Turn your voice notes into Jira tickets, on device
Your best ideas and bug catches rarely happen at your desk. They show up on a walk, mid-call, or right after a meeting, and by the time you are back at the keyboard to write the ticket properly, half of them are gone or too vague to act on. Carryover closes that gap. It turns your voice notes into Jira tickets, Linear issues, and GitHub issues, and it does all of it on your iPhone, with no account and nothing uploaded to a server. This post covers how talk-to-ticket works, why everything runs on device, and what it costs.
The gap between having the idea and filing the ticket
Most task tools assume you are already sitting down, ready to type. The real bottleneck is upstream, in the few seconds between catching a problem and getting it written somewhere you trust. Opening your tracker, switching context, and formatting a proper ticket with a title, a description, and acceptance criteria is enough friction that a lot of good work just evaporates. You either lose the thought or you scribble a one-line note that nobody, including future you, can act on.
How talk-to-ticket works
Carryover removes the typing step from capture. You talk, or paste rough notes, and it does the rest:
It transcribes what you said, on the device. It pulls out the actual content: decisions, action items, risks, and open questions. It drafts a structured issue from that, with a title, a description, acceptance criteria, and technical notes. You review and edit, then push it to Jira, Linear, or GitHub. The same note can also become a meeting recap, a decision log, or a plain email for someone who missed the call. You are reviewing a draft instead of writing one from a blank screen, which is the part that actually saves time.
Why it all runs on your device
This is the part most voice and notes tools get wrong. They stream your audio to a cloud model, which means your meeting and client conversations live on someone else's server.
Carryover does the transcription and the AI on your iPhone. It uses Apple's on-device intelligence where the hardware supports it, and a local model on phones that do not, so the feature works across a wide range of devices. There is no account, no ads, and no tracking, and the App Store privacy label says no data collected, because there is nothing to collect. Your content only leaves the device if you explicitly push a ticket to a connected system. As a bonus, capture and structuring keep working when you have no connection at all.
What Carryover costs
The core is free: capturing, structuring, and pushing the issue all cost nothing, and there is no login to manage. Carryover Pro adds extra output templates, customization, and multi-artifact export for 29.99 dollars a year or 79.99 dollars for lifetime access. It runs on iPhone, iOS 17 or later.
Common questions
Is my meeting audio uploaded anywhere? No. Transcription and the AI both run on the device, and nothing is sent to a server unless you choose to push a ticket to a tool like Jira.
Does it work without an internet connection? Yes. Capture and structuring are on device, so they work offline.
Which trackers does it support? Jira, Linear, and GitHub, plus recaps, decision logs, and stakeholder emails.
Do I need an account? No account is required to use the core features.
Try it on your next meeting If you live in a tracker all day, the win is small but constant: catch the thought by talking, get a structured ticket back, and keep moving. No retyping, no context switch, and nothing leaving your phone. Carryover is free to download on the App Store, so you can run it against your next meeting or bug report and see how close the draft gets.