Whether you need to make a quick memo, record a lecture, or just want to heed dorsum on your band practice, there are plenty of reasons to record sound on your phone. We here at AP call back y'all shouldn't take to sort through a body of water of apps creatively named "vocalism recorder" to find the all-time 1 for you lot, though.

At that place'south no shortage of powerful audio recording apps available right now. Plenty even take features like sound enhancement, silence skipping, or real time transcription. It'south not hard to see why one of these peachy apps could be replacing your congenital-in recorder very soon.

Otter

Otter is a powerful voice recorder that's laser-focused on productivity. Information technology records with real time transcription, and can fifty-fifty transcribe imported audio and video. While most of the all-time features are locked behind a subscription, yous still get admission to 10 hours of transcribed recordings per month that can be exported as a TXT file for gratuitous. If you decide the subscription is worth it for you lot, though, yous'll get a much larger pool of transcription time each calendar month, forth with the power to export them as PDF or DOCX files, and even automatically transcribe dropbox uploads. If you demand to speedily get notes from audio or video, Otter is the app you lot want. While information technology doesn't have any sound quality settings, if yous're turning the sound into text that isn't a huge issue.

There are other useful features if your business or school uses Otter, similar live transcription of Zoom meetings and voice recognition that knows who said what. Otter is withal worth a recommendation, even without those integrations.

Monetization: free / no ads / IAPs from $12.99 to $99.99

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Dolby On

Dolby On is targeted straight at amateur and professional musicians alike. What sets it apart from other apps is its built-in Dolby enhancement that instantly makes your sound sound about like yous recorded it in a sound booth. It's also the just app on this listing to tape video and give you the ability to live stream, all with that same audio enhancement. The app has a bones editing suite, and the ability to upload straight to social media, as well every bit YouTube and Sound Deject. If you want to take your music to the adjacent level, Dolby On might be for yous.

Monetization: free / no ads / no IAPs

Piece of cake Voice Recorder

Easy Voice Recorder gives you access to some pretty useful features, like noise and repeat reduction, as well every bit tuned mic profiles for mutual recording scenarios. It even has a long-printing shortcut to start a recording from the home screen or app drawer. While it doesn't have one singular thing that it'due south trying to be the all-time at, it doesn't do anything poorly, and it has a user-friendly interface. Information technology feels like the blueprint for the side by side version of the built-in recording app.

Monetization: gratuitous / contains ads / IAPs from $1.49 to $3.99

Easy Voice Recorder Pro

In addition to the same features found in the free version, the paid version of Easy Vox Recorder Pro has enough of quality of life and feature upgrades. Automatic cloud backup, silence skipping, gain adjustment, stereo recording, and an easy-to-use editor just to proper name a few. While there are other recorder apps also have basic editing tools, hardly any of them are as powerful, and fifty-fifty fewer are as piece of cake to use. While the free version is proficient enough on its own to recommend, the pro version is definitely worth buying.

Monetization: $3.99 / no ads / no IAPs

Phonation Recorder

I don't like that there's a generically named app on this listing, but Voice Recorder by J Labs is a joy to use. User feel is important, and no other recorder app was as simple or fun equally this one. The app is laid out like a vintage cassette recorder, complete with (optional) click noises when yous use any of the controls. There are 8 skins for the recorder, dozens of cassette skins, and the logo of the sound file matches the cassette peel yous used in your recording. Y'all too save by ejecting the tape. Features exterior the esthetics are pretty spartan, only letting you lot change the recording quality and save location. If you don't want any features that you lot don't get from the built-in recorder, and merely wanted something more fun, this app is worth a try.

Monetization: free / contains ads / IAPs from $0.99 to $14.99

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