Any source. Any room.

Record live in the room, paste a YouTube or web link, upload an audio file, import a PDF, or just type or paste the text yourself. Six ways in — every one routes through the same pipeline and comes back as a structured note. And you don't have to open the app first: share into it from any app, or start recording from a widget or Siri.

Live recording

Audio file upload

YouTube videos

Web page links

PDF & text documents

Type or paste text

Share from any app

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Lectures

Record class and actually listen. Get an accurate transcript, a structured summary, and flashcards ready to review.

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Meetings

Stay present. Capture every decision and action item without typing through the whole call.

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YouTube & web

Paste a link. YostNotes fetches the transcript and builds a full structured note — no audio upload needed.

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Files & documents

Upload an audio file or import a PDF. Any source gets a transcript, summary, and study artifacts.

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Type or paste

Already have the text? Paste an email thread, a set of raw notes, or an article straight into YostNotes and get the same structured summary back. Nothing to record, and it doesn't touch your recording minutes.

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On the go

An idea while you walk, drive, or commute. Tap record and speak. YostNotes turns it into a clean note.

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Record from anywhere

Start recording from the Lock Screen widget, Siri, or Android's Quick Settings tile. While it runs, the Lock Screen shows the time, with buttons to pause and stop.

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From any app

Reading something worth keeping? Tap Share, then YostNotes, for a web page, a YouTube video, a PDF, some text, or a voice memo. It lands in your library as a note.

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Your calendar, if you want

Turn on Use my calendar, and a recording made during an event is named after it, offered the folder you used last time, and its attendees help name the speakers. The recorder recaps what you covered last time. Your calendar is read only on your phone.

Notes you can study

Every note is more than a transcript. Get flashcards with spaced repetition, quizzes graded for meaning, study reminders, a print-ready study guide, an AI rollup of an entire folder, a transcript you can correct as you listen, and a chat input that edits any note in plain English.

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Flashcards

Generated from your transcript and key terms. SM-2 spaced repetition schedules each card just before you'd forget it. A Due Today queue across all notes and folders keeps you on track without managing a schedule yourself.

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Quiz yourself

Tap Quiz Me in a note, or Quiz This Folder for a whole course, for ten questions written from your own notes. Short answers are graded for meaning, not exact wording, every question links back to where it came from, and the ones you miss become flashcards in one tap.

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Reminders and streaks

Pick a time, and YostNotes tells you how many cards are due. A quiz nudge arrives the day before an exam on your calendar, or a week after a folder's last note, and the Study tab keeps your streak. All of it stays on your phone.

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Recipes

Turn a note, or a whole folder, into a follow-up email, ten exam questions, an update for your manager, or any prompt you write and save. Give a folder a summary template, and every note in it is summarized your way.

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Study guide

A condensed view of any note — overview, key points, glossary, and timeline. Export as a print-ready PDF (paginated US Letter with margins, matching the on-screen design) or Markdown, ready for the exam or the next meeting.

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Fix it as you listen

Tap any transcript line to jump the audio there. Hold it to correct the text — the playback bar steps out of the way while you type. Get a name wrong once and you fix it once: tap a speaker's chip and every line they said is renamed in a single pass. Play at 0.75× up to 2×, pick up where you stopped, and control playback from the Lock Screen.

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Speakers, named for you

YostNotes lifts real names out of the conversation itself and puts them on the transcript, so you're reading "Sarah," not "Speaker 2." If any generic labels are left when you go to summarize, it says so first — and offers to take you to the transcript before you spend the call.

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Names and terms, spelled right

Give a folder its people and terms — a professor's name, drug names, product codes — and they come out right in that folder's transcripts, speaker names, and summaries.

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Photo capture

Snap the whiteboard mid-lecture without stopping the recording. Photos anchor to the exact timestamp they were taken, their text is searchable across your library, and they sit right beside the summary in every share and export — not buried under the transcript.

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Chat to edit

Tell the app what to fix in plain English: "Elena is Aleyna" or "move Action Items to the top." A pinned chat input on the Summary tab applies the change across the whole note in one turn — every mention of a name, not just the first.

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Folders & rollups

Organize by course or project. Search, filters, and the flashcard queue all scope to the active folder, and a new note lands in whichever folder you're already in. One tap generates an AI rollup of every note in the folder — ideal before an exam, a retrospective, or a client debrief.

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Find any of it

Full-text search runs across titles, summaries, transcripts, recipe results, past quizzes, and the text inside your photos. Every summary suggests topic tags: filter by one or several, sort by date, length, or title, and on iPhone find notes straight from Spotlight.

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Scoped sharing

Publish any note as a stable web link. Choose exactly what recipients can see — transcript, speaker labels, and photos each toggle independently. Unpublish any time, or set an auto-expiry.

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Summaries in your inbox

Turn on Email Summaries and each recording's summary arrives as a formatted email, a PDF, or plain text — or send any note's summary when you choose. Only the summary is sent, never the transcript or the audio.

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Take your notes anywhere

Share or copy any note as Markdown, export a folder or your whole library into Files or an Obsidian vault, and send flashcards to Anki as a ready-made deck.

