Question 1

What is Bonfiyah?

Accepted Answer

Bonfiyah is an AI conversation memory app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. It records the in-person and recorded conversations you have, transcribes them, and reasons across your entire library — tracking promises, catching contradictions weeks apart, and briefing you before meetings. It is Apple-only, consent-first, and bot-free: no Zoom bot, no web app, no Android. Built by Bonfiyah, Inc., a Delaware corporation.

Question 2

What devices does Bonfiyah run on?

Accepted Answer

iPhone, iPad, and Mac (via Mac Catalyst). Every recording, transcript, and AI output syncs across all three through your private iCloud and your account — record on your iPhone and review it on your Mac once it syncs. One subscription covers your first device; additional devices are $1.99/mo each. There is no web app and no Android version, by deliberate design.

Question 3

Is there a free version of Bonfiyah?

Accepted Answer

Yes. The Free tier gives you 120 minutes of recording per month on a single device, with cloud transcripts, per-recording speaker separation, and per-speaker consent management. The Free tier is the no-commitment way to try Bonfiyah before you ever pay; the paid tiers then lead with intro pricing so the first stretch is cheap.

Question 4

Do I need an account to use Bonfiyah?

Accepted Answer

Bonfiyah uses Sign in with Apple for your account, and that's a privacy feature, not a hurdle. There's no password to create or leak and no email harvesting — Apple can hand us a Hide My Email relay address, so we may never see your real email. We built around it on purpose: your recordings stay tied to you and sync privately across your devices (no orphaned anonymous data); for a tool that records real conversations under two-party-consent laws, a verified account holder is the accountable person who obtained consent; and real identity keeps the free tier's limits, referral rewards, and abuse controls honest. Bonfiyah never sees a password, never builds a marketing profile from your login, and you can revoke our access anytime from your Apple ID settings.

Question 5

What is the best app to record in-person conversations?

Accepted Answer

Bonfiyah is purpose-built for in-person and field capture — client meetings, doctor's appointments, family dinners, depositions, lectures — the conversations that meeting bots can't reach. You record natively on the device in your hand; nothing joins a call. Tools like Otter and Fireflies are stronger for bot-driven virtual meetings, while Bonfiyah owns the in-person, on-site, and side-channel conversations.

Question 6

Does Bonfiyah join Zoom, Teams, or Meet as a bot?

Accepted Answer

No — and that's deliberate. Bonfiyah does not send a bot into video calls. It is built for in-person and side-channel conversations: client intake, witness prep, the courthouse-steps conversation, the kitchen-table conversation. If your day is mostly remote video calls, a meeting-bot tool fits better; if it mixes remote with in-person, Bonfiyah covers what the bot can't.

Question 7

Can I record doctor's appointments with Bonfiyah?

Accepted Answer

Yes, for personal and family use — recording your own appointments so you can remember what was said. Bonfiyah is NOT HIPAA-compliant and is not intended for covered entities or protected-health-information workflows; it is a personal memory tool, not a clinical system. Recording laws and consent rules still apply.

Question 8

Is it legal to record conversations?

Accepted Answer

Recording laws vary by jurisdiction — some places require only one party's consent, others require all parties' — and compliance remains your responsibility. This is not legal advice. To help, Bonfiyah ships per-speaker consent management in every tier including Free: track who has consented, auto-grant participants who heard a verbal announcement, and automatically redact non-consenting speakers from every transcript, email, and PDF you export.

Question 9

Does Bonfiyah keep my audio or train AI on my conversations?

Accepted Answer

No. Audio uploads briefly so it can be transcribed and analyzed, then auto-deletes from the servers within seven days — after that, your audio lives only in your own iCloud Drive, in your custody. Bonfiyah does not train AI on your transcripts, and its vendors are contractually barred from doing so. You can export everything, and Bonfiyah can't produce audio it doesn't hold.

Question 10

Does Bonfiyah recognize the same people across different recordings?

