The ad-supported Audio Memos Lite offers the same recording features as the $.99 version, including three quality levels, a normalizing filter to give all your recordings a consistent average volume, and detailed information about each recording. Note that all five apps are also available for the iPhone and other mobile devices some also have PC equivalents.Īudio Memos is a versatile voice recorder that saves your recordings as WAV files, so they're easy to transfer and play on a variety of devices. Unfortunately, the free version of AudioNote Lite doesn't let you export your recordings, and (Ohm) Recorder's free release has been dumbed down so much it's nearly useless. Dragon Dictation coverts the words you speak into text that you can copy, cut, e-mail, or post to Twitter or Facebook.ĭragon Dictation is the only one of the five apps I tested that doesn't have a fee-based version with more features. Of the five free voice-recording iPad apps I tried, only two-Audio Memos Free and Smart Recorder Lite-let you record short sound bites and attach the resulting sound files to an e-mail or transfer them via Wi-Fi, ftp, or an online file-storage service. The constant screen-shifting and other shortcomings of the iPad key layout have led many people to use apps that let you communicate with minimum typing. People have been looking for ways to improve on the iPad's onscreen keyboard since day one.