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Executive summary (for embargo coverage)

Bonfiyah is an iPhone, iPad, and Mac Catalyst app for recording, transcribing, and acting on real-life conversations. It's built by a solo developer with a deliberate constraint exercise — one Apple ecosystem (iPhone-led, with iPad and Mac Catalyst), no team, no plans to grow into one. The product launches with three tiers (Free, Pro $9.99/mo, Pro AI $19.99/mo), and Pro AI ships seven AI features the rest of the category does not have: Promise Tracker, Truth Layer, Pre-Brief, People Memory, Story Mode, Speaker Themes, and structured action-item extraction.

The category context: Otter, Notta, Plaud and others occupy the meeting-bot and dedicated-hardware lanes. Bonfiyah is iPhone-native and in-person-first, with built-in two-party consent management — the only app in the category to ship that as a feature in every tier, including Free. The competitive validation point is Limitless's December 2025 acquisition by Meta; that acquisition removed the closest direct competitor and validated the always-on-conversation-recording category.

One-liner pitches by angle

  • Tech / consumer angle: "Solo iOS developer ships the AI conversation app no large team has built — seven cross-recording features Otter, Notta, and Plaud don't have."
  • Privacy angle: "Bonfiyah is the only iPhone recording app with built-in two-party consent management — and it doesn't train AI on user transcripts, in writing, in the privacy policy."
  • Indie business angle: "$100M revenue target. Zero employees, ever. The new business model for solo iOS developers in 2026."
  • Legal-vertical angle: "Built for attorneys: client intake with consent logs, witness prep with cross-recording contradiction detection, deposition review with defensible PDF exports."
  • Medical / patient angle: "Patients forget 40-80% of what their doctor says. Bonfiyah captures the appointment, transcribes it on the iPhone, and surfaces the next-steps automatically."

Brand assets

Logo, wordmark, and icon files for editorial use. Do not modify, recolor, rotate, or place on busy photography. Maintain at least 1× the height of the lowercase "o" of clear space around the wordmark.

  • App icon (1024×1024 PNG, transparent corners) — download
  • Bonfire glyph (square, transparent) — download
  • Wordmark (1×, 2×, 3× PNG, transparent) — download @3x
  • Color palette: orange #D17429, cream #F4EEE3, flame yellow #FDDA6A, flame gold #FBAA29, flame deep #F97522, ink #1B1B1B

Founder bio

Richard Hearn is the solo developer of Bonfiyah. He has been writing software professionally for over a decade and previously shipped LifeLog360, the predecessor to Bonfiyah, between 2024 and 2026. His bet on Bonfiyah is that the future of indie iOS software is one-person companies that grow revenue without growing headcount.

Founder photo on request. Email press@bonfiyah.com.

Screenshots and demo video

Press-resolution screenshots (PNG, 1290×2796) and the 28-second App Preview video are available on request. We can also arrange a screen-share demo with the founder; book at press@bonfiyah.com.

Press contact

press@bonfiyah.com — replies within 24 hours.