Alon Dictaphone
reviews and complaints

Worst interface of any app i own. No intuition allowed. Symbols mean nothing, muliple gestures needed for the simplest tasks. How to discard? Where to save as? Good luck. Just getting to these tasks takes multiple search and fail attempts. A massive improvement would be if the symbols and page flow were designed as if no instructions were needed. It shouldn't be this complicated. It's a simple recording app.

I needed a simple App to record the intro and outros of my podcast and this just fit the bill, it allows tons of different ways to transfer the files over as I need to merge them with the actual interviews and recordings and I'm able to match the quality of the Audio from my desktop. maybe too many bells and wistles for what I need but I rather have the options than having to buy multiple apps for the options.

The product quality looks excellent, but the instructions are hardly intuitive. I contacted the company and asked them if they had a YouTube site with some basic instructions of the product and they said no, but they were working on it. The printed instructions are not helpful in my opinion. I wish it was, I just wasted 20 minutes trying to edit one of the recordings. Now I will just start over again. Wish me luck!

This is what apples (voice memo) should have been. The ability to jump to next recording by pressing the arrow and also list/recording loop is exactly what I needed.. Very important feature that I can't believe voice memos does not have. And iCloud backup. Extra silly 2 cents...The interface looks a tad bit childish as far as the Ui is concerned. But this is really a great app.. Make the buttons look a bit more professional and I'll give it 100 stars...

Great to record long meetings or short memos to myself. I especially love it during training meetings, so I can go back over my notes while listening, and see exactly what I missed, or play back any time I have a question. I can share the files with others on my team, so we ALL have the same recording. It's a great tool for professionals, as well as for personal use. I wish I had this when my little girl did her singing performances for me-- I'd have a great CD to enjoy now!

Over the years, I have used several different note-taking apps for my extensive writing and reporting responsibilities, and this one is probably the best: I'm hedging a little because I've only used it now for about a week, however, that includes a keynote address and a day-long conference. It performed flawlessly, and I particularly made good use of the footnotes capabilities. Later, I found the ability to regulate the speed of playback very helpful for transcription purposes.

Finally, a versatile app with thoughtful options on storing and organizing your files. Also, many apps don't allow you to import files from other applications. This one does! I like being able to review recordings of meeting notes on my phone and not have to carry a separate device like a recorder. Tech-support was great they got back with me immediately on my questions and were very thorough. I would really like them to add cuing to incrementally go forward and backward in recordings.

It is solid and does as advertised. The only drawback to me is deleting files is not obvious or easy like in many other applications. I believe it to be more user challenges than product design. I go to many meetings and seminars and see people frantically taking notes missing the essence of what is being said. I sit back and give it the attention it deserves and simply click play to refresh on what is needed. Quality is impressive considering the distance some of these speakers are at.

Great recorded sound quality, categories are useful, transfer between apps is great. Here are some downsides: When increased gain level, it adds distortion to sound, when sound is too loud. Needs realtime mic normalization. The cut, paste interface is hard to use. It hard to set cursors precisely at right position. It would be better, if bookmarks could be utilized for it, so we can preset section to be cut or worked on. Otherwise it's almost useless. It would be great to add convertion between mp3 and wav.

I needed a replacement for the stock Voice Memos app (iTunes started multiplying my Voice Memos recordings every time it synced). So I tried a new voice recording memo everyday for the last couple weeks. So far I like this ALON Dictaphone best. It has:

the best quality of sound, options for varying levels of quality & formats, ease of use, and variety of syncing options (Google Drive, Dropbox, and others)

It has other features some people my value, but the ones I've listed were particularly valuable to me. Definitely worth the money.

For anyone looking for a program that transcribes audio to (written) notes, or if you're looking for the ability to dictate notes, such as Dragon Naturally Speaking, this is NOT IT. I just purchased this and already have two recording programs that work beautifully. So I'm going to rate this a 3, because I can't leave a review without assigning a star rating. I want to clarify that is is not a true dictation program, it is an *audio*. recording program with a good filing system and editing abilities. It does not transcribe as indicated by the dictaphone name.

I have MANY voice recorder apps but only use this one. It does everything I need it to. Records in lots of formats, can easily add an afterthought to a note anytime after recording it, can organize recordings into groups/folders which is a necessity when you have a LOT like me, the list goes on. Sure, it's not much to look at display-wise... I'd rather see an old-style meter w/needle moving as I record, like other apps, & some more eye-pleasing colors like tan with blue, black or red. Gets a 0 for it's display but 10 for it's content & that's what counts most. Best yet!

I am a profesional voice actor, a creative writer and a musician. Mobile audio recording plays an important role in my life. I've been looking for years for an app that gives me the flexibility of high quality recording, idea recording and editing tool all in one. This is close to be perfect for me. It has replaced 6 of my previous recording apps already!

I can record high quality auditions and send them to my agent in both of the industry standards .WAV and MP3. Kudos for that.
I can record ideas very easily while I'm driving or away from my desk and organize them later for easy review. That's one of the big pluses of this app IMHO.
I have used it also to record a guitar recital in combination with a Zoom iQ5 mic for iPhone 5 with outstanding results.
The only things missing for me are:

1) Ability to monitor recording with headsets.
(The iQ5 mic has an input jack for headsets but it requires the app to allow monitoring which I don't think this app has or it is so hidden I haven't found it yet.)

2) Ability to display text on screen to read while recording. I know this is too much to ask but just think how many rappers, poets, actors, teachers, narrators etc. would benefit from this. (check an app called iSaidWhat? to see what I'm talking about)

Other than that very good app. Keep it up.

Didn't like that the app keeps prompting you for a review. A forced opinion? Not very customer friendly.

Was too complex. Im trying to get my recording off of here so i can delete this and find something better.

Here's your review. Stop prompting me.

Program does what it says it will and I'm happy. That's why I upgraded from basic.

Two complaints.
1. Inability to delete recordings
2. Prompts to "rate the app" after each use

Otherwise, works as expected.

Its just the interface is terrible
All black and hard to read
Please update it at least with some color styles or something
And the buttons are tiny

Upgraded from free to full version but files I had for the free aren't on the full version. The whole point of upgrading was so I could send those files to someone.

The program itself might be perfectly fine, but it's ridiculous to be asked to do a review every time you launch the program. And I have paid version no less. Very annoying!

Caused serious failure issues with my ipad and in the short lost most of the lecture recordings that I needed. Will look elsewhere for a better recorder. Not worth the money.

I just recorded an interview that I want to share. The recording is high quality but the program crashes/freezes when I try to email the recording. I should have stuck with the basic app; it does less but evidently does what it does very well.

This app does the job, but it's too complicated to do something like add a title to the recording. The settings should be streamlined so you don't have to read a manual to figure it out. This app should be intuitive to use just like an iPhone.

If you're a voiceover artist and need software to submit voiceover auditions for... BUY SOMETHING ELSE! Only buy this if you want to see what a consistent app crash looks like. Buy this if you want to know what horrible customer service feels like. Terrible interface. Poorly constructed design. Amazing software design for an app crash, though. You have to give them that.

BAD - NOT USER FRIENDLY

Would give 5 stars if directions were reasonable.hirribke interface and extremely poor manual.very steep learning curve but is a extremely good app