V3.1 · 18 cross-recording AI surfaces · iPhone · iPad · Mac
Every promise. Every contradiction. Every name. Remembered.
Bonfiyah captures the conversations you actually have — in person, on speakerphone, around the table — and turns them into something you can search, query, and act on weeks later. Pro AI ships eighteen cross-recording surfaces no other app has.
Live preview · auto-cycling · all eighteen Pro AI surfaces
Why we exist
In a world where AI-generated communication is becoming the norm, we believe Humanity will evolve the other way — toward Truth and Authenticity, found in real, in-person human conversation.
Bonfiyah is an app built for Humanity — and for the future of Truth and Authentic Communication.
Read on iPad.
Review on Mac.
Bonfiyah runs on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Every recording, transcript, and Pro AI output syncs in real time across all three (iPad and Mac via Catalyst) through your private iCloud. Stop a recording on your iPhone, watch the transcript finish on your Mac.
Multi-device add-on
Pro and Pro AI cover one primary device. Adding more starts at $1.99/mo for the first 90 days, then $2.99/mo (or $19.99 first year, then $29.99/yr). Compare: Otter +$20/mo per seat. Plaud +$169 per device.
Pro · Native iPhone integration
Built like an Apple app. Not like a web wrapper.
Native Calendar + Contacts integration. Lock-screen Live Activity. Dynamic Island. Recording-status widget. The things every iPhone owner expects — and that web-first competitors physically cannot ship.
Calendar + Contacts
Read-only access to your iOS Calendar and Contacts. Bonfiyah knows who you're meeting, surfaces the right Speaker Insights profile, and generates the Pre-Brief automatically. Works with iCloud, Google, Outlook, Exchange — anything iOS calendar already supports.
Lock-screen Live Activity
When you're recording, your lock screen shows a real-time card: elapsed time, peak-volume meter, current speaker, one-tap pause. Dynamic Island handles the same job when the app isn't frontmost.
Recording-status widget
An iOS-17 widget that shows live recording state on the home screen — elapsed time, current speaker label, and a one-tap pause button.
Live speaker reassignment
During an active recording, tap any "Speaker A/B/C" label and pick the right name from expected speakers, calendar attendees, or your contacts. The rename carries forward in real time. How this works →
Advanced Search
One box, four indexes: stories, transcripts, speakers, and tags. Semantic + keyword, depending on how you typed. Saved searches re-run automatically as new recordings come in.
AirPods + Bluetooth ready
Records through AirPods (any generation), AirPods Pro/Max, Beats, third-party Bluetooth lavaliers, USB-C mics — anything iOS recognizes. Same one-tap experience, dramatically better audio when you upgrade the input.
Free · Pro · Pro AI — included on every plan
Make Bonfiyah yours. Four hand-crafted themes.
Warm or cool, day or night — pick the look that fits. Every plan ships all four (plus System auto-switching). Free accounts included. Change it any time in Settings → Appearance.
Dark
Warm-dark editorial
Cream
Warm-cream daylight
Blue Flame
Deep Bambu navy
Light Blue
Bright blue-white
Themes are a personalization feature — no Pro or Pro AI subscription required.
Pro AI · Memory layer
Eighteen AI surfaces the rest of the category hasn't shipped.
Each one is a different way of remembering across recordings. Your transcripts never train any model. $24.99/mo for the first 60 days, then $34.99/mo (or $179.99 first year). Cancel anytime.
Patent Pending Five of these surfaces are patent pending — Truth Layer, Speaker Resolution, No-APNs Notifications, Consent/ACP markings, and Silent Fallback.
AI Project Context
A 250–450 word executive briefing across every recording in a project. Recurring participants, open decisions, pending action items, themes. Cached per content signature; stays fresh on its own.
Read the deep-dive → New · v3.0Compatibility Analysis
Pairwise scorecard combining Attachment Theory, Big Five, Gottman Four Horsemen, and Thomas-Kilmann. Refuses to run without explicit two-party consent. Period.
Read the deep-dive → New · v3.0Team Dynamics
9-box matrix across the speakers you select. Cohesion score. Coverage-gap analysis. Swap recommendations. The org-design diagnostic, in 90 seconds.
Read the deep-dive → New · v3.0MBTI Compatibility
Pair-by-pair compatibility heatmap on the Team Dynamics screen. Big Five → MBTI mapping (Costa & McCrae 1992); Keirsey-Bates pair model. Six bands from Best (92) to Difficult (28). Published, sourced, verifiable.
Read the deep-dive → New · v3.0Ray Dalio Pointillist Painting
Member-by-dimension heatmap on Team Dynamics. 16 PrinciplesYou archetypes (Shaper, Strategist, Inventor, Quarterback, etc.) inferred from conversations + 10 facet scores per person. Built for Dalio's believability-weighted decisions.
