AI notes that never leave your phone
Most AI note-taking apps send your meetings to the cloud. aira runs everything on your iPhone — transcription, summarization, search. No servers. Just private, intelligent notes.
The problem with AI note-taking today
AI meeting tools like Otter.ai, Fireflies, and Fathom are impressive — but they all work the same way. Your audio gets uploaded to their servers, processed by their AI, and stored in their database. Your most sensitive conversations — strategy discussions, personnel matters, client calls, legal consultations — live on someone else’s infrastructure.
You’re trusting a startup with data you wouldn’t email to a stranger. And that trust is based on a privacy policy, not architecture. Policies change. Companies get acquired. Servers get breached.
There’s a better way to get AI-powered notes without giving up your privacy.
How aira keeps your notes private
On-device transcription
aira converts speech to text using AI models that run directly on your iPhone's Neural Engine. Your audio never leaves the device — not even temporarily.
Local summarization
Meeting summaries, action items, and key decisions are extracted by a compact language model running on your phone. No cloud API calls. No round trips to a server.
Private semantic search
Search your notes by meaning, not just keywords. The embedding model runs locally, so your search queries and results stay entirely on your device.
Speaker diarization without enrollment
aira identifies who said what in your meetings — automatically, with no setup. The speaker recognition runs on-device, so voice profiles are never uploaded.
Works without internet
Record and process meetings on a plane, in a basement, or in a country with unreliable internet. aira doesn't need a connection because there's no server to connect to.
No account required
aira's core features work without creating an account, signing in, or providing an email address. Download the app and start using it.
Privacy through architecture, not policy
Most apps promise privacy through terms of service. aira delivers it through engineering. Here’s the difference:
| Cloud AI tools | aira | |
|---|---|---|
| Where AI runs | Remote servers | On your iPhone |
| Audio leaves device | Yes | Never |
| Requires internet | Always | No |
| Data used for training | Often | Never |
| Third-party access risk | Yes | None |
| Works in airplane mode | No | Yes |
| Subscription required | Usually | No |
Built for people who care about privacy
Lawyers & legal professionals
Attorney-client privilege can be waived if recordings are shared with third parties. On-device processing keeps privileged conversations protected.
Healthcare professionals
HIPAA compliance is simpler when patient data never leaves the device. No servers to secure, no BAAs to negotiate for core features.
Executives & founders
Board discussions, M&A conversations, strategic planning — the meetings where confidentiality matters most are exactly where cloud tools are riskiest.
Anyone tired of cloud surveillance
Your meeting notes are some of the most personal data you create. They shouldn't be training data for someone else's AI model.
Frequently asked questions
What makes aira more private than other AI note apps?
Most AI note apps process your audio on cloud servers — your recordings leave your device and are processed on infrastructure you don't control. aira runs all AI models directly on your iPhone. Your audio, transcripts, and summaries never leave your phone. This is privacy through architecture, not just a promise in a privacy policy.
Can aira really run AI on a phone?
Yes. Modern iPhones have a dedicated Neural Engine designed for machine learning. aira uses optimized models for speech recognition, summarization, and semantic search that run efficiently on this hardware. Processing happens quickly and entirely on your device.
Is on-device AI as accurate as cloud AI?
For focused tasks like meeting transcription and summarization, on-device models perform very well. They're specifically optimized for these tasks rather than being general-purpose. The gap between on-device and cloud AI is closing rapidly with each generation of mobile hardware.
Do I need an internet connection to use aira?
No. Every feature — recording, transcription, summarization, speaker identification, and semantic search — works entirely offline. You can record and process meetings on a plane, in a basement, or anywhere without Wi-Fi.
How much does aira cost?
aira's core features — recording, transcription, summarization, speaker diarization, and semantic search — are free. Because everything runs on your device, there's no server cost per meeting, which means we don't need per-minute pricing or usage caps.
What happens to my data if I delete the app?
All your data is stored locally on your iPhone. When you delete the app, the data is removed from your device. We don't have a copy because we never had access to it in the first place.
Your notes deserve better than the cloud
Download aira and start taking meeting notes that stay on your phone — private, searchable, and intelligent.