Stop trying to take perfect notes.

The trade-off you've been making

When you take notes, you're doing two things at once — listening to follow the argument, and writing to capture it. You can't do both at full attention. Most students compromise by writing more (and listening less) when the material is hard, which is exactly the wrong way around.

Bonfiyah lets you collapse the trade-off: listen at full attention, capture nothing during the lecture, and let the recording produce the structured notes afterward.

Is this allowed?

Recording lectures for personal use is permitted in most U.S. universities and required for accommodations students under ADA. Many professors explicitly welcome it; some require advance notice; a small number prohibit it. Check your syllabus and your institution's policy. Bonfiyah's consent module surfaces the relevant state law before each recording, but classroom policy is its own layer.

What you get from Pro

• Auto-transcript with the professor labeled as "Professor" and other voices labeled as "Student 1, Student 2…" by default — relabel when you recognize voices
• Search across every lecture in your library — "find the lecture where she explained Bayesian priors"
• Bookmarks from the live recording — tap once on the lock screen to mark a moment as important
• Highlight and export — pull the parts you care about into a study guide

What Pro AI adds for studying

• Lecture outline — automatically extracted structure: section headers, subsections, transitions
• Defined-term glossary — every term the professor introduced, in the order introduced, with the definition they gave
• Concept connections — Story Mode-derived "the lecture moved from X to Y to Z because of W" arc summary
• Pre-Brief before each next lecture — what concepts from the prior lecture are likely to recur
• Question prompts for office hours — generated from places in your transcript where you were probably confused

Live captioning runs on your iPhone; full transcription and AI study notes are processed on Bonfiyah's backend under a no-training commercial contract — your raw audio is deleted from our servers within 7 days, and nothing is ever used to train any AI.

A practical workflow

1. Open Bonfiyah and tap record as you sit down — or use the Lock Screen Live Activity if your phone is already locked. Recording starts in under a second.
2. Listen. Tap the bookmark glyph on your phone when something matters.
3. Tap stop when the lecture ends. Walk to your next class.
4. Bonfiyah transcribes during the walk. By the time you sit down, the transcript is ready.
5. That evening, open the lecture, scan the AI-generated outline, expand the sections that were unclear, listen to the audio at the bookmarks.
6. Pro AI's Story Mode (study-note view) becomes your study guide for the exam.