For iPhone, iPad and Mac
GPT Realtime Assistant is a live AI assistant for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Start a session, and it hears what is said, writes it down, and answers the question on the table before the silence gets awkward: a fact, a phrasing, the next step. Or it translates each sentence into the language you choose. Afterwards the session is a record with tasks and notes attached. Sessions start and end only when you say so.
Subscription. AI credits included. Not affiliated with OpenAI. · iOS 26 · iPadOS 26 · macOS
What it does
Five tabs: Live, Projects, Sessions, Tasks and Scheduler, with Notes on Mac. On iPhone, Scheduler is under More. The Live tab is where the conversation happens; the rest is what it leaves behind.
Tap Start and the microphone streams to the model. What is said appears as a transcript; what the assistant has to say appears beside it. Semantic voice detection knows when a speaker has finished, and you can interrupt the answer by talking. Answers come in brief, balanced or detailed length.
A new session starts from one of seventeen templates, each with roles and instructions already written: interview, negotiation, sprint planning, daily standup, client discovery, sales demo, support triage, incident review, design review, user research, lecture notes, one-on-one, hiring debrief, decision meeting, translation, coding task and product review. Or start a blank session and write the role and instructions yourself; either way, you can edit them for the session in front of you.
A translation session turns the assistant into a live interpreter: whatever is said, in a language it detects or one you set, appears translated into the language you choose, sentence by sentence. To answer in the other person's language, open Translate and exchange the From and To languages. Karaoke readback uses Apple's on-device speech recognition to highlight words as you read them, for rehearsing a talk or practising a language.
Add a photo or a screenshot to a session and the assistant answers with it in view. On Mac the app can capture a chosen screen or window, record the session, and watch system audio, so a screen-shared meeting is context too.
Useful moments become tasks with status, priority, dates and comments, and evidence attached as screenshots or video. Sessions can be scheduled with reminders. Notes live alongside on Mac. All of it is stored on the device.
On an Apple silicon Mac the app can download Whisper Large v3 Turbo for transcription and Qwen 3 8B for answers and run them on the machine, for sessions whose audio should not leave the room. Local sessions work without the cloud and use no credits; their answers appear as text. On iPhone and iPad, transcription is either OpenAI's or Apple's on-device speech recognition.
Who it is for
Guides
How to set up a session that helps, what it costs in credits, and where the line is when other people are in the room.
Japanese to French voice translation: a one-minute tutorialWatch Japanese speech translated into French. Choose the language pair, hear the replies and find your saved transcript in GPT Realtime Assistant.How to talk with family who speak another languageOne iPhone between you can translate a conversation with a grandparent or in-laws who speak another language, one direction at a time. How to set it up.How to translate a conversation in real time on iPhone, iPad or MacUsing a live translation session as an interpreter: how it translates what is said into your language, how to set it up, where to put the device, and what it still gets wrong.Real-time translator for travel: hotel, taxi, pharmacyA real-time translator for travelling: one iPhone puts what people say into your language at a hotel desk, in a taxi or at a pharmacy. Setup, data, limits.What it costs
The app needs an active monthly subscription to run. Each month includes 2,000 AI credits; a thousand credits are one US dollar of model usage at OpenAI's list rates, metered by the audio and text the session actually uses. When credits run low, packs of 1,000 or 5,000 add more without changing the subscription.
$0 free to install
The app needs an active subscription to run.
$9.99 per month
Renews monthly. Cancel anytime in your Apple account.
$4.99 one time
A consumable pack, added to your balance.
$19.99 one time
A consumable pack, added to your balance.
Credits are spent on what the session uses: audio in and out costs more than text, cached context costs less. A session reserves a small amount to start and refunds what it did not use when it ends.
Pricing →Questions
No. GPT Realtime Assistant is made by Arte Soft and uses OpenAI's Realtime API as its model provider. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by OpenAI.
No. The subscription covers model usage through the app's own backend, which issues a short-lived session secret so your device can talk to the model directly. There is nothing to configure.
During a session, from your device straight to OpenAI's Realtime API, under OpenAI's API data policies. Our backend never receives the audio. It records usage, purchases, credits and the session's title so it can bill and reserve credits; it stores no transcripts and no audio.
It stays on your device with the session. There is no cloud sync; sessions on your Mac are not on your iPhone.
It depends on how much of the session is speech: audio costs more than text, and brief answers cost less than detailed ones. The balance is on screen during every session, so a few sessions tell you more than any estimate. Local sessions on a Mac use no credits.
On an Apple silicon Mac, with the local Whisper and Qwen models downloaded, transcription and answers can run without the cloud, and use no credits. On iPhone and iPad, sessions need a connection; only Apple's speech recognition runs on the device.
No. Answers can be incomplete, wrong, late or beside the point. Treat them as a prompt to think, not as advice, and check anything that matters.
Only with their permission and where it is allowed. Recording and assistance rules differ by workplace, school, jurisdiction and interview; you are responsible for following them.
On the App Store for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Subscribe, pick a template, press Start.
