Voice Memos turns your iPhone, iPad or Apple Watch into a portable audio recorder, making it easy to capture and share personal notes, song ideas, family moments, classroom lectures and more. Editing tools like trim, replace and the new Save As feature let you fine-tune your recordings without altering the original. The transcription feature converts speech into text, simplifying the process of finding and referencing specific content. And the new feature to record a vocal layer on top of an existing instrumental recording* without the need for headphones, making it easy to capture song ideas on the go. Users can then separate and edit the vocal and instrumental layers independently to continue expanding on those ideas. And with iCloud support, you can capture audio on the go with your iOS device, then use your Mac to do even more with your recordings.
Features
Record
• Record using the built-in microphone, a Bluetooth headset or a compatible external microphone.
• Choose uncompressed audio for maximum sound fidelity, ensuring the highest-quality recordings.
• Opt for compressed audio to save storage space and record longer sessions.
• Automatically name recordings based on your location.
• Record a vocal layer* over an instrumental track without headphones.
• Stereo recording adds greater depth and dimension to your audio.**
• iCloud support keeps your recordings and edits in sync across all your devices, including iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac and Vision Pro.
Edit
• Pinch to zoom for more precision when editing.
• Trim your recordings to save just the portion you want.
• Replace and resume to fine-tune your recordings.
• Save As lets you make edits and save them as a new recording without altering the original file.
• Separate and independently edit the vocal and instrumental takes for layered recordings.*
• Transcripts automatically convert speech into text for easy reference.***
• Enhance Recording reduces background noise and room reverberation with a single tap.
Organise
• Quickly find recordings with the search feature.
• Folders make it easy to organise your recordings.
• Mark recordings as Favourites so you can quickly access them later.
Listen and share
• Speed up or slow down playback of your recordings, or jump 15 seconds forwards or back.
• Skip Silence analyses your recordings and automatically skips over gaps in your audio.
• Share multiple recordings at once via AirDrop, Mail, Messages and more.
• Import vocal layer* recordings into Logic Pro as a two-track project for advanced editing and production.
* Adding a vocal layer on top of a Voice Memos recording is available only on the iPhone 16 Pro models.
** Stereo recording requires Apple devices equipped with stereo microphones and iOS 18 or later.
*** Audio transcription is available on iPhone 12 and later in English (Australia), English (Canada), English (Ireland), English (New Zealand), English (South Africa), English (UK) and English (US).
Clean, Reliable, and Incredibly Useful for Students!!
Nayemrocks
I use Voice Memos daily for university lectures and meetings, and it’s one of the most reliable apps on my phone. The recording quality is clear, and the automatic transcription makes it easy to turn discussions into usable notes later. I often pair the transcripts with other tools to organise and refine my notes, and the simplicity of Voice Memos makes that workflow seamless. It’s clean, stable, and genuinely useful for students and professionals.One feature that would make it even better is the ability to view previous transcripts while recording a new voice memo. Being able to quickly look at earlier recording transcripts without stopping the recording would significantly improve academic workflow.
This app IS all that
Pink Flames 4212👩🏾🦱👩🏾🦱
This app is amazing and helps my creative seed grow and grow until one day it will finally blossom! I have been using this app for a while and it really is the best I’ve ever used! It is amazing for recording songs and just general notes! I have jumped from voice app to voice app until I have finally settled on a reliable app that I will use for the foreseeable future! One thing that I would ask the creators to add is a way to sing over your pass lyrics for example if I was singing “joy” I could record it so that I can also hear my self sing “peace” at the same time. That would be an amazing feature to add!! As an all rounder this app I my new fav and if you need a reliable app to store your voice note then this is the app for you!!coo
The Voice Memos
A world of voice creation
This app is incredible. It’s fiery and it captures your lovely voice and you’re incredible singing and speaking sentences that mean the world it helps me to create a song that means something that really touches my heart i’ve always wanted to know what I sounded like on a phone on an device trust me your life will change if you downloaded this app it helps you create your songs so no writing it down. You can actually hear your voice and how it can echo and how it can make a beat and you can fast it up or slow it down. I know this is long but you if you don’t have this, you are missing out. Get this if you’re a songwriter and trust me you could probably make five songs in a year max😄
Outstanding!
asap376559
I know i do not use this app often but i still love it, reason why is because u can make super funny voice memos and just troll with ur friend, i love the fact we can also save it in our files so we dont forget it and it is remembered, we can do so many things with this app. We can play songs, annoy ur siblings and many other different ideas!! Like i recommended this app to keep things saved and to always enjoy ur nice time ur amazing voice memos, we can change things we can make made up songs like what does it not have? I never knew i would like an app this much. I love all the features we can do in this, thank you so much for making this app
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