# Rev: Record & Transcribe

> Turn Transcripts Into Insights

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id598332111](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id598332111)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id598332111`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Rev
- **Category:** Productivity
- **Rating:** 4.50 / 5 (4,286 ratings)
- **Version:** 7.3.3
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-15
- **First published:** 2013-02-20
- **Size:** 75 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-20
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/rev-record-transcribe/id598332111)
- **Website:** [https://www.rev.com/apps-and-tools/voice-recorder](https://www.rev.com/apps-and-tools/voice-recorder)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://www.rev.com/voicerecorder/privacy](http://www.rev.com/voicerecorder/privacy)

## Description

Rev: Record & Transcribe is a secure app that lets you capture important interviews, meetings, voice notes, and case evidence and convert them into searchable transcripts. It supports in-app recording (call recording not supported), live AI transcription, and 99%+ accurate human transcripts. You can highlight, edit, and bookmark sections, chat with your transcripts to surface quotes and insights, and use AI templates to summarize or extract key information. Transcripts can be collaborated on securely across mobile and desktop, with cross-device syncing.

Designed for legal, research, and media professionals, Rev offers cross-device access, fast transcription, and robust collaboration to help you prep a case, write a story, or analyze data more efficiently. Trusted by 1M+ users across industries.

## Rankings

- #28,507 — Overall
- #12 — product insights

## Review summary

Users repeatedly praise Rev for turning meetings into notes with live/AI transcription and long recording capabilities, especially for professionals like lawyers and journalists. They cite accuracy and cost-effectiveness, as well as strong productivity gains. Common drawbacks are privacy concerns (transcripts processed off-device), cross‑platform syncing gaps, billing friction, stability issues (freezes/crashes, potential data loss after updates), and uneven transcription reliability. Overall, the app is powerful and helpful but users warn of privacy, reliability, and ecosystem friction across devices.

### Pros

- Strong note-taking and meeting transcription that helps create meeting minutes and action items.
- AI transcription is accurate and cost-effective.
- Long-recording capability with reliable performance (hours of recording).
- Versatile for professionals (law firms, journalists, content creators) and improves productivity.
- Free version includes live transcription without a paid subscription.

### Cons

- Privacy concerns: transcription is processed on an outside website, raising trust/privacy issues.
- Cross-device sync problems: mobile and desktop versions do not sync transcripts or data.
- Billing and payment friction: repeatedly prompts to add a payment method and issues completing purchases.
- Stability issues and data loss risk: freezing during recovery, crashes on share, updates can cause loss of recordings.
- Transcription reliability concerns: slow transcripts, frequent failures, or low word output on some tasks.

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