Intentionally inconvenient
I honestly was considering the subscription as the app has a nicer interface than voice memos and the added features look cool, but I don’t really want to support or encourage creating inconveniences to sell something, it’s a very manipulative way to operate.
Response from developer
I’m very sorry to hear that you feel this way. Let me explain the thinking behind it, so that hopefully you feel a little less angry about it. Tape It is a free app with a paid pro tier. The free tier is pretty strong and contains most of the features, but ultimately it’s the paid version that pays for the development of the app. There are no ads, no associated hardware sales or other means of income. Tape It is simply an app, developed by me, as my fulltime job. The free tier exists for casual users, so that more demanding users can try the app before buying, and that sharing recordings among friends doesn’t force any of your friends to buy it. It also ensures there’s no lock in - if you ever stop paying for the pro version, you can still access all your recordings, and all the effort you put into adding notes and organising them into mixtapes isn’t lost either. The search in Tape It is a fairly powerful feature. You can search by instruments, for example, which Tape It automatically detects. It’s also a feature that you only need if you have tons of recordings, and at that point you’re probably a power user and should consider paying for the app. That’s why I decided to limit the search in the free version to recordings made in the last three months. Other popular apps like Slack have the same limitation, although Slack also hides messages that are older than three months. That I find evil, and I’d never do that in Tape It. All your recordings are yours, and you can always access them. I’m completely aware that this is an artificial constraint. At the end of the day, I have to draw the line somewhere between the free and the pro version, and this is a line that I thought made sense. Other apps tend to limit cloud storage, for example, but I don’t do that - both free and pro users have unlimited cloud storage for backups and syncing in Tape It, so that you can always rest assured that your recordings are backed up in case you lose your phone, and never worry about whether something should be recorded or not. I hope this explanation makes sense. I’m still happy to reconsider the search limitation, and will certainly take your comment into account as I rethink it. Best, Thomas
So good
Missing Core Music Memos App Features
There is no beat or time signature detection, no tempo beat mapping, no chord detection, no virtual drummer and no virtual bass player.
LOVE, only one thing missing
Good app but not very unique
Fab audio app
Amazing tool with some suggestions
First, i think a more advanced queue system would be such a great help. I kind of don’t like how when I play a song, that instance of play is shared across the song’s multiple locations. For example, say I’m in the “all” tab and I play a song. That instance queues the whole of the all tab, but if I want to play the same song in a mixtape and have the rest of the mixtape come after, I have to close out the app and refresh it and play it in the mixtape or go into the mixtape, choose the song before it, and then hit next so it has the rest of the mixtape queued. Sorry if that’s convoluted, but in general a way to select the queue would be nice.
Second, sorting in mixtapes is a bit of a pain. There’s some options for sorting, but they’re timestamp, name, or date added dependent. It’s hard when I’m trying to figure out a tracklist for an EP or an album, I want to modify the sequence but I have to constantly rename tracks so it sorts in the way I want it. It’d just be helpful to have a drag queue feature.
Lastly, this may be a difficult ask but I’d love if this app could connect to my daw somehow so I could do quick bounces to listen on my phone to streamline the mixing process. That involves a lot lol but it’s definitely a feature worth thinking about.
Aside from that I have little else! Thank you for putting this app together it’s such a big help!
Response from developer
Thanks so much for your review! On your first point: I can definitely consider a queuing system; that’s actually a good idea. Here’s a small trick though: If you play a tape, say in the all tapes list, and later you change your mind and want to play the same tape but within a mixtape, just tap on it to play inside the mixtape. It won’t interrupt playback (unlike in Spotify, for example, which restarts the song to signal to you that it accepted your command - easily discoverable but also super annoying when it restarts a song), but the playlist enqueued in the background will be the mixtape now, not the all tapes list. On your second point: yes, agree. Custom sorting in mixtapes is coming. And to your last point: you can get Tape It for Mac from the Mac App Store. Then you can just drag your bounces directly in there. One extra step after bouncing, but still quite a smooth workflow I think. Hope that helps, and thanks again for your kind review! Thomas
great app! wish it had a native mac app too
Response from developer
Thanks so much. You can get the Mac app from the Mac App Store!
Perfect
Almost indispensable
Response from developer
Latency should only occur when you have Bluetooth headphones, and is unfortunately unavoidable when using Bluetooth. If you experience any other latency I’d love to hear about it! Track level control is on the todo list. I’m not quite sure what you mean with “gated layering”; I assume it’s layering over parts of the song instead of always starting at the beginning? If I understood that wrong please also let me know. You can always write me at thomas@tape.it
Development Has Stagnated
Brilliant
So Useful
Response from developer
Thank you so much for the lovely review. Really glad you like it.
horrible audio
Response from developer
Hi Dante, That is really unusual, and the first time I’ve heard of this. Please mail me at thomas@tape.it (you can write in German as well). My strong suspicion is that there’s something wrong with the iPhone itself; if you have an Apple Store in your vicinity I recommend making a Genius Bar appointment there, they have a test they can run in the store that tests the microphones. But mail me in any case please.
Love it.
Scam wants a big subscription lol
DOES NOT WORK
So sick of taking hours to try to make something work
Ein MUSS für alle MUSIKER*innen
Response from developer
Ohh vielen lieben Dank für die tolle Rezension :). ~Thomas
Bad audio recorder
mac app
Response from developer
If you have an Apple Silicon Mac you can already get it on the Mac App Store :-). It’s basically just the iPhone app running on a Mac, so the experience is not quite where we’d like it to be, but we added drag & drop support among other things so you can just drag recordings to and from your DAW.
