Question 1

What is Bonfiyah?

Accepted Answer

Bonfiyah is an AI conversation memory app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. It records the in-person and recorded conversations you have, transcribes them, and reasons across your entire library — tracking promises, catching contradictions weeks apart, and briefing you before meetings. It is Apple-only, consent-first, and bot-free: no Zoom bot, no web app, no Android. Built by Bonfiyah, Inc., a Delaware corporation.

Question 2

What devices does Bonfiyah run on?

Accepted Answer

iPhone, iPad, and Mac (via Mac Catalyst). Every recording, transcript, and AI output syncs in real time across all three through your private iCloud — start a recording on your iPhone and watch the transcript finish on your Mac. One subscription covers your first device; additional devices are $1.99/mo each. There is no web app and no Android version, by deliberate design.

Question 3

Is there a free version of Bonfiyah?

Accepted Answer

Yes. The Free tier gives you 120 minutes of recording per month on a single device, with cloud transcripts, per-recording speaker separation, and per-speaker consent management. Every signup also gets a 7-day automatic trial of the next tier up.

Question 4

What is the best app to record in-person conversations?

Accepted Answer

Bonfiyah is purpose-built for in-person and field capture — client meetings, doctor's appointments, family dinners, depositions, lectures — the conversations that meeting bots can't reach. You record natively on the device in your hand; nothing joins a call. Tools like Otter and Fireflies are stronger for bot-driven virtual meetings, while Bonfiyah owns the in-person, on-site, and side-channel conversations.

Question 5

Does Bonfiyah join Zoom, Teams, or Meet as a bot?

Accepted Answer

No — and that's deliberate. Bonfiyah does not send a bot into video calls. It is built for in-person and side-channel conversations: client intake, witness prep, the courthouse-steps conversation, the kitchen-table conversation. If your day is mostly remote video calls, a meeting-bot tool fits better; if it mixes remote with in-person, Bonfiyah covers what the bot can't.

Question 6

Can I record doctor's appointments with Bonfiyah?

Accepted Answer

Yes, for personal and family use — recording your own appointments so you can remember what was said. Bonfiyah is NOT HIPAA-compliant and is not intended for covered entities or protected-health-information workflows; it is a personal memory tool, not a clinical system. Recording laws and consent rules still apply.

Question 7

Is it legal to record conversations?

Accepted Answer

Recording laws vary by jurisdiction — some places require only one party's consent, others require all parties' — and compliance remains your responsibility. This is not legal advice. To help, Bonfiyah ships per-speaker consent management in every tier including Free: track who has consented, auto-grant participants who heard a verbal announcement, and automatically redact non-consenting speakers from every transcript, email, and PDF you export.

Question 8

Does Bonfiyah keep my audio or train AI on my conversations?

Accepted Answer

No. Audio uploads briefly so it can be transcribed and analyzed, then auto-deletes from the servers within seven days — after that, your audio lives only in your own iCloud Drive, in your custody. Bonfiyah does not train AI on your transcripts, and its vendors are contractually barred from doing so. You can export everything, and Bonfiyah can't produce audio it doesn't hold.

Question 9

Is Bonfiyah a good Otter alternative?

Accepted Answer

For in-person recording, yes. Bonfiyah records real-world conversations natively across iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with built-in two-party consent management and a Pro AI cross-recording reasoning layer (Promise Tracker, Truth Layer, Pre-Brief, and more) that Otter doesn't ship. Otter remains more mature for virtual, bot-attended meetings. The two solve different halves of the problem.

Question 10

How is Bonfiyah different from Granola, Notta, Plaud, or Fireflies?

Accepted Answer

Those are virtual-meeting note-takers (Granola, Notta), meeting-bot platforms (Fireflies), or dedicated recording hardware (Plaud). Bonfiyah is Apple-only, in-person-first, and bot-free, with a cross-recording memory layer and structured Attorney-Client / Doctor-Patient privilege markings none of them offer. It complements rather than replaces a virtual-meeting tool.

Question 11

What can Bonfiyah's Pro AI do that other apps can't?

Accepted Answer

Pro AI adds eighteen cross-recording surfaces that reason across your whole library, not just one meeting: Promise Tracker (every commitment, by whom, by when), Truth Layer (contradictions flagged across recordings), Pre-Brief (calendar-aware briefing from prior conversations), AI Project Context, Compatibility, Team Dynamics, and more. The rest of the category works one meeting at a time.

Question 12

How much does Bonfiyah cost?

Accepted Answer

Free: 120 minutes per month on a single device. Pro: $14.99/mo for the first 2 months, then $24.99/mo (or $149.99 first year, then $199.99/yr) — unlimited recording, multi-device sync, and the cross-recording layer. Pro AI: $24.99/mo for the first 60 days, then $34.99/mo (or $179.99 first year, then $279.99/yr) — adds the eighteen Pro AI surfaces. Every signup gets a 7-day trial of the next tier up.

Question 13

What is Promise Tracker?

Accepted Answer

Promise Tracker auto-extracts every commitment made in every recording — “I'll send the report by Friday” — and ties it to the speaker, the meeting, and the deadline, then tracks whether it was kept. It turns scattered conversations into an accountability ledger.

Question 14

What is Truth Layer?

Accepted Answer

Truth Layer cross-references what's said across your entire recording library and flags contradictions with confidence scoring — catching the “wait, didn't you say the opposite last week?” moments before your next meeting.

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