or you don’t.
Projects named after everyday words, like Home, only take a note if you say the name first. “On the way home” isn’t a filing instruction.
Afterwards
A thought you can actually use.
Open a note and put a reminder on it. Ten minutes, an hour, this evening, tomorrow morning, or a time you choose. There’s a daily one too if you want it, saying what went in that day.
You can also turn a note into a prompt to paste into an AI. Apple’s model tidies it up, on the phone. Your own words are never written over. The first version is always still there.
Where it keeps things
Yours. Never ours.
There’s no account and nothing is sent to us. There’s nothing to send it to — we don’t run a server, so there is no version of this where your notes end up on one of ours.
Your notes do travel between your own Apple devices, through your iCloud account. That happens unless you turn it off in Settings, and it is your iCloud, in your name: we can’t see inside it and there is nothing to pay. Turn it off and everything stays on the one phone.
You can also ask Capture to keep a plain text copy of every note in a folder you choose, so they turn up in something like Obsidian. That one is off until you pick the folder. It only ever writes its own files, and it never reads or changes anything already in there.
Dictation has to run on your phone. It isn’t a preference. If a device can’t manage it, the app says so and you type instead, rather than sending your recording off somewhere to get around it.
The privacy policy takes two minutes to read. It’s in plain words and it doesn’t skip the awkward part.
The details
- Price
- Free
- Subscription
- None
- Advertising
- None
- Account
- None
- Works offline
- Entirely
- Dictation
- Your phone’s language, on the device
- Longest recording
- 45 minutes
- Backups
- Daily, on your phone, in Files
- Runs on
- iPhone and iPad
- Between your devices
- Through your own iCloud
- Notes out to a folder
- Optional, plain text
Tidying a note into a prompt uses Apple’s model, on your phone. It costs nothing to run, so it costs nothing to use. There is no Android version and no web version.
Nothing gets in the way.
Capture Rocket is coming to the App Store for iPhone and iPad.