About five years ago, NeoLab Convergence released a stylish smart pen designed to write like a normal pen, but also transferred notes to a phone or tablet over Bluetooth. Now the company has launched ...

Voice recorders are one of the earliest apps to land on Android, but Recorder With Tags does it with style. The app allows you to record audio in the background, and even add time-coded notes while ...

Apple Notes has introduced a new feature that integrates audio recording with automatic transcription, elevating the standard for digital note-taking. By embedding this functionality directly into the ...

Thoughts and ideas flash through my head multiple times a day and often when I wake up in the middle of the night. Too often I end up forgetting them before I reach for my smartphone to jot something ...

This is not your average pen. Find out how the Echo Smartpen syncs audio with handwritten notes and digitizes them -- and learn a few tricks along the way. Sharon Profis Former Vice President of ...

For the longest time, I used this application called Otter Voice Meeting Notes to help me transcribe lengthy interviews. The app could search through my audio recordings and arrive at the exact phrase ...

A truly innovative and fun way to take notes and record audio. Livescribe’s Pulse “smartpen” is part pen, part voice recorder, and part nothing you’ve ever seen before. Remember Picture Pages? If not, ...

Soundmarks (free) is a fascinating audio recorder app. When you start and stop a recording, the app marks that point, making it easy to return to it. Think of it as an audio bookmark. The really ...

Ryan is a tech/science writer, skeptic, lover of all things electronic, and Android fan. In his spare time he reads golden-age sci-fi and sleeps, but rarely at the same time. His wife tolerates him as ...

One of the hot new features in Notes in iOS 18 and macOS 15 Sequoia is the ability to record audio and generate a transcript. However, don’t give Apple innovation points since MacWhisper and Audio ...

iOS: Taking notes on the iPad can be a pretty painful process, but CaptureNotes 2 makes it much easier. Colored flags for different notes, audio recording while you type or write on-screen, photo ...

Earlier this week, we spotted recorder.google.com go live for playing, searching, and sharing audio online. The required update to Google Recorder — version 2.2 ...