iPhone & iPad app

THOHT on iPhone and iPad brings voice‑to‑text into compatible text fields through a dictation keyboard. You switch to the THOHT keyboard, tap the mic, speak, and your words are inserted where you're typing.

Setting up the keyboard

After installing THOHT, add its keyboard once:

1. 1
   Open Settings → General → Keyboard → Keyboards → Add New Keyboard…
2. 2
   Choose THOHT.
3. 3
   Tap THOHT again in the list and turn on Allow Full Access — this is required for dictation to work.

The THOHT app guides you through this with an animated preview, and reminds you on the home screen until the keyboard is added and Full Access is on. (Tapping Open Settings in the app lands on THOHT's own settings page; from there, open Keyboards.) Full Access is needed because the keyboard talks to the THOHT app to do the actual recording.

How dictation works on iPhone and iPad

iOS doesn't let a keyboard use the microphone directly, so THOHT uses a background‑dictation pattern. From your point of view it's just a few taps:

1. 1
   In an app and text field that allows third-party keyboards, tap the globe to switch to the THOHT keyboard.
2. 2
   Tap the mic. The first time in a session it reads "Tap to activate mic" — this opens THOHT in the background to warm up, then tries to send you straight back to your app. If it can't, THOHT shows a "Back to your app" control to tap.
3. 3
   Tap the mic again ("Tap to dictate"), speak, and tap stop. You can also long‑press the mic for push‑to‑talk (hold to record, release to stop).
4. 4
   Your text — optionally AI‑polished — is inserted into the field.

A background session stays "warm" for a while so subsequent dictations are instant; it ends automatically after a timeout to save battery (see iOS settings).

The keyboard controls

The THOHT keyboard combines a full typing keyboard with a slim dictation bar above it. Basic typing works without Full Access; recording and the cross-process dictation flow require Full Access. It includes:

• Letter, number, and symbol layouts with automatic capitalization, return-key behavior that follows the host field, long-press accents, and optional typing haptics.
• A slim dictation bar with a compact mic, live status, waveform, and timer while recording.
• A prompt pill to choose Just transcribe (no AI) or one of your active prompts.
• A globe key to switch keyboards, plus spacebar trackpad, repeating backspace, and a context-aware return key.
• A cancel control while recording to discard a take.

Handy gestures: long‑press the mic for push‑to‑talk, long‑press space to scrub the cursor, and long‑press backspace to delete repeatedly. Recordings cap at 9 minutes (cloud), with a countdown in the final minute.

Notes and Quick Capture

Beyond the keyboard, the app itself lets you dictate:

• Notes — a built‑in notes tab. Open a note and use the dictation toolbar (mic, pause/resume, live waveform) to speak text straight into it; it auto‑saves.
• Quick Capture — a fast "tap to capture" mode you can trigger from the iPhone Action Button, Siri, or a widget. It records, transcribes, copies the result to your clipboard, and saves it.

Widget and Live Activity

• Home Screen / Lock Screen widget — tiles to load/unload dictation and to start a new note, reflecting whether the mic session is active.
• Live Activity & Dynamic Island — while dictation is loaded, you get status on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. While recording, it shows a live timer and waveform with Stop & Transcribe and Cancel controls, plus a purple AI badge when an AI style is selected; when idle it offers New note and Unload.

iOS settings

Open settings from the gear icon in the app.

There's also subscription status, a privacy summary, and feedback with optional redacted logs. A report can include the description or screenshot you choose to submit, but the app does not attach recording audio or transcription history automatically.

Differences from the Mac app

If you know the Mac app, note these mobile differences:

• Cloud only. iPhone and iPad transcribe via the cloud (there's no on‑device engine), so normal dictation needs Pro. The 9‑minute per‑recording cap applies.
• No language picker. The language is auto‑detected, and AI prompts keep your original language.
• No appearance or Personal Context settings. The app follows your system light/dark mode; Personal Context is a Mac feature.
• History is local, capped to the most recent entries, and isn't synced (prompts and vocabulary do sync via iCloud).
• One subscription covers the supported apps. Pro started on Mac unlocks iPhone and iPad, and vice versa, when the devices use the same Apple Account.