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iOS app

The iOS app is a product shell. It loads the live website at summitscribe.app and adds native capture and notifications. It is not a separate account or a rewrite of the product.

Package: com.summitscribe.app.

If the iPhone owns the microphone for a meeting, type My notes in the Windows app on that same meeting — not in the website while the phone records. See One meeting, two devices.

Install and sign in

Install SummitScribe from the App Store. Sign in with email, Google, or Apple. Google/Apple return into the app; do not finish only in Safari.

Recording

Native capture owns every recording in the iOS app:

Tap Record on Home (or start from a meeting).
Allow microphone when asked.
Optionally turn on Include system / meeting audio before you start. When recording begins, iPhone shows a Screen Recording picker so we can hear other apps (a meeting, a speaker, YouTube). Confirm SummitScribe in that picker. A red recording indicator stays on while this is included.
If you cancel the picker, wait it out, or an app blocks capture, we keep your microphone only. The meeting still records.
A Stop notification stays up so you can end capture from the lock screen. Capture can continue with the screen off.
Take notes and photos as on the web. The screen can stay awake while the live bar is showing.

Long meetings upload in segments. The native audio session keep-alive plus native capture keep the session alive.

Default Record is microphone only. The Screen Recording picker appears only when the include-system toggle is on for that next recording.

Widget, Siri, and Live Activity

While you record, the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island show the meeting. Tap to return to it.
Ask Siri: "Start a meeting in SummitScribe", "Open my last meeting in SummitScribe", or "Show my meetings in SummitScribe".
Add the SummitScribe widget (small, medium, or large) and tap it to start a meeting.
Touch and hold the app icon for Start a Meeting, Open Last Meeting, and Show Meetings.

See iPhone widget, Siri, and Live Activity.

After processing

If you opt in, a local notification can tell you when AI is ready. Open the meeting from Home.

Subscriptions

Paid plans in the iOS app are auto-renewing monthly subscriptions sold by Apple (in-app purchase) and charged to your Apple ID. Each plan card shows its App Store price before you subscribe. A plan renews every month unless you cancel in your App Store subscriptions at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Refunds are handled by Apple.

Subscribe: Account settings → View plans, then Subscribe on Starter, Pro, Ridge, or Ultimate. Apple's sheet confirms the price.
Upgrade: if Apple bills your plan, tap Upgrade on a higher card. Apple switches you right away and prorates the rest of the month.
Downgrade or cancel: Manage subscription in Account settings opens your App Store subscriptions. A downgrade starts at your next renewal.
Restore purchases: in Account settings, if a new phone or reinstall shows Free.
One Apple subscription belongs to one SummitScribe account. Sign in to the account you subscribed with.

If your account already has a paid plan, the iOS app will not sell you a second one.

See Plans and billing, the Terms of Use, and the Privacy Policy.

Offline

Keep offline stores a meeting pack in the app library. Cold start with no network can open a local offline page. See Offline.

Honesty about system audio

We use Screen Recording only to hear other apps. We do not save or upload video. Some apps (Zoom, WebEx, Teams) may still block it. If include-playback is off, you cancel the picker, or the other app blocks capture, you still have the microphone.

Video calls on this iPhone

iPhone will not share the microphone with Webex, Zoom, Teams, or a phone call that is already using it. If Record fails for that reason, you see a sheet: Try SummitScribe on your computer instead - not a live timer at 0:00.

Put the call on a Mac or Windows PC and use the desktop capture app.
Or leave the call and record the room with this iPhone (your voice and the speakers).
Remind me later dismisses the sheet so you can take notes without capturing.

Optional Include system / meeting audio is a different path (Screen Recording). Some apps still block that; then you keep the microphone only.