Life Recorder: Record the Past

Ever wished you could go back and record something that just happened? Life Recorder is a retroactive voice recorder: it listens quietly in the background and lets you save the last few minutes of audio - AFTER the moment has passed. A funny thing your kid said, a sudden idea, an important detail from a call - tap Save and it's yours.

Perfect as a meeting recorder, lecture or interview recorder, or for quick voice notes and memos - like a rewind button for sound, with speech-to-text built in.

HOW IT WORKS
Start the recorder once. It keeps a rolling buffer of the recent past. When something worth keeping happens, save it with one tap - from the app, the notification, or the home screen widget - and the last minutes become a recording. Nothing else is kept.

KEY FEATURES
- Save the moment after it happens - one tap for the last 5 or 10 minutes, or any amount up to a full hour
- Save from the home screen widget or straight from the notification
- On-device transcription - turn any recording into text in ~100 languages, right on your phone (automatic transcripts may contain mistakes)
- Recording schedule - record only during the hours you choose and save battery
- Skip silence - quiet stretches are not stored, so your buffer reaches even further back in time
- Living sound wave while recording
- Waveform player - see the sound graph and drag right on it to seek
- Compact M4A recordings - small files that are easy to share on WhatsApp, email or anywhere
- Battery friendly - optimized to sip power while listening in the background

YOUR PRIVACY COMES FIRST
Everything stays on your device. Recordings are never uploaded, and only audio you explicitly save is kept - the rest is continuously discarded. Even transcription runs entirely on your device.

GO PRO
Upgrade to unlock unlimited playback, unlimited sharing, trimming with live waveform preview and unlimited on-device transcription.

Please respect local laws: in some places you must have the consent of everyone being recorded.