SR-7 vs Just Press Record

Just Press Record is SR-7's true shelf-mate. Both are one-time purchases, both are native Apple apps, both transcribe entirely on-device, and both are built around the same job: a dictaphone for your own voice, not a meeting tool and not a file-transcription utility. Anyone comparison-shopping a paid Voice Memos replacement finds Just Press Record first, and for good reason — a decade of trust, one tap from the Lock Screen, Control Center, or the wrist, and a genuinely excellent Apple Watch app.

That closeness is what makes the comparison honest rather than a mismatch: this isn't SR-7 against a different category of tool, it's SR-7 against the app most like it.

Just Press Record's job ends at a transcript you can read and edit inside the app. There's no AI summary, no markdown export, and no way for an outside tool to reach the archive — the transcript lives where you made it.

SR-7 picks up from there: an on-device AI title and summary generated automatically for every recording, a markdown file with YAML front matter exported to a folder you choose, full-text search across names, titles, summaries, and transcripts, and a local MCP server so AI tools can search the archive directly. The two apps cost within a dollar of each other; the difference is everything that happens once the recording stops.

SR-7 has no Apple Watch app; Just Press Record's is the reference implementation in the category — one tap from your wrist, nothing else to do. It also covers Apple Vision, has full VoiceOver accessibility, and integrates with Siri and Shortcuts.

If the absolute minimum interface between you and the record button is what matters, and you want zero AI anywhere in the loop, Just Press Record's decade of conservative, steady development is a real strength, not a gap.