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title: "Spec research for Voicenotes alternative: export, webhook auth, Android Bluetooth"
recorded_at: "2026-04-26T11:19:06.000000Z"
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user_name: "Daniel Rosehill"
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- "Tech"
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- "Voicenotes.com"
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# Spec research for Voicenotes alternative: export, webhook auth, Android Bluetooth
Okay, this repository is a spec tech research for an alternative to an app I use called Voicenotes. Voicenotes, voicenotes.com is a speech-to-text platform, allows me to record notes, transcribes. Okay, points of friction. It's a good, it's a good app. I know the transcription has become incredibly cheap, so I think it's viable. I think I had a yearly plan that expires soon. There's a couple of minor nitty-gritty things but they do make a difference.
Number one is authenticated webhooks. Webhooks are amazing and I use them all the time but it would be, authentication would be useful that I could post a transcription. The second thing is export, it's lacking, which makes me a bit nervous about it, like I can't export all my notes. It's a good app, the Android feels like a bit of an afterthought. The good thing is that there's no cap, so I can basically record for hours every day and that's an essential requirement for me. I'd rather pay more for something unrestricted.
The ability to automatically source and categorize notes would be brilliant, but as a daily driver, those are the small points of friction that I find in Android. Oh, ah, there's a major one. In Android, it doesn't support Bluetooth recording at this point, which means that if I'm recording when I'm out and using a Bluetooth headset, I can't manually set the input device. Even if I can work around it, I really want to have the confidence to know that I'm recording from my Bluetooth microphone because it makes a significant difference in terms of input capture quality and a word list that can be synced across devices.
I think it has that, so it's just a small few points I would say. It's a great tool, it's just missing a bit of polish for serious use, which if I'm recording into it for hours per day, I can't argue it's the value proposition. I think it's great, but increasingly the more I depend on it, the more these things stand out as, wait, I really need something that can do this.