just press record

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Description of App

Just Press Record is a simple, professional audio recorder that brings the ultimate convenience of one-tap recording and instant syncing via iCloud to all your devices. Perfect for capturing ideas, thoughts and memos on the go.

And with speech to text transcription, high quality audio playback and effortless sharing via Notes, Messages, Mail or any of your favourite apps that support audio or text, Just Press Record really is the perfect tool to fit seamlessly into your day.

The ideal tool for musicians, journalists, businesses, students, lecturers, audio professionals, podcasters or anyone who needs to capture audio at home, in the studio or on the move.

Available for iOS 10, watchOS 3 and macOS.

** Featured by Apple at WWDC 2016 as an example of excellent design **
** iMore's ‘Apple Watch app of the Year’ **
** Featured in the New York Times **

FEATURES:

MULTIPLE DEVICES
Play back and record on all your iOS devices, your Apple Watch and your Mac – giving you ultimate flexibility on how you use your recordings.

iCLOUD SYNC
Recordings and iOS transcriptions are saved straight to iCloud Drive so they sync instantly and automatically across all your devices.

ONE TAP RECORDING FROM ALL YOUR DEVICES
Instant access to a record button whenever you need it. A widget on the Lock Screen and in Notifications Center in iOS, a Complication on the Apple Watch and a Menu Bar icon on the Mac bring you the ultimate convenience of one-tap recording wherever you are.

SPEECH TO TEXT TRANSCRIPTION
New for iOS 10, Just Press Record lets you transcribe your spoken words into text. Turn your recordings into handy text that scrolls along with your recording as it plays back.

EASY SHARING
Share your recordings and transcripts to any of the apps and services you have set up on your device or to iTunes on your Mac or PC via the Lightning connector. Your device’s share options are your only limitation.

ALL RECORDINGS FULLY SEARCHABLE
You can find your recordings by keyword search, either in-app or in Spotlight.

STAND ALONE RECORDING AND PLAYBACK ON APPLE WATCH
You can record on your Apple Watch even when your iPhone is not around. The next time they connect, recordings made on Apple Watch will transfer to your iPhone. Your most recent recordings are kept on your Apple Watch so you can listen to them right from your wrist.

UNLIMITED RECORDING TIME
With unlimited recording time you can record just about anything, so long as you have enough storage on iCloud Drive!

AUTOMATIC ORGANISATION
Recordings are automatically organised by date and time but can be renamed so you can locate them easily.

BACKGROUND RECORDING ON iOS
Browse your other apps while you record.

MULTITASKING
Support for Slide Over and Split View on iPad.

3D TOUCH
Start and stop a recording from the home screen with a Quick Action. Peek and Pop the contents of folders in the list of recordings.

VOICE OVER AND ACCESSIBILITY
Full accessibility support including VoiceOver and Magic Tap gesture to start and stop a recording.

FILE FORMAT
Recordings are saved in the standard iTunes M4A (AAC) format.

URL SCHEME
Just Press Record for iOS implements the following URL scheme:

Launch Just Press Record:
justpressrecord://

Start a new recording:
justpressrecord://record

Stop and save the recording
justpressrecord://stop

Version

2.0.1

Free or Paid

Paid

watchOS Version

3.x

Accessibility Comments

The app is very accessible. Just a warning. Should yoru watch lock the recording will stop. There is no indication of this.

Usability

Fully Accessible

Other Comments

As I said when the app is in the background it cannot record. Also in its iOs companion you get no voiceover when recording. This is not very cool to me. I did let the devs know.

Recommendations

2 people have recommended this app

Most recently recommended by KE7ZUM 7 years ago

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Comments

By Tim Noonan on Sunday, October 23, 2016 - 11:16

To work around an annoying aspect of the recording facility in the Apple Watch that puts the Voiceover cursor on the cancel button, it is either necessary to flick to or touch the save recording button, or much easier, when you have come to the end of the information you wish to record on the Watch, simply press the side button.

If you just double-tap after you start recording, you will cancel the recording in progress.

Note that you may need to activate just Press Record from the dock, in order for your latest recording to be send to iCloud Drive.

By KE7ZUM on Sunday, October 23, 2016 - 11:16

That works, although I just keep focus on the save button and make sure the watch doesn't lock. Thanks for that.

By Michael Doise on Sunday, October 23, 2016 - 11:16

I think the watch complication for Just Press record is really a neat feature of this app.

By KE7ZUM on Sunday, October 23, 2016 - 11:16

Really? I've never used it. Hmm. I'll have to try this. Thanks for that.

By Hubert on Monday, January 23, 2017 - 11:16

Hi,
I've just downloaded this app onto my phone, and put it on my Apple Watch. I made a recording, which firstly didn't show up on the app on my phone, the recording was made on the watch. Then I used 3d touch to resend the recording from the watch, and that worked. However, when I open iCloud drive on my Mac, the recording still does not show up. Has anyone else had that problem?

By Jim Fettgather on Tuesday, May 23, 2017 - 11:16

In reply to by Michael Doise

I am not sure why, but since the end of 2016, beginning in 2017, all of the files I record in Just press Record are saved locally to the phone, but not to iCloud Drive.
I wonder what may have happened to cause this.

By Sabrina on Thursday, November 23, 2017 - 11:16

Since Watch Os 4 this app can record in the background.

By Dennis D on Saturday, December 23, 2017 - 11:16

Where can I find the voiceover commands I can use with the Just Record App

By Sabrina on Friday, March 23, 2018 - 11:16

They are rather straight forward; just two finger double tap to start or stop recording, but on the Apple Watch it is even easier since there are just two buttons; latest and record. I find that the apple watch app works better in airplane mode wich is why I always have airplane mode when I actually need to record something for my diary. I use my watch to record a lot.