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four minutes.You read
nine seconds.

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no be say we no love dem — we just get work

Mummy

Voice note · 6:02 am
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4:12 / 4:12

Gistlify complete. Summary and suggested reply ready.

Hello… hello, can you hear me? Okay. So, the thing wey we talk about last week, e don change small. Your uncle Emeka call me this morning… no. Yesterday night. Sorry — yesterday night. He say make we no come Saturday again, because of the traffic wey dey for Third Mainland. So dem don shift am go Sunday afternoon, around 2 or 3. Make you carry the big cooler wey dey behind the kitchen — no be the small one o. And… wetin again… ah! Your sister say make you call am, she say you never call since. Okay. That's all. Bye. Bye bye.

Gistlify

9 sec read

  1. Moved from Saturday to Sunday, 2–3pm — Third Mainland traffic.

  2. The big cooler from behind the kitchen. Not the small one.

  3. Call your sister. She says you never call.

Suggested reply

Mummy I've seen it. Sunday 2pm, I'll bring the big cooler. Calling Nkechi now 🙏

Right now you are carrying 41:00 of voice notes you will never play.

That is one ordinary Tuesday, on one ordinary phone. Eight notes. Four of them matter. You will find out which four at about 11pm, or on Thursday, or never.

e no go play itself

  • Mummy

    6:02 am
    4:12
    Unplayed

  • Alumni '19 🎓

    Group · 34 unread
    6:47
    Unplayed

  • Chidi (work)

    11:47 pm
    2:38
    Unplayed

  • Landlord

    Yesterday
    8:03
    Unplayed

  • Aunty Bisi

    Sat
    5:21
    Unplayed

  • Family 🏠

    Group · 12 unread
    3:55
    Unplayed

  • Unknown number

    Tue
    9:14
    Unplayed

  • Pastor Tobi

    Sun
    0:50
    Unplayed

Three steps. Two of them are not your job.

There is nothing to install and nothing to configure. If you can forward a message, the setup is already finished.

  1. Forward the note

    We send you the Gistlify number the day the line opens. Save it once, then forward any voice note the way you'd forward it to a friend — long-press, forward, done.

    Forward to: Gistlify

    Number arrives at launch
    Step 01

  2. Gistlify listens properly

    It handles the languages people actually speak in — including all of them inside one sentence, which is the part that usually breaks transcription.

    • Pidgin
    • Yorùbá
    • Igbo
    • Hausa
    • Naija English
    • …mixed
    Step 02

  3. You get the gist

    Transcript, the decisions and asks pulled out, and a reply drafted in your own register. Copy it, edit it, or ignore it.

    Gistlify · 3 points · 1 reply
    Step 03
(the 9 seconds is mostly you reading)Median, 4-minute note, 4G · measured not marketed

Same trick, worse offenders.

Three real shapes of voice note: the one sent at midnight by a colleague, the one buried in a family group, and the one that costs you money. Turn the page.

Chidi · Product

Sent 11:47 pm, Tuesday
8:03

“…so I don talk to the client, dem no happy with the Friday thing, make we push am…”

Time cost
Listening
8:03
Reading
0:19
Detected

English (Lagos) + Pidgin

Gistlify

Case 01 / 3

  • Client rejected the Friday scope. Deadline moved to Monday 9am.

  • He needs the revised deck and the pricing sheet before he can reply them.

  • Nothing is blocked on you until Thursday.

Suggested reply

Got it — Monday 9am. Sending the revised deck and pricing sheet Thursday latest.

Family 🏠

6 notes, 4 people, this morning
22:14

“…biko let us not do this thing anyhow, everybody should just send their own…”

Time cost
Listening
22:14
Reading
0:34
Detected

Igbo, Pidgin, English

Gistlify

Case 02 / 3

  • Contribution agreed at ₦15,000 each, to Aunty Ngozi's GTB account.

  • Deadline is Friday, before the market run on Saturday.

  • Uncle Sunday dissented, then agreed. Nobody has sent anything yet.

Suggested reply

Noted — ₦15k to Aunty Ngozi before Friday. Sending mine tonight.

Landlord

Sent Sunday, 7:12 am
8:03

“…ẹ jọ̀ọ́, the rent, I want to tell you before the year finish…”

Time cost
Listening
8:03
Reading
0:19
Detected

Yoruba + English

Gistlify

Case 03 / 3

  • Rent is going up ₦1.4m → ₦1.75m from January.

  • He is offering two months' grace if you pay the whole year upfront.

  • You have until 15 December to say yes or no.

Suggested reply

Thank you sir. Noted — ₦1.75m from January. I'll confirm the upfront option before 15 Dec.

Everybody has the same problem. Nobody says it out loud.

We have not launched, so nobody has a review to give us. These are four of the people we interviewed while building it, describing the problem in their own words.

  • A woman in a green and rust patterned dress laughing at her phone against an orange wall

    Amaka O.

    Product designer, Yaba

    My mother sends six minutes every single morning. I love her. I have listened to maybe a third of them.

  • A man in glasses and an embroidered white shirt smiling down at his phone

    Tunde A.

    Sales, Victoria Island

    A client dropped nine minutes on me during a meeting. I replied “noted sir” and prayed there was no question in it.

  • A woman wearing headphones laughing while reading something on her phone outdoors

    Halima B.

    Med student, Zaria

    The study group sends voice notes at 1am. By morning it's forty minutes of audio and one useful sentence somewhere inside it.

  • A man in a tan jacket laughing with a phone held to his ear

    Emeka N.

    Logistics, Aba

    My uncle switches to Igbo halfway through the sentence. Every app I tried gave up right there. That's the test.

Cheaper than the data you burn replaying it.

Start free, forever. Pay only when your family group gets serious.

Tier 01

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For the person with a normal mother.

  • 10 voice notes a month
  • Notes up to 3 minutes
  • Transcript + the TL;DR
  • All languages, all accents
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Tier 02 · most people

Unlimited

₦800/ monthor ₦8,000 / year
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For the person in four family groups and a work group.

  • Unlimited voice notes
  • Notes up to 60 minutes
  • Suggested replies, in your register
  • Group digests — 6 notes, one summary
  • Searchable history, kept as long as you want it
  • Answers first, always
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The questions people actually ask.

Mostly about privacy, and rightly so.

  • Do you keep my audio?

    No. The file is transcribed and then deleted, usually within a minute. We keep the text summary in your history so you can search it later — and you can wipe that with one message: send DELETE ALL.

  • Does it really understand Pidgin?

    Yes, and it handles code-switching — Pidgin into English into Yoruba in the same sentence, which is how people actually speak. Igbo and Hausa are supported. Heavy background noise (generator, market, bus) is the thing that costs accuracy, not the language.

  • When does it actually launch?

    We are in closed testing now and opening the line in batches, because a transcription queue that falls over on day one helps nobody. Leave your WhatsApp number and we will send you the Gistlify contact when your batch opens — one message, and nothing else unless you ask.

  • Do I need to install anything?

    No. Gistlify is a WhatsApp contact, not an app. When your batch opens we send you the number; you save it, forward a note, and get a reply. There is no signup form and no password to forget.

  • How much data does it use?

    Forwarding a note costs you the same as forwarding it to a friend — the audio is already on your phone. The reply is text, so a few kilobytes. Nothing streams.

  • Can the sender tell I didn't listen?

    Not from us. We never message anyone but you. What you do with the suggested reply is between you and your mother.

  • What if the summary is wrong?

    Reply WRONG and you get the full transcript with timestamps, plus a second pass. Long, noisy, multi-speaker notes are where it slips, and we would rather show you the receipts than bluff.

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