The attendance note, dictated before you reach your desk
The note you write two hours later is never the note you would have written straight after the meeting. Waver closes that gap: dictate the attendance note in the corridor, the file note between appointments, the client summary on the walk back from court — and get structured prose instead of shorthand you have to decode on Friday afternoon.
Before any of that, read how your audio is handled. Client confidentiality is your obligation, not a feature we can sell you, and you should decide with the facts in front of you.
Read this before you record a client
Your audio leaves your device. Waver is not on-device software. When you record, the audio is sent over encrypted HTTPS to a third-party AI service for transcription — NVIDIA NIM or Groq (Whisper). When you ask Waver to rewrite, summarise or translate, that text is sent to Google Gemini. Waver asks for your explicit consent inside the app before anything is sent, and AI features remain off if you decline.
What we do not claim. We do not claim that Waver preserves legal professional privilege. We do not hold SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA or any comparable certification. We do not claim your data never leaves your device, because it does. Any vendor telling you otherwise about a cloud transcription product is worth a second look.
What is true.Transmission is encrypted in transit (TLS), data is encrypted at rest, and under the provider terms Waver operates on your content is not used to train the providers' models. You can delete any note, or delete your account and its stored notes entirely.
The judgement is yours.Whether a given matter can go through a third-party processor at all depends on your retainer, your client's consent, and your regulator's rules on confidentiality and outsourcing. Plenty of practitioners will conclude that general practice notes are fine and that a particular sensitive matter is not. That is the right way round. If in doubt, do not record.
The full detail — every provider, what is sent to each, and the retention position — is in the Privacy Policy.
What it actually does in a practice
| Task | How Waver handles it |
|---|---|
| Attendance notes | Dictate the note in the corridor while the meeting is still fresh. Waver writes it up as structured prose instead of half-legible shorthand. |
| File notes | Talk through what happened, what was advised and what comes next. Get a clean, dated note ready to drop onto the file. |
| Client meetings | Record the meeting and let speaker separation show who said what, so the attendance note reflects the actual exchange. |
| Client summaries | Turn a long transcript into a short, plain-English summary a client can actually read. |
| Follow-up email | Rewrite the same recording as a client-ready email — advice given, next steps, who does what. |
| Handwritten notes | Photograph a page of counsel's notes or your own scrawl and pull the text into the file. |
| Court or tribunal recall | Dictate your recollection immediately afterwards, while the detail is intact. |
| Non-English clients | Transcribe in 120+ languages, with live translation to follow the conversation as it happens. |
Dictation without the transcription queue
Traditional digital dictation means recording, sending the file to a typist or an outsourced bureau, and waiting — hours if you are lucky, a day if you are not. The note that lands back needs checking anyway, and by then the meeting has blurred.
Waver removes the queue. You dictate, and the written note comes back to you directly. For a five-line attendance note that is the difference between doing it now and doing it never.
Meetings, with who said what
Record a client conference or an internal case review and Waver separates the speakers, so your attendance note distinguishes the client's account from your advice rather than flattening both into one block. Ask for a summary and you get the substance — what was discussed, what was agreed, what was left open.
One recording, several documents
The same dictation can become a formal file note, a short client-facing summary in plain English, and the follow-up email confirming next steps. You are not rewriting the same content three times for three audiences — you are choosing the output format for a note you already made.
Handwriting off the page and onto the file
Photograph a page of handwritten notes — your own, or a scanned page from the file — and Waver pulls the text out. Useful for the notebook that never quite makes it into the matter record, and for getting a legible version of notes taken somewhere you could not record.
Clients who do not speak your language
Waver transcribes 120+ languages in their native script, and live translation lets you follow a conversation as it happens. The transcript can stay in the client's language while the file note is produced in English. It is not a substitute for a certified interpreter where one is required — but it is a considerable improvement on a hurried note written from memory.
On whatever you are carrying
iPhone, iPad, Mac and Windows. Dictate on the phone between appointments, tidy the note on the desktop when you are back at chambers or the office. Notes sync across all of them.
How it works
Record
Tap once and talk — a two-minute corridor dictation or a full client meeting. No length limit.
Waver transcribes it
Every word, in 120+ languages, with speakers separated for meetings.
Turn it into the document you needed
An attendance note, a file note, a client summary, or the follow-up email. One tap each.
Questions lawyers ask first
Where does my audio actually go?
Your recording leaves your device over encrypted HTTPS and is transcribed by a third-party AI service — NVIDIA NIM or Groq (Whisper). Text you then ask Waver to rewrite, summarise or translate is sent to Google Gemini. Waver asks for your explicit consent in-app before anything is sent, and AI features stay switched off if you decline. Full detail is in the Privacy Policy.
Is Waver covered by legal professional privilege?
We make no such claim. Waver is general-purpose software, not a legal service, and sending client information through it involves a third-party processor. Whether that is appropriate for a given matter is a judgement for you and your firm under your own regulator's rules on confidentiality and outsourcing. If in doubt, do not record.
Do you hold a compliance certification?
No. We do not claim SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA or any equivalent certification, and we would rather say so plainly than imply otherwise. If your firm's client-engagement terms require a certified processor, Waver will not satisfy that requirement today.
Is my data used to train AI models?
No. Under the provider terms Waver operates on, your content is not used to train the providers' models. That is a contractual position with the AI providers, not an on-device guarantee — the data is still transmitted and processed off your device.
Can it tell speakers apart in a client meeting?
Yes. Meeting recording separates speakers, so an attendance note shows who said what rather than one undifferentiated block of text.
What if my client does not speak English?
Waver transcribes 120+ languages in their native script, and live translation lets you follow a conversation as it happens. Your file note can be produced in English while the transcript stays in the original language.
Can I delete a recording and its transcript?
Yes. You can delete any individual note, or delete your account entirely, which removes stored notes from our servers. See the Privacy Policy for the retention detail.
What does it cost?
There is a free tier with no card required. Premium starts at $4.13/mo.
Write the note while you still remember it
Free tier, no card required. Read the Privacy Policy first and decide what belongs in it.
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