Diktafon: Voice Memos on Tape
Voice memos on cassette tapes — transcribed & summarised offline, on device.
Jaromír Janisch Multimedia
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Description
Diktafon is a voice recorder built around one idea: capturing a thought and finding it again later should feel effortless.
Your memos live on cassettes — one tape per topic, like "shopping", "kitchen renovation" or "book ideas". Each cassette plays as one continuous tape of your recordings, in order, just like the real thing.
<b>SIMPLE TO USE</b>
Controls you already know, inspired by real tape recorders. Open a cassette, press record, talk — no naming, no forms, no network needed. Rewind to find it again.
<b>MODERN</b>
Automatic transcriptions and summaries: every memo is transcribed, every cassette summarised and titled. Tap any word in a transcript and the tape jumps right there.
<b>COMPLETELY PRIVATE</b>
Everything is computed on your device. No accounts, no cloud, no ads, no analytics — your voice never leaves your phone. The only network use is a one-time download of the on-device models (Wi-Fi recommended; about 2 GB for the default models, up to 3 GB for the largest — or just 0.2 GB if you skip summaries).
<b>SPEAKS YOUR LANGUAGE</b>
Ten languages: English, Czech, French, German, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish — in recordings, summaries and the app itself. The spoken language is detected for each memo, so one tape can freely mix languages.
<b>FREE & OPEN SOURCE</b>
No cost, no ads, no lock-in. MIT-licensed — read the code, build it yourself, make it yours: https://github.com/jaromiru/diktafon
<b>AND THE LITTLE THINGS</b>
• Gapless playback with a colour-coded tape bar and an optional soft chime between memos.
• Export any cassette — or all of them — as a single archive with the audio and readable text inside; import only adds, never overwrites.
• Light & dark themes, cassette colours, per-memo copy and delete.
A note on quality: transcription and summaries come from small models running entirely on your phone. Their quality is being actively worked on and will improve in future updates.
Diktafon works best on 64-bit phones with 4 GB of RAM or more.
What’s new (1.0.8)
Packaging-only release: each Android APK is now built with a single-ABI invocation so F-Droid builds only the ABI it ships. No functional changes.
Anti-features
Properties of this app that are worth knowing about before installing.
- NonFreeNet
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Permissions
What the app asks the system for. Android only grants sensitive access after you confirm it.
- MicrophoneRecord audio.
- Internet accessSend and receive data over the internet.
- NotificationsShow notifications.
- VibrationControl the vibration alert.
- Network stateCheck whether and how the device is connected.
- diktafon.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION
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