Voice Reminders in Any Language
63 dictation languages and regions. Pick yours, not your phone's — and keep it on the device.
63 dictation languages and regions. Pick yours, not your phone's — and keep it on the device.
Plenty of people run their iPhone in English and think in something else. Most dictation features inherit the system language and leave you fighting the recogniser every time you add a task. In Ordo the dictation language is its own setting: choose Danish, Thai, Brazilian Portuguese or Cantonese and the phone can stay exactly as it is. The picker is searchable — including by a language's own name — and keeps the last few you used at the top.
Ordo offers every dictation locale Apple's speech recognition supports on iPhone: 63 language-and-region combinations across 34 languages. Among them Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese for both Portugal and Brazil, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Malay, Japanese, Korean, and both Mandarin and Cantonese Chinese. Regional variants matter and are kept separate — en-GB is not en-US, and pt-BR is not pt-PT.
Ordo asks Apple's recogniser to run entirely on your iPhone whenever the language allows it, and marks those languages “Works offline” in the picker. In that mode your voice never leaves the device. Some languages can only be transcribed with help from Apple's servers; Ordo will not do that unless you switch on “Use Apple's servers when needed” yourself, and it is off when you install the app. The chip on the capture screen shows a phone icon when you're offline and a globe when you aren't, so you always know which one you're in.
Ordo never writes audio to disk. Speech is handed to the recogniser as it's captured and discarded. There is no account, no analytics and no server of ours anywhere in the picture — your tasks live in a single file on your phone.
Ordo is free, and the free version is a whole app: capture by voice or text, all three lanes, reminders and the board. The free board holds 6 live tasks at a time. Ordo Pro lifts the cap and adds repeating tasks, the Pulse overview and three extra palettes — $2.99/month or $19.99/year with a 7-day free trial, both renewing automatically until cancelled, or a one-time $34.99 lifetime unlock that never renews. No ads either way.
Ordo is coming soon to the App Store. Requires iPhone on iOS 18.0 or later.
All 63 language-and-region combinations Apple's speech recognition supports on iPhone, covering 34 languages — including Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese for Portugal and Brazil, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Malay, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin and Cantonese.
Yes, and that's the point. The dictation language is a setting inside Ordo, entirely separate from your iPhone's system language. Run the phone in English and capture your tasks in Danish if that's how you think.
Wherever your chosen language supports on-device recognition, yes — and Ordo prefers it. Languages that can run offline are labelled in the picker. Languages that require Apple's servers won't be sent anywhere unless you enable that yourself; the setting is off when you install the app.
Never. Ordo has no server. Audio is never saved to disk, and with offline dictation it doesn't leave your phone at all. If you opt into server recognition for a language that needs it, audio goes to Apple under Apple's privacy policy — not to us.