Spill
Tap the mic and say whatever is in your head.
Spill is a one-button voice notes app. Tap and talk, and your words appear as you speak. Tap Stop and the note is saved, as a plain text file in iCloud Drive if you like. The speech is turned into text on the phone, so nothing you say goes to a server.
- iPhone
- iOS 26 or later
- No account needed
What it does
People who think out loud and want their thoughts as plain text files they own, to search, open on a Mac or hand to an AI later.
- Live words
- Text appears while you talk, and firms up once the model is sure.
- One button
- Tap to record, tap to stop.
- On the phone
- Apple's new on-device speech model. No account, no server, no key.
- Text files
- Each note is one Markdown file in your iCloud Drive folder.
- Carry on later
- Add more to a note, and the same file is updated.
- Many languages
- Any language Apple's on-device model offers.
A look inside
A saved note 
Notes, grouped by day 
The light look
What you need
- An iPhone
- On iOS 26 or later.
- Xcode
- For now, to build it and put it on your phone.
Rough edges
This is a tool I built for myself and use every day, not a polished product.
- iPhone only, portrait only.
- Keeps the text, not the audio.
- No search or tags inside the app. Organising happens in the files.
How it's built
For the technically curious.
- App
- Swift and SwiftUI, with no outside libraries, no backend and no analytics.
- Speech
- Apple's SpeechAnalyzer, new in iOS 26.
Not on the App Store or TestFlight yet.
I'd like to share it as a free download. If you'd like to try it when it's ready, or have a question about it, get in touch.