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This page covers the TalkLog app that you install on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. For the memrelay service itself, which TalkLog can connect to, write to [email protected] instead. Privacy is covered separately: TalkLog App Privacy Policy.
TalkLog records meetings on your device, transcribes them with speaker names, and turns each one into a summary, decisions, action items and private coaching. This page is the support and how-to reference. Everything below is also available inside the app under Settings → App Guide.
A real person reads it. Expect a reply within a few business days.
When you write in, please include:
Your iOS, iPadOS or watchOS version
The TalkLog version (Settings → Diagnostics)
A short description of what happened and what you expected instead
Optional, and it saves a round trip: a diagnostic export from Settings → Diagnostics → Copy all results
You can also write from inside the app: Settings → Send Feedback opens a mail draft with the diagnostic footer already attached.
2. Quick start
Set up API keys.Settings → API Keys. You need a Soniox key (soniox.com) for transcription and a Claude key (console.anthropic.com) for AI analysis. They are yours, they stay in the iOS Keychain, and you pay those two services directly.
Fill in your profile.Settings → Profile. Your name, role and context are what make the coaching personal rather than generic. The more detail you add, the better it gets.
Grant permissions. Microphone is required. Calendar is strongly recommended: it matches speakers to attendees and improves transcription accuracy.
Record or upload. Tap the Record tab and press the button, or go to Upload to transcribe an audio file you already have.
3. Recording
Start and stop. Tap the centre button to start. It turns into a stop button while recording, and the timer and waveform tell you it is working.
Pause. The pause button sits to the left. Paused time is not counted. Tap play to resume.
Add context. The button above the waveform opens a sheet with two options: pick today's meeting from your iCloud Vault brief, or paste any free-form notes. Both feed the summary, the coaching and the live insight prompts.
Brief preview. When a brief is loaded, a translucent card appears above the waveform with time, title, goals and attendees. Tap to expand the full agenda. It stays visible while recording, so you can glance at the agenda mid-meeting.
Background recording. Recording continues when you switch apps or lock your phone. Come back whenever.
Live transcript. Words appear in real time with speaker labels (S0, S1 and so on). You assign real names after stopping.
Live Insights. After two minutes a purple Insight button appears. Tap it for mid-meeting analysis: the summary so far, open items, and questions worth asking right now.
4. iCloud Vault and daily briefs
What it is. A folder in your private iCloud Drive at Files → TalkLog → Vault, with two subfolders: briefs/ (daily prep that TalkLog reads) and incoming/ (meeting exports that TalkLog writes after recording).
Today's brief. Drop a markdown file into briefs/{YYYY-MM-DD}.md and the recording screen's Add context sheet shows each meeting as a tappable card with time, attendees, goals, agenda and context.
Auto-generate the brief.Settings → iCloud Vault has a Set up daily briefs button. It hands you a prompt that wires up an agent on your Mac to build the brief each morning from your calendar, email, tasks and Slack.
Auto-push exports. On by default. Each finished meeting writes a markdown file with summary, decisions, action items and your pre-meeting context to Vault/incoming/. Toggle it in Settings → iCloud Vault. A manual Push to Vault is available in any transcript's menu at any time.
Mac side processing. Optional. A second agent on your Mac can watch incoming/ and route content into your knowledge base. Setup is part of the same daily-brief prompt.
5. Speaker matching
Calendar events. With calendar access granted, matching events appear after recording. Select one to auto-fill names from the attendees and set the transcript title.
Assign names. Each speaker card shows a sample of what that voice said. Type a name or pick a suggestion. Tap the person icon to mark yourself.
Mark yourself. This one matters: marking the correct speaker as Me is what makes talk ratio, question ratio and the rest of the coaching accurate.
Enhance Diarization. Re-processes the audio through a slower but more accurate pass for better speaker separation.
6. Transcript and analysis
Summary. Organised by topic, with decisions and action items. Action items carry owner, deadline and outcome. Anything the meeting left unresolved is flagged in orange rather than invented.
Coaching, seven dimensions. Focus, Delegation, Talk Ratio, Questions vs Statements, Closing Quality, Necessity, and Energy or Tone. Each is scored with a progress bar and a written assessment.
Edit speakers. Tap any speaker pill in the transcript to reassign it. Choose Just This Segment or All by This Speaker. The menu has global speaker editing.
Edit text. Double-tap any transcript segment to edit it in a full editor.
Re-analyze. From the menu, re-run the AI analysis after fixing speakers. It updates the existing entry instead of duplicating it in Insights.
Push to Vault. From the menu, write a markdown export of this transcript into your iCloud Vault incoming/ folder.
Share vs Copy All. Share sends summary and transcript, without the coaching. Copy All includes everything. Coaching is private by design.
