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Re: Show HN: I made an app that lets you save audio to your Cameral Roll

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Post by zahirbmirza » Fri, Jun 20, 2025, 7:29 AM UTC

8mobile wrote: post #50

Hi, congrats for Just Send Record! I love the idea of turning voice recordings into shareable visual content. it’s really creative. It would be nice to see a few examples right on the homepage, just to better understand what the final result looks like. Before I buy it I would like to try it, do you have a trial version? Excited to see where this goes!

If you share an email address, I think I could send you a code that lets you have it for free; you wont need to buy in that case.

Re: Show HN: I made an app that lets you save audio to your Cameral Roll

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Post by fennecfoxy » Mon, Jun 30, 2025, 9:51 AM UTC

zahirbmirza wrote: post #28

euazOn wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nope, not really for voice memos - those are locked away in the app. Unrelated, but it also has terrible built-in support for playing audio files from the file browser.

so true. And it's just locked away thing that bugs me. If I record an audio in WhatsApp or in Messages or Voice Memos they are locked and I have to go back inside of those apps to access them. I prefer to have easy access to notes that I make in one place so really I just developed my own work around that allows me to do that. Thanks so much for your comments. It's interesting that people notice some problems. Apple…

I saw your other comment about thinking about defecting ha ha. Just remember that with great power comes greater (ish) responsibility - apps can do a lot more on Android but this means that malware can potentially do more damage. Though for a while many apps have had restricted access to filesystem, you have to enable full file system access on a per-app basis.

So as long as you don't install random apks (and enable the option that allows this) or give arbitrary/untrustworthy apps full file system access (also specifically enabled) then you're good.

Re: Show HN: I made an app that lets you save audio to your Cameral Roll

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Post by fennecfoxy » Mon, Jun 30, 2025, 10:00 AM UTC

pyman wrote: post #23

vinnymac wrote: post #18

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iOS has a file browser called Files. I believe this is an attempt at trying to level up the Voice Memos feature which has been neglected compared to other OS features.

It just makes you wonder why Apple is so behind with its apps. I remember when Android was the one struggling to catch up, but now the tables have turned. A friend of mine was able to remove people from a photo ages ago, something that only recently came to iOS. Apple spent so much time and money on those 3D avatars, but honestly, who's using them? I mean, 8-year-olds don't even have iPhones, right? Apple could take…

I don't know if Android was ever the one catching up with apps. Remember the first iPhone wanted to use html5 apps + not allow an app store/custom apps, only those provided by Apple.

Whereas Android wanted SDK + app storefront from the get-go. The "Androids" book has this quote: "I wanted a fourteen-year old kid sitting in Kansas to be able to write an app in the morning and upload it in the afternoon to Android Market and have it go out to sell to all the customers."

Can't recommend this book so much though - it has some interesting bits but it's just not technical enough/the writing style is very same-ey across the book (which makes sense since they're telling the same part of the story from different perspectives) but it just gets very boring reading essentially the same phrases etc over & over.