Comments on: iPhone Apps on Sale: iProRecorder

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:48:38 +0000

That is too bad. An app that records phone calls would be very useful. On my old Palm Treo I had an app that did this and it was useful when talking to customer service folks and such. It sounds like someone would have to actually write an entire replacement for Phone.app in order to get this feature on the iPhone then. Maybe Apple will do this in some future release.

By: patrickj

patrickj — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:48:22 +0000

Cool – thanks for that info.

By: patrickj

patrickj — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:28:11 +0000

There ya go – different methods for different tasks and different people. I use iProRecorder a lot for app reviews, where I may spread out over a week, or even several weeks, quick thoughts I want to save up about an app – so some of its features work well for me. Having said that I also use Evernote and Notes Pro when doing some shorter reviews, so I've far from perfected my process. Luckily Things does all my GTD type capture for me. Oh, and I shouldn't have used the word sync at all – as none of the apps I've seen, including iProRecorder, only really let you share (sometimes back and forth), but there's no real intelligent sync I don't think.

By: aflorence

aflorence — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:09:53 +0000

Yeah, sorry, I meant Voice Memos. I know it is basic but it does allow syncing of the voice memos. I guess, for what I use it for (quick capture of GTD Inbox items when I don't have enough time to type them out), some of these 3rd party voice recorder features are a bit much for me. For anything more involved than short memos, I would prefer to use something like Jott rather than keeping them in audio form.

By: patrickj

patrickj — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:33:12 +0000

Do you mean the Voice Memos app on the 3GS? That one is very, very basic – no sync (which iTalk and many others can do, and which iProRecorder makes easy via a web server), no easy way to rename voice notes, no ability to categorize recordings, no way to go back and append further notes once you've hit the stop button and so on. iPro Recorder does all those things and more, and makes it all very easy to do. I believe it also is from a company with a good rep for quality audio products.

By: aflorence

aflorence — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:12:08 +0000

The volume boost feature seems interesting. I'm not too keen on the UI though. I'm assuming this is mostly targeted at 3G and below, but is there any reason I should take a closer look at this in spite of Voice Recorder on 3GS?

By: patrickj

patrickj — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:44:20 +0000

I don't think so, never tried.