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Voice Messages on the iPhone

So I’m a lousy typist and my handwriting is even worse. That stops me frequently from writing more on my blog or generally writing at all. So any app that can help me by taking voice notes could be helpful to me. At first I was looking for something that would help me add notes/to do items, or events to my calendar. Looking in the iPhone productivity apps I found Jott and began to play around with it.

Jott

Jott for iPhone

Jott quickly became my favorite iPhone app and I used it all the time. I liked the fact that I could send to Twitter with it as well as Facebook. It seemed to work great and generally understood what I was saying. I liked the UI too.
And then one day I logged in to find that it had changed and now you needed an paid account for some features. I’m not opposed to paying for the things I’m using but I wasn’t yet sure I would use it enough to make it worth the cost. And, I had downloaded REQALL, and it was still free.

REQALL

REQALL app for iPhone and ,mobile devices

Reqall is really cool too. I’d like to write more about it, but this blog post has been sitting as a draft for a week now, so I think I’ll publish as is and write more later in another entry. I can’t really compare the two apps in any thorough way, but I can say that Reqall seems to be meeting my expectations very well. The UI is prettier, but that isn’t all that important to me but I liked the light colored background of Jott better.

New Apps Mean a Change in Behavior

One of the problems for me with new apps (and why I hesitant to buy them and or an associated service) is that I often go through a phase with them, and that is it.  They then sit unused.  So has been the case with JOTT and REQALL.  I used Jott heavily for a short time, and then didn’t.  Then, I picked up Reqall and have gone throug the same thing with it.