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A (much) better Voice Memos app (iPhone)
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HN · launched Jul 21, 2026 · 8 upvotes (top 54%) · 0 views
Niche: mobile audio utility apps · 76 launches, 8 in the last 7 days ▼ -38% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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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
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Competitors mentioned: Voice Memos
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1625 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #851 of 1626 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 264 days after the earliest competitor.
- Voxxy · hn · 2026-05-24 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.74
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- Speechmark · hn · 2026-06-19 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.70
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- YazSes · hn · 2026-09-12 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- earshot · github · 2026-10-12 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- turnover · github · 2026-10-20 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.60
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