There are plenty of easy ways to share a photo quickly via the iPhone, and various apps that will let you share your location quite easily, and plenty more that will let you create voice notes and save them / share them. But there are not any apps that I could think of that make it super easy to quickly package up a voice note, an image, and a Google Map with your current location and fire them off via email.
Until I discovered Say It & Mail It that is. I ‘m so glad I did discover it yesterday, via this post over at TUAW, who referred to it as ‘Voice Memos on steroids ‘. I don ‘t think that phrase does it justice though. I ‘ve seen quite a few apps that knock the socks off Apple ‘s Voice Memos, but none that provide the clever combo that Say It & Mail It does.
So here ‘s what you can do with Say It & Mail It:
Record a voice note with two taps “ ‘Say It ‘ to start, and ‘Stop It ‘ to finish. Then play it back if you want to, to check that you ‘re happy with it.
Add a picture “ a new one snapped from within the app or an existing one from your photo library “ again with just a minimum number of taps.
Throw in a road or satellite map showing your current location, again with just a few quick taps.
Then email off your voice note, image, and map with just one more tap. By default when you tap ‘Mail It ‘ you ‘ll get a new mail with your own email address already filled in (so that sending yourself reminders and similar is dead simple). You can change this and send to anyone you like of course. The new mail will have your voice note attached (in compressed wave format that can be opened on a Mac or PC), as well as your image and a Google Map link (if you ‘ve chosen to include these).
The app just got an update last night that adds an ability to adjust the picture quality for attached images.
And here ‘s an example of what you “ or whoever you send one of these combo messages to “ will see in their inbox:
I think the combination of voice, image, and mapped location in a quick message is a very powerful one “ especially when you can stay in one app, almost entirely on one simple screen, to throw all of them together and fire them off to yourself or others.
If an app can manage to be very simple and powerful at once that ‘s a very good trick “ and it ‘s one that Say It & Mail It has got down pat.
This is one of those apps that for me is an instant favorite, and that I imagine I will find 101 uses for – for work and play. My only wish list item would be for the app to package up the image, voice and map link into one file so that a recipient could save a single file rather than an email, or separate files.
You can find Say It & Mail It in the App Store now, priced at $1.99.
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