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Speak
Swipe a thread right and talk. WhisperKit or Apple’s on-device dictation transcribes as you go, and the audio is discarded the moment the text lands.
Local-first voice notes for iPhone
Think out loud.
Speak, and LiveThoughts turns it into a timestamped, searchable record — transcribed on your phone, filed into the threads you are already thinking in. Nothing leaves the device.
TestFlight — coming soon
“Call the dentist about the crown — they close at 5.”
A capture · Jul 5 · 9:52 AM · Serif means spoken — your words, word for word.
The core idea
One capture, many threads.
A capture is stored once — immutable, timestamped, verbatim. Threads are views into it. File the same thought into your essay, your to-do list, and your journal without copying anything. Delete a thread; the capture survives.
Immutable
Captures never change after the moment you speak them. Editing happens downstream, in notes.
Timestamped
Every thought keeps its moment. The transcript reads like a record because it is one.
Shared, not copied
Assign a capture to five threads and there is still exactly one capture.
How it works
Speak. Read it back. Let it organize.
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The transcript
Every capture joins an immutable, timestamped transcript — set in serif because it is your voice, verbatim. It is the source of truth. Nothing rewrites it.
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The note
Apple Intelligence organizes each thread into a note, on-device — timeline or Idea Web — with citations that point back to the verbatim transcript. Notes are derived; regenerate them anytime, the transcript stays.
The daily · triage
Quick thoughts land somewhere amber.
Not every thought knows where it belongs yet. The Daily catches it, and an amber cue marks it unfiled until you triage it into a thread — one tap, no ceremony. In the meantime, every word is already searchable.
- Capture first, decide later
- Amber cues surface whatever is unfiled
- Full-text search across notes and transcripts
Two homes
The Deck and the Constellation.
Two ways to hold the same threads. The Deck ranks them by recency — what is current sits on the desk, the rest settles into the pile. The Constellation lays them out in space, with shared captures drawing edges between nodes.
The Deck
Recency as physical depth. Swipe any thread right to record straight into it.
The Constellation
Threads as a spatial map. Tap a node and start talking, instantly.
Interactive concepts
See it move.
Two self-running concept mockups, straight from the design process. Open one and press PLAY FLOW — it walks itself through the whole idea, or take over and explore by hand.
Concept mockups run best on a desktop browser or a phone in portrait. They are sketches of the idea, not the shipping app.
Local-first
Private by architecture.
Not a policy promise — a design constraint. There is no server to trust because there is no server.
- On-device transcription
- WhisperKit or Apple’s dictation, running on the phone’s silicon. Audio is never uploaded.
- Audio discarded
- Once the text lands, the recording is gone. What remains is text you can read, search, and export.
- No accounts, no cloud
- There is no sign-in screen. Airplane mode is a supported configuration.
- On-device intelligence
- Notes are organized by Apple Intelligence on the device. When it is unavailable, your transcript is untouched and everything else still works.