How days, and the sessions within each day, are listed. A session’s transcript always reads from start to finish.

Font and size apply to transcripts on the capture screen, in Review and on video captions. Hiding the live transcript doesn’t stop transcription.

With video off at launch, Pensita opens recording and transcribing audio only; tap the record button to start video. Save first frame as a photo keeps the first thing the camera sees each time Capture opens, at video size rather than full photo size. With audio recordings off, everything said is still transcribed and saved, but the sound itself isn’t kept. Saved videos always keep their sound.

When a session ends, Pensita works out who spoke when, on this iPhone, and labels the transcript Speaker 1, 2, 3. In Review you can name them. Named voices are remembered as voiceprints on this iPhone and recognized in later sessions. With audio recordings off, the sound is kept only until speakers are identified. Speaker identification uses SpeakerKit by Argmax (MIT) with models derived from pyannote segmentation-3.0, WeSpeaker and BUT’s VBx, licensed CC BY 4.0.

Drawings are saved twice over: the strokes on their own and the camera image they were drawn on. Show image and Show drawing set what you see when you open one; each drawing can also be switched on its own.

How drawings go out when shared, to Obsidian and to the Markdown backup: the drawing on its own with a clear background, the drawing on the camera image behind it, or the two as separate pictures, drawing first. A drawing saved without its image always goes on its own. The website keeps both, with switches for each drawing.

Exports to Obsidian and the Markdown backup are written here. For Obsidian, tap Browse in the picker, then iCloud Drive › Obsidian › your vault (or On My iPhone › Obsidian for a vault kept on this iPhone). Any other folder works for the backup.

Keeps the folder above up to date with everything you capture, as Markdown with the drawings, photos, videos and audio alongside.After each session, the transcript, drawings, photos, videos and audio are written to the folder as Markdown, in files like Pensita 2026-10-20.md. Only files whose content changed are rewritten, so your edits to a backup file last until its day (or week, and so on) changes here. Deleting something here takes it out of the backup; changing how files are split replaces the old files, except ones you’ve edited.