For Shipaton, I Built an AI Voice Memory App That Never Stores Your Data on a Server

I forget things. Not big things — I remember birthdays, deadlines, where I parked. It's the small things. The idea I had in the shower. The exact phrasing my professor used that made a concept finally click. The decision my team made in a five-minute hallway conversation that nobody wrote down.

By the time I think to write it down, it's gone.

So for RevenueCat's Shipaton 2026 hackathon, I built Memorly — a voice memo app that does the remembering for me. You talk, it transcribes, summarizes, and makes everything searchable. Nothing new there; a dozen apps do that. What makes Memorly different is where the data actually lives: on your phone, and nowhere else. No account. No server database of your voice. No "we value your privacy" fine print that means the opposite.

Here's how it's built, and what I learned getting it there.

The core loop: record, forget...

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