v3.0.32 · Memory layer · proactive
Conversations grow. Bonfiyah remembers.
Records on your iPhone, synthesises across every recording in a project, tracks every commitment, catches contradictions weeks apart — and tells you when something changes, before the next meeting. The memory layer beneath your conversations.
The work of remembering stops being your job. Now with proactive notifications →
90-second demo
Real recording → on-device transcription → speaker IDs → AI Summary → Project Context across six prior meetings. The whole loop, end-to-end.
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Pro AI · Promise Tracker
The promise made Tuesday won't slip by Friday.
Pro AI scans every recording for commitments — yours, theirs, conditional, dated, vague. Each one becomes a tracked card with the speaker, the deadline, and the exact quote. When the deadline arrives and the deliverable hasn't, it surfaces the original quote, not a paraphrase.
Otter, Notta, and the meeting-bot world produce summaries. Bonfiyah produces accountability.
How Promise Tracker works →Send the Q4 budget breakdown
Due Friday"I'll get the breakdown over to you before the end of the week."
Loop in legal on the consent question
Due Mon"I'll send legal a quick note about the recording stuff and copy you."
Pull the Acme retention numbers
Kept · Wed"Kept" — message in Slack 9:42am with the numbers attached.
Read on iPad.
Review on Mac.
Bonfiyah is iPhone-led. Every recording, transcript, and Pro AI output then syncs in real time to your iPad and your Mac (via Catalyst) through your private iCloud. Stop a recording on your iPhone, watch the transcript finish on your Mac.
Multi-device add-on
Pro and Pro AI cover one primary device. Adding more is $1.99/mo each (or $19.99/yr — two months free). Compare: Otter +$20/mo per seat. Plaud +$169 per device.
Pro · Native iPhone integration
Built like an Apple app. Not like a web wrapper.
Native Calendar + Contacts integration. Lock-screen Live Activity. Dynamic Island. Recording-status widget. The things every iPhone owner expects — and that web-first competitors physically cannot ship.
Calendar + Contacts
Read-only access to your iOS Calendar and Contacts. Bonfiyah knows who you're meeting, surfaces the right Speaker Insights profile, and generates the Pre-Brief automatically. Works with iCloud, Google, Outlook, Exchange — anything iOS calendar already supports.
Lock-screen Live Activity
When you're recording, your lock screen shows a real-time card: elapsed time, peak-volume meter, current speaker, one-tap pause. Dynamic Island handles the same job when the app isn't frontmost.
Recording-status widget
An iOS-17 widget that shows live recording state on the home screen. Two more widgets — Today's meetings (with Pre-Brief) and Open promises — are designed and on the public roadmap for the next release. We don't claim what we haven't shipped.
Live speaker reassignment
During an active recording, tap any "Speaker A/B/C" label and pick the right name from expected speakers, calendar attendees, or your contacts. The rename carries forward in real time. How this works →
Advanced Search
One box, four indexes: stories, transcripts, speakers, and tags. Semantic + keyword, depending on how you typed. Saved searches re-run automatically as new recordings come in.
AirPods + Bluetooth ready
Records through AirPods (any generation), AirPods Pro/Max, Beats, third-party Bluetooth lavaliers, USB-C mics — anything iOS recognizes. Same one-tap experience, dramatically better audio when you upgrade the input.
Pro AI · Memory layer
Eleven AI surfaces the rest of the category hasn't shipped.
Each one is a different way of remembering across recordings. Your transcripts never train any model. $19.99/month or $179.99/year, with a 7-day free trial.
Proactive Notifications
Quote-driven pings: overdue promises, fresh contradictions, cooling topics, silent collaborators. Tap → arrive at the exact moment. Three tiers, daily caps, no APNs.
Read the deep-dive → New · v3.0AI Project Context
A 250–450 word executive briefing across every recording in a project. Recurring participants, open decisions, pending action items, themes. Cached per content signature; stays fresh on its own.
Read the deep-dive → New · v3.0Compatibility Analysis
Pairwise scorecard combining Attachment Theory, Big Five, Gottman Four Horsemen, and Thomas-Kilmann. Refuses to run without explicit two-party consent. Period.
Read the deep-dive → New · v3.0Team Dynamics
9-box matrix across the speakers you select. Cohesion score. Coverage-gap analysis. Swap recommendations. The org-design diagnostic, in 90 seconds.
Read the deep-dive →Promise Tracker
Auto-extracts every commitment from every meeting. Tracks who promised what, by when, and whether they kept it.
Read the deep-dive →Truth Layer
Catches when something said today contradicts something said weeks ago. Surfaces it before the next meeting.
Read the deep-dive →Pre-Brief
Reads your calendar; 30 min before each meeting hands you a one-page brief from prior recordings with that person.
Read the deep-dive →People Memory · Speaker Insights
A profile of every person you've recorded with — what they bring up, how they speak, what's open.
Read the deep-dive →Story Mode
A narrative recap that reads like someone was paying attention — characters, decisions, the moments that mattered. Plus episodic groupings of recurring topics.
Read the deep-dive →Speaker Themes
Per-person speaking patterns over time — recurring topics, hedging signature, trend lines, energy markers.
