A good voice-recorder app is essential for a journalist. I'm pretty loyal to mine (Griffin iTalk) but when a friend needed recommendations, I asked my colleagues at PCMag what they use. Some of the answers were surprising (the standard-issue Voice Memos on the iPhone), some led people to realize they'd been relying on the same old app for years, and some caused people great distress (Evernote was a favorite until its price hikes). Of course, you don't need to be a journalist to make use of voice-recording apps. They're useful for podcasters, students, private investigators, audio note takers, and sometimes just the plain paranoid. Yes, there are separate digital recorders, but why carry two gadgets when you already have all these options in the palm of your hand? The apps featured below are free or relatively low-cost and range from basic, easy-to-operate apps to those with a full range of features that even pros will appreciate. If we missed your favorite, let us know in the comments.This article originally appeared on PCMag.com. 1 Griffin iTalk Recorder Premium $1.99 (iOS)Griffin iTalk Recorder Premium records mono audio at three levels of quality and lets you email, message, and share it to other apps like Dropbox, Notes, Slack, Google Drive, and SoundCloud directly from the app. There's a free version, but I recommend springing for Premium. It's $1.99 and lets you record in the background, something that is not possible with the free version for iOS 7 and above. You can also email files up to 20MB versus 2MB (depending on your device) with the free version. Files get saved in AIFF but can be converted to other formats. 2 Voice Memos Free (iOS)The built-in Voice Memos app that comes with iOS is used by many on staff at PCMag. It's super basic but you can trim recordings while saving the original and send files through AirDrop, text them, email them, save them to Google Drive and Dropbox, add them to Notes, copy them to Slack, and share them through other apps like Kik and WhatsApp. 3 Rev Free (iOS, Android)Transcribing is awful, especially listening to your own voice. Rev offers a low-cost and reliable transcription service, but it also has a recording app. You can trim the recording as well as email and save it in Dropbox, Evernote, and Google Drive. The app can record in the background, which is especially handy. For those who use Rev's transcription services, the best feature is that you can press the Transcribe button to submit your file. 4 Voice Recorder & Audio Editor Free, Premium $4.99 (iOS)Another transcription service, the premium version of Voice Recorder & Audio Editor has speech-to-text transcription. It also lets you add notes to recordings, and gives you an ad-free experience. (Caveat: transcription works only for audio that is 30 minutes or less.) Voice Recorder & Audio Editor records in AIFF, CAF, M4A, WAV, and MP3. 5 Voice Record Pro Free (iOS)There are a lot of pro features in Voice Record Pro. You can record in AAC, MPEG, and WAV formats; edit recordings; apply effects including pitch, reverb, and distortion; and export to Google Drive, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, Box Cloud, iCloud Drive, SoundCloud, and FTP servers. 6 RecForge II Free (Android)RecForge II records in mono or stereo, lets you skip silences, start recording at a scheduled time, convert to several file formats, and export to a variety of cloud storage services. You can also use the app to extract sound from videos. 7 Evernote Pricing depends on Evernote plan (iOS, Android)If you already have Evernote, then you can utilize its recording feature by opening a note and clicking the microphone icon. Customers with the basic plan (free) can record up to 25MB per note, those with the plus plan ($34.99 per year) can record up to 50MB per note, and those with premium ($69.99 per year) can record up to 200MB per note. You can't edit or send the recording, however. 8 Say&Go $2.99 (iOS)If you just want an app that handles a few quick notes to self, Say&Go is the way to go. The second you open the app, it starts recording. You can set it to capture 7- to 10-second messages that can be set to automatically save to Dropbox or Evernote or get emailed to you. 9 Tetra Pricing is by subscription: 5 hours per month for $9, 10 hours per month for $29, unlimited for $99 per month (iOS)Most voice-recording apps don't include a solution for recording phone calls. That's because some states require that both parties on a call consent to recording. Tetra is made specifically to record (and place using VoIP) calls. It takes care of the consent law by playing an announcement at the beginning of the call that the call is being recorded. The announcement can be turned off though, leaving legal compliance up to the operator. Tetra doesn't just record calls, it also transcribes them, even labeling each party to the call. 10 How to Record Calls on an iPhone Apple doesn't make it easy to record phone calls, but it's not impossible. Here's how.

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