New in version 1.0.9
Background recording: recordings keep running with the screen off or the app in the background, and survive crashes. Transcriptions can be edited by hand. Ten new languages (twenty total), including Arabic, Chinese, Hindi and Japanese, with full right-to-left layouts. Fixes app freezes while transcription or summaries run.
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.
SIMPLE TO USE
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.
MODERN
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.
COMPLETELY PRIVATE
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).
SPEAKS YOUR LANGUAGE
Twenty languages: Arabic, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Czech, English, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese — in recordings, summaries and the app itself. The spoken language is detected for each memo, so one tape can freely mix languages.
FREE & OPEN SOURCE
No cost, no ads, no lock-in. MIT-licensed — read the code, build it yourself, make it yours: https://github.com/jaromiru/diktafon
AND THE LITTLE THINGS
• 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.
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Versions
Although APK downloads are available below to give you the choice, you should be aware that by installing that way you will not receive update notifications and it's a less secure way to download. We recommend that you install the F-Droid client and use that.
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x86_64
This version requires Android 7.0 or newer.
It is built and signed by the original developer, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.
Permissions
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view network connections
Allows the app to view information about network connections such as which networks exist and are connected.
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run foreground service
Allows the app to make use of foreground services.
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run foreground service with the type "microphone"
Allows the app to make use of foreground services with the type "microphone"
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have full network access
Allows the app to create network sockets and use custom network protocols. The browser and other applications provide means to send data to the internet, so this permission is not required to send data to the internet.
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show notifications
Allows the app to show notifications
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record audio
This app can record audio using the microphone while the app is in use.
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control vibration
Allows the app to control the vibrator.
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cz.mod42.diktafon.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION
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arm64-v8a
This version requires Android 7.0 or newer.
It is built and signed by the original developer, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.
Permissions
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view network connections
Allows the app to view information about network connections such as which networks exist and are connected.
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run foreground service
Allows the app to make use of foreground services.
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run foreground service with the type "microphone"
Allows the app to make use of foreground services with the type "microphone"
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have full network access
Allows the app to create network sockets and use custom network protocols. The browser and other applications provide means to send data to the internet, so this permission is not required to send data to the internet.
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show notifications
Allows the app to show notifications
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record audio
This app can record audio using the microphone while the app is in use.
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control vibration
Allows the app to control the vibrator.
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cz.mod42.diktafon.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION
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New in version 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.
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x86_64
This version requires Android 7.0 or newer.
It is built and signed by the original developer, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.
Permissions
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view network connections
Allows the app to view information about network connections such as which networks exist and are connected.
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have full network access
Allows the app to create network sockets and use custom network protocols. The browser and other applications provide means to send data to the internet, so this permission is not required to send data to the internet.
-
show notifications
Allows the app to show notifications
-
record audio
This app can record audio using the microphone while the app is in use.
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control vibration
Allows the app to control the vibrator.
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cz.mod42.diktafon.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION
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32 MiB
PGP Signature
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arm64-v8a
This version requires Android 7.0 or newer.
It is built and signed by the original developer, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.
Permissions
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view network connections
Allows the app to view information about network connections such as which networks exist and are connected.
-
have full network access
Allows the app to create network sockets and use custom network protocols. The browser and other applications provide means to send data to the internet, so this permission is not required to send data to the internet.
-
show notifications
Allows the app to show notifications
-
record audio
This app can record audio using the microphone while the app is in use.
-
control vibration
Allows the app to control the vibrator.
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cz.mod42.diktafon.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION
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31 MiB
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