FieldLog.net is now available on the iOS App Store!
This has been a long time coming.
For a while, FieldLog.net has lived on Android and the web. That worked, but it turns out a lot of creative professionals prefer Apple products, so who was I to argue!
What FieldLog.net is (and isn’t)
FieldLog.net is a logging tool.
It’s not a recorder. It doesn’t try to replace your Zoom, Sony, or Tascam. The goal is simpler than that: make it easy to keep track of what you recorded, where you recorded it, and how you recorded it.
If you’ve ever come back to the studio with a folder full of files named something like:
ZOOM0001.WAV
ZOOM0002.WAV
ZOOM0003.WAV…and no memory of which one was the quiet forest at sunrise and which one were the bells of York Minster, you already understand the problem.
FieldLog.net was created to help bring order to that chaos.
Why mobile apps are important
A lot of field recording setups already revolve around a phone.
Sometimes it’s just for notes. Sometimes it’s GPS. Sometimes it’s Merlin, maps, or reference photos. It’s already in your pocket, already powered, and already part of your workflow.
Having FieldLog.net on both major mobile operating systems means you don’t need a second device or a workaround. You can log sessions as they happen, in the same place you’re already checking time, location, and context, and you don’t have to worry about that paper notebook
By making things just a bit smoother I hope you’re more likely to get out and record.
Built from actual field use
This app wasn’t designed in a vacuum.
It comes directly out of years of field recording – missed notes, forgotten setups, and the slow realization that memory is not a reliable metadata system. I took a two week trip to the UK in April last year with my trusty A10, and picked up some amazing sounds, but I moved through the country so quickly that I can no longer positively identify a lot of them.
This release happily commemorates a year of me working on this app.
The goal wasn’t to build the most feature-rich app, but was to be high-speed and low drag, but I still have some amazing plans for the future.
What’s next
This is not a “finished” release.
It’s a solid foundation, and now that it’s on both Android and iOS, development can focus on making the experience better rather than just expanding platform support.
Next I hope to tie them both to the web portal, and allow users to use that web app to actually interact with files and share things they’ve created. Teams and other professional workflow needs are on my radar as well.
Try it out
If you’re already using FieldLog.net on Android or the web, the iOS app should feel familiar.
If you’re new to it, this is a good place to start.
Find it here, and please if you have any thoughts, comments, requests, or uses, reach out!