Updated July 23, 2026
Quick answers about how Engram works, what stays private, and what the paid tiers add.
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Yes. The core app is free forever: on-device transcription and note structuring, outline and prose formats, audio capture and playback, notebooks, folders, search, version history, and export. No account, no ads, no trial clock.
The paid tiers add services that cost money to run — encrypted sync across devices (Sync) and hosted cloud processing (Pro). Nothing from the free app is ever moved behind them.
Not for the free app — it never asks for one and sends nothing anywhere. You only create an account (email and password) if you subscribe to Sync or Pro, because syncing between devices needs some way to distinguish what belongs to you.
Yes. After a one-time download of the AI models, everything in the free app runs entirely on your device, with no connection. Recording, transcription, structuring, and search are all fully functional offline.
Only the optional connected features (Sync and Pro cloud processing) need a network; captures made offline simply sync later.
About 2.6 GB for the defaults: a speech-recognition bundle (~200 MB) and a language model (~2.4 GB) that does the structuring. Engram asks before downloading and downloads can be cancelled or resumed as needed.
You can manage or delete models any time in Settings, and switch to a larger or smaller model if you prefer a different speed/quality balance. If you only use Pro cloud processing, you can skip the big language model download entirely.
On-device AI is happiest on a reasonably recent device — roughly 6 GB of memory or more. Desktops provide the best local model performance, with GPU acceleration on supported hardware.
Record a thought, a meeting, or a whole lecture — or import an audio or video file. Engram transcribes it on your device, then an on-device language model shapes the raw words into a structured note with a title and summary. You can watch the note write itself in real time.
The raw transcript is always kept with the note, so nothing the AI does is ever lossy.
Recordings stop automatically at 2 hours by default; you can raise the ceiling to 6 hours in Settings. Imported audio files have no length limit when processed on your device, but cloud processing has a file size limit of 128 MB.
Yes. Import files in common audio formats (m4a, mp3, and the like) and Engram treats them exactly like its own recordings. Imported files are transcribed, structured, and kept with the note.
Video files work too: Engram extracts the audio track on your device and transcribes that. The video itself is never stored or uploaded, and only the extracted audio is kept with the note.
Engram detects the spoken language automatically — there's nothing to configure. The speech-recognition models it uses (on your device and in Pro cloud processing alike) are multilingual, documented to handle about 100 languages, with the strongest accuracy in the 50-plus most widely spoken. The models that structure your notes are trained on over 140 languages.
Honestly, though: Engram is developed and tested in English, and transcription quality in other languages varies. The larger transcription models offered in Settings handle non-English speech noticeably better than the default, while the Pro-only cloud models will provide the best results. If you use Engram in another language and something looks off, tell us at support@littlefort.io and we'll see if we can help refine it.
Notes are fully editable, and you're never stuck with a result: Regenerate re-shapes the note from the stored transcript, and Re-transcribe starts over from the original audio. Engram snapshots a version before every edit or regeneration, and you can restore any version later.
Prose is flowing, readable text that faithfully captures the content of the original audio while omitting things like word whiskers, false starts, and filler words. Outline summarizes the source audio as a series of main points, with logical separation into sections & lists as appropriate.
Every note can be generated in both forms and you can flip between them instantly. They're stored separately, so editing one never overwrites the other.
Yes. The "Keep source audio" is on by default, and the recording stays attached to its note. Play it back in the app (or in the background with full media controls), or delete a note's audio whenever you like. You can turn the setting off if you'd rather keep only the words.
Not currently. Recordings are transcribed as a single flowing transcript, without per-speaker labels.
Notebooks hold notes and folders, and folders nest as deep as you like. Pin what matters, sort by date, title, or your own manual order, and search the full text of every note. Deleted notes, folders, and notebooks go to the Trash and can be restored (with contents intact) until you empty it.
Always. Any note exports as Markdown, and a whole notebook or folder exports as plain files or a single .zip archive with your folder structure mirrored. Import works the other way — point Engram at a folder of Markdown or text files and it becomes a notebook. Recordings made within Engram can be exported too. Your words are never locked in.
On your device, in an encrypted database whose key lives in your platform's secure storage. Nothing is uploaded anywhere unless you deliberately turn on Sync or Pro cloud processing. If you want the exact folder, see where Engram keeps its files on each platform.
Engram keeps your whole library in a single encrypted database file, engram.db, alongside a folder holding any recordings you chose to keep. Both live in the private application-data location for your platform:
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Little Fort Software LLC\engram\. If you used the one-click installer rather than the portable version, Windows redirects that folder into the app package's own storage under %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\.~/Library/Application Support/com.littlefort.engram//data/data/com.littlefort.engram/. Android walls this off — no other app and no file manager can reach it.These are storage locations, not a document folder — you aren't meant to work in them, and because the database is encrypted, opening it outside Engram shows nothing readable. To get your notes out in a form you can use elsewhere, export them from the app instead: notes can be exported as Markdown, and notebooks can be exported as a plain folder or a .zip archive.
Engram writes nothing outside these locations, so uninstalling takes your local data with it. Back up anything you want to keep first, either by exporting or by turning on Sync.
No, and not as a policy promise, but by construction. With Sync, your notes are encrypted on your device with keys derived from your password, and the password itself is never sent to us. Our servers store and relay only unreadable ciphertext. We cannot see your notes, titles, transcripts, synced settings, or audio — and neither could anyone who compromised our servers.
What we can see is the minimum needed to run the service: your email address, how much encrypted storage your account uses, per-device sync identifiers, and your subscription status.
No data is collected that is individually identifying. No advertising identifiers, no trackers, no fingerprinting, and we never sell or share personal information. Some aggregate metrics are tracked to help improve our service, such as refining the estimates for processing times that are shown in-app. The details are in the Privacy Policy, which is written to be read.
