Quartz
A (much) better Voice Memos app (iPhone)
Details
- External ID
- 48995356
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Quartz
- Website domain
- madebywindmill.com
- Launched
- July 21, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 8
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.46176821983273597
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- native desktop apps and utilities
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- voice notes app for iphone
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial A recording app is easy, but achieving non-destructive multi-band 'Magic EQ' analysis, neural speech denoising models running on CoreML in real time, and 24-bit lossless DSP editing requires specialized digital signal processing.
What it would actually take: Built using Swift, AVFAudio/CoreAudio, and CoreML for on-device neural noise suppression. The challenging aspects include real-time custom DSP filter graphs for automated spectral balancing (Magic EQ), non-destructive audio timeline editing pipelines, and low-latency buffer management. Requires digital signal processing (DSP) and CoreAudio engineering expertise.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Voice Memos
Competitors
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a vertical saas tool for Insurance yet.