About Us
Steno is built by Vidus6, a small independent mobile app studio. We make focused apps that do one job well — and say plainly what they do and don't do.
Who we are
Vidus6 is a mobile app studio that builds focused productivity apps for iPhone. Steno is our AI note taker: it records lectures, meetings and voice memos and turns them into an accurate transcript, a structured summary with key points, flashcards you can swipe through, a quiz, and a chat that answers questions about your own notes. You can also start from an audio file, a PDF, pasted text, or a photo of a page instead of recording. Steno is iPhone-only today — there is no Android or web version, and we would rather say that than imply otherwise.
How your recordings are handled
Steno doesn't require an account — no email, no name, no phone number. Your notes live on your device. To produce a transcript, summary, flashcards, quiz or chat answer, that content has to be processed by AI: the app asks your permission first, and you can decline and keep using the app. When you agree, the content travels over an encrypted connection to our processing servers and on to Google's Gemini models; the audio is kept only for as long as the processing takes and is deleted as soon as your note is ready. We keep no copy. This website sets analytics cookies only if you accept them in the consent banner. The full detail is in our privacy policy.
About Steno
Steno is free to download and includes a monthly allowance of AI transcription, so you can record a real lecture and see the quality before paying anything. Steno Pro is a subscription that unlocks unlimited AI transcription, speaker labels in the transcript, the quiz and chat tabs, and the detailed and simplified summary levels. We only publish numbers on this site that come straight from the App Store — right now Steno is new and has no ratings yet, so we show none rather than inventing social proof. Steno is not affiliated with any university, employer or platform mentioned on this site.
How we write this site
The guides on our blog are written and reviewed by the Vidus6 team. When we make a claim about how people learn or remember, we link the peer-reviewed research behind it rather than asserting it — Mueller and Oppenheimer on note-taking, Roediger and Karpicke and Dunlosky on retrieval practice, and so on. We don't invent statistics, and when a different tool is the better answer for your situation, we say so in the article itself. If you find something wrong or out of date, tell us and we'll correct it.
Get in touch
Questions, feedback, or corrections — we read everything: contact@vidus6.com