- No button to remember. In listening mode the phone hears the whole session. Tap Hear it again and it plays the phrase that just ended – breaths inside it kept, the pause before it dropped.
- A piano that stays out of the recording. Play a key to find your note; those seconds can never become part of a take. Headphones lift the rule.
- It knows singing from talking. A conversation in the room is not a phrase, and Ancora does not offer it to you as one.
- Comfortable to listen back to. Every take is levelled to the loudness a streaming service would use, so a quiet mark and a full high C both play at a level you can judge, without reaching for the volume.
- Kept as well as heard. The last ten takes stay in a row. Star the one that went right and it stays for good, ready to send to your teacher or your coach.
- Recorded properly. Mono, 24-bit, at the microphone’s own rate, with iOS’s automatic gain turned off, and saved raw beside the copy you hear. Nothing leaves the phone.
Ancora is built on arc, the audio engine Impulse Arc uses for professional recording work: the same loudness measurement, the same take detection, and the same care about what a recording is worth.