Overview
- Google, which quietly launched the iPhone app Monday, runs speech recognition on the device using lightweight Gemma models so it works without an internet connection.
- A cloud mode toggle sends text cleanup to Gemini for extra polishing, and users can switch it off to keep all processing local.
- The app is free with no usage cap and offers live transcription, filler-word removal, rewrite presets like Key points or Formal, searchable history, usage stats, and personal dictionaries with optional Gmail import.
- TechCrunch reported late Tuesday the App Store listing dropped references to an Android version and added that an iOS keyboard integration is “coming soon.”
- Observers see Eloquent as a template for Google’s edge-plus-cloud tools that undercut paid rivals, supported by Gemma models that Google is promoting under permissive Apache 2.0 terms.