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Keep and share

Record and share

Record what PocketTone plays, listen back, keep the take and send it anywhere.

ProVerified for version 1.1.0 · Updated October 17, 2026

PocketTone records its own sound, straight from the synth: the melody, the rhythm and the effects, exactly as you hear them. It never uses the microphone, so it never asks for it, and the sound of your room stays out.

Make a recording

  1. Tap the red cap at the top right. A red timer starts in the top corner of the LCD.

  2. Play. The pause cap pauses the take (the timer shows ❚❚) and the same cap resumes it.

  3. Tap the red stop cap to finish.

  4. Listen back with the play cap. Then keep the take with the green ✓, or throw it away with the red bin.

If you leave the app in the middle of a take, PocketTone stops it cleanly and it is waiting for you to keep or discard when you come back.

Your recordings

Kept takes are in Settings, under RECORDINGS, newest first and named by the date and time you made them. Each one has three caps: play, share and delete. Share opens the standard share sheet, so a take can go to Messages, Files, AirDrop or any app that takes audio. Delete asks first, because there is no undo.

Takes are saved as AAC audio (.m4a) inside PocketTone's own storage on your device. Nothing is uploaded; a recording leaves the device only when you share it.

Recording is part of PocketTone Pro. Without Pro, the record cap carries a small lock and opens the unlock sheet.

Still stuck? Write to zhi@nonoaudio.com. Support page