A lecture, an interview or an idea you recorded in Apple's Voice Memos app can move into Grape in a few taps. Share it to Grape and it becomes a note holding the recording, ready to play on your other devices and to transcribe on the Plus, Pro and Lifetime plans.
It works on iPhone and iPad, on every plan.
Sharing a voice memo
Open Voice Memos and tap the recording, then tap the More button, the three dots beside its name, and choose Share. In the row of apps, tap Grape.
Grape's sheet opens with the memo's name as the title and the recording listed under it with a waveform. The box under that is for anything you want to say about the recording: write a line or two, or leave it empty. Tap Save. The sheet says Saved to Grape and where the note went, then closes.
Several memos at once
In Voice Memos, tap Select at the top, pick the recordings, tap Share and choose Grape. They go into one note, each as a player of its own, and the note takes its title from the first one. To give each memo a note of its own, share them one by one.
Choosing the folder
The note lands in the first folder of your library unless you pick another. Tap the folder row under the box and choose one of your folders.
Adding it to a note you already have
To keep the recording with notes you already took, like your notes from the same lecture, tap New note, the row at the foot of the sheet. The sheet lists the notes you used last, with a search field over them. Pick the note, and choose Append at the top to put the recording at the end of the note or Prepend to put it at the start. The row now names the note, and Save adds the recording to it instead of making a new note.
Where the note ends up
The sheet hands the recording to Grape, and the note is written the next time you open the app. Open Grape and it is there: the title, anything you wrote, and the recording as an audio card you can play. With sync on, it reaches your other devices like any note, and plays in Grape on your computer too.
Recordings Grape converts
Voice Memos can save a recording as QuickTime audio, which Grape on a computer cannot play. Grape turns those into M4A on the way in, so the note plays on every device. MP3, M4A, WAV, AAC, AIFF and FLAC files come in as they are. Either way Grape reads the length first, so the player shows it straight away.
A recording larger than 100 MB is left out of the note. Voice Memos' Lossless quality makes files several times bigger than Compressed, so a long lecture recorded Lossless can pass that size.
From other apps
Voice Memos is not the only way in. A recording in the Files app, or a take from another recorder app, goes the same way: share it and choose Grape. Share to Grape from your phone covers pages, photos and PDFs.
Transcribing it
A shared recording comes in as audio only. On the Plus, Pro and Lifetime plans, tap the menu button on the audio card and choose Transcribe to turn it into text, then edit it, run a quick prompt on it or insert it under the recording. See Transcribe a recording or audio file. On Pro you can also identify the speakers in an interview or a meeting.
Recordings made with Grape's own Record Voice Note control are transcribed on their own as soon as you stop, see Record voice notes from the Lock Screen.
On Android
Grape takes shared text and links on Android, not recordings yet. To bring an audio file in, add it in Grape on your computer, see Import audio files on desktop, and sync brings it to the phone.
If it does not work
- Grape is not in the row of apps. Scroll to the end of the row, tap More and turn Grape on
- The recording is not listed in Grape's sheet. It is over 100 MB. Trim it in Voice Memos, or record long sessions at Compressed quality: in the Settings app, tap Apps, then Voice Memos, then Audio Quality
- The note is not in Grape yet. Grape writes it when the app opens. Open Grape and it appears in the folder you picked