Velocity
Decisions in days
If a feature should ship, it ships. No quarterly planning cycle, no OKR rollup, no design-by-committee. The same person who wrote the spec writes the code and answers the support email.
VoiceJar is voice-first knowledge software for people whose best thinking happens out loud — walking, driving, between meetings, in the five seconds before an idea evaporates.
Most note apps were designed for typing. VoiceJar inverts that — one tap, talk, done. The AI does the filing.
Most note apps were designed for the keyboard. Voice is treated as a novelty — a transcript file you have to clean up by hand, paste into another tool, then forget about. VoiceJar inverts that. The keyboard is the exception. One tap, talk, done. The AI writes the summary, picks a title, suggests tags, and lifts out any task it heard — while the audio file stays exactly where you left it.
The goal isn’t to replace your thinking. It’s to make sure the thinking you already do out loud doesn’t evaporate the moment you walk into the office.
“Built and maintained by an independent developer. No team of fifty, no Series B, no growth-hacking playbook in the background. Decisions are made in days, not quarters.”
— VoiceJar shipping doctrine
A solo dev shop reaches different decisions than a venture-backed org. Here’s what changes in practice.
If a feature should ship, it ships. No quarterly planning cycle, no OKR rollup, no design-by-committee. The same person who wrote the spec writes the code and answers the support email.
Not the product. There is no ad network embedded in VoiceJar, no analytics broker buying behavioural data, no third party we sell access to. The business model is the Pro subscription, not you.
There’s no fundraising round to impress with hockey-stick curves. The app makes money the day a user decides Pro is worth a few dollars a month. Until then we’d rather you stayed on BYOK forever than felt squeezed.
Not a ticket queue, not a chatbot, not an outsourced tier-1 desk. If you write in via the contact page, the reply comes from the person who wrote the code.
Every product decision is checked against these four anchors. If a feature requires breaking one, we’d rather skip it.
Use VoiceJar with your own API keys for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Groq and ElevenLabs. The app talks to those providers directly from your device — we never proxy your traffic, we never see your keys, and you pay each provider what they actually charge.
Capture and transcription run on-device with Whisper.cpp. No network, no problem. AI summaries queue and run when you reconnect. Your library is always playable, always searchable, always yours — even on a plane, even after our servers turn into a museum exhibit.
Every recording, every transcript, every project is exportable on every tier. No "Pro to export" trick. If you decide VoiceJar isn’t for you, your data leaves with you. We’d rather you stayed because you wanted to, not because you had to.
When the 14-day trial ends, the app doesn’t lock. When a subscription lapses, the app doesn’t lock. When you exhaust the daily cloud quota, the app doesn’t lock — it just offers an upgrade and falls back to Whisper offline. You can always read, play, and export your library.
A few things VoiceJar deliberately doesn’t do, and the reasoning behind each.
Recordings stay on your device. Cross-device sync is a deliberately opt-in, post-launch feature — not a default, not a dark pattern, not buried in settings.
This site uses Umami, which is cookie-less and doesn’t profile visitors. No Google Analytics, no Tag Manager, no pixel SDKs, no fingerprinting libraries.
iOS isn’t live — we say so on the Download page. Windows is available as a transparent, digitally signed direct download. The Pricing page lists exactly what works today.
If you write in, you’ll hear back from the person who wrote the code. Not a customer-success function, not a junior, not a chatbot trained on a doc site.
Install VoiceJar, hit record, and forget. The 14-day Pro trial starts the moment you launch the app — no signup, no payment, no email.
Questions, bug reports, feature requests — the same inbox answers all three.
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