The built in voice recorder on your phone is probably absolute garbage. Whether you are tracking a massive three hour lecture, laying down a quick vocal track, or just taking mental notes while driving, you need audio that actually sounds decent. Hi Q MP3 Voice Recorder completely replaces your stock app, turning your phone into a surprisingly powerful piece of audio gear.

CAPTURING INSANELY CRISP AUDIO

Most basic recording apps compress your audio until it sounds like it was recorded on a potato. This thing actually captures crystal clear, 44 kHz audio right out of the gate. You can push the bitrate all the way up to 320 kbps, ensuring every single breath and background detail gets picked up perfectly. Plus, if you are sitting way in the back of a massive lecture hall or trying to record a quiet interview in a loud coffee shop, you can manually tweak the input gain. Pushing that gain slider lets you salvage audio that would otherwise be a muffled mess.

DITCHING CABLES AND CLOUD SYNCING LIKE A PRO

There is nothing worse than filling up your phone’s storage with massive uncompressed audio files. Thankfully, you can set the app to automatically dump your fresh recordings straight into your Google Drive or Dropbox the second you hit stop. It completely takes the panic out of losing an important file. Want to edit a track on your desktop? Skip the messy cables entirely. As long as your phone and computer are on the same Wi Fi network, you can instantly beam the files across the room. Once your library starts getting chaotic, the built in file manager lets you quickly rename and organize your clips so you never lose track of a crucial recording again.