Small Mercy for iPhone and Apple Watch is live. It brings the in-room scribe to the device already in your pocket — with control of it from your wrist — while keeping the promise that holds across every Small Mercy platform: only what was said, and nothing saved until you confirm.
Capture — clinic room and ward round, controlled from your wrist
On iPhone
- The in-room capture app for the consult room and the ward round — start a recording wherever the conversation happens, bedside to bedside.
On Apple Watch — the companion
- Start, stop and check capture status from your wrist while your iPhone stays in your pocket.
- The watch app is a companion to the iPhone app in v1 — it controls the recording rather than capturing on its own. Standalone capture from the wrist is on the roadmap, and we’d rather say that than claim it early.
What you see as it listens
- Near-live transcription — words stream as you speak.
- Binary speaker attribution — Small Mercy tells your voice from the patient’s, so the transcript stays clearly separated.
- Uncertainty, surfaced rather than hidden:
- “Not sure I heard this” — a dotted underline you can tap to listen back to that moment.
- “Heard it, couldn’t place it” — a highlighted review block to re-read and settle.
- [ not stated ] — anything absent from the conversation is marked explicitly, never invented.
- Every drafted statement is grounded to the transcript.
Review and confirm — on device
- The full review queue runs on the iPhone: work through the flags, listen back, and settle each one.
- Small Mercy drafts the note for you to confirm, and nothing is saved until you do. On confirm, the note is saved and the audio is deleted — and the patient can keep a QR deletion receipt to check it later.
Note templates
Choose the shape that fits the consult: SOAP, Problem-based, Detailed history & exam, Mental health, GPCCMP, Health assessments, Antenatal and Procedure note.
Built for Australian practice
- A roughly 2,900-drug PBS/AMH vocabulary recovers garbled medication names transparently — every correction shown and revertible.
- MBS billing-item hints for Australian organisations — a read-only draft from the consult, with its reasoning shown. They are switched off everywhere else.
- RACGP-aware referrals and letters.
Privacy and security
- On AU Sovereign, Small Mercy stores the clinical record in Sydney and runs default transcription and note drafting on vetted Australian services over private links — disclosed on every note under your organisation’s processing consent. Consent to record is separate for each consultation. Speaker identity is matched only on Small Mercy’s infrastructure. A Small Mercy-managed offshore route needs separate acceptance for that session and purpose. An optional confirmed-note or letter send reaches the connected practice-software account; Nookal’s Australian API host does not establish that account’s storage region. Small Mercy and its processing providers do not use clinical data to train models.
- Deleted by default: audio is removed the moment you confirm, and abandoned drafts are swept within 7 days.
- Encrypted with AES-256, with an append-only audit log recording every access.
- Passkey sign-in — no password to phish.
How it fits with the rest of Small Mercy
One account covers every device. A note you start on your wrist or in the room is there in the web app, on Windows and Mac, and on Android too. Notes leave Small Mercy as clean text and PDF. Australian and New Zealand organisations in Small Mercy’s AU cell can connect an Australian-hosted Cliniko account or use Nookal through its Australian API service; the other practice-software integrations are still on the roadmap.
Small Mercy is a documentation aid — the note, not the guess. It surfaces and drafts; you decide. It is not a diagnostic device.
Getting it
Get Small Mercy for iPhone and Apple Watch on the App Store. Australia and New Zealand are open for sign-up; United Kingdom access is invite-only; elsewhere, register interest rather than creating an Australian account.
Editor’s note, 5 September 2026: the United Kingdom service has since opened for public sign-up — sign up at uk.smallmercy.app. Individuals and two-seat practices start with 14 days free.
Internal benchmarks on synthetic Australian-accent clinical audio and public speech corpora. We publish our methodology — and we’d rather show you a flag than a wrong note.