Notes

A notes app that fills itself in

Use the voice-note shortcut to save an idea instead of typing into another app. Notes live in your account across devices; optional dictation history keeps a text copy on the computer where you spoke.

Three ways in

Keep the words you choose

Dictation and notes have different homes. Choose local text history for the words you type by voice, or save an idea as a note across devices.

Optional local dictation history

With Keep dictation history on, completed dictations keep a text copy on this computer with the target app and time. Turn history off or clear it whenever you prefer; it does not sync or become a note automatically.

Deliberately, with Voice notes

Voice notes have a shortcut of their own: hold Right Command (Right Ctrl on Windows), or press Control-Option-N (Ctrl+Alt+N) to go hands-free. What you say becomes a new note instead of text in whatever window has focus — useful when there is no field to dictate into.

By hand, when your hands are free

Type a note like you would anywhere else. Voice notes and typed notes live in one list, sort together and search together — there is no separate 'voice' section to remember to check.

What is kept: text, and a note's recordings

Dictations and notes are handled differently. A dictation's audio is sent for transcription and then discarded. If Keep dictation history is on, a text copy stays in the history on your own computer.

A voice note keeps its recordings: the first take, plus one more each time you add to the note by voice. The note's text and recordings are stored, encrypted, in your account on our servers, so every computer you sign in on shows the note and plays it back as one track — useful for catching a word the transcript got wrong.

You decide how long recordings stay. Keep recordings, in Settings → Voice notes, is Forever unless you change it. 30 days deletes each recording 30 days after it was made; Don't keep deletes every recording and keeps only the text of new voice notes. The setting belongs to your account, so it applies on every computer, and a note's text is never touched by it.

The duration shown on a dictation is how long you spoke. There is no recording behind it.

Finding things

Search by what you said

You will not remember a note's title — you probably never wrote it. You will remember a phrase.

Words, or an exact phrase

Type a few words to find everything that contains all of them, in any order, in a note's text or its title. Put a phrase in quotes to match it exactly. Case and accents do not matter.

Notes, dictations, or both

Search the list you are in, or switch to All to search your notes and your dictation history together, with each result marked as one or the other.

Filters

Narrow the results to voice or typed, to today or the last 7 or 30 days, to one language, or — for dictations — to the app they went into.

Matches highlighted in the note

Open a result and every match is highlighted in its text. ⌘G and ⇧⌘G (Ctrl+G and Ctrl+Shift+G on Windows) step to the next and previous one.

Tags

Tags you make. AI only picks from them.

Make a tag the moment you need one: press Add tag under a note's title, type a name, and it is there, in one of eight soft colours. Click it later to see every note that has it.

With AI tags on, a new note gets up to three of your existing tags, picked by AI from what the note says. It only ever chooses from the tags you made — it never invents one — and you can change whatever it picked. To choose, our server sends OpenAI the note's text and the names of your tags; turn AI tags off in Settings → AI and nothing is sent for tags.

  • clients
  • launch
  • ideas
  • 1:1s
  • Only you create tags — AI never does
  • Chips under each note's title, and up to three on every row of the list
  • Click a tag to list its notes, or filter a search by tag
  • Rename, recolour, merge or delete them in Settings → Tags
  • The same tags on every computer signed in to your account
  • Your AI assistant can find notes by tag: “summarize my #clients notes”
Working with a note

Most notes get a second visit

A thought you spoke on Monday is rarely finished on Monday. These are the tools for coming back to it.

Add to it by voice

Press Add by voice on an open note, or hold the Voice notes shortcut while the note is in front of you. What you say goes on the end of the note, and its recording joins the others, so the whole note plays back as one track.

Re-transcribe it

Send a note's recordings through transcription again, in a language you pick or with the language detected for you. The new text replaces the old one, and the old one stays in version history.

Version history

When an edit, an addition by voice, a re-transcription, an AI action or a restore changes a note, the text it replaces is kept. Read up to 50 earlier versions of a note and bring any of them back. It is kept in your account, so it needs a connection.

A Trash with 30 days' grace

Deleting a note or a dictation moves it to the Trash, one icon away in the sidebar, with an Undo right there. For 30 days it can be restored — a note with its recordings and version history, on every computer signed in to your account; a dictation on the computer it was made on. Then it is deleted for good — or sooner, with Delete forever or Empty Trash.

Pinned notes stay on top

Pin the handful you keep coming back to. Everything below them is grouped by day — Today, Yesterday, then the date — newest first.

Titles that write themselves

A new voice note gets a short title written by AI, in the note's language. A typed note keeps its first sentence as its title until you rename it or ask for one. Rename any note and AI never overwrites it; Regenerate title asks for a fresh one, on any note. AI titles is on by default in Settings → AI, and it sends the note's text to OpenAI to write the title — turn it off and notes keep their first sentence.

