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Cadence
The fastest captions, keeping you in the conversation.
Live captioning for deaf and hard-of-hearing users. Recognition and speaker labels run entirely on your iPhone. Audio and captions never touch a network.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I built Cadence because live captioning has a timing problem. Most apps send your audio to a server, wait, and hand you the words a beat too late - by the time you've read the line, the room has moved on. Captions that arrive late aren't captions, they're a transcript.
Cadence runs entirely on your iPhone. Nothing is uploaded, ever - no audio, no transcripts, no account. That's a privacy decision, but honestly it started as a speed decision: skipping the round trip is what makes the words land while they still matter.
A few things I sweated over, all aimed at the awkward moments rather than the demo-friendly ones:
- Captions follow you into other apps. Switch away and the latest line floats in a small window you can move anywhere, so you can text or take notes without losing the thread.
- Flip the screen 180° so the person across the table can read along without leaning over it.
- Speaker labels (A, B, C) with a colored gutter bar - anonymous, no voiceprint stored, reset every session.
- Fonts that read the way you read - system, Atkinson Hyperlegible, Literata, or OpenDyslexic - and text scaling well past Dynamic Type's ceiling.
- Scroll back without getting yanked to the bottom, with a "jump to latest" pill when you're ready.
- Mic tuning for the actual room - a noisy café and a one-on-one across a desk are not the same problem.
- It tells you when it's broken. If captions stall or the mic is denied, you get a banner and a retry - never a frozen screen that just looks like silence.
Sessions are saved on the device, newest first, and you can share any transcript as plain text - useful after an appointment.
I'd especially love feedback from deaf and hard-of-hearing folks on where it falls short: which rooms break it, which settings you reached for first, and what's missing. Fire away in the comments - I'll be here all day.
About Cadence on Product Hunt
“The fastest captions, keeping you in the conversation.”
Cadence was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #81 on the daily leaderboard. Live captioning for deaf and hard-of-hearing users. Recognition and speaker labels run entirely on your iPhone. Audio and captions never touch a network.
On the analytics side, Cadence competes within iOS, Audio and Inclusivity — topics that collectively have 113.5k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Cadence performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Cadence?
Cadence was hunted by Benjamin Singer. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Cadence including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Benjamin Singer