Release notes
Fieldwork Recorder has grown from a focused audio diary into a fuller field-journal system. These notes highlight the additions users are most likely to notice.
Guide coverage: these notes describe project builds through 1.4.3. Store approval and rollout can lag behind a project build; check Settings → App information for the version installed on your device.
Version 1.4.3 — Playback and polish
Project build dated October 2026. Fixed playback for very long recordings whose filenames contain spaces, alongside mobile build and performance refinements.
Version 1.4.2 — GPS that travels with audio
- Added a choice to embed accepted recording GPS in supported audio or keep it in a separate companion file.
- Timed Track points can stay tied to playback even when an audio file is moved. A compatible reader can restore the route and recording identity from the file without its diary companion.
- Cloud transfers made with GPS syncing disabled remove Fieldwork Recorder GPS from transferred audio copies.
- Advanced the separate read-only desktop diary reader for archive review on Windows and macOS; public installer availability is separate from the mobile release.
How GPS inside audio works · Desktop archive review
Version 1.4.0 — Clearer route review
- Improved GPS route cleanup to reduce implausible jumps and stationary jitter.
- Expanded full-screen map playback with seeking and speed controls.
- Improved photo placement using available capture time and location details.
Version 1.3.9 — Mapped observations and stronger recovery
- Mapped photos and drawings added during active GPS Track recordings to their approximate recording moments and route locations.
- Added full-screen map playback with play, pause, and stop controls.
- Improved handling of invalid or implausible GPS fixes so route maps are less likely to jump to an obvious outlier.
- Added tag-frequency browsing and clearer calendar, search, and tag filtering across the diary.
- Improved playback for very large local M4A recordings.
- Added more resilient large-file cloud transfers with progress, retry, cancellation, and keep-awake behavior.
- Propagated successfully synchronized local deletions to matching provider copies.
- Expanded shared-folder repair, interrupted-recording recovery, legal, support, and app-information workflows.
Version 1.3.0 — Rich field notes and drawings
Released August 8, 2026.
- Added a rich note editor with a formatting toolbar for headings, emphasis, lists, checklists, quotes, code, and links.
- Added note preview, so Markdown can be read as a formatted field note inside the app.
- Added drawing attachments, including a finger or stylus canvas, undo, clear, and a full-screen workspace.
- Expanded attachments so a field entry can combine audio, photos, and sketches.
Version 1.2.8 — More dependable sync
Released July 2026.
- Improved cloud-sync restoration so audio, diary entries, GPS context, and attachments can be rebuilt more reliably.
- Improved Box connection and restore behavior.
- Refined sync workflows for returning to a device or recovering a journal from a connected provider.
Version 1.2.3 — Incremental cloud sync
Released July 2026.
- Added incremental syncing to avoid re-uploading material that is already present.
- Added more detailed sync progress and cancellation behavior for larger field journals.
- Improved support for selectively syncing audio, journal metadata, GPS tracks, and pictures.
Version 1.2.2 — Home-screen widgets
Released June 2026.
- Added Android home-screen widgets for quick access to the latest field-entry context.
- Improved storage repair and recovery-oriented workflows around recorded material.
Earlier foundation
Earlier versions established the capabilities the current releases build upon: configurable audio capture, calendar organization, tag search, GPS start/end points and tracks, map context, background recording, safer long Android recordings, export formats, cloud-provider connections, and multi-language support.