EZRecorder vs Hoardware
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
EZRecorder
This app offers high-quality audio recording with intelligent noise reduction and voice enhancement. It provides convenient one-tap recording via widgets and Apple Watch, along with features like bookmarking, location logging, and automatic iCloud synchronization for easy management.
- Superior audio quality with noise reduction
- One-tap recording from widgets and Apple Watch
- Smart recording management with auto-stop
- Bookmark important moments
- Location-based information logging
- Auto-save and iCloud synchronization
- Speech-to-text transcription and AI summarization
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Start with a tap. Capture the moment with clarity. EZRecorder brings together recording presets, quick access, transcription, and AI notes. Record meetings, lectures, interviews, ideas, or everyday sounds—and find what matters later. [Presets for your surroundings] Choose presets for clear speech, narration, voice memos, music practice, or nature sounds. Find options for offices, classrooms, meeting rooms, cafés, outdoors, transport, pockets, and more. [Make the sound your own] Adjust low-frequency noise, voice clarity, and high-frequency detail. Analyze surrounding sound for suggested settings, monitor through earphones, and save custom presets with names and icons. [Ready when you need it] • Start with one tap or by selecting a preset • Recording reminders, auto-stop timers, pause and resume • Check or manually select the microphone • Exclude quiet sections while recording • Include the previous 5–30 seconds while pre-recording standby is active on iPhone [Record from iPhone widgets] Arrange favorite presets in small, medium, or large widgets. Tap to start recording and check recording status from your Home Screen. [Bookmark important moments] Add bookmarks and notes while recording or playing back. See markers on the waveform and jump straight to each moment. [Turn moments into audio clips] Start from the playhead, a bookmark, a transcript sentence, or an AI key moment. Adjust boundaries in 0.1-second steps, preview the selection, and save or share M4A clips up to one minute long. Your original recording and bookmarks stay intact. [Read, search, and edit] • Live transcription on supported systems, devices, and languages • Transcribe complete saved recordings • Play timestamped sentences • Search with highlighted matches • Edit recognition errors and create clips or bookmarks from sentences [AI corrections, summaries, and key moments] Compare corrected text with the original. Get titles, summaries, key points, action items, and keywords. Find important decisions, tasks, and explanations, then play or clip those passages. Choose the app language, the transcript’s original language, or another supported language for summaries and key moment titles. Corrections preserve the original language. Add summaries to recording notes and share transcripts or audio. [Review recordings faster] Navigate with waveforms and bookmarks, skip forward or back, adjust playback speed, and skip quiet sections. [Record from Apple Watch] Record, pause, and save from your wrist. Use automatic recording when opening the app or a complication, auto-stop timers, silence exclusion, and bookmarks. On supported devices, add bookmarks with Double Tap. Transfer recordings and bookmarks automatically to iPhone. [Choose your format and quality] Record in M4A, FLAC, or WAV, with stereo and format-specific quality settings. Select built-in, wired, Bluetooth, or USB microphones. [Keep everything organized] Search recording titles and notes, browse lists or calendars, and save recording locations on a map. Automatically sync iPhone recordings and files received from Watch with iCloud Drive. Start quickly. Record clearly. Find what you need with EZRecorder. Basic recording, complete transcription, transcript search and editing, and iPhone bookmarks are free. Some features require Pro, including saving and applying custom presets, advanced formats and quality settings, iCloud sync, clip creation, and AI key moments. AI corrections/summaries and key moment searches each use AI credits based on transcript length. If no key moments are found, credits used for that request are refunded. Availability and transcription accuracy depend on the device, OS, language, network, permissions, and recording conditions.
Hoardware
Catalog your Apple hardware collection, including model details, firmware versions, and software update availability. Organize devices into custom groups, add notes, and sync your library across devices. Export your collection in various formats.
- Catalog Apple devices
- Look up model details and firmware
- Track installed firmware versions
- Check for software updates
- Organize devices into collections
- Sync library via iCloud
- Export collection data
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Hoardware is a collection manager for people who keep Apple hardware. Catalog the devices you own, including iPhone, iPad, Mac, iPod, Apple Watch, Apple TV, HomePod, HomeView, AirPods, AirTag, and Beats. Look up model details and firmware using AppleDB, an independent community database. KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE - Look up model identifiers, names, and release details - Record installed firmware versions and builds - Check available stable and beta updates - Receive optional alerts for new software releases OS COVERAGE - See which software generations your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch collection covers - Filter covered and missing versions to find the gaps ORGANIZE - Organize devices into collections and groups - Save notes, serial numbers, colors, and custom fields - Keep a wishlist for your next find - Search by name, model, serial number, or software version TAKE YOUR LIBRARY WITH YOU - Sync your library and custom fields across Mac, iPhone, and iPad using iCloud - Export your collection as text, JSON, PDF, or an image - Create library backups and restore them later - Share selected collection details through an optional read-only web link No separate Hoardware account is required. iCloud sync uses your Apple Account. Device and firmware information is provided by AppleDB (appledb.dev). Hoardware is an independent app and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Apple Inc. Apple and the Apple product and service names referenced here are trademarks of Apple Inc.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Hoardware at none against EZRecorder's 2. Hoardware also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly) and ratings volume (16 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. EZRecorder sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Hoardware asks for nothing beyond the download.
EZRecorder holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hoardware has 16 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 94% of EZRecorder's written reviews are positive against 100% of Hoardware's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
EZRecorder ships an update weekly, Hoardware every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | EZRecorder | Hoardware |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.8 (16 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 94.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 16 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | RYNYUL | Aaron Perris |
Customer experience
EZRecorder
Hoardware
In-app purchases
EZRecorder
- Pro 7-day TrialFree
- EZRecorder Pro Lifetime$1.99
Hoardware
No in-app purchases









