# Alice — Secure Voice Recorder & Transcription with MCP

> Alice is a private voice recorder and AI transcription app for iPhone and the web. It records or imports audio and video and transcribes it in 100+ languages. Alice has an open-source MCP server that connects your recordings to Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and any MCP-compatible AI client; none of them receives your data until you connect it. Used by journalists, researchers, lawyers, academics, and healthcare professionals. Free to start. No subscription.

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## Pages

- [Home](https://aliceapp.ai/index.md): What Alice is, who uses it, integrations, security and compliance, and the most common questions.
- [Use Alice with Claude](https://aliceapp.ai/claude.md): How Alice connects to Claude via MCP. Includes setup instructions, FAQ, and privacy details.
- [Use Alice with NotebookLM](https://aliceapp.ai/notebooklm.md): Turn Alice transcripts into a searchable knowledge base in NotebookLM.
- [FAQ](https://aliceapp.ai/faq.md): Answers about getting started, recording, privacy, pricing, and billing.
- [Case studies](https://aliceapp.ai/case-studies.md): How journalists, researchers, universities, and businesses use Alice.
- [About](https://aliceapp.ai/about.md): Why Alice exists and its privacy principles.
- [Security and compliance](https://aliceapp.ai/security.md): Encryption, deletion, staff access, law-enforcement policy, HIPAA (BAA on request), SOC 2, GDPR, CCPA, and the Trust Center.
- [Alice for journalists](https://aliceapp.ai/solutions/journalism.md), [legal teams](https://aliceapp.ai/solutions/legal.md), [healthcare](https://aliceapp.ai/solutions/healthcare.md), [research and oral history](https://aliceapp.ai/solutions/research.md), [podcasters](https://aliceapp.ai/solutions/podcasts.md): what each audience uses Alice for, with case studies and FAQ.
- [Privacy policy](https://aliceapp.ai/privacy-policy.md): Data handling and security practices.
- [Terms of service](https://aliceapp.ai/tos.md): The terms and conditions for using Alice.
- [Contact](https://aliceapp.ai/contact.md): alice@aliceapp.ai
- [Pricing](https://aliceapp.ai/pricing.md): Current prices. Pay as you go: free minutes with every new account, then one-time packages of 1, 20 or 100 hours. No subscription, minutes never expire. Purchase orders and bank transfers by email.
- [Sign up](https://aliceapp.ai/signup): Create a free account with an email address. HTML only.

## For developers and AI agents

- [API documentation](https://aliceapp.ai/api-docs): Interactive reference for the Alice REST API.
- [OpenAPI spec (v3)](https://aliceapp.ai/api-docs/v3/swagger.json): Generate an AI summary for a recording. Machine-readable.
- [OpenAPI spec (v2)](https://aliceapp.ai/api-docs/v2/swagger.json): API client authentication (key ID + secret), token refresh, and uploading a recording by file or by URL. Machine-readable.
- [MCP server setup](https://aliceapp.ai/mcp): Requires a signed-in Alice account. Generates a personal MCP URL of the form `https://aliceapp.ai/mcp/<token>` (JSON-RPC over HTTP POST) to add as a connector in any MCP client.
- MCP tools: list, search, and get recordings; get transcripts; export transcripts in bulk; collection stats. Transcripts are also exposed as MCP resources.
- [MCP server source](https://github.com/aliceappai/mcp-server-alice): Open source.

## Key facts

- Platforms: iOS app, web app
- Languages: 100+ languages and dialects
- Upload formats: audio and video, including MP3, WAV, AAC, M4A, MP4, MOV
- Export formats: PDF, TXT, DOCX, RTF, SRT, VTT, JSON, CSV, HTML, MP3, MP4
- Privacy: recordings are never used to train AI; encrypted in transit and at rest; permanent deletion; optional auto-delete
- Compliance: HIPAA (BAA on request), SOC 2, GDPR, CCPA
- Security: encrypted in transit and at rest, no ads, no third-party ad trackers, no data sold
- MCP server: Open source, github.com/aliceappai/mcp-server-alice
- Compatible AI clients: Claude (Anthropic), ChatGPT (OpenAI), Gemini (Google), Grok (xAI), Cursor, and any MCP-compatible client
- Company: Polysoft, LLC, headquartered in Seattle, USA
- Contact: alice@aliceapp.ai