Everything that happens in your meeting,
captured and understood
From real-time transcription to post-meeting review, Shoulder Surf turns every meeting into searchable, actionable intelligence.
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Live intelligence
Real-time AI that works while you focus on the conversation.
Real-time transcription
- Speech-to-text as it happens with configurable transcript windows
- Speaker identification, know who said what with neural diarization
- Up to 4 simultaneous speakers recognized in parallel
- Enroll your voice once and be automatically labeled "You" in every meeting
Captions mode
- Point the rear camera at your screen and read the meeting's own on-screen captions, no mic needed
- Works with the live captions Teams, Zoom, and Google Meet already show
- Built for online meetings where everyone comes through one speaker and similar voices are hard to tell apart
- Switch between Voice and Captions per session from the recording screen
Rolling summaries
- First summary at 60 seconds, then automatically on a schedule
- Delta mode captures only what changed, fast and cost-efficient
- Full mode re-summarizes everything for complete context
- View all summary snapshots from any point in the meeting
Ask anything, any way
Multiple ways to query your meeting, from quick taps to freeform questions.
Query modes
- Preset modes: Assist, Suggest Response, Fact Check, Action Items
- Freeform Ask bar for custom natural-language questions
- Create, edit, and reorder your own custom prompt modes
- Context picker: choose last 2 min, 5 min, full transcript, or since last query
Visual context
- Full-bleed rear camera preview, place your phone facing the screen or whiteboard
- Silent shutter capture for slides, whiteboards, and documents
- Attach 1 to 5 photos per query depending on your plan
- Pinch-to-zoom from 1x to 5x for detail shots
Hear it, see it, act on it
AI responses delivered however works best for you.
Audio delivery
- Responses appear on screen first, tap play to hear them through your AirPods or Bluetooth headphones
- Karaoke-style word highlighting synced to speech
- Speed control: 0.75x, 1x, 1.25x, 1.5x
- Lock screen and Control Center playback controls
Dynamic Island & Lock Screen
- See the current speaker, session duration, and recording status in your Dynamic Island
- Expand to trigger AI queries, pause/resume, mute, or control text-to-speech, without leaving whatever app you're in
- Lock your phone and a live rolling summary updates as the conversation progresses
- AI responses appear right on the Lock Screen with page-by-page navigation
- "SILENT" indicator when the room goes quiet, stop the session from the notification to save battery
Ask for a file, get a file
Ask Shoulder Surf in chat to turn the conversation into a real document. It builds the file, saves it to your library, and it's ready to send.
Spreadsheets and Gantt charts
- Ask for a project timeline and get a real Excel file, color-coded, with owners and due dates
- Task lists, trackers, and summaries as native spreadsheets, not text you have to reformat
- Opens straight in Excel or Numbers
Word documents
- Turn a meeting into a native Word document, formatted and ready to edit
- Good for recaps, briefs, and handoffs you need to pass on
- A real .docx, not a plain-text dump
Presentations and PDFs
- Ask for a deck and get a native PowerPoint file, ready to present or edit
- Or a clean PDF when you just need something to send and sign off on
- Real .pptx and .pdf files, built from what was discussed
Built, saved, ready to share
- Shoulder Surf offers to build the file, then shows honest progress while it works
- Every file saves to your library automatically
- Send it by email or AirDrop, or share the whole conversation with its files attached
- Close the app mid-build and your file is waiting when you come back
Plus & Pro
Meeting Memory
Your AI doesn't start from zero every time. Over meetings, it builds a persistent knowledge graph, connecting decisions, commitments, people, and projects across every session. Plus remembers your last 30 days; Pro remembers everything you have ever recorded.
- Recalls decisions and commitments from past meetings
- Connects the dots across projects and conversations
- Remembers who said what, across sessions
- Gets smarter and more relevant the more you use it
- Zero-latency recall, pre-computed context served in under 10ms
The people, and where it all came from
Everyone who has turned up in your meetings, and a trail back to the moment behind anything the AI tells you.
People
- Everyone who has turned up in your meetings, in one place, A to Z with search
- Each person opens with your hours together, what they tend to care about, and how things are trending
- Match someone to a contact without handing over Contacts permission, then call, message, or email them from their page
- Tap a project they appear in and land on that project
- A title you typed is never quietly replaced by one the AI inferred
- When two names turn out to be the same person, you pick which one survives
Memory you can check
- Every memory points back at the meeting it came from
- Every claim shows you what it cites, so you can tap through and read the source yourself
- Rename a speaker after the fact and the correction reaches Meeting Memory too
After the meeting
Every meeting becomes a searchable, playable, shareable record.
