Description
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, JustPressRecord, Files, or any audio app's share menu. Imported recordings get the same treatment as native captures: tags, fingerprints, transcripts, soundmark candidacy, iCloud sync.
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.
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.
Library Playback
Play, scrub, and auto-play recordings from the library. Sort by date, duration, size, or location.
Live Monitoring
Hear what the mic hears through your headphones while recording.
Time-of-Day Colors
Recording cards reflect when they were captured: dawn, midday, golden hour, dusk, night.
— Field Pro (one-time purchase) —
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.
Nouveautés (v1.4.3)
Transcription and playback get more reliable, and a few rough edges around the map and photos got smoothed out.
Transcribe any recording after the fact. A new button on the recording detail page runs on-device transcription. Handy for imports, which never had a transcript, and for any live recording that came back empty.
The last word makes it in. Stopping mid-sentence used to clip the trailing word or two as the analyzer shut down. Those now land in the final transcript.
First recording after launch works. On iOS 26, the speech model needed a moment to load, and the very first recording could come back blank. Field now gets the model ready at launch and holds onto the opening audio while it warms up.
You'll know if a recording didn't take. If something prevents it from starting, Field tells you on the spot instead of leaving you with an empty file.
Audio routes where it should. Plug in wired or Bluetooth headphones during playback and the sound follows, instead of staying stuck on the speaker. Playback also picks back up cleanly after a phone call or alarm.
Damaged files explain themselves. If a file can't be read, whether from an interrupted recording, a partial iCloud download, or similar, the detail page now says what's happening instead of failing silently.
Map opens where you've been recently. The map now opens centered on your most recent geotagged recording, instead of zoomed out to show everywhere you've been.
Photos stay where you put them. The Add Photo button now sits inline with your recording's photo thumbnails, and photos you attach before hitting record stick with the recording.