Read the deep-dive →Promise Tracker
Auto-extracts every commitment from every meeting. Tracks who promised what, by when, and whether they kept it.
Read the deep-dive →Truth Layer
Catches when something said today contradicts something said weeks ago. Surfaces it before the next meeting.
Proactive Notifications
Quote-driven pings: overdue promises, fresh contradictions, cooling topics, silent collaborators. Tap → arrive at the exact moment. Three tiers, daily caps, no APNs.
Pre-Brief
Reads your calendar; 30 min before each meeting hands you a one-page brief from prior recordings with that person.
Read the deep-dive →People Memory · Speaker Insights
A profile of every person you've recorded with — what they bring up, how they speak, what's open.
Story Mode
A narrative recap that reads like someone was paying attention — characters, decisions, the moments that mattered. Plus episodic groupings of recurring topics.
Read the deep-dive →Speaker Themes
Per-person speaking patterns over time — recurring topics, hedging signature, trend lines, energy markers.
Read the deep-dive →Action Items
Every task, owner, deadline, source quote — with tap-to-play audio. Aggregates across projects, sub-projects, and a 'mine' filter spanning your whole library.
Read the deep-dive → New · v3.0Bonfire Pulse
Your Burning Man self, this week. Sunday at 06:00 UTC, Bonfiyah re-scores your 10-Principle alignment using last week's library entries. One principle becomes the Focus with three Practice Moves (5 min, 30 min, stretch once). 2026 annual theme overlay: Axis Mundi. A personal-development reflection tool, not a clinical instrument.
Read the deep-dive → New · v3.0Founder Insights
Your founder posture, drawn from how you actually run the company. Weekly six-dimension mirror: Vision Clarity, Conviction, Customer Obsession, Capital Discipline, Hiring Posture, Operating Cadence. Each dimension surfaces a strength signal, the adjacent failure mode, and one Practice Move. No composite score, no leaderboard.
Read the deep-dive →Live screens · v3.0.67
The same recording, three devices, one library.
Real screenshots from the build that's in your hands today. iPhone capture, iPad for review, Mac Catalyst for the long-context AI surfaces.
iPhone — capture
Bottom nav: Projects · Stories · AI · Speakers. Recording one tap away.
iPad — AI Features hub
Full-window in v3.0.67. Every Pro AI surface one tap deep — no floating modals.
Mac — Team Dynamics
Team score · 9-box role matrix · MBTI Compatibility · Ray Dalio Pointillist Painting · Team-strengths read-out — one screen.
Pro · $14.99/mo intro → $24.99/mo
The cross-recording layer. Without the AI premium.
Pro is what you upgrade to when one recording stops being enough. Speaker memory across recordings, Advanced Search of your full library, native Calendar + Contacts integration, auto-summaries, projects + tags, real-time multi-device sync, and the lock-screen Live Activity that turns your iPhone into a recording cockpit. The infrastructure that makes a year of conversations feel like an organized archive.
Most users hit Pro before they hit Pro AI. Most stay there. That's by design — Pro alone solves the recording-volume problem without the AI inference cost.
Persistent speaker profiles Patent Pending
"Sarah" in last week's recording is the same person in this week's. Speaker library grows automatically.
Advanced Search
Search across stories, transcripts, speakers, and tags in one box. Semantic + keyword. "The meeting where Maya pushed back on the timeline" finds the moment.
Native Calendar + Contacts integration
Bonfiyah reads your iPhone Calendar and Contacts (read-only). Knows who's in your next meeting; surfaces the right speaker profile and Pre-Brief automatically. No web app does this.
Live Activity + recording widget
Real-time recording timer on the lock screen and in Dynamic Island, plus a home-screen widget for current recording state.
Auto-summaries
Bullet recap on every recording. The "what was this about" answer ready before re-listening.
Projects, tags, smart playlists
Organize 100s of recordings the way a power user organizes Notes.
Unlimited recording
No 120-min monthly cap. Background recording, all-day if you want.
Privacy · in every tier
Built consent-first. Every tier. Including Free.
Recording laws vary by state and country, and most apps make that your problem — they hand you a microphone and a privacy policy and trust you to figure out the legal layer.
Bonfiyah ships per-speaker consent built into every tier, free included. Track who's consented and who hasn't. Detect when you announce the recording verbally and auto-grant participants who heard it. Redact non-consenting speakers from every transcript, email, and PDF you send. Export an audit log of every consent change. We don't make any of this a paid feature because recording someone without their consent is a category of harm we don't want our free users to drift into.
Audio uploads briefly so we can transcribe and analyze it, then auto-deletes within seven days. We do not train AI on your transcripts. Our vendors don't either — it's contractual on their side and policy on ours.
