Hermit

Your voice notes stay on your iPhone.

Hermit records, transcribes, summarizes, and pulls out tasks with AI that runs entirely on your device.

Coming soon to the App Store How privacy works
Hermit's Tasks view listing tasks from several notes, grouped by due date A lecture note in Hermit showing a 47-minute recording and its AI summary

Talk. Hermit handles the rest.

Every step runs on your device's own chip. Nothing is uploaded to be processed.

  1. Record

    Lectures, meetings, or a thought on a walk. Tap once to start.

  2. Transcribe

    Whisper speech recognition turns audio into a timestamped, tappable transcript.

  3. Summarize

    A local language model writes a summary and lists the tasks you mentioned.

  4. Ask

    Chat with a single note or a whole notebook to find what was said.

Built for meetings, classes, and everything between.

Works in airplane mode.

After a one-time model download, transcription, summaries, tasks, and chat all run without a connection.

Knows who said what

Speaker identification labels each voice in a conversation.

Tasks you can act on

Every open task across your notes in one list. Add due dates and send any task to Reminders.

Bring what you already have

Import audio files, PDFs, text, and photos. Scanned pages are read on-device.

Sketch it out

Drawing notes with Apple Pencil, searchable through on-device handwriting recognition.

Your own iCloudSync between your devices through your private iCloud account.

App LockKeep notes behind Face ID, Touch ID, or your passcode.

Search everywhereFull-text search in the app and from Spotlight.

Privacy

No account. No analytics. No servers reading your notes.

Processing happens on your device. Your recordings and transcripts are never sent to us or to an AI service. We don't run a server for Hermit to talk to.

Sync stays in your account. If you use iCloud, notes sync through your private iCloud database. We can't see or access it.

One download, then offline. On first setup Hermit downloads its AI models from Hugging Face. Only the model files are downloaded. None of your content is sent.

Nothing to sell. No ads, no tracking, and no third-party SDKs that collect data. There is nothing about you for us to share.

Read the privacy policy

Made for iPhone and iPad.

Requires iOS or iPadOS 26.5 or later. Want Hermit on Android? Tell us and we'll count your vote.

Coming soon to the App Store