Transcribe audio by hand, fast.
PlayScript puts an audio player and a plain-text editor in a single window, and lets playback answer to your typing: it pauses the moment you start and picks up once you stop. Your hands never leave the keys. Everything happens on your own device — no account, no upload, no internet connection.
What it does
- Player and editor side by side, for MP3, M4A/AAC, WAV, AIFF, FLAC, ALAC and CAF
- Playback stops the moment you start typing and picks up again once you stop — set how long it waits
- Auto-rewind on pause, so you always restart a couple of seconds before you stopped
- Speed control from 0.5× to 2× that keeps the pitch natural
- Clickable
[hh:mm:ss]timestamps — press ⌘J to insert one, click it to jump back - Autosave, with the text, playback position and speed restored when you reopen a project
- Export to .txt or .md, with or without timestamps
- English and Turkish interface
Keyboard
The shortcuts are built for typing with the audio running, not for reaching for the mouse. The first one is not a key at all.
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| typing | Pauses playback; it resumes once you stop |
| Esc | Play / pause, rewinding a moment on pause |
| ⌘↩ | Play / pause on iPad, for keyboards without an Esc key |
| ⌘[ ⌘] | Skip back / forward |
| ⇧⌘[ ⇧⌘] | Slower / faster |
| ⌘J | Insert a timestamp |
| ⌘E | Export |
| ⌘S | Save now |
Requirements
On a Mac: macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later, on both Apple Silicon and Intel.
On iPad: iPadOS 17 or later. It is built around a hardware keyboard — the shortcuts above are the whole point of the app, and transcribing anything longer than a voice memo on the on-screen keyboard is not a good time. With a keyboard attached, it works the way it does on a Mac.
It is one App Store listing: get it once and it is yours on both.
Your recordings stay with you. PlayScript has no network access at all. Nothing you open is uploaded, and transcripts are written only where you tell them to go. See the privacy policy.