Local data is yours to delete in the app, and uninstalling removes it. If you have a Sync account, you can permanently delete it — and everything stored server-side (encrypted notes, audio backups, key material, and billing metadata) — directly in the app: Settings → Account & Sync → Delete account. Deletion is password-confirmed and takes effect immediately. If you can't access the app, email support@littlefort.io from your account email and we'll process it within 30 days. Details on the delete your data page.
Sync ($2.99/month or $29/year) keeps your whole library — notes, notebooks, folders, settings — end-to-end encrypted and up to date across all your devices, and backs up your recordings as encrypted audio. Everything is zero-knowledge: we store it, but we can't read it.
An account is just an email and a password. When you sign up, Engram emails you a 6-digit code (valid for 15 minutes) to confirm the address. Your password never leaves your device; it's used there to derive your encryption keys, which is why password recovery works a little differently than you might be used to (see the recovery key below).
Because sync is zero-knowledge, we can't reset your password for you — we don't hold the keys. So when you create an account, Engram shows you a one-time recovery key and offers to save it as a small recovery-kit file. That key is your way back in if you ever forget your password, with all your notes intact.
Store it somewhere safe (a password manager is ideal). If you lose it, generate a new one any time you're signed in by going to Settings → Account → Recovery key.
Not if you have your recovery key: choose account recovery at sign-in, enter the key, and set a new password. Your notes are preserved, and the key remains valid afterwards.
If you've lost both the password and the recovery key, the last resort is an account reset, confirmed by a code emailed to you. A reset wipes the encrypted data on our servers and issues fresh keys — the honest cost of encryption we can't bypass. Your subscription is unaffected.
Signing out removes your synced notes, audio, and keys from that device, returning it to a fresh state. Sign back in and your library comes back down from your account.
Engram asks what you'd like to do: merge the device's notes into your account, keep them separate, or discard them. After that, syncing is automatic — edits from different devices merge cleanly, and version history has your back if two edits ever collide.
With Sync, recordings you've chosen to keep are backed up automatically as encrypted files. Audio is backed up over Wi-Fi by default, with an opt-in for mobile data. Your account includes 50 GB of audio backup storage, with individual files up to 128 MB (roughly six hours of recording at 16 kHz).
On your other devices, audio downloads on demand: tap play and it fetches. If a file is over the per-file limit, the note itself still syncs everywhere but the audio simply stays on the device that recorded it.
Pro ($7.99/month or $79.99/year) includes Sync benefits and adds hosted cloud processing: your captures are transcribed and structured on our servers instead of your device. Cloud processing is faster, more accurate, and easy on your battery, which matters most for long recordings. Pro includes 25 hours of audio transcription per month.
Cloud processing is off by default. Each device asks you once before it's enabled, and you can switch back to on-device processing at any time.
Nothing breaks. Once the monthly allowance is used, captures simply process on your device for the rest of the billing cycle, and the allowance resets with the next one. Every note still gets made.
A single clip sent to the cloud can be up to 128 MB — around six hours of audio recorded at 16 kHz. For anything larger, Engram offers to process it on your device instead, where there's no limit. And if the cloud is ever busy or a run fails partway, the capture falls back to your device — your recording is never lost.
Audio sent for cloud processing travels over an encrypted connection to our own Microsoft Azure services, is processed in memory, and is discarded as soon as your note is returned. It's never stored on our servers, never used to train any model, and never shared with a third party. Any data the service holds at rest stays in the United States. The finished note is stored on your device, and if you use Sync, backed up as end-to-end-encrypted ciphertext like every other note.
You subscribe from inside Engram, not from this website — there's no sign-up here. In the app, go to Settings → Account & Sync and choose a plan: that goes through Google Play on Android, the App Store on iPhone, and secure card checkout with Stripe on Windows and macOS. Wherever you subscribe, the subscription is tied to your Engram account — sign in on any platform and it's recognized. You manage or cancel it in the place you bought it.
Cancel anytime through Google Play, the App Store, or — if you subscribed on desktop — the Stripe billing portal, which Engram opens for you from Settings → Account & Sync → Manage subscription. Your subscription stays active until the end of the period you've paid for. After it ends, syncing and cloud processing stop, but every note already on a device stays there, fully readable and editable. Your notes live on your devices, not on our servers. Resubscribe later and sync picks up where it left off.
Engram for Windows is code-signed by Little Fort Software LLC. Windows SmartScreen can still show a caution for software from newer publishers until a download history builds up. If you see a warning, verify that the publisher reads "Little Fort Software LLC" before continuing. To stay safe, only download Engram from this site or the linked app stores.
Your current version is always shown in Settings → About, along with a manual update check. What's new in each release is on the release notes page.
No. The recording is saved before processing begins, so if anything interrupts the AI (e.g. a dead battery, a force-close) the note appears with your audio attached and a button to finish it ("Generate from audio" or "Finish note"). Nothing you captured is lost.
Almost always because something on your network is inspecting the connection. Cloud processing sends your transcript and note back as a live stream, one piece at a time, so you can watch the note build. Content-filtering and security software — parental controls, ad blockers that filter HTTPS, antivirus "web shield" features, some VPNs, and corporate network agents — commonly hold a response until it's complete before handing it to the app. The stream still arrives; it just arrives all in one piece at the end.
Nothing is wrong and nothing is lost. The finished note is identical either way, and the rest of Engram works normally. If you'd like the live reveal back, whitelist api.littlefort.io (or Engram itself) in that software, or turn off its HTTPS inspection for that address.
Email support@littlefort.io and we'll help. Questions about how your data is handled are answered in depth in the Privacy Policy.