The fastest way
to draw a thought.
Overscope is built the way Apple builds its own apps — SwiftUI on the device, Apple Speech on-device, Sign in with Apple, Apple In-App Purchase. No investor deck, no VC roadmap. One person reading the inbox.
The bet
Speaking is the fastest interface for early-stage thinking. A mind map is the fastest format for non-linear ideas. Overscope is the one product that combines them: hold the push-to-talk button, think out loud, and watch a structured map appear — then steps back. It's not a transcription tool, not a voice memo recorder, not a chat assistant. It listens, structures, draws.
Philosophy
Apple users notice details — the corner radius of a sheet, the curve of an animation, the way a button sinks under your finger. Cross-platform wrappers can't fake those. So Overscope is built natively, in SwiftUI, with Liquid Glass on iOS 26. It's slower to make. It pays back forever.
The output is always a map. Transcribed text is intermediate state you never see or export — no transcript artifact, ever. The microphone is live only while you hold the button: push-to-talk, never always-listening.
Why iPhone first
The phone is where a thought actually arrives — on a walk, in a queue, between meetings. It's always with you, and speaking is phone-native. So Overscope launches on iPhone (iOS 26). A Mac companion is planned afterward, sharing the same account and the same maps through the same OverscopeKit core.
How Overscope is built
Swift 6 + SwiftUI, SwiftData for saved maps, Apple's Speech framework on-device so audio never leaves the iPhone. The backend turns text into structure — it receives text only, never audio, and logs only the generated map's metadata. Sign in with Apple for identity, Apple In-App Purchase for billing.
Get in touch
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- Email — hello@overscope.app
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