Know your NightTalk.

Recording & interruptions

From Tonight, tap Start Night. Microphone permission is required, and Recording ON confirms an active session. Recording can continue while the screen is locked. Stop with Stop and Create Summary, then leave the app open while analysis finishes.

The microphone is evaluated continuously during active capture. NightTalk saves short candidate clips—not a continuous overnight audio file—and checks candidates locally for speech-like sounds after stopping. Saving is bounded to 20 candidate clips and approximately 10 minutes of candidate audio per night. This is a storage limit, not a count of all sounds that occurred.

Recording Paused means capture is interrupted. NightTalk attempts to resume only when iOS permits it. If it stays paused, stop the session and start again when ready. Force-quitting the app or restarting the device ends capture; unfinished nights and their audio are removed on the next app launch.

For a guided setup, follow the first-night tutorial. For warnings, see candidate limits and interruptions.

Morning summary & History

The Morning Summary shows the completed session and retained possible voice events. Open events to play available audio. History is where you return to completed nights; Insights provides available trends, with Pro access required for premium insights.

An event label or confidence indicator is an automated estimate, not proof that you spoke while asleep. Nearby voices, a TV, background noise, device placement, and interruptions can affect results. Zero retained events does not mean zero speech. A transcript, topic, or sentiment estimate may be wrong.

The app is not a sleep-apnea monitor, medical device, emergency recorder, or diagnostic service. It cannot determine who spoke or whether that person was asleep.

Pro moments, comparison & recap

With Pro active, open History to find three local reflection tools.

Moment Library

Browse saved candidate clips, mark favorites, and add a custom title or private note. Search titles, notes, transcripts, topics, keywords, or dates on your device. The favorites filter narrows the list; it does not protect a clip from retention cleanup. You can return to the recorded night from a moment.

Compare Nights

Select two completed nights to compare their recorded events, durations, and available HealthKit context. Missing HealthKit values stay unavailable rather than becoming zero. Comparisons describe the saved recordings, not everything that happened overnight.

Weekly Recap

Review the last seven completed calendar days, excluding today, alongside the preceding seven days. The recap shows recording coverage, available per-recorded-night metrics, locally derived topics, and links to the recorded nights. A metric needs at least two valid samples in each period before a change is shown. Missing recordings do not mean that no activity occurred.

These are non-medical reflection tools. Your content stays local, with no sync or cloud backup. Existing titles and notes remain readable in the night detail if Pro expires, while new edits and the Pro tools require active access. Favorites, titles, and notes are deleted with their source night, including through retention cleanup and Delete All NightTalk Data.

Optional on-device transcription

1. With Pro active, open Settings.
2. Enable On-device Transcription (Pro).
3. Grant Speech recognition permission if prompted.
4. Choose a Transcription Language, or leave System Language selected.

Transcription runs locally during post-session processing for newly completed nights. Recognition requires a language and device that support Apple’s on-device Speech recognition. Device resources and language availability can affect the result; NightTalk does not fall back to a developer cloud transcription service.

If you deny Speech permission or a language is unavailable, audio recording and playback remain usable. Changing the language later does not automatically reprocess old nights. Transcripts are estimates and may contain errors or private information; review them carefully.

Optional HealthKit sleep context

In Settings, turn on HealthKit Sleep Import and choose whether to share sleep data in Apple’s permission sheet. Pro is not required. NightTalk reads only sleep-analysis samples overlapping the night’s time window; it never writes Health data.

Sleep data must already be available from a compatible source. NightTalk does not create HealthKit sleep records itself. If access is off, denied, or there are no overlapping samples, no sleep context may appear. Apple does not tell apps whether read access was denied.

Import happens when a night is processed. Samples that sync later are not automatically backfilled into old summaries. Turning import off prevents future imports; it does not erase earlier local summaries. Use the data controls below to delete those.

Included nights, Pro & purchases

Three completed nights are included. A session counts when it has at least 60 minutes of active capture; interrupted time does not count. A short test session will not use an included night. After the included nights, Pro is required to start another recording session; you can still access local data controls.

Pro provides unlimited nights, supported on-device transcription, Moment Library organization and local search, night comparisons, weekly recaps, and premium insights. Available monthly and yearly plans renew automatically; the lifetime option is a one-time purchase. Current prices, subscription duration, renewal price, and any eligible introductory offer are shown before purchase. Do not assume an introductory offer applies until the app and Apple confirm it.

Restore access

Open Settings → Restore Purchases using the Apple Account that purchased Pro. Restoring does not recover deleted nights or copy recordings between devices. Check that the purchase completed and has not expired or been refunded.

Manage renewal

Use Settings → Manage Subscription in NightTalk or your Apple Account subscription settings. Deleting the app does not cancel a subscription. Lifetime access has no automatic renewal. Apple handles payments and refund eligibility; email NightTalk for help understanding an app error.

See the terms of use and purchase troubleshooting.

Retention, deletion & recovery

In Settings → Retention, set Keep nights for … days from 7 to 90 days, then select Apply Retention Change. Shortening retention asks for confirmation before older completed nights and their audio are deleted. Cleanup runs when the app starts and when sessions finish; it is not a server-side timer while the app is closed.

To remove all local night content, stop any active session and let processing finish. Choose Settings → Delete All NightTalk Data → Delete Permanently. This removes recordings, night summaries, transcripts, favorite markers, custom titles, private notes, insights derived from those nights, and imported HealthKit summaries. Preferences and the free-night counter remain.

Deleting imported summaries does not delete the original records in Apple Health. Disabling Speech or HealthKit only stops future optional processing—it does not remove existing content.

Deletion is permanent. NightTalk content is excluded from iCloud Backup. There is no NightTalk account, cloud synchronization, or publisher-held backup. Uninstalling can remove your local data and reset the local free-night counter. Support cannot recover it.

Permissions & privacy

Microphone permission is requested when you start a night. Speech and HealthKit are optional. You can revoke microphone and Speech permissions in system Settings; search for NightTalk or the permission name if the location differs on your OS version. Manage Health access in Apple Health’s sharing/app-access controls.

No publisher account, advertising, tracking SDK, or analytics is required. Reading this website makes an ordinary request to GitHub Pages, and emailing support shares the message you send. These are separate from the app’s local-only night processing. See the full privacy policy.