First Look: EccoNote
EccoNote is a nice little free audio recording app - one of many similar recorders available in the App Store.I use the word "little" deliberately, because EccoNote is very simple. In a good way. You can record your audio notes, you can play them back, and that's about it. There are no settings to mess with. The audio quality is very good and the controls nice and obvious.
The only odd thing is that the developer's web site, as listed on the App Store, does not appear to exist (at least not as I'm writing this). Their notes in the App Store description field say that they plan to add an email-to-contacts feature within the next month, something I hope they succeed with because that would be very useful.
As I said at the top, there are many other voice recorder apps available. Some for free, some for a little money. I've tried a few (not all) and this is one I like best so far. Your opinions of Ecco and its rivals would be welcomed in the comments.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Graham Stevens said 2:12PM on 8-06-2008
iLounge have done a great comparision of all the voice recording apps.
www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/iphone-gems-every-voice-recorder-reviewed/
Well worth a look if you are thinking about picking one up.
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LuminousNerd said 2:16PM on 8-06-2008
I would like it a lot, and be willing to pay up to $5 for an app that simply:
1. Has a gorgeous UI.
2. Records audio at a reasonable quality, lets you play it back.
3. Has some way of exporting that audio to my Mac.
This seems to fail at 1 and 3. :(
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LuminousNerd said 2:24PM on 8-06-2008
I think I found it! SpeakEasy looks like just the pick for me, thank you Graham Stevens for the link with all the reviews!
Scott said 2:26PM on 8-06-2008
Nice user interface.
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waiownsyou said 2:29PM on 8-06-2008
TUAW should review more apps. I'm afraid to waste $0.99-$9.99 on "iffy" apps that kinda, sorta appeal to me.
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TagsxA said 2:32PM on 8-06-2008
I don't like this one due to the fact that you can't skip around in a recording after you've recorded it. You can only play back the entire recording without any VCR-like controls.
So far, YouNote is my favorite since it gives me all types of note-taking options in one simple app. The only set back is that you can't record unlimited amounts of audio, but oh well.
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PFG said 2:38PM on 8-06-2008
Is there a time limit to how long an individual recording can be?
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TagsxA said 2:39PM on 8-06-2008
No. Well, it can only be as big as the amount of free space left on your iPhone.
Franz Gruswitz said 3:01PM on 8-06-2008
Is there a voice recording app that will use voice recognition on the first few words spoken to fill in the text label for the recording? I thought I saw one but I can't find it now. If it requires a monthly fee or internet access, count me out, but otherwise I'd pay up to $10 for that.
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Dave said 4:13PM on 8-06-2008
SpeakEasy is brilliant. It's the best of the bunch overall.
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Ry said 1:48AM on 8-08-2008
Weird...I've been using this for a few day and found 2 things.
1) I can't figure out how to delete the audio file once you hit save.
2) I was recording my boss cursing me out so I could get him fired when my wife called and it closed the app. ARRRR 2 months of antagonizing down the tube.
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Howard said 3:57PM on 8-14-2008
I, and I'm sure many others, would love to see such a good voice recognition app to be used as voice dialer.
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leo67 said 6:35PM on 8-27-2008
You can't delete the note, the developer website doesn't work....
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gldstrm said 10:01PM on 8-16-2009
Neat interface. That's pretty much all about it. Great idea and lousy implementation. FTP feature is useless as majority if people don't have FTP server available where to ftp notes, email is complete disaster. I was never able to send any note of any size to my email address. Ecconote was giving me error, saying there was an error with sending email, so try to senf by FTP. Funny, ah!? It would be much better app if it had sync capability to iTunes on PC and Mac
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SCOTT said 5:40PM on 9-26-2008
THIS IS THE WEBSITE FOR THE DEVELOPERS
http://www.ecconote.com/EccoNote_Home.html
AND NOW THERE IS A PRO VERSION THAT IS 99 CENTS AND HAS ALL OF THOSE EXTRAS YOU WANTED...VERY NICE APP
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