The 5 Best Audio Recording Apps For Android Phones

There’s one niche that’s harder to fill than one might expect: an Android alternative to Audacity, the legendary open-source digital audio workstation that’s commonly used by podcasters. Since there’s no Android port of Audacity, it becomes imperative to find an app that at least approximates its basic functionality: recording and editing audio with a visible waveform while having a library of effects to apply to recordings. Audacity is capable of a lot more than that, but for the purposes of this exercise, those are the most commonly used features.

Of the Android apps that fit the bill, Lexis Audio Editor feels like the best choice, as it most closely resembles using Audacity on your computer. The learning curve is minimal, and the available effects include the most basic and popular ones that Audacity users are familiar with, like fading in/out, normalization, pitch/tempo/speed adjustments, noise reduction, dynamic range compression, and echo/reverb. For a lot of people, that’s going to be more than enough. Lexis’ selection of output formats is pretty robust out of the box, too, defaulting to M4A/AAC while also including options for WMA, MP3, WAV, and FLAC.

No, it’s not Audacity. But as long as there’s no Android version of Audacity, everyone will have to make do with something similar enough to get the job done, which Lexis Audio Editor does.

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