A couple of friends and I built a voice recoding app that was actually designed for your smartphone. Instead of just saving an audio file (probably entitled "My Recording #4"), we wanted an app that provides context (think people and places) to the things we record. It automatically saves where and when the moment was recorded, letting you browse and search the context of your recordings.<p>We've been using it for meetings and standups, and we've found it really useful to be able to go back and reference what we said. We hope you find it useful too.<p>This is a beta release, so if you run into anything wonky just let us know: hi@audobox.com<p>And if you just want to tell us what you think, or suggest a feature, we've built in a pretty fun feedback tool — hit "Record audobox feedback" from the menu.
Hi, your app seems great! I am however having trouble understanding how it works - does it upload the recording after an arbitrary period of time or does it stream it from the start of the recording process? Just recently I have had an unfortunate adventure with the police when they were clearly abusing their power, and when I told them I would record it with my phone the cop told me to better not try it or he'd smash my cellphone on the wall and do the same with me. I wish there was an app with constant streaming so this kind of stuff would be less likely to happen in the future.
For the first time, other than for my own app, I am one of the first 50 to try a new app :)
We built a voice messaging app called PhonOn (its on play store and iOS appstore). This was one of the pivots we were considering before opting to pursue another idea.
Do you stream the content to the server or is it record the whole thing and then upload the file?
Just some feedback for your website: Maybe show a small video of what it's like to actually use the app, rather than screenshots + descriptions what it does. Doesn't have to be fancy at all, but just a demonstration of the actual user experience.
First, it looks great.<p>When I went to install the app the permissions were kind of onerous: Modify your contacts, Read phone status and identity, reroute outgoing calls, etc. Can you give some color as to why these are necessary?
I thought about making an app in the same vein, but for a specific purpose: recording lectures. However, I think it'd be useful in meetings.<p>The idea was to have the ability to take a photo and associate it with the time you took it. This would come in handy when the audio is referring to a specific powerpoint slide, whiteboard drawing, etc.<p>I think if you add this in, you could have a killer app for college kids to record lectures for later use.
I only have a use for a recording app occasionally, but when I needed one they were all awful. This looks great, I've installed it in case I need it - thanks for doing a nice design!<p>It would be cool to show the levels while recording, recorded time etc to give us more confidence that it's actually recording and the levels are good
Looks gorgeous, and recording quality has been fantastic on my Nexus 7 (have been testing the alpha).<p>Makes me significantly less twitchy in meetings - I'm a compulsive note-taker, and it actually has really changed my note-taking behavior towards summarization and takeaways versus "minutes" style.<p>Nice work, guys.
Love it, wanted this for so long. But I want to record everything.<p>What will happen to the app and to my batter if I just let this record perpetually? Do you upload pieces of the recording throughout the session?