I really want to love this app if it worked as advertised, it would be the perfect solution to my impromptu recording needs (I'm a journalist). So, five big stars and again, an apology to the developers for disparaging this awesome app. As some others have pointed out, the transcription service is somewhat limited, but that's not an issue for me. Even in that environment, using only my Watch, the recording is crisp and clear. Took it off and everything works exactly as it should! I used the app last night to record portions of a city commission meeting big room, poorly-miked speakers, the whole audio nightmare. The problems I encountered with unresponsiveness were being caused by a cheap-o screen protector on my Apple Watch. UPDATE: OK, my apologies to the developers. Thank you for a great app! And for maintaining it.īetter Than I Thought at First star star star star starīuckwheat Fujimoto's Review of Just Press Record Reviewed on 12/6/18 12:39 PM Because with regular app use the files stack up quickly. Request: iOS file deletion with a swipe, not 2 pop-up presses per file, and an option to 'delete all' - like the Watch app. It will save on the Watch to sync with the phone when it's near. It's even easier to use than the on the phone. It starts recording as soon as it launches. It's powerful, simple, and well connected to other apps for export as both audio and transcribed/text file! Very much appreciate that you can pause and continue on the same recording/file - so you don't have to deal with the tedium of piecing fragments together. This has no learning curve - except on the Watch to pause. I've tried several similar apps over the years and had given up - because others have been inaccurate, too much a hassle to use, copy/paste only - no export, or time limits, auto off too quickly, etc. No time limits with control over the recording with start, pause, stop so I don't feel rushed while I'm dictating and thinking. It's great to finally have an excellent app that works transcribes accurately from voice recognition. Great! Simple and works star star star star starĬrasshipster's Review of Just Press Record Reviewed on 8/28/19 2:03 PM And the Siri’s transcription ability is just not good enough as that of its competitors Google Assistant and Amazon Alex.Ĭannot justify $4.99 for this overpriced, basic yet misleading app. It is not very reliable because it use Siri’s same APIs. (2) Upload to iCloud automatically where in Voice Memos you have to do it manually It’s just the same app as the Voice Memos app that comes with iOS except: After you sent the app to the background by pressing watch crown, and you wake up the watch screen later(Either by tapping the screen or raise your hand), the big red pause button will come back onto screen again. (2) On the Apple Watch App: after you start recording, the big red pause button will stay on the screen. How this app claim that it records discretely in the background must have misled so many customers. After you start recording and sent the app to the background, a big red bar will show at the top the screen just as default Voice Memos app did. (1) On the iPhone App: it record same as default Voice Memos app that comes with iOS system. In the app’s description, it claims that it can “record discretely in the background” on both iPhone and Watch Apps. UndertowMemories's Review of Just Press Record Reviewed on 9/18/18 7:59 AM Misleading of the claim “Record discretely in the background” star star star_border star_border star_border I am running the app on an iPhone XS Max so it isn’t a slow phone that is causing the incredibly slow transcription speed. This app is absolutely unusable for transcription. If you want to transcribe recordings it would be 50 times faster to play the audio and type it out yourself even if you are a slow typist. After 4 minutes it was still working on the transcription that probably wasn’t more than a dozen words at most. I thought that was ridiculous so I made a second recording that was only about 10 seconds long and I hit transcribe again.
Read the documentation that said if you have a long recording that it is a good idea to plug your phone in and leave the app open so it will transcribe faster. I recorded about 3 minutes of audio and hit the transcribe button then waited, and waited, and waited. I bought this app for 1 reason - it claimed to be able to create transcripts of what you record.
Tech's Review of Just Press Record Reviewed on 9/25/18 7:44 PM Worthless for transcriptions star star_border star_border star_border star_borderĭr.