A voice recorder that works backwards.
Every normal recorder has the same flaw: it only captures what happens after you press the button. Life Recorder inverts that. It already heard the last hour - pressing save reaches backwards and keeps the minutes before you pressed anything.
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.
Record first, decide later
The moments worth keeping - a first word, a perfect joke, a sudden idea - never announce themselves. A backwards recorder removes the decision: it listens continuously into a self-erasing one-hour buffer, and you decide what was worth keeping after you heard it.
What “backwards” looks like in practice
Tap START once. Days later, mid-conversation, something great is said - open the app, the widget or the notification and save the last 5, 10 or 60 minutes. The recording starts in the past.
And then it's a normal recording
Play it with a waveform, trim to the exact seconds, share it anywhere, or transcribe it on-device in about 100 languages. Free, no account, and audio never leaves your phone.
Questions
What is a retroactive voice recorder?
A recorder that keeps a rolling buffer of recent audio so you can save a moment after it happened. Life Recorder keeps the last hour on your Android phone; one tap saves the last minutes backwards from now.
Is it really recording all the time?
It listens while you keep it on, into a one-hour rolling buffer that continuously erases itself. Nothing becomes a permanent recording unless you explicitly save it, and nothing is ever uploaded.
