Tape It: Voice Memos for Music 4+

Excellent app for recording quick ideas. So far it’s been more reliable than music memos was. I haven’t found any apps better for the purpose of quickly recording a sketch, especially now that you can use it with an external mic. They’ve also improved the app quite a bit since I first downloaded.

Thank you so much for your review! I’m glad you like it. We’ll continue to improve it while keeping the simplicity :).

It’s a wonderful app, and makes me feel much less weird about Music Memos being discontinued. Good, simple and easy to use. The things that pop out though is that the instrument detection seems iffy. I’m taking notes with an acoustic guitar and it hasn’t understood that’s what I’m playing. Which makes me think that I’d much rather just set it myself if I could. Also, the things that jump out are that I wish I could trim recordings, and also it’d be nice to be able to organize clips into groups so if you had a number of different ideas for one project you could have a group to just hear/see all those, for instance. Other than that I think it’s quite nice so far.

Hi candlesayshi,

Thank you so much for your honest review. We're working on improving the instrument detection, but you'll soon also be able to set the instrument yourself. Trimming is quite high on our list, too, and I think you'll be excited to hear that we are already working on groups and will bring out an update, soon. It's great to hear that those are the features that you are looking for, too.

Best,
Thomas

I’ve seen in the previous review the developers are working on adding a trim feature, grouping or folders, and better instrument detection. This is currently a pretty basic recording app but after the new updates it could be a five star app. I do like that you can easily add markers to your recordings. Ideally I would love to be able to take a long recording and break it into multiple shorter separate clips. Sometimes I want to record an entire session and then divide it into parts.

Thank you for your review - it's always good to hear it, even if you repeat things others may have already written. It gives us a good idea of what to focus on. Grouping/folders will come very soon (we call our folders Mixtapes, and they're more like playlists, so you can have your recording in more than one Mixtape). Trim feature is also on our roadmap, and should land relatively soon. Breaking a long recording into separate recordings has been on our list almost since day one, but we're still a bit unsure how to implement it. Should these break-outs retain a link to their original recording, or are they displayed like any other recording? It also gets really important once we add better sharing; we know that people often only want to share a section of a recording, not the entire one. All this to say that breaking up long recordings into shorter ones will come, but we're still a bit unsure about its design, so it will take a little while.