Plum Amazing has announced the release of its iPhone app, Plum Record. The app turns the iPhone into a digital audio recorder.

Examples of things that can be recorded and played back include: interviews, lectures, songs, shopping lists, medical notes, to do lists, bird calls, legal notes, environmental sounds, meetings, lyrics, car sounds (to play for Clik and Clak on Car Talk), reminders, ideas, audio books, diary entries, your childs first words, singing, instrumentals, street musicians, comedy, sermons, book clubs, choirs, news, podcasts and science notes.

Plum Record

Features include:

• Record, pause, continue, rewind easily using familiar controls and a beautiful interface.
• Record secs, minutes or hours at a time. See elapsed time and time remaining.
• The very familiar iPod scroll wheel for interface and controls.
• Files named automatically, rename sound files easily.
• Library to keep sounds in and arrange by dragging into folders.
• Works with larger interface in rotated mode.
• Choose the sampling rate for high or lower res (and size) files.
• Change the skin/interface for recording.
• Change files recorded on the iPhone to other formats like WAV, MP3, MP4, AAC, 3GP, AC3, AIFC, AIFF, AMR, Next/Sun, Sound Designer II, 3GPP2, etc.

Sounds can be tagged with corresponding photos and text. These tags can act as bookmarks, allowing instant access to the desired recording.

Plum Record is priced at US$4.99.