• Capture the beginning of a sound: new clips include up to half a second of audio from before the sound crosses your threshold.
• Pause, resume, and seek through clips with elapsed and total playback time. Tap or drag anywhere on the scrubber to move through your audio.
• Stop listening directly from the Recordings tab, even before a clip has been saved.
• See when listening has stopped after an interruption or audio-device change, and restart with one tap.
• Enjoy smoother clip deletion that keeps the remaining recordings in place, with the confirmation anchored to the selected clip on iPad.
• Scrub without accidentally revealing Delete. Deletion is available from each clip’s options menu.

Private Ear has been rebuilt for modern iPhone and iPad devices.

• Set your sound threshold against live microphone levels using the slider or draggable threshold line.
• Capture quieter sounds with thresholds down to -80 dBFS.
• Choose how long clips stay open during quiet pauses.
• Browse clips grouped by recording session and play each session in order.
• See live playback levels and a miniature dBFS display in each playing clip.
• Rename, share WAV audio, and delete clips in the recording library.
• Enjoy a dark electronic-recorder design with support for larger text sizes.
• Import readable recordings from the original app automatically.

Upgrade note: the old in-app password lock is no longer used. Use your device passcode and iOS app locking to protect access. WAV sharing replaces the old desktop transfer client.

Remove red bar at top of screen when in background and not recording.