Simplecorder vs FakeTake
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simplecorder
This app allows users to quickly record audio for various purposes, from musical ideas and interviews to lectures and events. It offers automatic naming by location and easy sharing options. Future updates promise Watch support and iCloud integration.
- Quick audio recording
- Automatic recording naming by location
- Instant restart and save functions
- Easy sharing via AirDrop, Email, Messenger
- Supports system-wide sharing options
- Future Watch support and iCloud integration planned
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Simplecorder is a recorder app for musicians who want to record ideas quickly. It’s a recording app for journalists who need a professional, slick looking recorder for an interview. Simplecorder is great for recording lectures, meetings, concerts, football championships, or cows running on a bridge! OK, maybe not football. Easily access frequently-used functions like restarting a recording, or starting a new one instantly (saving the current recording). The app automatically names your recordings by location, helping you remember the contents later on. (If you’re anything like us, you’d forget by the next day otherwise.) Share your recordings quickly through AirDrop, Email, attach it to your notes, or send it via Messenger. Simplecorder supports all system-wide sharing options. Watch out for version 1.2 with Watch support and more! Our future roadmap includes visual tagging, iCloud integration and Total World Domination! Rock on dudes!
FakeTake
This audio effect plugin creates the illusion of an overdubbed track using a combination of short delay, stereo processing, and modulation. It's designed to enhance instruments like guitar and vocals by adding depth and width to your mix.
- Automatic Double Tracker effect
- Adjustable delay time
- Modulation with drift control
- Variable stereo width
- Standalone and AUv3 host compatibility
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FakeTake Double Tracker Plugin (AUv3) FakeTake is an audio effect plugin that can run standalone, or in any AU compatible host application such as Logic or GarageBand. Overview FakeTake is a tribute to the old "automatic double tracker" studio trick. The idea is that ADT creates the illusion of the same part, overdubbed again (a "fake take") which can work great with many instruments, especially guitar and vocals. There are various approaches for achieving this effect, but most use a short delay, a bit of stereo processing and possibly some modulation applied to the delay. FakeTake uses all three! Parameters Active - Toggles the effect On or Off. Delay - Sets the base delay time of the "fake take". Low settings can be thought of as "tighter", and higher values, "looser", going up to almost a slap-back echo effect. Drift - Varies the amount of delay time modulation. This is applied to the original and processed signal. At zero, no modulation is applied to the dry signal. Spread - Varies the stereo width of the ADT effect. At maximum, the original and delayed signals are panned hard-left and hard-right respectively. At zero, both are dead-centre. Spread can also be used to create space in a mix. For example, apply spread to a guitar track to leave room for vocals in the middle. If the name sounds familiar, FakeTake is an improved and simplified version of the FAKE TAKE ADT module developed for Voltage Modular by Waverley Instruments. Please do take a look at my other AudioUnits on the App Store if you can spare the time. Supporting paid apps allows me to release free ones as a little thankyou from time to time. For more info and support please visit: www.waverley-instruments.com/robjackson
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: FakeTake at 4 against Simplecorder's 2. Simplecorder's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 12.0). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Simplecorder | FakeTake |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Balazs Kiss | Rob Jackson |
Customer experience
Simplecorder
FakeTake
In-app purchases
Simplecorder
No in-app purchases
FakeTake
No in-app purchases
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