Summaries that adapt to the content

Not every note is the same. YostNotes builds the right sections for what was said — and you can toggle or regenerate any section on its own.

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Action Items

Every task and next step pulled out of the conversation, with an owner attached wherever one was named. Tap to check them off — the state follows you to your other devices and prints as checked in your PDF and web exports.

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Decisions

What was decided, in one place. Promoted to its own block so nothing gets buried in prose.

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Key Terms & Glossary

Vocabulary defined during the lecture or meeting, collected as a searchable glossary block.

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Timeline

Dates, phases, and sequenced steps rendered as a table when the source describes them.

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Examples & Scenarios

Representative cases from lectures and training content surfaced as their own block.

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Overview & Key Points

Always present. Two to four bullets that frame the source, plus the key points worth keeping.

Notes in the language you speak

Record a seminar in German or paste an article in Spanish. YostNotes works out what language it's in and writes the whole note back in that language. There's no setting to change. And the app itself now speaks German, Spanish, and French.

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Detected automatically

No language picker and nothing to remember before you hit record. YostNotes listens and works out what's being spoken, across 99 languages. German and 17 others run on our most accurate transcription model.

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The whole note follows

The summary, its section titles, the flashcards, and folder rollups all come back in the language of the source, whether that was a recording, a YouTube video, a PDF, or text you pasted. A German lecture gets German flashcards.

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Chat answers in yours

Ask chat-to-edit for a change in English and it replies in English, while the edit itself stays in the note's language.

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Translate any note

When a note comes back in a language you don't read, one tap rewrites the title, summary, and flashcards in yours. The transcript stays as recorded, and YouTube links use captions in your language when the video has them.

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An app in your language

Menus, buttons, and help are in English, German, Spanish, and French, following your phone's language, or one you pick for YostNotes alone.

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Light or dark

Keep the dark look, switch to light, or follow your phone. It's under Settings → Appearance.

You get one shot at the room

A lecture doesn't happen twice. YostNotes is built on the assumption that the phone will be interrupted, backgrounded, and out of signal — and that none of that is your problem.

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Interruptions can't take the audio

An incoming call, Siri, or an alarm partway through a 48-minute meeting is just a gap in the conversation. Every pause closes one piece of the recording and every resume opens a fresh one, and the pieces are stitched back together — losslessly — when you tap stop.

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Finishes while you're away

Close the app, lock the phone, put it in your pocket. A long recording keeps uploading, transcribing, and summarizing in the background, and a notification tells you the moment the note is ready. If it does get cut short, it resumes where it stopped rather than transcribing from the top.

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No signal, no problem

Record in a basement lecture hall, on a plane, or anywhere the bars run out. The note waits on your device and processes itself the moment you're back on a network. Nothing to remember, nothing to retry by hand.

Every device. Encrypted before it leaves yours.

CloudSync keeps your library in step across iPhone and Android — and locks it with a passphrase only you know, so what reaches our servers is ciphertext we can't read.

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Cross-platform sync

Notes, transcripts, summaries, flashcards, and folders stay in step across your iPhone and your Android phone. One account, both platforms — check off an action item on one and it's checked on the other. Included with your subscription.

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End-to-end encrypted

Your content is encrypted on your device with AES-256 under a passphrase only you hold. We never receive the passphrase, the keys, or a line of plaintext, unless you turn on Email Summaries, which sends a summary to your inbox. A one-time recovery key gets you back in on a new phone — keep it somewhere safe, because we can't reset it for you.

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Your audio stays home

Only text and metadata sync. Recordings and photos never leave the device they were captured on. Synced data lives on EU-resident servers, and signing out leaves every local note exactly where it is. Delete your account, and what we hold is deleted too.

Records the room, not just the call

Most AI note tools require a bot to join a video meeting. That does nothing for a lecture hall, a hallway conversation, or a YouTube video you want to learn from.

YostNotes

✓ Records lectures, meetings, and voice notes in any room
✓ Six ways in — recording, audio files, YouTube, web links, PDFs, or text you paste
✓ Adaptive summaries — Decisions, Action Items, Key Terms, Timeline
✓ Detects the spoken language, 99 of them, and writes the note in it
✓ Ask your notes anything — every answer cites the line it came from
✓ Flashcards, spaced repetition, and quizzes graded for meaning
✓ Share in from any app, or record from a widget or Siri
✓ Chat to edit any note in plain English — fix names, reorder sections
✓ Auto-names speakers from conversation context — no labels to set manually
✓ A call mid-lecture can't cost you the recording
✓ Keeps processing after you close the app, and queues offline until you're back
✓ Print-ready PDF export, paginated for US Letter with full margins
✓ End-to-end encrypted sync across iPhone and Android — we can't read your notes
✓ No bot to invite. In your pocket. Free to try.

Typical meeting tools

✕ A bot has to join a video call
✕ Useless for an in-person lecture, a file, or text you already have
✕ Flat summaries with no section structure
✕ No study layer — no flashcards, no quizzes, no review queue
✕ Editing means hunting through text manually
✕ Nothing to record in the first place if you're offline
✕ Your recordings and transcripts sit readable on their servers
✕ Priced per seat, per month

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