Comparison

Sound Memos vs Use Your Ear

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Sound Memos

Capture and organize audio with this ad-free recorder. Features unlimited recording, quick search, and automatic cloud backup. Ideal for ideas, lessons, and notes on iPhone and iPad.

Highlights
  • Unlimited recording time
  • Quick search and sort
  • Today widget for quick access
  • Automatic Dropbox backup
  • WAV/M4A audio format options
  • iPhone and iPad compatibility
Features
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Ad-Free easy to use voice & audio recorder for iPhone & iPad with unlimited recording time, quick search & sort, Today widget and automatic backup to Dropbox. As simple as your built-in voice memo app but with enhanced features and also available on your iPad. This is a free version. CLEAR INTERFACE Use Sound Memo to - record and organize your ideas, songs, vocal or instrument lessons - record presentations and lectures for businesses and schools - track personal notes and comments - share your recordings with the world ORGANIZE Sound Memo's biggest strength is the possibility to quickly sort and search your recordings and mark your favorite sounds. CLOUD Upload / Download Browse your dropbox account and download any sounds. Automatically backup your recordings in Dropbox. QUALITY Set the desired audio format (WAV / M4A) and recording quality. Best sound quality is reached with an external stereo microphone plugged into your device. WIDGET Start / Stop recording directly from your Today Screen. COMPATIBILITY Sound Memo runs on the iPhone AND on the iPad. USERS SAY ”My go to app for song ideas” ”It is the Simplenote of sound recorders” ”the record button is always a swipe and a tap away” ”a clear and intuitive interface without any disturbing ads” Please contact us at support@joezapps.com for feedback and before leaving a negative review. THANK YOU!

About

Use Your Ear

Features
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The 9 pivot points: · **50 Hz** — Depth & Weight · **100 Hz** — Warmth & Punch · **200 Hz** — Thickness & Mud · **500 Hz** — Boxy & Gargle · **1 kHz** — Nasal & Knock · **2 kHz** — Edge & Clarity · **5 kHz** — Presence & Bite · **10 kHz** — Sizzle & Snap · **20 kHz** — Air & Plastic Each pivot mapped to perceptual adjectives — so you don't just memorize numbers, you learn what they SOUND like. Four training modes: EQ Workbench — Interactive 9-band parametric. Drag nodes vertically for gain, scroll wheel for Q, double-click to reset. Frequencies are locked to the pivot points (that's the whole point). Quiz — Blind pivot trainer. The app boosts or cuts a random pivot on pink noise at Easy / Medium / Hard difficulty. A/B between processed and bypass, then pick the frequency + direction. Scoring tracks your accuracy over time. Listen — A/B reference mode. Set gain and Q on a single pivot, toggle A/B against bypass, and read the "Boost to..." / "Cut to..." cheat sheet. Train your ear by hearing the same EQ move at multiple frequencies. Sweep — Manual sine tone across the spectrum, plus an automatic logarithmic sweep from 20 Hz to 20 kHz with the nearest-pivot readout. Hear the spectrum, build the mental map. Sources: · Pink noise (Paul Kellet generator, 4-second loopable buffer) · Sine tone · Log sweep · Your own audio file · Live microphone (with feedback warning) Hearing safety built in: Three independent ways to instantly stop audio: 1. Mute button — instant silence, playback can resume 2. Stop button — tears down the audio source completely 3. Always: keep your master volume LOW, use headphones at safe levels Sine tones and sweeps are internally attenuated to 15% of full scale. Why is it free? Tomorrow's working sound engineers are today's audio students. We want you to learn properly — not paywalled, not gated, not crippled. No ads. No data harvesting. Just a real tool. Where next? · Surviving Audio — Plan and design PA systems before the show · Soundtools Pro — Real-time tools during the show Three apps, one story: train, plan, execute.

Screenshots

Sound Memos4 screens
Use Your Ear4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Sound Memos at 13.0 against Use Your Ear's 15.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Sound Memos versus Use Your Ear: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSound MemosUse Your Ear
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (78 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings78 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 7 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJosef ZenisekJuerg Andres

In-app purchases

None

Sound Memos

No in-app purchases

None

Use Your Ear

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sound Memos free?
Sound Memos is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Use Your Ear free?
Use Your Ear is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Sound Memos or Use Your Ear have ads?
Neither Sound Memos nor Use Your Ear shows ads.

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