Growth · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Tape It – iOS recording app for musicians
Hello HN, Over the last 15 months, two friends and I developed the music recording app we felt we wanted based on our own needs as musicians. It's called Tape It [1] and has just recently hit the Apple App Store [2]. We put a lot of effort into a good UX to help musicians really focus on playing their instrument instead of pretending to be a recording engineer. The app records in stereo on newer iPhones (although that's a premium feature; the free version only records in standard mono audio quality). I would be really grateful for advice from this community on how to best approach marketing.…
Tape It is an iOS recording app designed by musicians for musicians, available on the Apple App Store. It prioritizes user experience to let musicians focus on playing rather than managing technical settings. The free… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites. Tape It – iOS recording app for musicians launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Cassette 2.0▲500Record, transcribe & search user interviews, meetings, calls
2017 · cassette.design · its alternatives →
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Cassette for iOS▲390The best way for designers to record & share user interviews
2017 · cassette.design · its alternatives →
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Spit Notes▲198Hey HN, I finally made Spit Notes, a purpose-built iOS app for songwriters that seamlessly connects your audio to your lyrics, ensuring you never lose a song idea again. For years, my own songwriting process caused my phone to be filled with hundreds of untitled voice memos (e.g., "New Recording 142") and a completely separate notes app held my lyrics. This forced a clunky, fragmented workflow that allowed for sparks of song ideas to be forgotten or slip through the cracks. Spit Notes is the app I wished existed to solve this. What it does: Unites melodies and lyrics: You can record audio…
2025 · getspitnotes.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN, this has been my personal project for quite some time now. It has been a slowly evolving project over the years and its core function is for users to expose themselves to progressively more difficult lessons of music notes. NOTE: It is free and there are no ads. There is an in app purchase but most of the app doesn't require it.
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Hey there! I made a little app that lets you to calibrate your turntable by putting on any record and tapping a button. It's called Grooved and it uses your phone's microphone to see how fast your platter is going, almost like magic. You can see what it looks like in action here: https://twitter.com/OKatBest/status/1795453042994680148 The app itself is free without ads, subscriptions, or trackers. It's a tool I built for myself, and I just thought someone else might want to use it too. I have never seen this technology being used before, all other apps require you to…
2024 · grooved.okat.best · its alternatives →
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An app to capture your song ideas
2016 · support.apple.com · its alternatives →
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RM2000 Tape Recorder makes it stupid simple to grab audio samples and organize them: just record the sample, give it a title (and maybe some tags), and it is saved neatly into a directory of your choosing. I'm a huge datahoarder and have always appreciated tools / services like PureRef and Are.na which help me make sense of everything I collect. Those services concern themselves with images and video - I wondered, why can't the same be done with music and audiofiles? I actually got the inspiration for the filenaming scheme from the Emacs Denote package - every sample is saved in the…
2025 · rm2000.app · its alternatives →
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CassetteAI▲171The AI-powered music producer, create your dream music
2023 · cassetteai.com · its alternatives →
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A simple, professional audio recorder
2015 · openplanetsoftware.com · its alternatives →
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Mozart for iOS▲258Make a song and a music video while you're on the go
Feb 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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...because Apple make it too hard to navigate chronologically through anything but your photos. Really they should have let you do this directly from voice memos so that you can share whenever and to wherever you want. If anyone has any suggestions to make it better, let me know. Thanks.
2025 · justsendrecord.com · its alternatives →
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Record, transcribe, curate audio + voice memos iPhone/iPad
2024 · banginaudiorecorder.com · its alternatives →
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pickupnote▲128Capture your music memories. Anytime. Anywhere.
2025 · pickupnote.com · its alternatives →
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Smooth Recorderfrom $9/mo▲257Mac screen recordings that look edited when you hit stop
20d ago · smoothrecorder.com · its alternatives →
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[untitled]▲121Listen, share, and organize your unreleased music
2023 · untitled.stream · its alternatives →
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Capture your song ideas with notation, lyrics, and audio
2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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