Waffle Iron How it works See it go Who it's for Privacy Support
For iPhone and iPad

Make a podcast.
Skip the tutorials.

You hit record and talk, and Waffle Iron tidies it up as you go. It'll sound good straight away, and you won't see a track, a mixer or a manual anywhere.

See how it works Nothing leaves your device

Coming soon to the App Store. Buy it up-front, keep it forever.

How it works

Press the big red button and talk.

See it go

The real thing,
with a real recording in it.

No mock-ups. These are straight off the app, playing an episode recorded on a phone.

Every word gets written down

Press play and you can read along, then find any bit by searching for what was said.

The pads land where you were

Tap one while you're talking and it drops in at that moment. You can move it afterwards.

The levels for one part, with every tidy-up switch on Auto

It sorts the levels for you

Everything's on Auto from the start. Fiddle if you want to, or don't.

The timeline on iPhone, with the pads underneath
The words panel on iPad, with the sound effects marked in the text
Recording a new take with the Drum roll pad lit
The timeline on iPad
Saving an episode as sound, video, words or separate parts

Why people give up

Most recording apps
want a weekend first.

Multi-track is how good audio gets made, and it's also why most people give up in the first ten minutes. Every other app hands you the controls and expects you to learn them.

Tracks, regions, a mixer

There's a whole vocabulary to learn before you've said a word, for a job you could describe in one sentence.

An account and a cloud

Sign up, upload, tick a box. Your voice ends up on somebody's server before it ends up anywhere you chose.

A weekend of tutorials

You end up learning the software instead of recording the thing you sat down to record.

What you get

It does a lot more
than it lets on.

Eight sound pads

Tap one while you talk and it lands exactly where you were. Applause, a drum roll, a buzzer for a terrible joke, or your own sounds.

Every word, written down

Each take is transcribed on the device as you go, so you can search for a bit, read a part back, and cut what you don't need.

It tidies itself up

The volume's kept even, voices get clearer and the long pauses come out. It's all on from the start.

Rude words get a beep

It listens for them and covers them up. Turn it off if you'd rather keep them in.

Save it however you like

An MP3 or M4A with its artwork, a video with captions, just the words, or every part separately to finish somewhere else.

Works in flight mode

Recording, transcribing, tidying and saving all happen on the device. You don't need a signal at any point.

Who it's for

Short on time,
new to this, or both.

That turns out to be a lot of people.

You've got twenty minutes

You don't need twenty hours. Record it in one sitting, tidy it up on the sofa, and send it before you've changed your mind.

It's your first one

Nothing here assumes you know what a bus is, or a send, or why anybody would want to normalise anything.

You've bounced off a DAW

You opened the big one, had a look, and closed it again. This does the same job with a lot less on screen.

There's more than one of you

Plug in a USB interface and every microphone gets recorded on its own, without you setting any of it up.

Clubs and groups

Hand an iPad round the table and get something worth listening to back, with no logins to hand out.

Anyone with something to say

Interviews, sermons, songs, bedtime stories, a running commentary on the dog. It doesn't mind what it is.

Privacy

Your recordings only leave if you want them to.

Read the full privacy policy. It's the same words that are in the app.

Questions

Before you ask

Do I need a microphone?

No. The built-in one's fine and the app's tuned for it. If you've got AirPods, a USB mic or an interface, it'll use those instead.

Is it really multi-track?

It is. Every take keeps one audio file per microphone, plus every sound effect and exactly when it played. That's what makes the tidying possible. You're just never asked to manage any of it.

What can I save it as?

An MP3 or M4A with its artwork and tags, a video with captions, just the words, or every part as its own file for another editor. From there it goes wherever you send it: Files, Mail, a podcast host, another app.

Does it work offline?

Completely. Recording, transcription, tidying and saving all run on the device, so it works in flight mode and on Wi-Fi that blocks everything.

Is there a subscription?

No. You buy it once. There's nothing running on our end, so there's nothing to charge you for every month.

Is it OK for children?

Yes. Plain words, big buttons, no account, no links out to anywhere, and nothing you can lose by accident. The things that make it easy for a beginner make it fine for a child too.