Smart Recorder Lite - The Free Music and Voice Recorder App Reviews

it is very user friendly application and works excellent

Im trying this little app today on my iMac. It appears to be a smart essential tool that can become handy to record my voice, either to keep notes, or to record from a conversation, like instructions when Im on the phone on speaker, to remember later. The smartest think is that you can add a tag and type notes anywhere during or after the recording to either identify the recording, or type what you recorded. Smart, free, try it! Someday you may just already have the little app that you needed.

bug in the update, wont update properly and shows as installed to be updated at the same time

i try it the free download , i did not work with me, ummm, no idea why

Great idea for an app, but falls short of great. You can work around some problems that it has and it does work for what its intended for, but without the workaround, its almost useless. As I understand it, (certainly what I intended to use it for anyway) you can press start at the beginning of an event and it will record audio of the event and you can type notes and those notes will get time-stamped with the proper time since the start of the event. Great idea for journalists or someone who wants to take meeting notes. Problem is, when you press start, it starts to work as intended. When you type your first note (in the right side of the window), your note is added to the left and time stamped properly. After that, the time stamping no longer works in a usable way. If you press return, it simply returns to the next line, just like youd expect a word processor to, but no new time stamp happens. Not only does no new time stamp happen, I cant find a way to reset it so that it does work properly again during that same session. If you press the "add tag" icon, it adds a new time stamp right then, but that is less than helpful when Im trying to type notes in real time during an event. Their idea is when youre ready to start typing, thats the moment you must press the "add tag" icon. I dont want to have to remember or take time to click something before typing. I would much rather press some button that resets it to a "waiting for input" state so that when I do start typing again, it will then add a time stamp. OR better yet, if I press return two times in a row, it then resets to "waiting" status. Workaround: I found that if you click on the first entry "START RECORD" after you have finished typing a note, then click back in the right side of the window, it will properly time stamp the next time you start to type. I find this less helpful than it is valuable so I have uninstalled it. If development improves greatly, Ill try it again.

At first I thought I was getting a great deal for this app but then once I started using it to record a lecture in my Political Philosophy class, I realized that it will only record three minutes at a time, which is obviously not very helpful for me as a college student. Maybe I just didnt read enough into this and mistakenly thought Id be able to record the entire lecture, but I was disappointed when I realized that I couldnt. I guess I was expecting too much from a free app.

I was recording my grandma talking about her life and it stopped after 3 minutes. By the time I bought the full version I looked over and she died…….. Just joking!!! But my point is although its free it has a time limit.

It is a great product but ultimately it cant record more than 3 minutes at a time. I had to write a critical analysis of a character in a novel for english and found that it was much easier to develop ideas if I was recording them since the ideas were more concise but better worded. It helpped me put down ideas but ultimately I could not speak my full essay in three minutes so I think that overall it needs improvement. I am not willing to splurge for the $5 version since I will probably only use it for english papers.

This is not an app, its a crippleware demo. Apple, please stop allowing developers to upload crap like this.