9-year happy marriage with this trustworthy app
I just want to express my appreciation for this app which I began using in 2014 after iphone Voice Memos devastatingly truncated a priceless and irreplaceable 30-min live interview of my dying grandmother down to 6 mins. I subsequently swore off Voice Notes forever. Fortunately my next try was Voice Record. For 9 years of song-writing sessions, meaningful family voice recordings, and many lecture recordings, this app has performed flawlessly for me—a bar I wouldn’t hold any app to AND YET—Voice Record has never crashed on me, never botched or lost a recording, has carried over from phone to phone, and never fails to impress with its huge array of features and options. It’s clear the developers were and are thoughtful, competent, and diligent to keep it running in tip top shape. THANK YOU!
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Glitches make this app a liability
I love this app—it’s easy to use, provides you with control over important variables (such as whether or not to use iOS voice processing features when you record), and offers various effects. Unfortunately, those effects can be hazardous to use: for some reason, if you attempt to use the trim/add effect function, the app will sometimes automatically trim a recording to 0:02 in length. I’ve duplicated recordings and tried this multiple times and, even though I’m certain I haven’t trimmed the recording at all, the app is determined to provide me with only half a percent of the original audio. I’ve lost one file in this way and now encourage other users to select ‘create new recording’ when applying effects lest they should lose their own audio. Never overwrite the original file. Delete it only when you’re sure that this app has preserved its original duration, which is, sadly, not something you can rely upon.
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Perfect
I use this app to help with language learning and translation. It doed an absolutely perfect job. It even has features that I didn’t know I need it until I checked it out further. There’s so many options with this app. What’s cool is the creators are not greedy and are offering so much. My only complaint is I couldn’t pay them more. I happily searched out in the system preferences how to pay for no ads. The ads actually didn’t bother me but I just wanted to give these people some money. Thank you so much!
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My favorite recording app
Have had this app for about 10 years now. I love it. Great sound quality. Very user friendly. Love the book marking feature. Love that I can upload a recording to the iCloud in less than 3 seconds, then download it to my other device. It’s got dozens of other great user friendly features too, some of which I use, some I don’t bc I have simple recording needs, but imagine would come in handy for others who need more sophisticated sound production.
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Great app, but….
Is there a way to append/continue/resume a recording after it has been recorded? Can’t find the option anywhere. Surely with all the options this app has, it would have the option to continue. I can only find “append to another recording”. Continue is a must-have for a songwriter. Otherwise I would have given the app 5 stars.
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Super super buggy
The app disconnects my Bluetooth headset. The only way to make it work is by having another app opened in the background. Very very finicky. This app is extremely buggy, especially when using “advanced” recording mode. The engine’s input gain does not change even though the slider that adjusts it can be moved. The input gain value remains unchanged (can’t be changed by entering a desired value either). When the signal is clipped the whole recording gets “stuck” in that distorted range and has to be started all over again. This makes the app pretty much unusable unless you settle for a non WAV recording.
EDIT 2023: this app is even more buggy on iPad Pro 12.9. Complete junk.
EDIT 2023: this app is even more buggy on iPad Pro 12.9. Complete junk.
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Best Audio Recording App for Songwriters
Powerful and elegant. I've tried them all. For songwriting, this is the best recording app on the market. Key features: 1. Bookmarking. With ability to shift the start time of the bookmark by different amounts. I call this the “Burt Bacharach” feature because of his wish to have this kind of audio recording feature. 2. Simple “section extract”. So when you stumble on a killer 30 seconds of songwriting inspiration in a 30 minute session and you want to carve out that chunk and save it as a new file. Great implementation of that feature. 3. Flexible and easy way to backup songs to multiple cloud services. 4. Autorepeat. A must have for songwriting. 5. Easy to import Apple Voice Memos. 6. Note taking. 7. Identifies the notes I play on my guitar during playback. So I can go back and figure out what I played. 8. File organization is prolific. Every option you can think of. Has a ton of other stuff as well: All the main file formats. Easy to share with others. Nice implementation of audio effects to enhance the sound.
Note: There are two versions that are essentially identical. There is Voice Recorder Pro. And then there is Voice Record 7. The only difference is that Voice Record 7 has a more modern, flat design. I like this version best.
Note: There are two versions that are essentially identical. There is Voice Recorder Pro. And then there is Voice Record 7. The only difference is that Voice Record 7 has a more modern, flat design. I like this version best.
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Still LOVING This App
I’m pretty sure I already gave this app a glowing review, but I just want to reiterate how brilliant it is. I am not a professional (or amateur) musician or the like, but use it to record memos to myself or certain convos. I also used it to secretly record my EX going crazy/angry/screaming on me (legal in my state)! Which really helped with divorce negotiations! The app is ridiculously easy to use, I don’t get the negative reviews, but I would guess they weren’t patient or they screwed up and want to blame someone! Thanks so much for creating this! ❤️❤️❤️
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Feature filled recorder
So many good features such as pausing/resuming recordings, adding bookmarks in recordings, merging recordings, jump forward and backward buttons (with adjustable duration) during playback, adjusting playback speed, editing clips, etc. this app has it all, where many other apps were missing one or more of these features.
I especially appreciate the rich features because iOS basically has very few useful features on the native apps, especially iOS voice recorder, which has no features at all except record/stop/and play.
I just changed my rating from three to five stars because I solved a problem where the recording would abort when I would use another app that plays sound. I resolved it with the following setting:
Settings/recording/interrupt free recording (toggled on).
This is useful, because I often record for hours while I’m using other apps.
I especially appreciate the rich features because iOS basically has very few useful features on the native apps, especially iOS voice recorder, which has no features at all except record/stop/and play.
I just changed my rating from three to five stars because I solved a problem where the recording would abort when I would use another app that plays sound. I resolved it with the following setting:
Settings/recording/interrupt free recording (toggled on).
This is useful, because I often record for hours while I’m using other apps.
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Wonderful app
I have been using this app for mp3 voice recording for over 7 years. Always reliable. Has great functions. I highly recommend this app.
