Smart Recorder Transcriber AF vs LASA
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Smart Recorder Transcriber AF
Easily create audio recordings and transcribe them with high-quality machine transcription. This app offers advanced features for managing, editing, and exporting your audio files, making it ideal for professionals and students alike.
- Background recording and playback
- iTunes file sharing and Dropbox support
- Multiple export formats (CAF, WAV, AIF, MP4)
- Variable speed playback with pitch correction
- Machine transcription of recordings
- Searchable transcriptions and tags
- Geo-tagging of recordings
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Smart Recorder allows you to easily create recordings and then transcribe them using the high quality dictate2us. Smart Recorder is a full featured recorder and transcriber offering many features beyond what is available in the built in voice memos app. The Smart Recorder family of products has over 1,000,000 device installs. It has been actively marketed and updated for seven years. Use it to record meetings, interview, lectures, classes, todo lists, shopping lists or even your kids voices. What ever the task, Smart Recorder is the ideal tool. Check out these great features: - A large record button makes it easy to start and pause recordings - A main screen with the list of recordings created, each with a play button for easy playback - Tips and a comprehensive help system to get you up to speed quickly - Background recording and playback (other apps can run while Smart Recorder is recording or playing or your device can be sleeping during recording or playback) - iTunes file sharing - Flip mode for putting iPhone microphone on top - Email/export short recordings - Support for Dropbox if Dropbox app installed - Multiple supported mail/export formats including CAF, WAV, AIF and MP4. - iCloud support - Generation of ringtones for the iPhone - Add tags or pictures to mark positions in a recording - Time slider/forward/back buttons to quickly navigate through your recordings - Bluetooth and external headset support - Auto pause/voice activated recording - Variable speed playback with optional pitch correction - Many system settings to control the behavior of Smart Recorder - Stereo support - Append to existing recordings - Categorize/sort recordings - No time limit on recordings - Universal app for both iPhone and iPad - Geo tagging of recordings allows you to keep track of the location where they were created - Search allows you to search for conversations in a recording (based on the machine transcription) or for tags (or recordings with specific words in the title) Extra features (for purchase): - Disable advertising - Email/export long recordings - Voice enhancement - Trimming/editing - Machine transcription Buy now and you will get free upgrades with many new features!!! If you like this product, check out the Mac Smart Recorder at http://itunes.apple.com/app/smart-recorder/id412615645?mt=12 http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/smart-recorder-lite/id420266239?mt=12
LASA
Access event sessions, speakers, and exhibitors for LASA events. Personalize your schedule, take notes, and share contacts directly from your device.
- Access event sessions
- View speaker information
- Explore exhibitor details
- Personalize your schedule
- Take notes
- Share contacts
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Download the program for LASA events. Easily access event sessions, speakers, exhibitors and more. Download the native app to personalize your schedule, take notes, share contacts, and more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: LASA at Free against Smart Recorder Transcriber AF's $13.99. LASA also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.9) and in-app purchases (none vs 6). Smart Recorder Transcriber AF's advantage is ratings volume (8 vs 1). On update cadence, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
LASA is free to download; Smart Recorder Transcriber AF costs $13.99 up front. Smart Recorder Transcriber AF sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. LASA asks for nothing beyond the download.
LASA holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Smart Recorder Transcriber AF has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Smart Recorder Transcriber AF ships an update every 6 weeks, LASA every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Smart Recorder Transcriber AF | LASA |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $13.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 1.9 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 34.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Paid | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 57 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Roe Mobile Development | Latin American Studies Association |
Customer experience
Smart Recorder Transcriber AF
LASA
In-app purchases
Smart Recorder Transcriber AF
- Transcription $1.00$0.99
- Machine Transcription for 30 days$3.99
- Transcription $10.00$9.99
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- Siri transcription$9.99
- Donate Money$24.99
- Transcription $100.00$99.99
LASA
No in-app purchases
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