Every word from your recorder. Searchable, summarized, and yours.
Sync in the background, transcribe with the AI you choose — or free in your browser with Whisper — and keep your audio where you choose.
How transcription pricing works
Buy the AI directly. Pay what the provider charges.
Most voice-AI services don't transcribe audio themselves — OpenAI, Groq, and Deepgram do. Riffado connects you to those providers directly, with your own key.
Same workload · 20 hours of audio (1,200 minutes)
Published pricing as of May 2026. Plans, minute ceilings, and trademarks belong to their respective owners; shown for descriptive context, not comparison. Riffado itself is free to self-host.
How it works
A workstation around the recorder you already have.
Your recorder keeps recording. Riffado picks up after the audio leaves the device — and lets you pick the AI, the storage, and where it all lives.
- 01
Sign in once, sync forever.
Log in with the same email you use for your recorder — Riffado sends you a code, just like the app. New recordings show up on their own, and you get a notification when they're ready.
- 02
Pick the AI. Get the transcript.
Use OpenAI or Groq for transcription, plug in Anthropic or others for summaries — you pay them directly at their published rate. No account anywhere? Transcription runs free, right in your browser. Every recording comes back with a summary, key points, and action items.
- 03
Search, listen, send it anywhere.
Player and transcript side-by-side. Search across every word you've ever recorded. Send a single recording to Notion, Obsidian, or your video editor — or download everything as one archive. Open source, end to end.
Free in your browser. Or plug in OpenAI or Groq and pay them directly.
If your conversations stay in the room, your recordings should too.
01 / Infrastructure
Runs where you put it.
Local disk, your own S3 bucket, or our hosted tier. Recordings sit on storage you control.
02 / Source
Auditable, line by line.
Every line of Riffado is AGPL-3.0. Read it, fork it, show clients exactly what it does.
03 / AI
Yours, including local.
Run Whisper locally via Ollama — recordings never leave the machine. Or plug in any OpenAI-compatible cloud.
Need an air-gapped or in-house setup? Write to [email protected] — I'll reply personally.
Pricing
Pick the version that fits you.
Same product, same source. The only difference is who runs the server — and whether you'd rather not think about it.
Your machine, your data, your rules.
- Unlimited recordings and storage
- Runs on your laptop, NAS, or VPS via Docker
- Plug in OpenAI, Groq, Ollama — or transcribe free in your browser
- Store locally, or push to Cloudflare R2, Backblaze B2, or AWS S3
- Every feature, no gates
We run the server. You bring the keys.
- Sync from your Plaud recorder
- Free transcription in your browser (Whisper)
- Plug in OpenAI or Groq for cloud transcription
- Export everything anytime — JSON, TXT, SRT, VTT
- Same source as self-host (AGPL-3.0)
Hosted, with the rough edges paid for.
- Everything in Hosted Free
- Priority sync and background jobs
- Off-site encrypted backups
- Email support from the people who build it
- Early access to new device support
Hosted runs the exact AGPL-3.0 source you can self-host — no hidden fork, no proprietary add-ons. Read the source. You can move between Hosted and Self-host at any time using full-archive export.
One command. Your server. Yours forever.
Riffado ships as a Docker Compose stack — the app, a database, your storage. Move from Hosted whenever you want via full-archive export. Same source, your machine.
- AGPL-3.0 — full source on GitHub, no proprietary fork
- No telemetry, no phone home, no license server
- Local disk, or push to Cloudflare R2, Backblaze B2, or AWS S3
- Bring OpenAI or Groq for cloud transcription — or run Whisper and Ollama locally
FAQ
Questions before you sign up.
The honest answers — including the boring ones.
Getting started
How it works
Your data, your exit
Didn't see yours? Read the code or open an issue.
Stop renting your own voice.
Your recordings, your transcripts, your AI. Yours to keep.