Record every channel of your mixer on your phone. Plug a Behringer X Air XR18 or MR18 into an iPhone or iPad, press record, and get one file per channel, named after what's on it, ready for your DAW. No recording laptop at the gig.
1.0 for iPhone and iPad is in App Review. Until it's out, the public beta on TestFlight is open. The Mac app comes to the TestFlight beta first. Website: showrecorder.app. Questions: showrecorder@ericdahl.dev.
- Every channel, its own file. One 24-bit Broadcast WAV per USB channel: 18 tracks from an XR18, at the mixer's 48 kHz (up to 96 kHz on interfaces that offer it).
- Files named from the mixer. Over Wi-Fi, ShowRecorder reads your channel names and colors, so channel 3 arrives as
03 Snare.wav, notUSB 03. Find Mixers locates the XR18 on the network; no IP address to type. - A second copy as you record. Add a USB drive and every Take is written to the phone and the drive at once. If the drive drops out, the missing part is filled back in after the Take.
- Nothing lost to a crash. Files are saved every 2 seconds. If the app is closed or crashes mid-Take, it finishes that Take next time it opens. A phone call or another app interrupting the input leaves silence with a Dropout marker, so the files stay in sync with video.
- Pre-roll. A Take starts with the seconds before you pressed record, so the count-in isn't lost.
- Markers. Tap the flag during a Take to mark a song or a moment. Markers go into the files and your DAW project.
- Ready to mix. Each Show gets a report (Takes, levels, any gaps) and a Reaper project with every track and marker in place.
- Templates for each venue. Save a room's setup (channel names, mixer, Pre-roll) and start a Show from it in one tap.
- Built for the stage. Big meters, a Sunlight appearance for bright stages, a Dark one for dark rooms, and VoiceOver support.
| A mixer | Behringer X Air XR18 or MR18: 18 channels over USB, names and colors over Wi-Fi. Other class-compliant USB interfaces record too, without names. |
| A device | A USB-C iPhone (15 or later) or an iPad, on iOS or iPadOS 26. The Mac app (macOS 26) is coming through the TestFlight beta. |
| A hub or cable | A powered USB-C hub lets the phone charge while the mixer and a drive are plugged in. A Mac just needs the USB cable. |
| Storage | About 9.3 GB per hour for 18 channels at 48 kHz. The app shows the time left. A USB drive is optional. |
| Wi-Fi | Optional: the phone on the mixer's network gives you channel names and colors. No internet is needed. |
The rigs checked so far are on the tested hardware page.
- Plug in the mixer. ShowRecorder arms it and the meters come alive.
- Link the mixer (Settings > Mixer Link > Find Mixers) to get your channel names, or start from a Template.
- Press record. The Take starts with the Pre-roll before your press. Drop markers as you go.
- Press stop. Your files, the report and the Reaper project are in the Show folder, in the Files app or on your drive.
A Take never stops, and your audio is never held back, because of a trial, a limit or a license. Limits are checked only when you press record. Your past Shows are never locked.
ShowRecorder will be a free download with a 14-day Trial of everything.
- Free records every USB channel to your iPhone, iPad or Mac, with generic names and up to 3 Markers per Take.
- Pro is a one-time purchase, shared with your family: names and colors from the mixer, channel names you type, a second copy on an external drive, unlimited Markers, the Show report and Reaper project, 96 kHz, and Templates. $19.99.
In the TestFlight beta, the Trial and Pro use sandbox purchases, which cost testers nothing.
ShowRecorder collects no data. Your recordings stay on your device and your drive, and the app only talks to your mixer on your local network. Privacy policy.
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For developers: building, testing, releasing and how the code is laid out are in docs/DEVELOPING.md. The source is available under the Functional Source License, Version 1.1, MIT Future License (FSL-1.1-MIT): you can read, change and use it for anything except a competing product, and each release becomes MIT two years after it's published (ADR 0003). Contributions are welcome; open an issue before starting anything large.
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