7. Insights dashboard
Score and talk ratio trends. Line charts across your last 30 meetings, so improvement is visible rather than felt.
Patterns. Recurring issues and improvements detected across multiple meetings, which is exactly the thing you cannot see from inside any single one.
Advice history. The last 10 unique coaching tips. Worth a look before your next meeting.
8. Vocabulary hints
People. Comma-separated names. Put nicknames in parentheses, for example "Ivan Horvat (Ivo)". Both forms go to the transcription engine and the nickname resolves to the full name.
Companies. Comma-separated company names. Helps the engine recognise terms specific to your world.
Calendar names. With calendar access granted, attendee names from current and recent events are added as hints automatically.
Brief attendees. Names from the loaded brief are added on top of the calendar and saved hints, deduplicated for you.
9. Log, search and filters
Search. Across titles, speaker names and spoken content. Any word said in any meeting is findable.
Filter. Tap the filter icon to narrow by meeting type, specific speakers, or date range.
Edit meeting. The toolbar menu's Edit Meeting changes title, date and time, location and meeting type. Swiping right on a transcript in the Log does the same.
Delete. Swipe left. The audio file goes with it and the Insights dashboard recalculates.
10. Meeting types
The AI classifies each meeting as one of 13 types: internal team, sales call, inbound sales, 1:1, board, investor, external partner, tech partner, coaching, knowledge share, brainstorming, planning, education, or unknown.
Override. If it gets one wrong, open Edit Meeting and pick the right type. Set it back to Auto to return to AI detection.
Why it matters. The type sets the coaching targets. A 1:1 expects roughly a 40% talk ratio; a team meeting with six people expects roughly 17%. Sales meetings weight closing quality higher. Knowledge shares expect 60% to 80%.
Shortcuts app. All of them are available as Shortcuts actions, so you can automate things like starting on a calendar event or stopping when a Focus mode changes.
Meeting title. When you start via Siri you can supply a title, and it is applied to the transcript automatically.
12. Share from other apps
Voice Memos. Tap the menu on a recording, then Share, then TalkLog. Open TalkLog and tap Transcribe on the pending file.
Files, email, messages. Share any M4A, WAV or MP3 file to TalkLog from the system share sheet.
How it works. The file is copied to a shared container and transcribed in the main app, so there is no extension time limit. Pending files appear at the top of the Upload tab.
13. Apple Watch
iPhone mode (Remote). Control iPhone recording from your wrist, with the duration synced to the watch. The iPhone has to be nearby.
Watch mode (Local). Record with the watch's own microphone. The audio transfers to the iPhone for transcription after you stop.
Controls. Tap the source selector to switch between iPhone and Watch. There is a large record button, plus pause and stop while recording.
14. What it costs
The app itself is free and there is no subscription. You bring your own API keys and pay those two services directly for what you use: Soniox for transcription and Anthropic's Claude for analysis. A typical meeting costs somewhere around 0.10 to 0.50 US dollars across both, depending on how long it ran and how much of the analysis you use.
Both providers show you live usage in their own dashboards, and neither charges you through us. If a transcription suddenly stops working, an exhausted quota on one of those accounts is the first thing to check.
15. Common questions
My transcript looks empty or only partly there
This is almost always the post-recording enhance step failing, from a network blip or a Soniox quota. Open the transcript and tap Re-analyze in the menu, or leave it: the app retries on the next launch.
How do I delete a transcript?
Open the Log tab, swipe left on the transcript, tap Delete. The audio file is removed with it.
Where are my API keys stored?
In the iOS Keychain on your device only. They never leave your phone except as part of the normal authenticated requests to Soniox and Anthropic.
Can I use my employer's API key?
You can, but know what it means. If the key belongs to an organisation account, that organisation's administrator may be able to see API usage logs, and on some plans those logs can include the content of prompts and responses. If your meetings are sensitive, use a personal key.
What about iCloud sync?
If you enable iCloud Drive for TalkLog, your transcripts, profile and hints sync to your private iCloud through CloudKit. The Vault feature also reads briefs from and writes meeting exports to your private iCloud Drive folder. Nobody but you, signed in to the same Apple ID, can read any of it.
Do I need a memrelay account to use TalkLog?
No. TalkLog works entirely on its own with your own keys. Connecting a memrelay workspace is optional, off by default, and only worth it if you want reviewed meetings to feed your company's knowledge base. What that connection sends is spelled out in section 7 of the privacy policy.
16. Privacy
Audio and transcripts stay on your device and, if you enable it, in your private iCloud account. Coaching is private by design: the Share button excludes it and only Copy All includes it.
The full detail, including what the usage and error reports contain and how to switch them off, is in the TalkLog App Privacy Policy. The memrelay service has its own privacy policy; if you use both, both apply.