Capture

Action Button, widget, app capture, on-device transcription, meeting mode, and text input.

ThoughtSift captures a thought as audio and transcribes it. Several transcription engines are available, and you can also type directly.

Capture entry points

On iOS, you can start a capture from the Action Button, a home-screen widget, or the app. The screen can lock while you are still talking, and recording carries on until you stop.

Transcription engines

  • On-device Whisper (WhisperKit) — local transcription by default.
  • Apple Speech Analyzer — the on-device engine on iOS 26+.
  • Gemini cloud transcription — an optional cloud transcription path.

When transcription runs on-device, your voice audio does not leave the device. ThoughtSift sends the text transcript to build your sift.

Meeting mode

Meeting mode asks the transcriber for speaker labels and structured fields, so multi-speaker captures come back organised.

Text input

If you’d rather type, the text-input path skips recording and feeds your text straight into content intelligence.

Manual review

You can enable a manual review step to edit the transcript before a diagram is generated, so the visual reflects exactly what you meant.