While the default Apple Voice Memo app is quite convenient and easy to use, there are several reasons why you might want to try a third-party voice recording app. For example, you may need some additional features, or you may need to share or send recordings to other non-Apple devices. Whatever the reason, we will provide for you. Check out our selection of the best voice recording apps for iPhone.
1. Voice Recorder & Audio Editor
The voice recorder and audio editor take your tasks to the next level. The app not only records voices, but also helps you dictate and transcribe.
Best for journalists and media representatives, this app offers unlimited entries. If you’re in the middle of a long interview, you can rely on a voice recorder and an audio editor. Make sure your iOS device has enough memory to save new recordings.
With in-app purchases, you can transcribe recordings to text using speech-to-text technology. While this feature is integrated into the Apple Notes app, it is not a complete note-taking app.
3D Touch and text notes are two notable features. You can quickly start and stop recording from the main screen. And you can add notes to individual notes. However, the latter comes with in-app purchases.
In addition to saving your recordings to cloud services, you can download them via USB cable or sync WiFi to your computer.
Among some of the extra features, I especially like password protection for recordings, changing the playback speed, trimming and looping recordings, skipping back/forward, etc.
Last but not least, the app also works as a call recorder. With a paid subscription, you can record incoming and outgoing calls on your iPhone.
Price: Free (In-app purchases start at $1.99)
2. Recorder Plus: Voice Recorder
Record and play audio in the easiest way with Recorder Plus. Trusted by professionals, this high-quality app turns your iPhone into a real audio recorder in an instant.
One-touch recording is quick and easy. What’s more, you can record and play in the background without any interruption – just pause and resume recording. The simple user interface makes it popular among regular users.
Other important features are compressed audio format, high quality audio recording, support for multiple audio formats, customizable playback controls, and cloud drive support.
Price: Free(In-app purchases start at $0.99)
3. Voice Record Pro
Here is a professional voice recorder for your iOS device. You can record voice memos or on-site sounds of unlimited duration with customizable quality.
This application uses standard recording formats including AAC/MP4/M4A. Apart from these formats, this application can directly record in MP4 (AAC), MP3 (MPEG) and WAV (PCM) formats.
One notable feature is that you can export and import recordings to and from Google Drive, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, Box Cloud, iCloud, and other cloud services.
The application allows you to download recordings to your PC through the built-in server.
Price: Free (no ads – $6.99)
4. Otter: Transcribe Voice Memos
Otter is primarily a note-taking app, but it boasts powerful AI for recording your day-to-day conversations. Whether you are in meetings, interviews or lectures, you can use this app to record voices in real time.
You can create a widget or shortcut for this app on your iOS device and start recording with one tap. The high-precision (real-time) transcription function is extremely useful for media representatives and office secretaries.
Before sending the final report to the authorities, you can highlight key points and review them later. This application also allows you to insert photos of discussions on the board.
With intelligent AI, this app automatically places accents, capitalizes, and breaks paragraphs.
This is your all-in-one voice recording app that unleashes countless features in front of you. Record voices within the group and share the transcript live. In addition, you can invite members to co-edit and highlight.
Price: Free (In-app purchases over $12.99)
5. Voice Recorder – Audio Record
The voice recorder is a powerful application that can record everything within 10-100 meters around you. Once you have recorded the voices, you can play and edit them with this application.
With an easy to use interface, this app has a lot of features. Quality options, format options, support for external input devices, and support for background recording are some of the unusual features. For external input, you can use a Bluetooth microphone or an external microphone.
With its latest updates, Voice Recorder allows users to continue recording to existing recordings. In addition, you can handle call interruption, as the application will continue recording after the call ends.
To share your recordings, you can send emails or upload the file to popular cloud services such as Dropbox and iCloud Drive.
Price: $3.99
6. Awesome Voice Recorder
Awesome Voice Recorder (AVR) is one of the best voice recording apps for professionals. This application has won the trust of businessmen, media representatives, teachers, students, audio experts and sound engineers.
Apart from your iOS device, AVR also supports Apple Watch. You can discreetly record conversations so that no one notices you.
The background recording feature allows you to use other applications on your device while recording conversations. If you receive a call while recording, you can restart the process after the phone call. Please note that the recording will be paused for up to three minutes.
When your iPhone shows low battery or memory limit, you can safely stop recording on the device.
Price: Free (In-app purchases start at $0.99)
7. Rev Voice Recorder & Memos
Rev Voice Recorder & Memos came up with a unique offering for their product. Unlike other voice recording apps for iPhone, this one offers a human transcription service.
Instead of speech-to-text robots, Rev Voice hires professional typists. This gives an accuracy of over 99%. To use this service, you need to place orders directly from the app. The best thing about delivery is that you can receive transcripts via email and in the app.
Like the default Voice Memo app on your iPhone, Rev Voice gives you unlimited voice memos and trims.
Price: Free (In-app purchases start at $1.99)
It’s not just another voice recording app for your iPhone. This application can perform many other tasks such as trimming, converting, normalizing, transferring, exporting, importing, zipping and decompressing recorded files. In addition, you can create folders, rename and move files and folders.
If you are into making music, this is one of the must-have apps. You can quickly transfer a new song from your favorite music app and import it to your AudioShare library. You can then share it to your SoundCloud account or send to other apps.
Use a microphone, external audio interfaces, Inter-App Audio or other Audiobus compatible apps and record right in the app. The full featured app can play and record at 96k, 48k, 44.1k, 22k, 11k and 8k sample rates.
Price: $4.99
9. Say&Go Voice Notes and Inbox
As the name suggests, Say&Go is the perfect voice recording app for passengers. Our brain never stops working; ideas keep getting on our nerves. In this situation, this application is extremely useful for taking short notes.
Now the real game begins. After recording, you can immediately find your notes in Dropbox, Evernote or email. All in one touch. This award-winning app can also be accessed from Apple Watch. Just raise your wrist and write down your thoughts and make a to-do list in a jiffy.
Multitasking users would love to use this app on their Apple devices. They can use it effectively to brainstorm on the go without having to worry about unnecessary taps.
Price: $2.99
10. Evernote
Evernote is primarily a note-taking and planner app. However, the app also offers a voice recording feature for taking quick notes.
In addition to sound creations, you can also add to-do lists, photos, web pages, and more. Plus, it’s all easy to find within the app.
It’s a delight for any creative people who come up with ideas but don’t have any tool to write them down. With Evernote on their iPhones, they can quickly jot down or write down their ideas to expand on or bring to life later.
With premium services, you can sync Evernote content across devices. Take notes on your iPhone and also access them on your Mac or iPad.
After creating your notes, share them with others right from Evernote. For your business, you can create agendas, write notes, and create presentations. For quick actions, use the 3D Touch feature on your device.
Price: Free (In-app purchases start at $2.99)
It’s all people!
Unlike call recording, voice recording is not a punishable offense in some cases. You can use paid or free apps on iPhone and iPad to record voice, audio, and conversations. What application would you like to use to record your voice? Do you want to add an application to this list? Leave your answers in the comments below.