iRig Recorder vs midimittr
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iRig Recorder
This app provides a streamlined interface for recording and editing audio and video on mobile devices. It offers professional-grade effects, waveform editing, and easy sharing options. Enhance your recordings with intelligent processing and creative tools.
- One-touch audio/video recording
- Waveform editing
- 16 studio-quality effects
- Text and photo markers
- Non-destructive editing tools
- Multiple sharing options
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iRig Recorder 3 is a flexible and easy-to-use audio and video recording app for iPhone or iPad. Use its recording, editing and export features to create and share great sounding audio and video while on the go. iRig Recorder is extremely simple to use: click on the “record” button at the bottom of the screen to immediately start recording. To capture and monitor video, simply click on the camera icon then tap record. But don’t let the streamlined design fool you… iRig Recorder is a full-fledged, professional audio and video recorder. You can edit audio waveforms, apply creative and professional effects and share your recordings in many different ways. It offers a wide range of creative and professional effects with intelligent processing for instantly great results. iRig Recorder is also Inter-App Audio and AudioBus compatible, so you can use other apps like AmpliTube or VocaLive when capturing audio or video, for even more flexibility. Want to add a reference marker to your audio? No worries! iRig Recorder lets you add photo and text markers that can be applied in real time or in the editing timeline for quick access to important content. iRig Recorder is the perfect companion to IK Multimedia’s full line of digital microphones and audio interfaces for iPhone and iPad. Use iRig Recorder with an IK microphone or interface and you'll have everything you need to get that Hollywood-style stereo sound — iRig Recorder automatically activates the stereo option whenever a stereo recording interface is connected. Once you've captured your audio, you can use iRig Recorder’s intuitive editing tools to cut, crop or loop it. You can even do Waveform editing, using 16 studio-quality effects to optimize sound for speech, clean up background noise, increase clarity and presence, change speed without altering the pitch, apply creative effects, fades and a whole lot more. iRig Recorder organizes your recordings by date and time and also tags them with geolocation for easy and reliable file management. You can now share your audio and video files via Airdrop, Messages, DropBox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, SoundCloud, Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, E-mail, Wi-Fi, FTP, SoundCloud or iTunes File Sharing in a variety of sizes and formats. iRig Recorder 3 features: • Convenient, easy-to-use stereo audio and video mobile recording and editing app • Completely redesigned, streamlined elegant interface • Perfect companion for all IK Multimedia microphones and mobile audio interfaces • One-touch recording/capture with real-time monitoring • Landscape and portrait mode • Intuitive, non-destructive editing tools: cut, crop and loop your recordings • Waveform editing • Text and Photo marker support with real time application • 16 intelligent effect processors to automatically optimize or creatively manipulate your recordings — Clean up, Brighten Voice, Smooth Voice, Speed Up, Speed Down, Pitch Shift, Morph, Reverb, Chorus, Delay, Normalize, Compressor, Stereo Imager, 3-Band EQ, Fade, Optimize Tone • Organize your recordings by creation date and geolocation tags • Export files as compressed .m4a or uncompressed .wav export • Inter-App Audio and AudioBus Support • Audio Copy/Paste For more information: www.ikmultimedia.com/irigrecorder
midimittr
This app enables low-latency MIDI connections to iOS music applications via Bluetooth LE or USB. It routes virtual MIDI ports to external devices, allowing seamless wireless or wired integration with compatible software.
- Low-latency MIDI over Bluetooth LE
- MIDI over USB connection
- Routes virtual MIDI ports
- Connects to other MIDI devices wirelessly
- Remembers routing settings
- Works in background
- MIDI over Lightning cable support
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midimittr is a simple utility to deliver the experience of low-latency MIDI over Bluetooth LE/USB to iOS Music apps that support MIDI. To achieve this, midimittr is routing the virtual ports of supported applications to Bluetooth and/or the USB Ports. If your favourite application is supporting MIDI, it will most likely work with midimittr. Bluetooth over MIDI is supported in iOS 8+ and a feature of OS X Yosemite 10.10+. For more information please check out the support page. ---- - Connect to other Bluetooth MIDI Hardware, iOS or macOS devices wirelessly - Remembers previous routing settings for an uninterrupted workflow - Works in background - Get even lower latency with MIDI over Lightning cable* - Support for both iPad and iPhone ---- *For MIDI over Lightning cable please download the tool from the support page.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: midimittr at 91% against iRig Recorder's 28%. midimittr also leads on price (Free vs $14.99) and in-app purchases (none vs 4). On ads 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
midimittr is free to download; iRig Recorder costs $14.99 up front. iRig Recorder sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. midimittr asks for nothing beyond the download.
iRig Recorder ships an update every 8 months, midimittr every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | iRig Recorder | midimittr |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $14.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | — | 4.5 (54 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 28.2% of reviews | 91.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 54 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | IK Multimedia US, LLC | Matthias Frick |
Customer experience
iRig Recorder
midimittr
Bugs and requests
iRig Recorder
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
midimittr
Reported bugs
6 issues- 'IOS Audio' crashes app on M1 Mac
- Disables iPad as audio input on M1 Mac
- Connection problem with older iOS and Yamaha MD-BT01
- Toggles not visible on iPad mini
- App keeps giving pop-ups asking to turn on Bluetooth
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- Only one device gets MIDI back when two are connected
Requested features
5 requests- Auto-reconnect for Bluetooth
- Logging function with freeze/save and filter
- Dark mode
- Audio transmitting as in-app purchase
- Option for client BT connections to auto-connect
In-app purchases
iRig Recorder
- Fading$0.99
- Creative Bundle$4.99
- PRO Bundle$14.99
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- All functionality bundle$14.99
midimittr
No in-app purchases









