On-device voice transcription. Your audio never leaves your phone.
About this app
Scrib turns speech into text entirely on your device, using open Whisper speech models. Nothing is uploaded — the app only goes online to download a model you choose.
Two ways to use it
• Transcribe your own audio. Pick any audio file on your phone and get the text, right in the app, fully offline.
• A transcription engine for other apps. Scrib also runs in the background. Apps that support it — such as Forkgram — can turn a voice message into text through Scrib, on your device. In that app's settings, choose Scrib as the offline transcriber.
Models
Scrib transcribes with open Whisper speech models. Download one on the main screen, or pick your language and Scrib fetches a suitable one. Larger models are more accurate but slower and bigger to download; keep several and switch any time. You can also add any whisper.cpp-compatible model by direct link, or import a .bin from your device. Models are downloaded separately and are not bundled in the app.
Privacy
Transcription runs 100% on device. Your voice messages never leave your phone. The only network access is downloading a speech model you pick.
For developers
Any app can use Scrib as an offline transcriber through the open Open Transcribe contract (org.opentranscribe.api) — a small AIDL service, no SDK and no network. The contract is vendor-neutral, so apps aren't tied to Scrib: they can bind any compatible transcriber the user has installed.
Licensed under GPL-3.0-or-later, by 23rd.
What's New in v0.2
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
- • Fixed the navigation bar buttons being invisible in the light theme
- • Added the app icon and banner to the F-Droid listing
Version history
Jul 16, 2026 · 10.6 MB · Android API 26–35 · code 2
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
- • Fixed the navigation bar buttons being invisible in the light theme
- • Added the app icon and banner to the F-Droid listing
SHA-256 8cf033351a64810f5c401f07c47096c55f8f4438f60773ba7cab11b87bf54531
Jul 13, 2026 · 10.6 MB · Android API 26–35 · code 1
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
- First release.
- • On-device voice transcription with open Whisper models
- • Transcribe any audio file on your phone, fully offline
- • Works as an offline transcription engine for other apps via the open Open Transcribe contract
- • Model manager: download by name or by language, add custom models, import .bin files
- • Available in 12 languages
SHA-256 56a3e3b975d03cbd536c1e70fe0e206a59bd7b154a415167f14f20a37a778548
Will it run on your device?
78%
- Runs on a broad range of modern Android versions.
- ABI coverage is focused on newer 64-bit devices.
- Aligned with the latest Android target SDK expectations.
Installation Guide
Open Settings on your Android device
Go to Security → Unknown sources (or Install unknown apps)
Enable "Allow from this source" for your browser or file manager
Open the downloaded APK file from your Downloads folder
Tap "Install" and wait for installation to complete
Launch the app from your home screen
Make sure to re-enable Unknown Sources restrictions after installation for security.
How to install this safely
How to verify the file you downloaded
Before you install anything, confirm the file is the one described here. On a computer, run shasum -a 256 your-download.apk (macOS or Linux) or certutil -hashfile your-download.apk SHA256 (Windows), then compare the output character-for-character with the SHA-256 on this page. If a single character differs, the file is not the build we recorded — delete it.
What the signing certificate proves
Every Android app is signed with a private key that only its developer holds. The fingerprint on this page is a hash of the matching public certificate, and it proves continuity rather than identity: it tells you a build came from whoever signed the earlier ones. Android enforces this at install time — if a package claiming to be org.scrib.transcriber is signed with a different key, the system will refuse to install it over your existing copy. A fingerprint that changes between releases is worth pausing on, because a repackaged app that has been modified by someone else cannot keep the original signature.
How to roll back to an earlier version
If the current release misbehaves, 0.1 is the last build before it. Android will not install an older version code over a newer one, so you must uninstall Scrib first — which clears its local data unless you have a backup. Reinstall the older APK only if its signing fingerprint matches the build you already trust, and check the API range: an older release may target an Android version your device has moved past.
Why we list sources instead of hosting everything
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Source code
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App Information
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SHA-256 Hash
8cf033351a64810f5c401f07c47096c55f8f4438f60773ba7cab11b87bf54531
Signing certificate
74702f7dfb6384683ea8d200c9ed578512114825f4eb134fc24eb5e5f22a1b4c
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