Frequently asked questions
Short answers to what people ask first. If yours is not here, write to info@konspekt.ru.
What is Konspekt?
An app for students. It records a lecture, shows it as live text with a translation under every sentence, and writes your study notes afterwards: a summary, key points, terms and the moments you marked. It works on iPhone, Android and in a web browser.
Do I need an account?
No. You can start recording straight away. An account lets you keep your library and restore it on another device, and it is needed to share a link you can later turn off.
Which languages does it handle?
Konspekt’s screens come in ten languages (English, Russian, Chinese, Arabic, Turkish, Hindi, Vietnamese, French, Spanish and Kiswahili), and a lecture can be translated into any of them. Russian is the lecture language we have tested end to end. German, Spanish and English lectures are in beta, and more languages are on the way.
Does it keep recording when the screen is locked?
Yes, on iPhone and Android. A notification or a Live Activity shows that it is recording, with buttons to mark a moment or pause.
What happens if my connection drops?
Konspekt keeps the audio and catches up when the connection returns, as long as the app stays open. It tells you when it is catching up.
Who hears my audio?
The sound is sent to speech-recognition services to be turned into text, and the text to language services to be translated, summarised and used to answer your questions. Nobody listens to your lectures as part of running the app. Our privacy policy lists the services and says what is stored, where and for how long.
How accurate is it?
Good for ordinary lecture speech, weaker on technical terms, names and numbers. It is a machine translation, made to help you follow along and find things later, so check anything an exam depends on against the slides. Adding a course’s terms to its glossary improves the results.
Can I use it on a laptop?
Yes. The web app works in the browser at mykonspekt.com/app, with the laptop’s microphone, keyboard shortcuts, and a small floating window in Chrome and Edge. You can also use your phone as the camera for the board.
Can I photograph the board?
Yes. Photos are placed in the lecture at the moment you took them, read in the background, and you can ask Konspekt to explain what is on them.
Can I share a lecture?
Yes: as a read-only link, as a live link that others can read while you record (it stops working after a day), or exported as PDF, Markdown or plain text.
Can I delete my data?
Yes. You can delete a lecture whenever you like. If you delete your account, you are signed out everywhere and, after a 45 day period in which signing in again cancels it, everything is erased.
Does it cost anything?
Konspekt is free to use during early access. We will tell you clearly in the app before anything changes.