iDicto

by Eric March on October 11, 2008 at 7:12 pm

(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)

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App Name: iDicto
Developer: DAVA Consulting
Category: Business

For those of you who find it easier to take voice notes, or who merely want to record either something, be it the melody or lyrics for a song idea, a lecture, or whatever, DAVA have come out with a very impressive voice recorder that they’re offering on promo for free, which is right in my price range.

What’s even better is that iDicto is actually quite a fantastic app, as voice recorders go.  It’s feature-rich, configurable, functional, and quite pleasing to look at besides.  To start with, you can choose to record in either low quality 8KHz mode, medium quality 22KHz mode (half CD quality) or full CD quality 44.1KHz.  Obviously, file sizes increase as quality increases, but the quality is quite good at CD quality.  8KHz sounds like it would if you were dictating over the phone, but 44KHz naturally sounds exceptionally clear.

The recording screen is fun to look at it.  The record button pulsates a glowing red while two tape reels slowly rotate.  When you’re done you just tap the record button again.  Each recording is time stamped, can given a name, assigned low, medium or high priority, and can be assigned one of 63 available icons.  Recordings can be sorted by name, date, icon or priority.

Perhaps iDicto’s coolest feature is its ability to sync over WiFi (after a fashion) with any computer without the need for a companion server to be running on the host PC.  When you want to sync, go to the record screen and tap the reciprocating arrows.  It will give you a URL to enter into your web browser, which will allow you to connect to iDicto’s built-in mini web server, be given a list of available recordings, and download the ones you want to your PC.  How cool is that?  Sure, it’s been done before on the jailbreak scene, but I think this is the first time I’ve ever seen it done in the App Store — at least with a freebie.

Remember though that iDicto is free only for a limited time, so grab it while you can, because if you need a voice recorder, I can’t think of a better one.

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