Hindenburg Field Recorder

Hindenburg Field Recorder is the iPhone-only companion to Hindenburg Pro, designed specifically for journalists and storytellers capturing interviews in the field. The app is single-purpose — open it, hit record, drop markers at the moments you'll want to return to, and stop.

Audio exports as WAV, AAC, MP2, or ALAC with adjustable compression so you can match the requirements of your station, podcast, or broadcaster. The integration with Hindenburg Pro is the practical hook: recordings transfer cleanly into the desktop editor with markers intact, which saves time when you're pulling quotes from a 45-minute interview.

The pricing is genuinely cheap — $4.99 one-time for the full app on the App Store, with a free Lite version that caps each recording at 60 seconds for testing. The trade-offs are intentional. This is not a general-purpose audio app.

There's no editing layer, no live streaming, no remote guest support. It's a fast capture tool with a workflow designed for journalists, and it does that job better than the iPhone's built-in Voice Memos.

For radio reporters, narrative documentary makers, and field-based podcasters who already use Hindenburg on the desktop, it's the natural completion of the workflow. For everyone else, it's an unusually well-made cheap recording app.