As the days continue to crawl by on the way to the opening of the iPhone App Store (on July 11th or just maybe sometime before that), I’ve been finding plenty of time to lust over a lot of hot-looking programs that have been announced as coming to the store. I’ve also been spending some time thinking on what sort of apps I really hope we’ll see in the App Store once it is active – and figure I’ll share some of those while we’re all waiting round.
One I’d definitely like to see is a good voice notes program – especially as I’ve been spoiled for choice in using two and a half quite good ones in the jailbreak environment. Those would be:
VNotes – the first voice notes app for the iPhone and still probably the cleanest and easiest to work with.
iPhone Recorder – from Dream Catcher (makers of the leading iPhone video recording app as well) – probably has the most complete set of options and features for any iPhone voice notes app.
moleskine – the ‘half’ entry here, as this is a very feature-rich general note-taking application, that happens to include a good voice notes capability as well.
Each of these three jailbreak voice notes apps allow you to rename your notes with meaningful names and email them to yourself. iPho
ne Recorder in particular offers a good range of settings for things like volume gain and sound quality (bit rates).
I really hope that this type of app does not fall foul of any Apple restrictions for what is allowed in the App Store – as this is one of my favorite and most useful program types. It is super handy to be able to just fire up a voice notes app to record a reminder or idea for yourself and fire it off by email. I also often find them helpful for taking sets of bite-sized notes when reviewing an application or other items.
I would love to see VNotes or iPhone Recorder make it to the App Store of course (Databinge has already announced that moleskine will not be crossing over). Failing that, I hope we’ll see other good, new entries in this area …
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