Wake: Ultimate Field Notes

Wake is a sound-activated field recorder. Set a threshold, arm it, and walk away — it listens continuously and only captures when sound crosses the line, so you come back to the takes you wanted and nothing in between. Built for foley, field recording, nature and bird capture, voice notes, and anywhere you'd rather the recorder wait for the sound than eat your storage and your afternoon. • Sound-activated gate — trigger threshold, pre-roll and post-roll, hold, and a ±dB exit so a take doesn't cut off in a quiet moment. • Export for socials — one tap renders a take as a share-ready video, and the TAPE view exports SQUARE for feeds or VERTICAL (9:16) for reels and stories, the vertical tape carrying each take's capture time, classification, and location burned in — and, if you like, the words that were said, each one timed to the sound that starts it. Share a take as a small, playable M4A that drops straight into any chat; the lossless WAV is a long press away. • Nothing you catch is lost — every take is written to storage as its own file WHILE it records, not at the end, so a killed app or a dead battery costs a few seconds at most. No length cap, 16- or 24-bit. • Trigger EQ — a 12-pole high/low cut that decides what the gate listens to, drawn live over a spectrum waterfall so you can see a bird call's fingerprint. • A HUD you operate like a device — drag the display to set threshold and trigger length; watch the record preview shade before you ever hit record. • Review it as TAPE — the whole session as a vertical waterfall you push with your finger, playhead reading a quarter up so you see what's coming, with the wall-clock time each sound was captured beside it. Or split it into wakes and work take by take. • Keeps recording with the screen locked, and puts a live meter on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island — gate-coloured waveform, elapsed time, take count, and a STOP you can hit without unlocking. • Every take is sealed — a tamper-evident audit trail hashes the audio and can stamp where it was captured. Non-destructive: crop and normalize without ever altering the sealed recording. • Live captions + sound classification — classification runs on-device; captions use Apple speech recognition. • Record on your iPhone, review on your iPad — the library syncs through your own iCloud — and share any recording as a WAV plus its sealed manifest. Nothing is sent to us unless you post it to the members wall. No accounts. No ads. No trackers.