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Ferrite is a Desktop-Class Podcast Powerhouse
It seems everyone has a podcast these days, which is great, because you can find multiple podcasts to match your interest. It’s wild! But producing…
It seems everyone has a podcast these days, which is great, because you can find multiple podcasts to match your interest. It’s wild! But producing a great podcast, can be tough. You have to manage pacing, music, ad reads, gaps in the audio, and different microphone levels. Ferrite is a mobile-first app that can help with that.
When I edit my podcast, I use Ferrite. The amount of controls can be daunting but Ferrite makes it approachable. Not only that, but it is designed from the beginning for iPhone and iPad. It’s a full-on production studio handling both the recording session and the editing.
While you’re recording, it has basically everything you need. You can see your podcast notes, flag clips for you to edit in the future, and mark chapters so that listeners can easily navigate an episode. Audio can be monitored through on-screen meters or with a set of headphones.
When you move onto the editing process, you can pull in multiple layers of audio from cloud services like iCloud, Dropbox, or Google Drive. You can splice audio, adjust levels, apply a wide array of filters, and more. Of course you can then quickly export and publish to your platform of choice.
The body of Ferrite should look familiar as it copies Apple’s default navigation style. On iPad it has a side menu bar broken down into sections, just like Apple’s Files, Notes, and other apps. It even supports native iPadOS features like SlideOver and Split View for true mobile multitasking.
It's impressive how features that were once exclusive to desktops are now accessible on mobile devices. Wooji Juice, Ferrite’s devs, did an amazing job creating a desktop-class app for iOS. It’s something I rely on heavily and am glad to see its continued development, and regular new features. Aside from all the bug fixes, last year it saw new 2X speed previews, a more powerful search, programmable smart folders, and more.
These are the types of apps that are so well done, they give users hope that the iPad and iPadOS well be suitable primary machines in the future, and not just sized-up smartphones with superficial apps.
But enough about other people's apps.