Accepted Answer

Yes — that's the core of what makes Bonfiyah different. It identifies who said what from voice biometrics (a private voiceprint of each speaker), not by guessing from the words in the transcript. Once it knows a voice, it recognizes that person again in every future recording — Sarah on Tuesday is the same Sarah on Friday and next quarter, across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Your speaker memory is private to your account, and the more you record, the better Bonfiyah knows each voice. Most meeting tools and bots re-identify speakers from scratch every session ("Speaker 1, Speaker 2") and reset at the next meeting; Bonfiyah's speaker memory accumulates over time — a head start a brand-new tool can't replicate.

Question 11

Can I import recordings from another app into Bonfiyah?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Bonfiyah has an Import button: tap it, pick an audio file you provide — from the Apple Files app, AirDrop, another app's export, or audio you downloaded from another recording service — and Bonfiyah runs it through the same pipeline as a live recording. It splits the audio, transcribes it in the cloud, separates the speakers and identifies them by voice (matching people Bonfiyah already knows; new voices appear as Speaker 1/Speaker 2 until you name them), and generates an AI summary. The result is a new Story in your library — searchable, organized, and synced across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. It works on an audio file you bring in, not a direct integration with another service: if you can export your audio from Otter, Notta, Plaud, Fireflies, or Voice Memos, you can bring your whole archive in and have it gain durable voice-based speaker memory — no re-recording, no lock-in. Import, transcription, and voice speaker-ID work on every tier — the free tier includes 240 minutes of imports in your first 30 days (bring your backlog over without spending your recording allowance), then imports use your regular transcription allowance, and Pro is unlimited; the AI summary is the Pro AI piece.

Question 12

Is Bonfiyah a good Otter alternative?

Accepted Answer

For in-person recording, yes. Bonfiyah records real-world conversations natively across iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with built-in two-party consent management and a Pro AI cross-recording reasoning layer (Promise Tracker, Contradictions, Pre-Brief, and more) that Otter doesn't ship. Otter remains more mature for virtual, bot-attended meetings. The two solve different halves of the problem.

Question 13

How is Bonfiyah different from Granola, Notta, Plaud, or Fireflies?

Accepted Answer

Those are virtual-meeting note-takers (Granola, Notta), meeting-bot platforms (Fireflies), or dedicated recording hardware (Plaud). Bonfiyah is Apple-only, in-person-first, and bot-free, with a cross-recording memory layer and structured Attorney-Client / Doctor-Patient privilege markings none of them offer. It complements rather than replaces a virtual-meeting tool.

Question 14

What can Bonfiyah's Pro AI do that other apps can't?

Accepted Answer

Pro AI adds twenty cross-recording surfaces that reason across your whole library, not just one meeting: Promise Tracker (every commitment, by whom, by when), Contradictions (conflicting statements flagged across recordings), Pre-Brief (calendar-aware briefing from prior conversations), AI Project Context, Compatibility, Team Dynamics, Speaker Memory Health (a voice memory that learns over time and self-heals), and more. The rest of the category works one meeting at a time.

Question 15

How much does Bonfiyah cost?

Accepted Answer

Free: 120 minutes of recording per month on a single device — the no-commitment way to try Bonfiyah before you pay. Pro: $14.99/mo for the first 2 months, then $24.99/mo (or $149.99 first year, then $199.99/yr) — unlimited recording, multi-device sync, and the cross-recording layer. Pro AI: $24.99/mo for the first 60 days, then $34.99/mo (or $179.99 first year, then $279.99/yr) — adds the twenty Pro AI surfaces. Recording is uncapped on the paid tiers; cloud AI transcription with speaker separation is included on a fair-use basis of up to 10 hours of audio per 24-hour period, per account, with seamless on-device fallback beyond that so capture is never blocked.

Question 16

What is Promise Tracker?

Accepted Answer

Promise Tracker pulls the commitments out of your recordings — “I'll send the report by Friday” — and sorts them into three lanes instead of one flat pile: what you owe, what others owe you (your chase list), and what's between other people (FYI). Due dates are parsed from speech so overdue items rise to the top, stale FYI items age out on their own, and a finishable Weekly Accountability Review replaces the infinite scroll.

Question 17

What is Contradictions?

Accepted Answer

Contradictions cross-references what's said across your entire recording library and uses natural-language inference to verify genuine contradictions, surfacing each as a before/after evidentiary pair — both quotes, both timestamps — before your next meeting. It also scores each person's follow-through: how often they actually keep their word.

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