Field.

A field recording tool for the people who listen to places.

Field. Detail view of a Stone Arch Bridge recording: waveform, soundmark control, location, acoustic descriptors, weather, and map.

Field 1.4: Soundmarks. May 2026.

Mark and find the recordings that capture what makes a place itself.

Studio-Quality Capture

Record in WAV, AIFF, FLAC, or AAC at up to 96 kHz / 32-bit. CD, Broadcast, and Studio quality tiers — you choose the resolution.

Soundmark

A soundmark is a sound that belongs to a place: a car clacking over a trolley track, a bell that rings over your city. A sound that people who know a place would recognize at once.

Mark your own, or let Field suggest them. Soundmarks group by place in your library, and you name each one yourself. A neighborhood, a trail, a room, whatever fits.

The word comes from R. Murray Schafer's acoustic ecology, a framework for hearing places by what makes them sound like themselves.

Live Sound Identification

On-device AI listens as you record and tags sounds in real time: birdsong, wind, rain, traffic, voices. Tags refine after each recording.

Similar Recordings

Pull up any recording and Field finds the others that sound like it. The same kind of acoustic moment from across your library.

Auto-bookmarks

Field marks the strongest detections while you record. Find the events in long captures without scrubbing through them.

Acoustic Fingerprint

Field measures every recording: loudness, true peak, dynamic range, spectral character, spaciousness, activity. Read it as a phrase ("warm and expansive," "steady and intimate"), or as numbers in any DAW that reads BWF metadata.

Live Transcription & Field Notes

On-device speech recognition runs as you record. Your spoken observations are transcribed live and saved alongside the audio.

Geo-tagged by Default

Every recording is pinned to a place. Location, place name, and region are captured automatically and shown on a map.

Weather & Context

Temperature and conditions are captured at the moment of recording. Dawn, midday, golden hour, dusk, or night — the time of day is noted alongside.

Handcrafted Themes

Six themes — Dark, Light, Dawn, Golden Hour, Night, Outdoors. Each is tuned for the light and mood you're recording in.

For deeper work.

A one-time upgrade. No subscription.

Upgrade in the app. Everything else stays free.

Private by design.

Sound identification, transcription, and analysis run entirely on your device. Field has no servers and never sees your recordings. Everything stays on your device unless you turn on iCloud Sync, and even then, your sync runs through your own iCloud account, not ours.

✓  On-device processing ✓  No account required ✓  Zero data collection

Questions or feedback?

Bug reports, feature requests, and ways to make this even better.