Tape It - Pro Audio Recorder 4+

Voice memos for songwriting

Tape It Music GmbH

Designed for iPhone

    • 3.7 • 3 Ratings
    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

THE professional songwriting app that helps musicians record, organize & share song ideas. We are frustrated musicians that always wanted a straightforward app that gets how we artists work— so we created Tape It. And thousands of professional musicians love it!

Never lose song memos, never spend time with songwriting headaches again; Focus on what really matters for your music, record many ideas, don’t think too much and unmess your songwriting!

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20+ FREE FEATURES — NO ADS, NO BULLS**T

■ Group recordings into mixtapes:
Your next song idea, your next EP, a compilation of synthesizer ideas; regain control and built your own structure, so you always know where to find which ideas!

■ Collaborate in your mixtapes:
Why would you send memos in emails and messages back and forth when you can do it all in-app? Work with your bandmates, your producer and your manager like you always wanted to.

■ Start recording straight from your iPhone lock screen:
Why do photographers get a dedicated camera button and musicians don’t?! Capture sudden ideas as fast and simply as possible.

■ Add photos to your recordings:
Ever noted down vocals or chords on a random piece of paper or lost your synthesizer settings because you didn’t capture them? Guess what!

■ Airdrop files into your DAW:
An incredibly powerful way to easily turn your ideas into production or enhance your songs with field recordings!

■ Sync between devices & never lose anything with Tape It’s EU-encrypted cloud:
You wouldn’t believe the number of times users told us how it saved them from losing thousands of their ideas! It also saves iCloud space.

■ Add notes to your recordings:
Add additional information like chords, BPM, lyrics or just random ideas!

■ Listen to recordings as you would listen to Spotify:
Unlike most apps, Tape It is a fully functional audio player. Listen in your car on your commute, or use your workout time to review yesterday’s ideas!

■ Add markers while and after recording:
Perfect for jam sessions to mark specific parts and song transitions, for music lessons and for longer recordings!

■ Listen to long recordings more easily:
Tiny playback bars on tiny phone screens are a tiny bit annoying. Tape It breaks down long recordings into multiple lines like a paragraph of text to make skimming through a whole session completely natural. Add markers to that and you will never go back!

■ Detect instruments automatically and see smart waveforms:
Now you can see what a recording contains before you even listen to it! And the added photos and notes make it even more easy.

■ Mark favorite recordings:
Listen to your best ideas all in one place instead of scrolling and scrolling.

& more!

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WHY GET TAPE IT PROFESSIONAL?
For the price of a coffee, you can maximize your iPhone's recording capabilities to seriously up your songwriting game.

■ Record in stereo:
Enjoy vastly superior audio quality by combining several of your iPhone's built-in microphones! Ideal for high-quality instrument & vocal recording, field recording, sampling and even interviews and podcasting.

■ Record in lossless quality:
Get the best mobile recording quality possible for field recordings and more!

■ Attach audio interfaces and external microphones
If you want to take mobile recording to the next level, this is perfect for you!

■ Non-destructive trimming:
Cut out the irrelevant bits! Wanna go back? Restore any trimmed audio whenever you want.

■ Support independent developers that care about songwriters:
We constantly work on new features, we never put any ads on anything, we have no investors who could tell us to put profit before your needs. Monetizing is the only way we can keep doing that!

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Tape It is 100% accessible for blind people. We know how much music means for you.


Contact us at support@tape.it for questions!

Upcoming features: https://roadmap.tape.it/
Privacy policy: https://tape.it/privacy
Terms of use: https://tape.it/eula

What’s New

Version 3.12.1

This update fixes a rare crash with start and end markers.

Ratings and Reviews

3.7 out of 5
3 Ratings

3 Ratings

fuyrhji ,

pricey for a record button

First thing happening was that my Apple ID and corresponding email address was read out and I was requested to insert my Passcode. Eventually arriving at a "record" button. No input gain adjustment. How can this be for musicians? Stopping a recording, the captured data can be assumed to be in some cloud storage. No question about the wished file name or folder and no saving to a self controlled storage without first having agreed on a pricey subscription. There appears provided some feature which I din't find in similar apps: recording directly from the Lock Screen, which indeed is interesting for spontaneous recording. However, for the current subscription fees (summer 2023) I did not make use of the trial period for testing how recording would work in the rehearsal room without internet connection, after it looks as if all recordings are first stored online on the Tape It server space and can only afterwards be exported from there to some local location. Maybe someone can share experience about this. [edited after developer response on my first review].

Developer Response ,

The app is free with no ads, and an entirely optional monthly premium subscription for the price of a coffee. The lifetime option is priced like that: pay once, have a sub for life. Many apps don’t even offer a lifetime option. With “Sign in with Apple” we never get your password in the process. The entire login procedure is handled by Apple, and they strongly encourage this method. All cloud storage is in the EU under EU privacy laws (as seen in our privacy policy, which we keep super short and readable), and with the premium purchase, you get unlimited space. I’m not aware of another cloud provider that lets you buy unlimited space forever for a one time payment like we do. We decided against folders for the same reason modern photo apps don’t have folder structures underneath: in our system, recordings can live in multiple playlists at the same time, and that’s just not possible with folders. You can easily export your recordings anywhere you like; just select them and tap export. Input gain adjustment is a reasonable feature request for some use cases and we’ll definitely consider it, but for now we focused mostly on songwriters and bringing many quality of life improvements to them.

Tape It may not be the app for you, but it’s appreciated by many musicians and songwriters whose workflow it significantly improved. Please consider that we’ve been pouring our hearts and souls - and our finances - into making this app before writing a review like this.

Update on updated review: all recordings are always instantly available on the device, regardless of whether they’re already synced or not. Tape It is designed for offline situations such as band practice rooms with bad connection or tour busses in the middle of nowhere. You can test this without any subscription - most features, including recording with the same quality as in Voice Memos, are entirely free. The subscription is optional and only needed for additional features: stereo recording, lossless recording, USB audio interface support and the Lock Screen widget. Mono recording and cloud syncing are free.

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App Privacy

The developer, Tape It Music GmbH, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

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The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:

  • Purchases
  • Location
  • Contact Info
  • User Content
  • Identifiers
  • Usage Data

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  • Diagnostics

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