You talked for an hour. Walk away with what matters.1

The meeting is over and you are already forgetting it. You don't need to listen to it again: you need to know what came out of it.

Three things, and it does them well.

One quality level, the best one, every time. There are no modes to pick and no labels to decode: you open it, you record, and you get the best result it can give.

• It records without getting in the way

  A meeting, a class, a consultation or an idea out of nowhere. From the iPhone with the screen locked, or from the Apple Watch without pulling your phone out.

• It hands back a document

  A transcript with every speaker identified2 and a structured summary: context, agreements, action items with an owner and a date, and open questions.

• And it lets you finish it

  You fix the text by hand, ask a chat for changes, schedule what was left pending, and send it out wherever you already work.

From a red button to a set of minutes.3

1. You hit the red button

   The first time, it reminds you to tell everyone else that you're recording. After that: a timer, a waveform and a flag to mark what matters. You can lock the iPhone and get on with your day. If a call comes in, it pauses and resumes on its own.

2. Recado transcribes, speaker by speaker

   It isn't one block of text: every turn is attributed and time-stamped. You rename each speaker once and the name sticks. Tap any line to hear that exact moment.

3. It writes the summary

   Context, agreements, action items with an owner and a date, open questions. Six templates (meeting, class, idea, interview, consultation and WhatsApp voice note) and Recado picks the right one. You can close the app: it tells you when the note is ready.

4. You decide what to do with it

   You fix it, ask for changes, schedule whatever came with a date, and share it. The note stays in your library, with folders, tags, and search inside the title, the summary and the transcript.

The summary isn't the end. It's the draft.

Every word of it is yours and every word can be changed: the title, the summary, the agreements, the action items, the speaker names and the transcript.

• Edit it by hand, with no limit. Fixing the text doesn't use anything up.
• Or ask the chat. “Make it shorter”, “more formal, I'm sending it to the client”, “add the amounts”.4
• Nothing is overwritten behind your back. You see the proposal and choose Apply or Discard.
• You can always go back. The original summary is still there even if you've changed it ten times.
• It only talks about your note. Ask it something that wasn't said in the conversation and it tells you so instead of making it up.
• The counter stays in sight. How many requests you've used this month, inside the note and in Settings.

What matters almost never announces itself.

Someone catches you in the hallway, the client drops the date on the way out, something occurs to you while you're driving. Pulling out your phone takes fifteen seconds. With the watch it takes two.5

• With the iPhone nearby

  The watch commands, the phone records. The iPhone records, because its microphone is better, and the watch is the remote: timer, pause and moment flags. Recado picks this on its own, without asking.

• Without the iPhone nearby

  It records on your wrist and nothing is lost. Up to 45 minutes stored on the watch. When the watch and the iPhone find each other again, the recording transfers on its own. The audio isn't deleted from the watch until the iPhone confirms it already has it.

Minutes recorded from the watch come out of your plan exactly like the ones from the iPhone. There's no separate quota and no extra charge.

Whatever came with a date won't slip away.

“See you Thursday”, “I'll send it to you on the 18th”, “put the plant visit on the calendar”. Recado catches it and puts it in front of you so you can decide.

• It catches it

  With the sentence that said it. Every commitment arrives with what Recado understood (title, date, time if one was said, and participants) and with the exact sentence from the conversation and its minute, so you can confirm nothing was misread.6

• You decide

  One by one or all at once. Schedule creates the event in Calendar; Remind creates the reminder in Reminders; Edit fixes the date, the time or the title before creating it; Discard drops it. Recado never creates anything on its own.

• And it leaves the app

  Through whatever you already use. WhatsApp, email or Notes. Or export as PDF, Markdown or plain text. You can also bring audio in: import from Files and Voice Memos, or share a WhatsApp voice note to Recado.

Recado resolves spoken dates (“Thursday”, “in two weeks”, “end of the month”) against the date of the recording, and shows you the resolved date. If a time is ambiguous or two dates conflict, it flags it instead of guessing. The Calendar and Reminders permission is optional: if you don't grant it, Recado still lists the commitments inside the note.

The audio goes away the moment it's no longer needed.

• Your notes live on your iPhone

  And, if you turn on syncing with Sign in with Apple, their text and your edits live in your own iCloud too.

• The audio is deleted once it's processed

  It leaves your phone only to be transcribed and summarized, and it's erased when the work is done. It isn't used to train models.

• No advertising and no tracking

  Using Recado takes no email address, no password and no phone number. Apple handles the billing: Recado never receives your card details.

Tell the other people before you record, and get whatever consent applies: the app reminds you the first time, and where the law demands it, the responsibility is yours.