Support
Email trevbeatsmultimedia@gmail.com and say which phone or computer, and which browser, you're on.
User guide
Everything AGAIN. does, step by step, with pictures: setting up your band, recording, stops and notes, writing sessions and table reads, bands and setlists, and the web app. Read the user guide or download it as a PDF.
Where should the phone go?
Somewhere it hears the whole room — on an amp, a stand or a music stand, not in a pocket. The stop detector needs to hear the music clearly and the talking clearly.
It missed a stop / it found a stop that wasn't one
While recording, tap Mark a stop now to add one by hand. In a finished rehearsal you can delete a stop from its page. Very short pauses (a count-off, a quick "again from the bridge") are folded into the take on purpose.
The notes are wrong
Tap any note to edit it, tap ⋯ to change who it's for or which song, or add your own with the + field. Rewrite the notes on the rehearsal page rebuilds the notes from the transcripts without re-transcribing, and keeps the notes you wrote yourself.
Which song is this stop in?
While recording, tap the song in Now playing when you start it. Afterwards, tap the song name on a stop's page to change it.
Writing sessions and table reads
New in Version 2. On the record screen, open Mode and pick Writing session or Table read (an imported recording asks the same). With no instruments stopping, AGAIN. sorts the recording by voice. On the rehearsal, Voices lists each voice: ▶ plays a few seconds of it, and tapping its name names it — one of your players, or Someone else…. AGAIN. remembers the voice for that band, so the next session names it by itself. Named someone wrong? Name the voice again: the right name replaces the wrong one.
Pick Leads the room on the director or the lead writer: it asks who that is, and every time they speak up becomes a stop. Long pauses, music that stops and Mark a stop now make stops too. At a table read the notes come from the leader's words, not the reading; each note says who said it, and each stop shows what was said line by line.
Does anything leave the device?
No. Recording, listening, telling voices apart and writing the notes all happen on your iPhone, or in your browser on this device. Nothing is uploaded. When the iPhone asks for speech recognition, Apple's own message says speech data will be sent to Apple. That is the same message for every app; AGAIN. only uses the recognizer that runs on the phone, and says so right under it. The web app fetches its listening engines once, the first time it opens, and then works with no signal.
Importing a recording
Tap Import a recording, under your rehearsals, and pick any audio file (m4a, mp3, wav, aiff). It asks which mode the recording is, then runs the same analysis. On an iPhone that has not updated to version 1.1.1 yet, it is the ⤓ button next to Record.
Sharing the notes
Tap the Share button next to Record to send your latest rehearsal's notes to the band: a text, an email, the group chat. Every rehearsal and every stop has its own Share button, and each musician's list under Players has Send.
Processing stopped partway
Open the app again; it picks up where it left off. Long rehearsals take a few minutes to transcribe on the phone.
The web app
AGAIN. also runs in the browser on Android phones and tablets, desktops and laptops. It is $2.99 once: get the web app. After you pay, AGAIN. opens at againapp.app/app, unlocked, and you get a serial that opens it on up to 3 of your devices.
Put the web app on your Home Screen
On an Android phone or tablet, save AGAIN. to your Home Screen. AGAIN. then opens like any app: one tap, full screen, and it works with no signal in the rehearsal room. The app shows these steps too, the first time you open it.
- Open againapp.app/app in Chrome.
- Tap ⋮ at the top right.
- Tap Add to Home screen (it may say Install app), then Install.
- Open AGAIN. from your Home Screen.
In Samsung Internet, tap ☰ at the bottom right, then Add to (it may say Add page to), then Home screen. In Firefox, tap ⋮, then Add to Home screen.
Opened AGAIN. from Instagram, Facebook or TikTok? Those apps show web pages in a window of their own, and it cannot save to the Home Screen. Tap ⋮ at the top and choose Open in browser first. Do it before you unlock: what that window keeps does not follow you to your browser.
More about the web app
Keep the screen on while recording. A browser cannot record with the screen off. AGAIN. keeps the screen awake while it records; leave it open and don't switch apps.
Your notes stay on the device you made them on. The web app does not sync between devices, and the web app and the iPhone app are separate purchases.
Lost your serial? On the unlock screen choose "I already bought it" and type the email you paid with. Once AGAIN. is open, your serial is at the bottom of the band sheet (the setlist button, top right).
The first time the web app downloads its listening engines (about 110 MB), once. Do that on Wi-Fi before the rehearsal.
Apple Intelligence
On iPhones with Apple Intelligence turned on, notes are written by the on-device model. Everywhere else a built-in rules engine writes them. Both work offline.