Pro feature · Built into iOS
Built like a real iPhone app, not a web wrapper.
Native Calendar + Contacts integration. Live Activity on the lock screen. Dynamic Island. Smart-stack widgets. Apple Watch. Siri. The things every iPhone owner expects from a first-party app — and that web-first competitors physically cannot ship.
The competitive moat that doesn't show up in a feature comparison.
Otter, Notta, Plaud — they all started as web apps and bolted on a mobile shell. The gap shows the moment you reach for your iPhone: no widgets that work, no lock-screen recording timer, no Dynamic Island, no Calendar that talks to the app, no Contacts integration. The "iOS app" is a webview in a wrapper.
Bonfiyah was built native-first. Every part of iOS that an iPhone owner expects to "just work" is wired up properly — and the things that don't show up in a feature-comparison table are the things that make the app feel like a part of your phone instead of a tab in your browser.
What's integrated
Native Calendar integration
Bonfiyah reads your iPhone Calendar (read-only — never writes, never invites, never modifies). When it sees an upcoming meeting with someone you've recorded with before, it generates the Pre-Brief automatically and shows it on your widget, your watch, and as a notification 30 minutes before the meeting.
Works with any calendar that's in iOS Calendar — iCloud, Google Calendar, Outlook, Exchange, third-party. Bonfiyah doesn't need to integrate with each one separately because iOS already does.
Native Contacts integration
Bonfiyah pulls speaker names from your iPhone Contacts. Once a voice is matched to a contact, every future recording with that person identifies them automatically. The People Memory profile (with Speaker Insights) lives at that contact's name — same name your phone uses everywhere else.
Read-only. We don't add contacts, modify them, or sync anything anywhere. The contact data stays in iOS where it lives now.
Lock-screen Live Activity (real-time)
When a recording is in progress, the lock screen shows a Live Activity card: elapsed time, peak-volume meter, current speaker, and a one-tap pause button. You can see and control the recording without unlocking the phone — the way Apple's first-party apps work, not the way a web wrapper pretends to.
Updates in real time. Pause, resume, or stop from the lock screen. Tap to expand to the full recording controls.
Dynamic Island
On iPhone 14 Pro and later, the recording state lives in the Dynamic Island whenever the app isn't frontmost. Tap to expand the controls, long-press for the transcript-so-far, swipe to dismiss. It works the way every other Live-Activity-aware iOS app works — because Bonfiyah is one.
Smart-stack home-screen widgets
Three widgets ship in v1.1: Today's meetings (with Pre-Brief snippets for each), Recent recordings (tap to play the last three), and Open promises (Pro AI — what people owe you and what you owe them, with deadlines). All sized for small/medium/large and all rotation-aware in Smart Stack.
Apple Watch complication + glance
A complication for every watch face — tap to start recording in under a second. The glance shows your most recent recording with a one-tap replay. Native watchOS, not a phone-mirror.
Siri Shortcuts
"Hey Siri, start a Bonfiyah recording." "Hey Siri, what did Sarah promise me last week?" Hands-free works because the shortcuts are real iOS App Intents, not voice-driven UI.
Why this is a Pro feature
The basic native UI — lock-screen one-tap recording, Dynamic Island, Apple Watch — ships in every tier including Free. The Pro tier adds the integrations that turn the iPhone from "a phone with a recording app on it" into "a phone that knows who you're meeting and when."
Calendar + Contacts integration unlocks Pre-Brief, People Memory, and the Today's-meetings widget — all of which become flat without the data your phone already has. Live Activity, smart-stack widgets, and Siri Shortcuts work in Pro because that's where their value compounds with the rest of the cross-recording layer.
No Bonfiyah data leaves your phone for any of this. Calendar reads are local. Contacts are local. The widget is local. The Pre-Brief inference is on-device.
See the widgets in action
We'll send a 90-second screen-recording of the Live Activity, Dynamic Island, and three home-screen widgets in real use.
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