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Seriously, I cannot understand people who complain. Yes, it is a little rough around the edges. Yes, these guys could use some better gui design (the dock icon is very big and ugly). But this is a very simple and VERY useful app. At the beginning I was a bit concerned about the quality of the recordings but if you go to preferences and select the appropriate format to save your audio files, you can get really high quality audio. The overall quality will depend, of course, on how good your mic is. Also, the better quality the bigger the resulting audio file will be. I did some testing with WAV (lpcm) and the quality was superb. In the end, I opted for Apple-MPEG-4 (acc) and I found this was a very good quality/file size ratio.

I have a MacBook Air and I did some testing in a big room, speaking more than 6 meters away from the computer, not using any external mic. The results were very satisfactory. This is going to be VERY useful to take notes at meetings and be able to figure out what was actually said in a very easy way.

I think this kind of app is a test for what the app store could do. Now we have it for free. If enough people use it and like it, this could be sold at iPhone app store prices and it could become a very viable business for the developpers. In an obscure web site at $30, I dont think I would have even given it a try. Being free or very cheap and with the ease of installation provided by the Apple store? Thats a very different proposition. I think developpers for Mac apps should really start trying this new concept. Yes, it takes a LOT of effort to develop software but once the work is done, it doesnt cost anything to distribute it. Perhaps you make more money selling thousands of copies at $5 than trying to sell the same app for what would in principle seem like a more reasonable price.

jmfontana about Smart Recorder - The Voice Recorder