Folders

Make a folder from the sidebar and drag notes into it, or use Move to folder. Folders are one level deep, so nothing gets lost three levels down, and every note is still in All notes.

Locked notes

Lock a note behind a 4-digit PIN and its text disappears from the list, search and AI actions until you unlock it. It is a privacy screen rather than extra encryption, so a forgotten PIN never costs you a note.

A note in its own window

Open a note in a window of its own and keep it beside the email or document you are writing, with its tags, its text and its voice track.

Reminders

Have a note come back when it matters

Any note can carry a reminder. Pick In 20 minutes, In 1 hour, In 3 hours, Tomorrow or Next week, as you would in Slack, or choose your own date and time, once or every day, every weekday, every week or every month.

Or just say it. With Reminders from your voice on, “remind me tomorrow at 9” inside a voice note sets the reminder for you, and it understands dozens of languages. To read the time, only the sentences around your request go through our server to OpenAI; turn the switch off in Settings → AI and nothing is sent for reminders.

When a reminder is due you get a notification on macOS or Windows, with Mark as done and Snooze right on it. Reminders arrive while VoiceSnap Pro is running, so the app offers to open at login.

  • A Reminders view, first in the sidebar: Overdue, Today, Upcoming and Done
  • Snooze, skip the next one of a repeat, or mark it done — and Undo any change
  • Synced with your account: mark it done on one computer and it is done on all of them
  • Missed while the app was closed? They wait under Overdue, with one summary notification
  • Setting a reminder by voice does not count as an AI action
AI actions

Rewrite it, shorten it, translate it — in place

Select some text, or none for the whole note, then right-click or press ⌘J (Ctrl+J on Windows). The result lands where you wrote.

Rewrite

Clearer wording, the same meaning, about the same length. Replaces the text.

Summarize

The key points, added below the text — or saved as a new note of its own.

Fix grammar & spelling

Only the mistakes change. Your wording stays yours.

Make shorter

About half the length, keeping the key information and the tone.

Turn into bullet points

One point per line, in the order you said them.

Extract action items

The to-dos in a rambling voice note, with who and when if you said them, added below.

Translate to…

Into any language on VoiceSnap Pro's language list, replacing the text.

Your own actions

A name and a prompt — “Rewrite this as a friendly email” — and where the result goes. Hide the built-in ones you never use.

  • Rewritten · Undo takes a change straight back, and so does ⌘Z (Ctrl+Z); the text before it is kept in version history
  • On a dictation, the result is saved as a new note and the dictation stays as it was
  • Nothing is sent until you choose an action: then the text you run it on, and your own action's prompt, go through our server to OpenAI
  • Our server keeps none of that text — only a count of the actions you run
  • On by default; turn AI actions off in Settings → AI
Ask your notes

Let your AI assistant read them, if you want to

VoiceSnap Pro includes a small MCP server, the standard way assistants such as Claude Desktop connect to other apps. Turn on Let AI assistants read my notes in Settings → AI assistants, copy the setup into your assistant, and ask it what you said about the launch plan last week.

It runs on your computer, not ours. Your assistant starts VoiceSnap Pro in a read-only mode that reads the notes already on this computer and never goes online. What the assistant reads is then sent to its own provider — Anthropic, for Claude Desktop — and handled under that provider's terms. VoiceSnap's server is not involved.

  • Off until you turn it on, separately on each computer
  • Read-only: the assistant can search, list and read notes, never change them
  • Text only — never a recording, and nothing in the Trash
  • Your dictation history only if you allow that as well
  • Works with Claude Desktop, or another assistant that supports MCP

Questions about notes

Yes, for voice notes, for as long as you keep recordings. A voice note keeps its recordings — one for each time you spoke into it — in your account, and any computer signed in to it plays them back as one track. Keep recordings, in Settings → Voice notes, decides how long they stay: forever, 30 days, or not at all. Dictations are different: their audio is discarded once the transcript comes back, so there is nothing to replay.

On your computer and in your account on our servers, where the text, its title, its earlier versions and the recordings are encrypted, and so are your tags and your own AI actions. That is how they appear on every computer where you sign in. You sign in with Google or with a one-time code we email you; there is no password. Dictation history stays on the computer you dictated on and is never uploaded; the only time a dictation's text leaves it is when you run an AI action on that dictation.

It moves to the Trash, and a Moved to Trash · Undo message lets you take that back at once. In the Trash it waits for 30 days, on every computer signed in to your account, with its recordings and version history, and Restore puts it back where it was. After 30 days, or as soon as you choose Delete forever or Empty Trash, the note, its earlier versions and its recordings are deleted from your computer and your account; the recordings leave our storage within about 10 minutes. A dictation you delete goes to the same Trash, opened from the sidebar, and waits there for 30 days too, but only on the computer where you dictated.