You own your audio. We don't. After the 7-day server window, the only place your recordings live is your iCloud Drive — on your Apple ID, in your custody, synced across your devices the same way your iMessages are. Bonfiyah can't produce audio in response to a subpoena because Bonfiyah doesn't have it. The architecture removes us from the chain of custody on purpose.
How consent management works →Three tiers. Real differences. No padding.
Free is the full app on one device, capped at 120 min/mo. Pro is for active recorders who want sync. Pro AI is for stakes. Every signup gets a 7-day automatic trial of the next tier up.
$0
120 min/month · single device
- · Recording + Cloud transcripts
- · Speaker separation per recording
- · Two-party consent management
- · 7-day Pro trial at signup
$14.99/mo
For the first 2 months, then $24.99/mo. Cancel anytime.
or $149.99 first year, then $199.99/yr
- · Unlimited recording
- · Multi-device cloud sync
- · Persistent speakers across recordings
- · Cross-recording semantic search
- · Auto-summaries on every recording
- · 7-day Pro AI trial at signup
$24.99/mo
For the first 60 days, then $34.99/mo. Cancel anytime.
or $179.99 first year, then $279.99/yr
- · Everything in Pro, plus:
- · AI Project Context · v3.0
- · Compatibility Analysis · v3.0
- · Team Dynamics · v3.0
- · MBTI Compatibility · v3.0.52
- · Ray Dalio Pointillist Painting · v3.0.57
- · Mach-IV (Machiavellianism) · v3.0.425 · new
- · Promise Tracker · Truth Layer · Pre-Brief
- · People Memory · Story Mode · Speaker Themes
How intro pricing works → · Bonfiyah Friends — refer a paid signup, both sides get a free month → · Why two AI tiers? →
Around the fire
What people are using Bonfiyah for.
Hiring panels
Calibrate the panel itself before the candidate walks in. Score candidates against the team they'll join using Team Dynamics + MBTI Compatibility + Pointillist Painting.
Read the workflow →Sales + Customer Success
Field sales, on-site demos, executive sponsor meetings. Promise Tracker on every commitment, Truth Layer on shifting requirements, Pre-Brief on the next call.
Read the workflow →Fundraising / VC pitches
Twenty-five first meetings, eight follow-ups, three partner meetings. Pre-Brief per VC. Truth Layer flags shifting valuation talk. Promise Tracker on every "I'll make the intro."
Read the workflow →Board meetings + governance
Defensible recording with consent. Decisions tracked verbatim. Pre-Brief for every director. Pointillist Painting on the board itself surfaces composition gaps.
Read the workflow →Performance reviews + 360s
A year of 1:1s, skip-levels, and project meetings become a structured year-end profile per IC. Speaker Themes, Project Context synthesis. Source quotes, not paraphrase.
Read the workflow →Couples therapy + mediation
For licensed therapists. Compatibility Analysis (consent-gated by code), Speaker Themes per partner, Story Mode session recap. Built for the practitioner, not as a substitute.
Read the workflow →Bonfire events
Family reunions, friend trips, late-night fireside conversations. The stories worth keeping happen at the fire and disappear by morning.
Read the workflow →Client meetings
For consultants, freelancers, attorneys — anyone whose income depends on what was actually agreed. Promise Tracker prevents scope creep.
Read the workflow →Internal meetings
Standups, 1:1s, retros, decision reviews. Action Items pulled out automatically; Pre-Brief before every recurring meeting.
Read the workflow →Doctor's appointments
Patients forget 40-80% of what their doctor said within minutes. Bonfiyah captures the appointment and surfaces medications and follow-ups.
Read the workflow →Attorney practice
Client intake with consent logs. Witness prep with Truth Layer flagging cross-session inconsistencies. Defensible PDF exports.
Read the workflow →Students + lectures
Listen with full attention. Bonfiyah captures the lecture, separates the professor from the students, produces a study-note view.
Read the workflow →Parent-teacher conferences
Capture the exact words the teacher used. Action Items for what to do at home. Defensible record for IEP and 504 meetings.
Read the workflow →Coaching meetings
Executive, life, sports, recovery. Per-client Speaker Insights for coaches; Action Items for clients to track session homework.
Read the workflow →Dinner conversations
Family meals where someone tells a story you've never heard. Business dinners where the deal actually gets discussed over the second glass.
Read the workflow →Coffee shop meetings
Networking, mentor coffees, informal pitches. Sit your phone face-up; AirPods in your ear handle the noisy-room audio quality.
Read the workflow →Interviews
Journalism source vetting, qualitative research transcription, structured hiring loops. Truth Layer catches cross-interview inconsistencies.
Read the workflow →Dating analysts
Dating coaches reviewing client work. Self-aware daters reviewing their own conversations. Speaker Themes surfaces the patterns you don't notice.
Read the workflow →
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