Looking for a Dropbox Replay alternative for audio? Try Notetracks.

Who each tool is for

Dropbox Replay

Dropbox Replay is a review and approval tool built into Dropbox. It handles video, images, PDFs and audio, with frame-accurate comments, markup on the picture and version comparison. It connects to Premiere Pro, After Effects, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve and Pro Tools. If your files already live in Dropbox and most of your reviews are video, it's a convenient choice.

Notetracks

Notetracks is built for teams whose work you have to hear: podcasts, music, audiobooks, voice-over and sound design. Every note sits on the waveform at the moment it's about, stems and takes play back together, and each new mix goes into the same project with its notes. When the review is done, the notes go back into your editor as markers. Video files go into the same projects, so a client can watch a cut and comment on the sound in one place.

When Dropbox Replay is the better choice

Replay makes sense when Dropbox is already the center of your work. Choose it if:

• Your files already live in Dropbox and you want review in the same place.
• Most of your reviews are video, images or PDFs, and you need markup on the picture.
• You only send a handful of files for review, so the free version covers you.
• Your editors want comments inside Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro or DaVinci Resolve.

When Notetracks is the better choice

Notetracks is the better fit when the sound is the deliverable:

• You produce podcasts, music, audiobooks, voice-over or sound design.
• Your notes need the waveform to land in the right place: a breath, a click, an edit point, a level change.
• You work with stems, alternate takes or mix revisions and want them in one project, playing in sync.
• You want notes back in Audition, Audacity, Hindenburg, Pro Tools, REAPER or Premiere as markers, not in a list you retype.
• You'd rather not pay per user: collaborators are free, and unlimited on Pro and Team.
• You want transcription without an add-on.

Notes that land back in your editor

Reviewers listen in the browser and leave notes like "the vocal gets buried here" or "re-read this line" at the exact second. You export the notes and import them into your editor, and each one becomes a marker or a label at its time, with who left it. Fix the pickups, upload the new version to the same project, and the reviewer hears what changed.

Client notes from Notetracks imported into Pro Tools: each one is a marker on the ruler, listed in Memory Locations

The same notes in Audacity: each comment becomes a label at its exact time