Sonidata vs Spektral Mobile

Sonidata: UCS Field Recorder is built to help you maintain a professional audio archive on the go. Ensure every sound you capture is perfectly tagged, organized, and ready for high-level indexing the moment you get back to the studio. Designed for sound designers, field recordists, and audio professionals who demand precision from their mobile workflow. RECORD WITH THE END IN MIND. PROFESSIONAL CAPTURE & ROUTING Turn your device into a professional field recorder. With the newly introduced Audio Device Manager, select discrete input and output routing, apply hardware-aware format settings (48 khz 24 bit internally, and up to 192 kHz / 32-bit float, depending on the connected devices), and control input gain digitally or via your hardware interface. Monitor audio levels with the Record Ready monitor mode. Capture True Stereo or decode M/S microphones on the fly with per-mic persistence. UCS METADATA ON THE GO Say goodbye to renaming files back at the studio. Sonidata implements the industry-standard Universal Category System (UCS v8.2). Assign Category, FX Name, Vendor, Creator, Mic Perspective, Location, and more right from the field. Use the Voice Slate (Speech-to-Text) to dictate metadata hands-free, or create custom FX Name Templates to speed up repetitive tagging. POWERFUL BATCH EDITING & SYNC Manage massive recording sessions with ease. The new Calendar Filter Bar lets you drill down by date, while batch delete and bulk metadata pasting streamline your workflow. When you’re ready, your sessions—including embedded artwork and metadata—seamlessly sync to iCloud Drive, Google Drive, or Dropbox. SEAMLESS DESKTOP INTEGRATION Export comprehensive 29-column CSV reports fully compatible with industry-standard sound library management software. Use the companion desktop app, Sonidata Embed, to batch edit metadata and re-embed it into your WAV files without transcoding. KEY FEATURES • Broadcast-Standard Recording: 48 kHz 24-bit internally, anduUp to 192 kHz / 32-bit float WAV. • UCS v8.2 Compliant: Full metadata tagging (Category, FxName, Description, Mic Perspective, etc.). • Advanced Audio Routing: Discrete input/output selection, external interface support, and M/S decoding. • Visual Feedback: Live waveform-style stereo metering, colorized waveforms, and ActivityKit lock-screen tracking. • Cloud Sync: Automatic syncing via iCloud, Google Drive, and Dropbox. • External File Management: Import, edit, and organize audio recorded on other devices. • Seamless Export: ZIP exports grouped by date, paired with rich 29-column metadata CSVs. • Siri & Shortcuts Integration: Control recording hands-free via App Intents, Action Button, or Back Tap. • Secure & Private: All transcription and processing happen on-device. Your audio never leaves your device unless you export it. UPGRADE TO PRO Unlock the full potential of your field recording workflow with Sonidata Pro. Manage external files, create custom FX Name Presets, export in bulk, and unlock the Sonidata Embed desktop companion app for seamless macOS integration via secure offline pairing.

Spektral is a professional real-time audio analyser for sound engineers. Ring out a PA, find the frequency that is howling, and keep an eye on the level in the room, all from your iPhone or iPad. THREE VIEWS, ONE WORKFLOW • RTA: live spectrum on a logarithmic frequency scale, 20Hz to 20kHz • Spectrograph: scrolling time-frequency heatmap, where feedback shows as a persistent bright horizontal line • SPL meter: A, C or Z weighted, Fast, Slow or Impulse, with the room's history behind it RING-OUT Spektral listens for a frequency that is building rather than one that is merely loud, so a bass note or a mains hum cannot set it off. When it finds one it names the frequency, gives you the musical note, and suggests the notch: centre frequency, Q and cut. Confirmed rings stay in a list as you work through them. LEVEL AND LEQ • Leq over 1 minute, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour and 8 hours, all running at once • Three hours of level history on one graph, with min, max and average • Limit Guard: set a limit and a window, and Spektral forecasts how long you have before you reach it • Calibrate against an acoustic calibrator when you need accurate absolute levels PRECISION • 4096-point FFT • Parabolic interpolation for sub-bin cursor and peak accuracy • Peak hold with smooth decay • Smoothing from 1/24 octave through to 1/1 • Frame averaging up to infinite • Musical note display on peaks and cursor TOOLS • Identify: labels the strongest peaks automatically, or just the single worst one • Snapshot compare: freeze a trace and A/B against it • Pink noise generator for reference output TOUCH-OPTIMISED • Horizontal pinch zooms the frequency axis, vertical pinch zooms the dB range • Drag to pan when zoomed, tap to place the cursor • Double-tap to reset all zoom and pan DESIGNED FOR THE STAGE • Full-screen dark interface for low-light environments • Works in portrait and landscape • Uses the built-in microphone or any connected audio interface REMOTE MONITORING (optional in-app purchase) Send this device's SPL readings to Spektral on your Mac over iCloud, so one engineer can watch several positions at once. No subscriptions. No account required. The analyser runs entirely offline.