LocalStudio

LocalStudio Support

A private media studio. Everything runs on your iPhone or iPad, and nothing is uploaded.

Getting started

Tap Photos or Files on the Studio screen to bring in a video, a voice memo or other audio file, or a photo. LocalStudio copies it into its own private storage and opens a project with the tools that fit that kind of media.

LocalStudio requires iOS 26 or later.

Episode Pack

Tap Episode Pack at the top of an audio or video project to make everything at once: the transcript (if needed), a clean episode with fillers cut and the voice enhanced, a Post Kit, a cover, and vertical clips from your best moments (video only). Turn off any step you don’t want. If a step can’t run, for example Post Kit on a device without Apple Intelligence, it’s skipped and the rest still finish.

Shortcuts, Siri and sending files

LocalStudio adds two actions to the Shortcuts app and Siri: Transcribe with LocalStudio and Make an Episode Pack. Each opens the recording you give it in a new project and starts right away. You can also add them to the share sheet by building a shortcut with “Show in Share Sheet” turned on.

From Voice Memos, Files, Mail and other apps, share a video, audio file or photo and choose LocalStudio (you may need to tap More). It opens as a new project. For photos and videos in your Photos library, use the Recent strip or the Photos button in LocalStudio.

The tools

Transcribe creates a transcript with timing for every word. Tap any line to jump the player there, search the text, copy it, or export captions. Free, always.
Trim Silence finds pauses and cuts them. Choose Natural, Tight or Jump cut and the waveform previews exactly what will be removed before anything is rendered.
Remove Fillers cuts “um”, “uh” and similar fillers in one tap, found from your transcript. Turn on Also cut verbal tics to remove “you know,” “I mean,” and “like,” when they’re used as fillers. Stutters and repeated words aren’t detected.
Enhance Voice removes background noise, rumble and harshness, evens out volume and levels the result for streaming. For video, the picture is left untouched.
Vertical Clips picks the strongest moments from a longer video and renders them at 9:16, with the frame following the speaker and animated captions. You can edit each clip's title card.
Post Kit writes titles, a hook, a description, hashtags, key points, action items and, for longer recordings, chapters with timestamps, all from your transcript. Tap any piece to copy it. It needs a device with Apple Intelligence turned on, and it can get details wrong, so read it over before you post.
Translate translates your transcript into another language on your device. Switch languages from the transcript’s menu to read it or export SRT and VTT captions, or choose a Caption language when you make a vertical clip. The audio itself isn’t translated.
Cover Maker makes a thumbnail or cover from a video frame or photo, in Wide 16:9, Square 1:1 or Tall 9:16. Add a title (suggested from your Post Kit), turn on Lift subject to place yourself on a new backdrop, and pick a Look. On devices with Apple Intelligence, the Illustration backdrop creates artwork from your recording’s topic.
Looks gives photos and videos a color style (Auto, Warm, Film, Crisp, Cool or Mono) with adjustable strength. Touch and hold the preview to compare with the original. Vertical clips can use a Look too.
Remove Background lifts the subject out of a photo (people, pets and objects) or separates people from the background in a video, then puts them on a new backdrop.
Convert Audio, Convert Video and Convert Image change a file’s format: audio to MP3, M4A or WAV; video between MP4, MOV and M4V; pictures between JPEG, PNG, HEIC and TIFF, or to a one-page PDF. Each shows the new file size first.
PDF to Images exports a PDF’s pages as JPEG, PNG or HEIC. Open a PDF with the Files button. Transcripts (Pro) and Post Kits can also be saved as PDFs.
Upscale 2× doubles a photo's resolution, for photos up to 12 megapixels. Photos up to 1920×1080 use ML super-resolution where the device supports it; larger ones use high-quality scaling. The result says which method ran.

Everything you make appears under Exports in the project. Tap to preview, or save to Photos or share from there.

Free and Pro

Transcription and plain-text transcripts are free. Every other tool is part of LocalStudio Pro. Your first 3 Pro exports are free, shared across all the tools, and a whole Episode Pack counts as one. Free vertical clips carry a small “Made with LocalStudio” tag, which Pro removes. Pro also unlocks SRT and VTT caption files.

Pro is available as an annual or monthly subscription, each with a free first week for new subscribers, or as a one-time lifetime purchase that includes Family Sharing. Prices are shown in the app in your local currency.

Restore purchases, in Settings or at the bottom of the Pro screen, brings Pro back on a new or reset device signed in to the same Apple Account.

To cancel a subscription, open Settings on your device, tap your name, then Subscriptions, and choose LocalStudio. Cancel at least 24 hours before the renewal date to avoid being charged for the next period. You keep Pro until the period you paid for ends. Refunds are handled by Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com.

Common questions

Transcription says a language model is downloading. The first time you use a language, iOS fetches its speech model from Apple. It is a one-time download and only happens with a connection. Your audio is not part of it.

Transcription says it isn’t available on this device. On-device transcription depends on the speech models Apple supports for your device and language. Try choosing a different spoken language in Settings, and make sure iOS is up to date.

Translation asks to download a language. The first time you translate into a language, iOS downloads it from Apple. After that it works offline. Your transcript is not part of the download.

Post Kit says it needs Apple Intelligence. Post Kit uses Apple’s on-device language model. Turn on Apple Intelligence in Settings › Apple Intelligence & Siri on a device that supports it.

Why are my clips titled differently on another device? On devices with Apple Intelligence turned on, LocalStudio uses Apple’s on-device model to choose moments and write titles. Other devices use LocalStudio’s built-in highlight finder. Both run entirely on your device.

Upscaling says my photo is already high resolution. Upscale 2× works on photos up to 12 megapixels. Larger photos already have enough pixels, so the app doesn’t upscale them.

Can I keep rendering in another app? Rendering continues briefly in the background, but long videos finish fastest with LocalStudio open.

Where are my projects stored, and are they backed up? Only on your device, in LocalStudio’s private storage. They are deliberately left out of iCloud Backup so your media never leaves the device. Save the exports you want to keep to Photos or Files.

How do I free up space? Open a project’s menu and choose Delete project, or press and hold a single export to delete it. Settings shows how much space LocalStudio is using.

Contact

Found a bug, or have an idea? Email info@meyerappstudio.com and mention LocalStudio. Tell us your device model, and which tool and kind of file you were using. That is the first thing we will ask.