Keep and find your song ideas.
Voice memos and stray lines go into one library, called Ideas. You find a line again by what it was about. The words in your memos can be written down as text. Pro Beta
Free, with unlimited songs and no account to create.
Bring in old memos
You’ve kept years of voice memos on your phone and listened back to almost none of them. Bring the whole folder into Ideas, where each memo keeps its file’s name and date.
Ideas from any app
When a line turns up in the middle of an email, a keyboard shortcut brings up a small window where you type or hum it. The line goes straight to Ideas.
Search by meaning
Months ago you wrote a line about a truck in the rain. Describing it that way finds the line even if neither word is in it. A memo is found the same way once its words are written down. Pro
Mark the good parts
A session is one long recording that you start before you play. When something good happens, you mark it. Kept marks go into Ideas as short clips of that recording.
Words from a memo
Sonetta Studio writes down the words in a memo as a rough draft. Pro Beta You fix the doubtful words, and its lines can go into a song.
Questions about voice memos and song ideas
What happens to hundreds of old voice memos?
They come into Ideas together, up to 10,000 files in one import, and the files themselves stay where they were. Each memo becomes a recording named after its file. You find memos by the day they’re dated or among your recordings, and on Pro by their words once they’re written down.
Can it transcribe my voice memos?
Yes, on Pro, as a Beta, on your own computer. A transcript of singing is rough, so the doubtful words are dotted for you to correct. After that, a search finds the memo by its words. A line taken from it into a song can play the moment it was sung.
Is there a phone app?
Not yet. Sonetta Studio runs on Mac and Windows. Keep recording memos on your phone, then copy the files to your computer and bring them into Ideas.
Is this free?
Mostly, yes. On Free you can bring in memos and notes, save ideas from any app, record sessions with marks and start a song from an idea, with no limit on ideas or songs. A free session runs up to 5 minutes, and a search by meaning shows the 3 closest matches. Pro adds transcription, sessions of up to 110 minutes and up to 12 matches a search, with the rest of Sonetta Studio. What each version includes →
A line typed and a few seconds hummed, both saved to Ideas with no filing.
“somebody waiting for someone at home” finds “The dog still waits by the door you used,” marked close in meaning.
A session recording, with two marks made as they happened.