Hourhand
Tap your wrist.
Read it later.
Hourhand records meetings, lectures and ideas on Apple Watch for hours, sends them to your iPhone while you record, and turns them into text you can search, follow along and summarize.
Download on TestFlightFree download. Recording, playback, bookmarks and search are free forever; Pro adds unlimited transcription and AI summaries.
How it works
Record on Apple Watch
Open Hourhand, tap the red button and lower your wrist. It keeps going for hours; tap the bookmark — or double-tap your fingers — to mark a moment.
It arrives on iPhone
Every few minutes a part is sent over. Out of range? Parts wait safely on the watch and catch up later.
Read, search, summarize
Text with timestamps appears as parts arrive. Tap a sentence to hear it, search everything, get key points and to-dos.
Made for long recordings
From a ten-minute idea to a three-hour lecture.
Hours on your wrist
Background recording on Apple Watch in small parts: a dropped connection or a crash never costs more than a few minutes.
Arrives while you record
Parts reach your iPhone as they finish, with automatic retries. No syncing ritual afterwards.
On-device transcription
iOS 26's SpeechAnalyzer turns hours of audio into text on your iPhone. Older iPhones use on-device speech recognition.
Follow along
The sentence being played lights up and scrolls by itself. Tap any sentence to jump there; play at 0.75–2×.
Summaries and speakers
Key points, action items and speaker turns, with Apple Intelligence on device or Hourhand Cloud if you allow it.
Export everything
Text, Markdown with the summary, SRT subtitles, or the audio as one M4A. Share anywhere.
🔒 Private by default
Your audio and text stay on your Apple Watch and iPhone. Transcription runs on the iPhone. Cloud processing is off until you turn it on — and then only the recording you're processing is sent, processed and returned, never stored or used for training. No account, no ads, no tracking.
Questions
Do I need an Apple Watch?
No. You can record on iPhone too, or import audio files. The watch is what makes it effortless.
How long can it record?
Hours. Hourhand stores about 14 MB per hour on the watch and stops safely when the battery or storage gets low.
Is it free?
Recording, transfer, playback, bookmarks and search are free forever, with 60 minutes of transcription and 3 AI summaries every month. Hourhand Pro (monthly, yearly or lifetime) removes the limits and adds cloud transcription, Markdown and subtitle export.
Which languages can it transcribe?
Everything Apple's on-device speech recognition supports on your iPhone — dozens of languages. With cloud processing on, almost any language.
Where does cloud processing happen?
On Cloudflare's network (Workers AI); for mainland China, Alibaba Cloud in Hong Kong with DeepSeek for text. See the privacy policy.