For iPhone and iPad · iOS 26
Cutline turns your recording into a document. Delete a sentence and the audio and video cut with it. All on your iPhone or iPad — no account, no minutes to buy, and your recordings never leave your device.
Tap any word to cut it — the highlighted ones are fillers. Tap it again to put it back. Then press play: the preview skips everything you cut.
Who it's for
Cut the ums. Keep the episode.
Your interviews stay on your iPhone, not on someone else's server.
Vertical captions, straight from the transcript.
Searchable transcripts, exported with timecodes.
How it works
Every word in the transcript knows exactly where it sits in the recording. Edit one and you've edited the other.
Record audio right in the app, or bring in audio and video from Files, Photos, the share sheet or AirDrop. M4A, MP3, WAV, AIFF, MP4 and MOV.
Apple's on-device speech recognition, or a Whisper speech model you download once for other languages and higher accuracy. It keeps going in the background.
Select a word, a sentence or a paragraph and delete it. The audio and video cut with it, with a short crossfade so the join doesn't click. Unlimited undo.
Features
Author in text. Refine on the timeline. Every cut you make in the transcript can be adjusted by hand, down to the millisecond.
Cutline finds the ums, uhs and you-knows. Review them one by one, or with Pro remove every one at once. Silences go the same way, with as much breathing room left in as you choose.
Built-in filler lists for English, German, French, Spanish and Portuguese — and you can edit them.
Open the timeline and drag any cut's start or end. Ripple changes the length; roll keeps it. Snapping, waveform zoom and a looping preview while you drag. Edges you set by hand stay put when you transcribe again, as long as the words still match.
Six caption styles, five of them following each word as it's spoken, burned into your video export. Or export SRT and VTT subtitle files for anywhere else.
Reframe to 9:16 or 1:1 and Cutline follows the person, keeping them in frame. Or drag to frame it yourself.
Search every transcript on your device at once, and find the moment someone said the thing, in any project.
Up to four tracks — your main recording, B-roll, C-roll and music. Overlays anchor to words, not timecode, so cutting earlier in the episode never strands them.
Keep up to twelve versions in a project — the full episode, a highlights reel, a vertical cut. They all share one transcription.
Privacy
They're transcribed and edited entirely on your iPhone or iPad, and they are never uploaded. There's no account, so there's no server holding your interviews.
If you allow it, Cutline sends anonymous usage data and crash reports — which features are used, how long exports take, where something went wrong — so we can fix things and decide what to build. They never include your audio, your transcript, your file names or your project names. Both are off until you say otherwise, and you can change your mind any time in Settings → Privacy.
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Podcast-ready audio, captioned video, subtitle files, a transcript with timecodes — or hand the edit to Final Cut Pro.
Loudness normalised to −16 LUFS by default, what Apple Podcasts expects. You can change the target.
Exports keep going in the background. Queue several versions and walk away.
Made for iOS
“Start recording in Cutline.” Or put it on the Action Button.
Start a recording from the Lock Screen, or pick up the last project.
Transcription and export progress in the Dynamic Island and on the Lock Screen.
On iPad the timeline opens beside your transcript. On iPhone in landscape, the picture sits beside it.
Attach a keyboard and edit without lifting your hands.
Send a recording to Cutline from wherever it already is.
Also in Cutline
Pricing
Transcription happens on your device, so there's nothing to meter. Recording and transcription are unlimited, free or Pro.
Everything you need to see if it fits how you work.
A yearly or monthly subscription.
Unlimited length, the full timeline, four tracks, twelve versions and every export format.
And four app icons to choose from.
The App Store shows current prices in your currency, and any free trial, before you subscribe. One subscription covers iPhone and iPad. Apple bills it, and you can cancel any time.
Questions
No. Recording, transcription, editing and export all happen on your iPhone or iPad. Your audio, video and transcripts are never uploaded, and there's no account to sign in to.
Yes, once the speech model you need is on your device. Apple's on-device speech recognition needs nothing extra for the languages it covers. Other languages and older devices use a Whisper model you download once — up to about 615 MB. By default the download waits for Wi‑Fi.
Every language Apple's on-device speech recognition supports, and many more with a Whisper model you download once. Filler-word lists are built in for English, German, French, Spanish and Portuguese. The app is in English.
Cutline records audio. Video comes in through Import — from Photos, Files, the share sheet or AirDrop — and from then on it cuts in lockstep with the transcript.
It records audio, and if a phone call interrupts, it pauses and keeps everything recorded so far. But it's built for what comes after: a transcript you can edit, and a recording that follows your edits. If you only need to capture a memo, the Voice Memos app is simpler.
Transcription is how it works, not the end product. Cutline transcribes on your device so you can edit the recording by editing the text. You can export the transcript as TXT, Markdown, DOCX or PDF, or as SRT and VTT subtitles.
iPhone and iPad with iOS 26 or later. On iPad the timeline opens beside your transcript; on iPhone in landscape, the picture sits beside it. There's no Mac app.
No. Each project stays on the device you made it on. To move a finished edit, export it.
Yes. With Pro, export Final Cut Pro XML with your cuts — reframing and captions don't carry over. You can also export the audio, the video, SRT or VTT subtitles, or the transcript as TXT, Markdown, DOCX or PDF.
If you leave “Remind me before the trial ends” switched on — it is by default — Cutline reminds you in the app two days before the trial ends. If you cancel, you keep the free plan and every project stays on your device. You can manage the subscription in your App Store account settings at any time.