Read the deep-dive →Action Items
Every task, owner, deadline, source quote — with tap-to-play audio. Aggregates across projects, sub-projects, and a 'mine' filter spanning your whole library.
Read the deep-dive →Pro · $9.99/mo
The cross-recording layer. Without the AI premium.
Pro is what you upgrade to when one recording stops being enough. Speaker memory across recordings, Advanced Search of your full library, native Calendar + Contacts integration, auto-summaries, projects + tags, real-time multi-device sync, and the lock-screen Live Activity that turns your iPhone into a recording cockpit. The infrastructure that makes a year of conversations feel like an organized archive.
Most users hit Pro before they hit Pro AI. Most stay there. That's by design — Pro alone solves the recording-volume problem without the AI inference cost.
Persistent speaker profiles
"Sarah" in last week's recording is the same person in this week's. Speaker library grows automatically.
Advanced Search
Search across stories, transcripts, speakers, and tags in one box. Semantic + keyword. "The meeting where Maya pushed back on the timeline" finds the moment.
Native Calendar + Contacts integration
Bonfiyah reads your iPhone Calendar and Contacts (read-only). Knows who's in your next meeting; surfaces the right speaker profile and Pre-Brief automatically. No web app does this.
Live Activity + recording widget
Real-time recording timer on the lock screen and in Dynamic Island, plus a home-screen widget for current recording state. Two further widgets and a Watch app are on the public roadmap.
Auto-summaries
Bullet recap on every recording. The "what was this about" answer ready before re-listening.
Projects, tags, smart playlists
Organize 100s of recordings the way a power user organizes Notes.
Unlimited recording
No 120-min monthly cap. Background recording, all-day if you want.
Privacy · in every tier
Built consent-first. Every tier. Including Free.
Twelve U.S. states require all parties to a recorded conversation to consent. Most recording apps treat this as your problem — they hand you a microphone and a privacy policy and trust you to figure out the legal layer.
Bonfiyah ships built-in two-party consent management in every tier. State-by-state law guidance. Verbal consent capture. A defensible, exportable consent log. We don't make this a paid feature because making it paid would be tasteless — recording someone without their consent is a category of harm we don't want our free users to do.
Plus: on-device transcription by default. Audio doesn't leave your iPhone unless you turn on iCloud sync. We don't train AI on your transcripts — written into the privacy policy as a binding commitment.
How consent management works →Three tiers. Real differences. No padding.
Free is the full app, capped at 120 minutes a month. Pro is for active recorders. Pro AI is for stakes.
$0
120 min/month
- · Recording, on-device transcription
- · Speaker separation per recording
- · Two-party consent management
- · Multi-device basics (iCloud sync)
$9.99/mo
or $79.99/year
- · Persistent speakers across recordings
- · Cross-recording semantic search
- · Auto-summaries on every recording
- · Projects, tags, smart playlists
- · Unlimited recording
- · Real-time multi-device sync
$19.99/mo
or $179.99/year · 7-day trial
- · Everything in Pro, plus:
- · AI Project Context · v3.0
- · Compatibility Analysis · v3.0
- · Team Dynamics · v3.0
- · Promise Tracker · Truth Layer · Pre-Brief
- · People Memory · Story Mode · Speaker Themes
Wondering why two AI tiers? The pricing decision, in plain text →
Around the fire
What people are using Bonfiyah for.
Bonfire events
Family reunions, friend trips, late-night fireside conversations. The stories worth keeping happen at the fire and disappear by morning.
Read the workflow →Client meetings
For consultants, freelancers, attorneys — anyone whose income depends on what was actually agreed. Promise Tracker prevents scope creep.
Read the workflow →Internal meetings
Standups, 1:1s, retros, decision reviews. Action Items pulled out automatically; Pre-Brief before every recurring meeting.
Read the workflow →Doctor's appointments
Patients forget 40-80% of what their doctor said within minutes. Bonfiyah captures the appointment and surfaces medications and follow-ups.
Read the workflow →Attorney practice
Client intake with consent logs. Witness prep with Truth Layer flagging cross-session inconsistencies. Defensible PDF exports.
Read the workflow →Students + lectures
Listen with full attention. Bonfiyah captures the lecture, separates the professor from the students, produces a study-note view.
Read the workflow →Parent-teacher conferences
Capture the exact words the teacher used. Action Items for what to do at home. Defensible record for IEP and 504 meetings.
Read the workflow →Coaching meetings
Executive, life, sports, recovery. Per-client Speaker Insights for coaches; Action Items for clients to track session homework.
Read the workflow →Dinner conversations
Family meals where someone tells a story you've never heard. Business dinners where the deal actually gets discussed over the second glass.
Read the workflow →Coffee shop meetings
Networking, mentor coffees, informal pitches. Sit your phone face-up; AirPods in your ear handle the noisy-room audio quality.
Read the workflow →Interviews
Journalism source vetting, qualitative research transcription, structured hiring loops. Truth Layer catches cross-interview inconsistencies.
Read the workflow →Dating analysts
Dating coaches reviewing client work. Self-aware daters reviewing their own conversations. Speaker Themes surfaces the patterns you don't notice.
Read the workflow →
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