Life Recorder
Life Recorder
Life Recorder quietly remembers the last hour of audio around you. A funny thing your kid said, a sudden idea, a detail from a call — tap once and it's saved, even though the moment already passed.
Free to download · No account · Recordings are never uploaded to us · Records and transcribes offline
No planning, no pressing record at the right time. It already was.
Life Recorder is a free Android app that keeps a rolling one-hour audio buffer on the phone; one tap saves the last minutes after the moment happened. Audio never leaves the device.
Tap START and Life Recorder listens in the background, keeping a rolling buffer of the recent past. Old audio is continuously discarded — nothing piles up.
Something worth keeping? Save the last 5, 10 or any custom number of minutes — from the app, the notification, or the home-screen widget.
Play it with a waveform, trim to the exact seconds, share anywhere — or turn it into text with one tap.
Small app, sharp purpose — with a couple of superpowers.
The whole point: save audio AFTER it happened. Up to a full hour back, cut to the minute.
Turn any recording into text in ~100 languages. The speech model runs entirely on your phone — audio never leaves it.
See the sound, drag the handles, keep exactly the seconds that matter.
A recording schedule and skip-silence mode keep the buffer deep and the battery drain shallow.
The app is available in 30 languages, with full right-to-left support.
Recordings are never uploaded to us. Only what you explicitly save is kept — the rest is discarded as it ages out.
The same rolling hour, pointed at the moments people actually lose.
A number, an address, the exact wording of a promise — save it after they said it.
How it works → 📋The decision was made and nobody was recording. Save it afterwards — then get minutes as text.
How it works → 👶Kids never repeat the moment for the camera. Now you don't need them to.
How it works → 🎓Zoned out for the key part? Save the last half hour of class and replay it.
How it works → 💡The good phrasing happens mid-conversation. Keep the version you actually said.
How it works → ⏪Press save, not record — the recording starts in the past.
How it works → 🕐How the rolling buffer keeps an hour on your phone — and nothing anywhere else.
How it works →Record in the background, replay with a waveform, trim to the exact seconds.
Your recordings are never uploaded to us — we have no servers that receive audio and no way to access it. Transcription runs locally, and only audio you explicitly save is kept. There is no account to create. Nothing goes to the cloud unless you turn on backup to your own Google Drive, or share a recording yourself. (The app does send anonymous usage and crash data through Firebase — never audio. Details in the privacy policy.)
While listening, Life Recorder keeps a rolling buffer of the last hour of audio. When you tap save, the last minutes of that buffer become a recording. Anything older than an hour is continuously and permanently discarded.
Never to us — we have no servers that receive audio. The buffer and your saved recordings live on your phone, and transcription runs entirely on-device. Audio leaves your phone only if you share it yourself, or if you switch on the optional backup to your own Google Drive.
The buffer and your recordings live in the app's private storage, which Android walls off from every other app, and your phone's built-in encryption protects them at rest. Nothing is uploaded — there is no server to hack. Audio leaves your phone only if you share it yourself.
It's built to sip power. You can also set a recording schedule (only listen during chosen hours) and enable skip-silence so quiet stretches aren't stored at all.
About 100 spoken languages, automatically detected. The one-time speech model download (~380 MB) happens over Wi-Fi; after that transcription works offline. Automatic transcripts may contain mistakes.
Listening, saving, trimming and sharing are free, with no account. PRO adds on-device transcription, skip silence and backup to your own Google Drive: $1.99 a month or $11.99 a year, with a free first week. Invite a friend and you both get a month of PRO free.
Laws differ by country. In some places you must have the consent of everyone being recorded — please make sure you comply with your local laws.
Real reviews from Google Play.
“You don't press record. You press save. What I needed, so I can recall text the way I said it”
Google Play review · August 2026
“This App is very useful and easy to use. Especially the design is clear and simple, it is an art not only software.”
Google Play review · September 2026
“I use it alot and it works wonderfully 10/10 would 100% recommend”
Google Play review · August 2026
Free to use: listening, saving, trimming and sharing. PRO adds on-device transcription, skip silence and Google Drive backup, with a free first week. Invite a friend and you both get a month of PRO.
Free to download · No account · Recordings are never uploaded to us · Records and transcribes offline
