About this app
What Apprent does
Apprent is the pocket apprenticeship journal — a structured place to record the master craftsman next to you (electrician, plumber, woodworker, mason, welder, mechanic, HVAC tech, machinist, carpenter) explaining the why behind the work. It is the field notebook your boss wishes the apprentices kept five years ago. 75% of US manufacturers report a critical skills gap. The journeyman class that learned the trade in the 1970s is retiring. The apprentice next to them has 20 minutes between jobs to capture a technique that took 40 years to learn. Pencil and paper falls behind. Voice memos pile up unsearchable. There is no calm app structured around the apprenticeship. Apprent is that journal. Record the master speaking; Apple's on-device SFSpeechRecognizer transcribes; tag the entry by trade, technique category, and tool; review later by tag. No account. No cloud. No social feed. What ships in v1: — Mentor register: every journeyman you've worked under. Trade, years of experience, shop / employer, signature techniques. — Recording: one-tap voice capture with live on-device transcription (SFSpeechRecognizer, requiresOnDeviceRecognition=true). No upload, no third-party transcription. — Technique card: each recording becomes a card with title, mentor, trade, tool, technique category (joinery, soldering, pulling wire, layout, fitting, finishing, troubleshooting), and the full transcript. — Tool log: every tool you encountered with brand, model, year, and the technique cards that reference it. — Trade reference: bundled glossary of ~100 trade terms per major trade (electrical, plumbing, framing, HVAC, machining, welding) — common terms apprentices ask about in the first year. — Code corner: bundled summary of the most-cited code references — NEC chapters apprentice electricians actually look up; UPC fixture units; IRC stud spacing — pointers, not the codes themselves (always check the latest published edition). — Search: full-text across transcripts. Find every time a mentor mentioned 'wire pull tension' or 'soldering flux.' — No 'Pro,' no in-app purchases. Yours. Apprent is for the first-year apprentice, the journeyman who wants to leave a record before they retire, and the union local that wants its apprentices to learn from the most-experienced JATC instructors. Apprent is record-keeping software. The code references are general pointers; always consult the latest published code edition for the work you're doing.
Features
Built to be useful, not noisy.
Recordings
On-device transcribed mentor interviews.
Mentors
The journeymen you've worked under.
Tools
Every tool with its technique cards.
Reference
Trade glossary + code pointers.
Settings
Privacy + about.
Why it exists
The problem
Trade knowledge transfers face-to-face, master-to-apprentice, in real time at the worksite. There is no calm iOS app that structures the apprentice's notes — by mentor, by trade, by technique category, with on-device speech transcription. Voice memos in iOS Voice Memos accumulate unsearchable.
What's different
How Apprent stands out
Apprent is the only iOS app structured around the trades apprenticeship — mentor register, on-device SFSpeechRecognizer with requiresOnDeviceRecognition=true, technique cards tagged by trade/tool/category, tool log, bundled trade glossary, and code-reference pointers. Voice Memos has no structure. Notion is too heavy.…
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FAQ
Questions about Apprent
How much does Apprent cost?▾
Apprent is free. All features are included from day one — no subscription, no in-app purchases, no paid tiers. Everything you see in this listing works the moment you install it.
Where does Apprent store my data?▾
On your device. Apprent is built privacy-first: no account is required, no analytics SDKs, no third-party trackers. Nothing is uploaded to a server we control — the app works without one.
What platforms does Apprent support?▾
iOS, on iPhone and iPad. You can find the latest availability on this page.
How do I get support for Apprent?▾
Use the Support link on this page, or email support@allthingsn.com. We answer every message and keep responses on the same thread.
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