Your thoughts never leave your iPhone
Speak, and Saane writes the note, pulls out the to-do with its due date, and threads it onto the note you recorded it from. All of it on your iPhone: no server hears it, and no account holds it.
What leaves your iPhone: nothing
Most “private” apps mean encrypted in transit. Saane means there is no transit. Here is the whole ledger, every kind of data and where it goes.
No account
There is nothing to sign up for. The app opens and records. Saane never learns your name, email or Apple Account.No analytics
There is no telemetry SDK and no crash reporter phoning home. We cannot see how you use Saane.No ambient listening
The microphone opens when you tap record and closes when you tap Stop and save. iOS shows the orange indicator; we never ask for background audio.Nothing to export
Notes are Markdown files and recordings are audio files, in a folder you can open in the Files app to copy, share or delete.Built for the silicon you already own
Your iPhone already carries on-device speech recognition and an on-device language model. Saane is built on both, and it inherits whatever Apple improves in them.
Transcribed on the iPhone
Apple's on-device speech recognition turns your recording into text. Once the language assets are on the phone, it works on a plane or in a basement.Summarised by Apple Intelligence
The summary, the task, the due date and the time come from the on-device foundation model. The model reads your note; nobody else does.Calendar owns the dates
A task with a due date is mirrored to Apple Calendar. Move it there and the task follows. Turn the sync off any time.Search every note, on the phone
One search field over every note, ranked on the device by the words you typed. Nothing is indexed anywhere else.Threads, not piles
Record from inside a note and the new one threads onto it, so a project stays one conversation instead of a scatter of files.Better with every chip
Speech and summaries come from Apple's own iOS 26 frameworks, so what Apple improves in them shows up in Saane without changing what leaves the phone.Requires iOS 26. Summaries and tasks use Apple Intelligence, so it needs to be turned on in Settings with its model downloaded. Without it, Saane falls back to simpler on-device rules.
Capture is faster than organising
Saving never waits for the AI. The note is on disk the moment you tap Stop and save; everything else happens behind it.
Speak
Tap the button, talk, tap Stop and save. The note is on disk before the transcript exists.It writes itself up
A summary you can read in one breath, with the raw transcript underneath if you want to correct it.Promises become tasks
“I should call them Friday” lands in your task list with Friday on it, still linked to the note it came from.It keeps the thread
Record from inside a note and today's idea joins last month's, in the same thread.
Tap the button, and it is somebody else's problem
Tap to start, tap Stop and save, and the card reads Saved locally. The recording is written to your iPhone as you speak, and it never leaves.
The whole app is free. Founding users keep it that way.
Saane is built by one person. The Founder membership is a way to pay for an app you already have in full: nothing is locked behind it, and nothing unlocks.
Saane
$0 The whole app, for as long as you like.- Voice notes transcribed on your iPhone
- Summaries and tasks from Apple Intelligence
- Due dates mirrored to Apple Calendar
- Your Markdown and audio, in a folder you can open
- No account, no analytics, no cloud
Founding user
Optional $3.99 Per month, $39.99 a year, or $79.99 once for life.- Nothing extra unlocks. You already have all of it
- Keeps Saane independent, with no investors and no ads
- A founding user seal on the home screen
- Cancel any time through Apple