Ever since I started sharing the android version of the app, people have asked if I had an iOS version. After finding some Apple hardware, and porting the Kotlin app to Kotlin Multi Platform, I can now says that FieldLog.net is coming to iOS! The app likely won’t be on the store until mid-April due to the rigorous review process, and me wanting to have feature parity before I apply. It is available now for beta testing on iOS through Apple’s TestFlight program.… Keep reading

I started writing FieldLog after frustrations from how poorly I handled organization after a trip to England in April. Well, I’ve been using the Android app (and syncing online) since around the start of September, and I took it on a recent trip to Japan for two weeks in November. I generated about 600GB of /stuff/ a mix of video, audio, and photos.

Particularly when it comes to audio I generated 21 ambiances, and another dozen plus longer form takes.

As I get through processing things, I’ll upload them to my YouTube channel you can find at https://www.youtube.com/@houstinwehaveaproblem… Keep reading

Smoother, Faster: Text Input Fixes and Under-the-Hood Improvements

Version 1.5.0 might not look different on the surface, but it feels dramatically better. I fixed the text input lag that made typing feel sluggish, and updated a ton of dependencies. It’s amazing how much the mobile ecosystem moves on even in a few months.

A lot of these problems I found while using the app out in the field on a Japan trip. So it was a lot of small problems that didn’t come up sitting at my desk.… Keep reading

This one isn’t really technical, and probably better described as rambling, so buyer be warned…

In 2016, as part of a work project, I traveled to China to demonstrate some technology I had developed. The project was a lot of fun for a younger engineer in his 20s, it allowed me to see a lot of different places while following the trade show booth. The China trip though, was my first visit to Asia, and became the first real trip I took a nice camera along on.… Keep reading

Greetings all!

Here are the things I worked on this week with FieldLog. Feature sets are getting there, but still in very much a testing phase. Bug reports and additional feature requests are still very much appreciated.

Android

• No release this week

Web App

• Added reordering to Kits
• Fixed reordering of recorders and mics
• Refactored CSS of gear to reuse code from takes
• Added some extra basic user analytics, to track how much you’ve been recording lately
• Added Persistent Web App functionality!

I am excited to announce that FieldLog now supports Progressive Web App (PWA) technology, bringing you a mobile app experience without needing to download anything from the App Store. While not a complete replacement for a native app, it gives you the most important features to you regardless of connection status!

This new feature is hot off the presses, so please reach out if you are having any issues!

What is a Progressive Web App (PWA)?

A Progressive Web App is a web application that uses modern web technologies to deliver an app-like experience directly through your browser.… Keep reading

If you’ve spent any time field recording, you probably have had similar pain to me: Folders full of ZOOM0001.wav and TASCAM_2025-09-01.wav, with no clue what’s actually inside those files without clicking and listening. Months later, that recording of “birds at dawn” might as well be “busy airport.”

I got frustrated with this exact problem — so much so that I ended up writing FieldLog. I was kind of jealous of my Fuji camera’s GPS tagged photos with their full EXIF data.… Keep reading