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Frequently asked

Which iPhones can run Mimic?

Mimic runs on any iPhone with iOS 18 or later, and the six free voice effects work on all of them. The Pro side is what needs newer hardware: live neural voice conversion needs Apple's Neural Engine to hit the ~1 second latency that makes Performer Mode feel responsive, which in practice means an iPhone 15 Pro or newer. On older iPhones Mimic does not offer the Pro purchase at all — it explains why instead, so you are never sold something your device cannot run.

Does Mimic work without an internet connection?

Mostly. Cloning, live conversion, recording and playback all run on your iPhone, so making and using voices works offline. Three things do need a connection: browsing or taking voices from the Community Library, publishing a voice to it, and restoring a Pro purchase through Apple's StoreKit. Voices you have already taken or cloned keep working with no signal.

How do I clone a voice?

Open the Create tab and follow the prompts. You'll be asked to read a short script aloud — the recorder stops automatically after 20 seconds of speech, and a quiet room makes a noticeable difference. Mimic extracts a speaker embedding on your iPhone and creates a new voice avatar you can pick from the Voices grid. The whole flow takes about thirty seconds after the recording, and the recording itself never leaves your phone.

When it finishes you land on a screen where you can hear the result straight away — Preview plays your new voice right there, without taking you anywhere else.

Cloning is free. What a free clone gives you is one performance, so you can hear the result — keeping it, and saving recordings made with it, is the part that asks something of you. You can either publish the voice to the Community Library, which unlocks it permanently at no cost, or keep it private with Mimic Pro.

What is the Community Library?

A shared collection of voices that people have published from their own clones, plus eleven we seeded to start it off. Browsing it, auditioning a voice, liking it and adding one to your own library are all free and unlimited. The catalogue carries no audio, so Mimic renders the audition on your phone — which means you can hear a voice before you take it, not after.

Performing with a library voice is metered on the free tier: one live performance and one saved recording across the whole library, which is there to show you what it sounds like. Publishing a voice of your own, or Mimic Pro, lifts that.

What happens when I publish a voice?

Mimic sends the voice print — a mathematical description of the voice — along with the name, the words you picked to describe how it sounds, and the picture you chose. It never sends your recordings. Every submission is reviewed by hand before anyone else can see it, so there is a wait between publishing and appearing.

Publishing is permanent in one direction only: it unlocks that voice for you forever, and that cannot be taken back, even if you later unpublish it or never pay for anything.

Can I unpublish a voice, or hide someone else's?

Both. Open one of your published voices and choose to unpublish it — it disappears from the library for everyone, though anyone who already added it keeps their copy, the same as any app you delete from the App Store. To hide another creator, use the block action on any of their voices; you won't see anything from them again, and you can undo it in Settings → Blocked Creators. You can also report a voice, which sends it back to review.

What are the ranks, medals and streaks?

Mimic keeps score of what you make and collect. Using the app earns points — performing, saving a take, auditioning a library voice, taking one — and the bigger things earn considerably more: finishing a clone, publishing a voice, and other people taking or liking a voice you published. Points move you up ten ranks, from Newcomer to Immortal, and unlock eleven medals for particular milestones, like taking 25 voices or keeping a 30-day streak.

A streak counts any day you earn points, and you get one rest day per week — miss a single day and your run survives, miss two close together and it starts over. Longer runs multiply what you earn, up to double at two weeks. Open the account button on the Voices screen to see all of it; the first time you cross a rank or earn a medal, Mimic shows you.

Daily caps mean you cannot grind your way up: the ranks past the middle of the ladder need voices you published that other people actually use. It is all kept on your iPhone, has no cash value, and deleting the app clears it.

My cloned voice doesn't sound right. What can I do?

The biggest factor is the recording quality of your source sample. Try again in a quieter environment, hold the phone about an arm's length away, and speak naturally — not too fast, not too theatrical. Avoid background music, TV, or other voices in the room. If a clone still doesn't sound right after a clean sample, email us and we'll take a look.

What's in Mimic Pro?

The free tier is a real tier, not a demo. The six voice effects — Robot, Helium, Demon, Underwater, Whisper and Echo — are unlimited: perform with them and save as much as you like, forever. Cloning is free too, and publishing a clone to the Community Library unlocks that voice permanently.

Pro is for everything else: keeping a clone private instead of publishing it, and unlimited use of the eight designer voices and the whole Community Library. Without Pro those two are metered — one performance and one saved recording per designer voice, and one of each across the library in total — which is enough to hear what you would be buying.

How much does Mimic Pro cost?

Mimic Pro is $3.99 per month or $19.99 once for lifetime access. The monthly plan starts with a 3-day free trial, so you can use the designer voices and the whole Community Library without limits before you are charged; it converts to a paid subscription automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the trial ends. The lifetime option is a one-time purchase and has no trial.

How do I cancel my Mimic Pro subscription?

Open iOS Settings, tap your Apple ID at the top, then Subscriptions, then Mimic. From there you can cancel at any time; you keep Pro until the end of the current billing period. If you bought the lifetime tier, there is nothing to cancel — it's yours forever. Refund requests for either go through Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com.

Where are my recordings stored?

On your device. Source recordings and converted output are written into Mimic's app data. They are never uploaded anywhere. Tap a recording's share button — or Share on the banner that appears right after you save a take — to export it via iOS's share sheet (Messages, Mail, Files, AirDrop, etc.).

What happens to my cloned voices and recordings if I delete the app?

They go away with the app. Mimic keeps everything in its own app data on the device, so uninstalling removes your cloned voices, your source samples and any saved recordings. Export anything you want to keep first; an iCloud device backup will preserve them as part of the backup.

Voices you published are the exception — they live in the Community Library and stay there, because other people may have taken them. Unpublish first if you want a voice gone.

Is it legal to clone someone's voice?

That depends on what you do with it. Cloning your own voice, or someone else's with their clear consent, for personal or creative use is fine. Using a cloned voice to impersonate a person without consent, defraud someone, harass another person, or produce non-consensual sexual content is against Mimic's terms and is likely illegal where you live. The fact that Mimic runs entirely on-device does not change that — you are responsible for what you do with the tool.

How do I revoke a permission I previously granted?

Open iOS Settings → Mimic. Every permission Mimic requested has its own toggle. Turning one off takes effect immediately; the matching feature in the app will route around it gracefully.

Found a bug or have a feature idea?

Use the in-app feedback form (Settings → Send feedback) or email gwolny@me.com. If you're reporting a bug, mentioning your iPhone model, iOS version, which voice you were using, and what you were doing right before it happened helps a lot.

Privacy and legal questions

See the privacy policy for what Mimic does with data, and the terms of use for the rules on cloning, publishing and acceptable use. Or email the same address.