Sotto
Answers to the things that come up most, and a direct line to me if yours isn't here.
Email: yuganshjain11@gmail.com
Please include your device model, your iOS version, and what you were doing when it went wrong. If it involves a specific recording, its length helps. Don't send the recording itself — I don't want it, and you shouldn't have to hand it over to get help.
Sotto is built on speech and language frameworks introduced in iOS 26. It cannot run on earlier versions.
Needed for AI summaries only. Recording, transcription and speaker labels work on older supported hardware.
Speaker labelling fetches its models once. After that it works with no connection at all.
No. iOS does not give any third-party app access to call audio or to other apps' audio, and there is no workaround — this is a platform restriction, not a missing feature.
Sotto records what the microphone hears, so it is built for conversations happening in the room: meetings, lectures, interviews, consultations.
Speaker labelling needs its models, which download once on first use. If the download hasn't happened yet, open a recording, go to the Speakers pane, and it will offer the download. You'll need a connection for that one step.
If the models aren't available, Sotto shows you where the speaker changes but does not attach names. That is deliberate: it would rather show nothing than confidently attribute a sentence to the wrong person.
Two possibilities. Either your device doesn't support Apple Intelligence — summaries need an iPhone 15 Pro or newer — or you've used your ten free summaries for this month. The counter resets on the first of each month, and Sotto Pro removes the limit.
Recording, transcription, speaker labels and every export format are unlimited and free regardless.
Treat it as a good first draft, not a record. The model runs on your phone and is small; it can misread a conversation, especially a noisy or technical one.
Every action item links back to the moment in the audio it came from, so you can check anything that matters in a couple of seconds. For anything consequential, check it.
Yes. Sotto keeps recording with the screen off or when you switch to another app.
If a recording ever stops unexpectedly, please email me with your device and iOS version — that is exactly the kind of report worth having.
They're stored inside the app on your device. Open a recording and use Export to get it out as plain text, Markdown, SRT, WebVTT, JSON, or the original audio file. All formats are free.
Recordings are excluded from device backups by default, so a new phone restored from backup will not have them. You can change that in Settings under Include recordings in device backups — read the privacy policy first, since it means an off-device copy exists.
No. There is no server holding a copy and no trash folder, so deletion is permanent. That is the direct trade-off for nothing being uploaded anywhere.
If a recording matters, export it as soon as it finishes.
Open the upgrade screen and tap Restore in the top right, signed in with the same Apple Account that bought it. Sotto Pro carries across your devices at no extra cost.
Subscriptions are managed by Apple, not by Sotto. Open the iOS Settings app, tap your name at the top, then Subscriptions, and cancel from there.
Cancelling stops future renewals; you keep Pro until the period you've already paid for ends.
Refunds are handled entirely by Apple — I can't issue one, because the payment never passes through me. Request one at reportaproblem.apple.com.
That said, if something about the app caused the problem, please tell me as well. I'd rather fix it.
It depends where you are. Some places require only one participant to consent; others require everyone. Some contexts — medical, legal, educational — have rules of their own on top.
Sotto includes a consent reminder and an optional tone that sounds when recording starts, but complying with the law that applies to you is your responsibility. Sotto is a recorder, not a legal adviser.
Email yuganshjain11@gmail.com with your device model, iOS version, and what happened. Bug reports from real use are genuinely useful and I read all of them.