Callmora

Callmora on iPhone

The iPhone app is a companion to the Mac, not a second copy of it. It carries your whole library in your pocket — every call, its notes, its transcript, its audio — and it records the conversations that happen away from your desk. The transcribing and the notes stay on your Mac, which is where your models, your keys and your recipes already are.

It's included in your licence. There is nothing extra to buy and no separate account.

Setting it up

  1. Install Callmora on the iPhone and sign it into the same iCloud account as your Mac. That is the whole pairing step — the library arrives on its own.
  2. If your library is encrypted, the phone asks for your master password once, to join the same vault.
  3. Turn on Unlock with Face ID in Settings → Privacy & Security and it stops asking. The same section holds the auto-lock timer and a Lock Now button.

The first sync can take a few minutes on a large library — the Calls tab says so rather than looking empty. Audio arrives separately, and only if Sync audio between devices is on in the Mac's settings.

Recording on the phone

The round red button sits in the middle of the tab bar. Tap it and recording starts; the button becomes a pulsing Stop, and the rest of the app stays usable — you can keep browsing your library while it records.

  • Without opening the app. Assign Callmora to the Action button, or run the Start Recording shortcut from the Control Centre or Siri. Recording begins in the background; the app does not take over the screen.
  • From the Lock Screen. A running recording shows as a Live Activity with the elapsed time and its own Pause and Stop buttons. You never have to unlock the phone to stop a meeting.
  • Locked and in a pocket. Recording continues with the screen off and the phone locked.
  • A recording under a minute is discarded — the same rule the Mac uses, so a pocket tap doesn't fill your library.

When you stop, the phone uploads the audio to your own iCloud and the call appears as Waiting for your Mac. Your Mac claims it as soon as it is awake and unlocked, transcribes it, writes the notes, and the finished call syncs back to both devices. The phone sends you a notification when it's ready.

No signal? The recording waits on the phone and uploads itself when you're back online. Nothing is lost in the meantime.

Your library on the phone

  • Home mirrors the Mac's dashboard: the Week/Month/Year switch, your next meeting with its join link, calls and minutes with their trend, the talk-time chart, talk balance, top topics, pinned and recent calls, and what's due this week.
  • Calls lists everything by day, with the same row the Mac draws — when it happened and how long it ran, how many speakers, its tags, and the first line of the transcript.
  • Opening a call gives you the player, Notes and Transcript. Notes carry the TL;DR, the overview, key points, decisions, open questions, highlights that jump the audio, and the call's to-dos. The transcript is speaker-coloured and every timecode is tappable.
  • Share in the top corner sends whichever tab you're on — the notes as Markdown, or the timestamped transcript — into any app, in the same format the Mac exports.
  • Tasks collects the to-dos from every call, with their due dates, and ticking one off syncs everywhere.

The search field in Calls matches a call's title and tags immediately, and the words spoken inside your calls as soon as it has read them — the first search of a session opens the transcripts in the background, exactly as the Mac does, so nothing has to be decrypted before you ask. Locking the app drops all of it from memory.

What the phone deliberately doesn't do

  • No transcribing or note-writing on the phone. That work belongs to the Mac, which has the models and the API keys. The phone never uploads your audio anywhere but your own iCloud.
  • No chat, no collections, no recipes in this version — they live in the Mac app.
  • No importing files on the phone.

Your API keys do travel: enter a key on any device and every device signed into the same iCloud account has it, through the iCloud Keychain.

If something looks wrong

  • The library is empty. Check both devices are on the same iCloud account, and that Sync library over iCloud is on in the Mac's settings. Settings → Diagnostics on the phone reports the account, the environment and how many calls have arrived.
  • A call is stuck on "Waiting for your Mac". The Mac claims phone recordings when it is awake and unlocked — if it is asleep, or the library is locked, the call waits.
  • No audio to play. Audio only travels if audio sync is on; without it the phone still shows notes and transcripts.

For how the encryption works across devices, see Security & sync.