Export & sharing
- Pick any combination and send via AirDrop, email, or any app
- Transcript: full text with speaker labels
- Audio: compressed M4A recording
- Subtitles (SRT): timestamped captions with speaker labels, synced to your audio
- Summary: AI-generated meeting summary
- Images: photos captured during the session
Action items you can close
- AI extracts action items with responsible parties
- Check one off, and uncheck it if you were wrong
- Pick a deadline from a date picker and an owner from the people who were actually in the meeting
- Completed items keep their history and reopen cleanly
- Automatically saved to iOS Reminders in a dated list
Audio recording & playback
- Every session automatically recorded in optimized M4A format
- Voice Memos-style waveform visualization with seek and scrub
- Skip forward/back 15 seconds
- Share audio files or open in third-party players
Keeping it tidy
- Rename a meeting from its overflow menu
- Rename a speaker and the summary regenerates around the correction
- Export a full transcript to a file
- Pick the meeting language where you pick the project
iCloud sync
- Every meeting (transcript, AI responses, speaker labels, sentiment analysis, tags, and audio) syncs across your devices through iCloud
- Start a session on your iPhone during a meeting, then pick up your iPad later to review the full transcript
- Chat with the AI about what was discussed from any synced device
iCloud Drive backup
- Audio recordings saved to iCloud Drive in a clean folder structure organized by project and date
- Open the Files app on any device (iPhone, iPad, or Mac) and your recordings are right there
- No export steps, no manual backups,it just works
Project tagging
- Organize meetings by project, "Q1 Launch", "Client ABC", etc.
- Tag during or after sessions
- Filter meeting history by project
- Cross-meeting context for recurring topics
Post-session chat
- Continue asking questions after the meeting ends
- Threaded conversations with full transcript context
- Attach new photos for follow-up analysis
- Copy and share individual responses
Send it where the work happens
A meeting is only useful if the people who missed it can read it. Send a document, a link, or a card in a thread.
Reports that go somewhere
- Generate a report for any meeting, not just your most recent one
- Reports arrive as a readable document in Slack, Notion, Mail, and anywhere else the share sheet reaches
- A PDF fallback, so nothing turns up as raw markup
- Collapsed sections expand before it sends, so what people get is the whole report
Share a link
- Send a link to a meeting with the same include toggles as a file export: queries and chat, the report, photos, audio
- It tells you what it sends and who hosts it before you send it
- Anyone with the link can open it, with no sign-in
- Links expire after 30 days, and you can revoke one at any time
- Revoking stops the page, but it cannot pull back a message already delivered, or a link preview cached outside Shoulder Surf
Straight from Messages
- Shoulder Surf turns up in the Messages app drawer
- Pick a meeting already on your device and one tap puts a card in the conversation
- The drawer lists only meetings you have already recorded, so it stays empty until there is one
- It creates nothing and reads nothing new
Bring Your Own Key
Use your own API keys for full control over models, costs, and data.
Multi-provider support
- Anthropic (Claude Fable 5, Opus 5, Sonnet 5, Haiku 4.5)
- OpenAI (GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4 Mini, GPT-5.4 Nano)
- Google (Gemini 3.1 Pro, 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash, Flash Lite)
- xAI (Grok 4.3)
- DeepSeek (V4 Pro, V4 Flash)
- Moonshot (Kimi K2.6, K2.5)
- Alibaba (Qwen3.7 Max, 3.7 Plus, Flash)
- OpenRouter (Llama 4, Perplexity, Mistral, Grok 4.3, and 13 more)
- Apple Intelligence (on-device, free, iPhone 15 Pro+)
- Managed AI (auto-selected by your subscription tier)
- Switch models per session or globally
Cost transparency
- Live token counting for every query
- Per-query cost estimates using real pricing
- Session cost summary
- Image resolution control to optimize tokens
Full privacy
- Keys stored in iOS Keychain, never in plain text
- API calls go directly from your device to the provider
- Keys never sent to Shoulder Surf servers
- No account required
Your keys are safe with usiOS Keychain encryption, direct device-to-provider requests, and zero server-side storage.
See how we protect your keysBuilt for everyone
Shoulder Surf is designed so that everyone can get the most out of every meeting, regardless of how they engage.
Visual & auditory
- Full Dynamic Type support, text scales with your system settings
- VoiceOver with 150+ custom labels and state-aware descriptions
- 6-bar audio level meter for visual confirmation of mic input
- Color + shape redundancy, information never conveyed by color alone
Motor & cognitive
- 44pt+ touch targets exceeding Apple minimums
- Reduce Motion support disables springs and fling physics
- Non-intrusive auto-dismissing notifications
- Progressive disclosure, advanced features hidden until needed
Live transcription helps you follow along when audio is unclear. Rolling summaries keep you anchored during long or fast-moving discussions. Suggest Response gives you a starting point when you need a moment to think. These features are useful for everyone, and especially valuable if you process information differently, work in a second language, or prefer reading over listening.
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