Yes. Version history, in the note's ⋯ menu, lists up to 50 earlier versions of the note, each labelled with the change it was kept before: an edit, an addition by voice, a re-transcription or a restore. Typing saves at most one version every 10 minutes, so an editing session does not flood the list. Restoring a version keeps the current text as a version too. Version history is kept in your account until the note is deleted for good, so it needs an internet connection.

With AI titles on — it is by default, in Settings → AI — a new voice note gets a short title written by OpenAI. A typed note never gets one on its own: it is titled with its first sentence until you rename it or ask for a title. To write one, our server sends OpenAI the note's text, never its recordings, and nothing that identifies you; OpenAI does not use it for training. You can rename any note, and AI never replaces a title you wrote; Regenerate title, in the note's ⋯ menu, asks for a new one for any note, typed or spoken. Turn AI titles off and no note's text is sent for a title: notes are titled with their first sentence, and titles already written stay until you change them. AI titles don't count as AI actions. The setting belongs to your account, so it applies on every computer.

No. Only you create tags — with Add tag on a note, or in Settings → Tags. With AI tags on, which it is by default, a new note gets up to three of the tags you already made, picked by AI from the note's text; it can only choose from your list, may choose none, and does nothing until you have made a tag. To choose, our server sends OpenAI the note's text and the names of your tags, never the recordings. AI tags don't count as AI actions. Change or remove what it picked like any other tag, or turn AI tags off in Settings → AI.

Nothing until you choose one. When you do, the text you run it on — what you selected, or the whole note or dictation, up to 20,000 characters — and your own action's prompt go through our server to OpenAI, and the result comes back to your computer. OpenAI does not use it for training. Our server keeps none of it, only a count of the actions you run. A result that replaces text can be undone at once, and the text before it stays in version history; a dictation is never changed, because its result is saved as a new note. AI actions need an internet connection. The free allowance includes 50 of them; Pro has no allowance to use up, only a daily ceiling for fair use, and if you reach it the app says when more are available. Turn them off in Settings → AI.

Only if you turn it on. Settings → AI assistants → Let AI assistants read my notes lets Claude Desktop, or another assistant that supports MCP, search and read the notes on that computer, and find them by tag — text only, never recordings or the Trash, and your dictation history only if you also turn on the switch below it. It all happens on your computer: VoiceSnap's server is not involved. What the assistant reads goes to its provider, under that provider's terms.

Yes. Set a reminder from the bell in a note's header, the ⋯ menu or ⇧⌘R (Ctrl+Shift+R): a preset such as In 1 hour or Tomorrow, a date and time of your own, or a repeat every day, weekday, week or month. With Reminders from your voice on, saying “remind me on Friday at 10” in a voice note sets it for you. When it is due you get a notification on macOS or Windows with Mark as done and Snooze. Reminders sync with your account and arrive while VoiceSnap Pro is running on one of your computers; any you miss wait under Overdue in the Reminders view.

By default, yes — to the dictation history on your own computer, which keeps the newest 1,000 dictations. You can turn Keep dictation history off in Settings, move any dictation to the Trash, where it is deleted after 30 days, or clear the whole history, the Trash included, at once. None of that affects your notes.

On macOS, no: password fields turn on Secure Input, and VoiceSnap Pro refuses to start a dictation while it is on. On Windows it cannot tell a password field from any other field yet, so a password dictated into one is handled like any other dictation: the audio goes through our server to OpenAI to be transcribed, and the text is pasted and kept in your dictation history. Type passwords by hand.

Yes, if you sign in to the same account on both. Notes and their recordings are kept in your account, so each computer shows the same notes, and the same titles, tags, folders, pins, reminders, notes in the Trash, your own AI actions, and Keep recordings and AI settings. Dictation history does not sync — it stays on the computer where you dictated, and so do the dictations you move to the Trash.

On the free allowance you can keep up to 20 notes and run 50 AI actions, once. Pro has no allowance to use up, but it does have fair-use ceilings: up to 20,000 notes, counting the ones in the Trash, 10 GB of recordings, and a daily limit on AI actions — if you reach it, the app says when more are available. On any account a single note can have up to 50 recordings, and you can make up to 100 tags, put up to 10 on a note, and write up to 30 AI actions of your own. Dictation history keeps the newest 1,000 dictations on each computer, not counting the ones in the Trash, and drops older ones automatically.

No. Notes are part of every account: up to 20 on the free allowance, with every feature, and Pro lifts that limit. There is no separate notes tier. If you stop paying for Pro, the notes you have stay readable and editable.

The notes write themselves. You just talk.

Download VoiceSnap Pro for Mac or Windows and sign in. Your first 20 notes are free, with every feature and no card.