Field. - Field Recorder

Field is a field recording app built for people who love sound. Open it, press record.

Soundmark

Field finds recordings that stand out from the others you've made at a place. Mark your own, or let Field suggest them. A creek, a cable car line, the particular hum of your kitchen. Sounds that identify where you've been.

Similar Recordings

Open any recording and find others in your library that share its character. Same acoustic moment, captured elsewhere.

Auto-bookmarks

Field marks high-confidence detections while you record. Find the events in long captures without scrubbing through them.

Sound ID

On-device AI identifies sounds as you record: birdsong, wind, rain, traffic, voices. Tagged and timestamped. Tags refine after each recording; tap × on any wrong one to dismiss it.

Import

Bring existing recordings into Field from Voice Memos, Just Press Record, Files, or any audio app's share menu. Imported recordings get the same treatment as native captures: tags, fingerprints, transcripts, and soundmark candidacy.

Acoustic Fingerprint

Field measures every recording: loudness, true peak, dynamic range, spectral character, spaciousness, activity. Read it as a phrase ("warm and expansive," "steady and intimate"), or as numbers in any DAW that reads BWF metadata.

High-Resolution Audio

Up to 96kHz, 24-bit in WAV, AIFF, FLAC, or AAC. You choose the resolution.

True Stereo

Stereo recordings from the built-in mics capture in real stereo, not dual mono. Field uses the rear array iOS reserves for video, for a wider, more natural environmental image.

Live Transcription

On-device speech recognition in 20+ languages. Your words become searchable text as you speak.

Location & Weather

Every recording is geo-tagged with place, map, and weather conditions at the moment of capture.

Route Maps

Walk, ride, or drive while recording and Field draws your path on the map. Afterward it scans for the most distinctive moments (rare sounds, unexpected events) and marks them along the route. Open the map full screen with its own scrubber: pan, jump to any moment, follow along as you listen.

Library Playback

Play, scrub, and auto-play from the library. Sort by date, duration, size, or location.

Live Monitoring

Hear what the mic hears through your headphones while recording.

Action Button

Assign Toggle Recording and start a capture with one press, before the app is even open. (iPhone 15 Pro and later.)

Apple Watch

Add a Field complication to any watch face. See whether a recording is in progress, and tap to start one without taking your phone out.

Control Center

A Field button in Control Center starts or stops a recording from anywhere in iOS.

Live Activity

A recording in progress appears as a Live Activity, with elapsed time on the Lock Screen and the Dynamic Island.

Time-of-Day Colors

Recording cards reflect when they were captured: dawn, midday, golden hour, dusk, night.

Field Pro, a one-time purchase, adds:

Smart Playlists

Rules-based collections that update themselves. Filter by tag, place, soundmark, duration, or any combination.

Reaper Project Export

Share any recording as a Reaper .zip. Bookmarks become project markers; sound tags become region markers. Open the .rpp and you're laid out for editing.

Per-tag thresholds

Tune how confident Field needs to be before adding each individual tag.

Folders

Organize recordings by project, trip, or session.

iCloud Sync

Your library syncs across devices. Never lose a recording. With on-demand audio, files download only when you open them.

Trim & Crop

Set in and out points, preview the edit, save as new or replace.

Bookmarks

Drop timestamped markers during playback. Add labels, tap to jump.

Video Export

Share recordings as waveform videos in 16:9, 1:1, or 9:16 with optional metadata overlay.

Private by design. Field has no servers and never sees your data. Everything stays on your device unless you turn on iCloud Sync, and even then, your sync runs through your own iCloud account, not ours.