Recorder by Code Red

Code-Red

About this app

A voice recorder for meetings, lectures, interviews, voice notes and dictation. Press the big button, put the phone in your pocket, and it keeps recording.

• Recording works without an account, without a network and without a balance
• No ads and no tracking
• Transcription is optional, off by default, and you see the cost before anything is sent
• Your audio stays on your phone

RECORDING
• Keeps recording with the screen off or other apps open (an ongoing notification stays on screen while it runs)
• Pause, resume and drop markers at the moments that matter
• A live level meter, so you can see the microphone is hearing the room
• If the app is closed or the phone restarts mid-recording, the take is recovered with about the last second missing
• Says why when something interrupts a recording (a call, another app using the microphone, low storage) and offers Resume
• Three sound qualities: voice, standard and high (stereo)
• Microphone sensitivity from -12 to +24 dB with a live meter that says Too quiet, Good, Loud or Clipping, and a stepper on the record screen to lift a quiet speaker mid-meeting
• Start from the home-screen widget or the Quick Settings tile

LIBRARY
• Recordings grouped by day, named by date and time, each with a waveform
• Search titles and transcripts
• Favourites, rename, share the audio, delete with undo

PLAYBACK
• Waveform scrubber with markers, skip back 10 seconds and forward 30, speeds from 0.75x to 2x, jump between markers
• Lock-screen and notification controls

SCHEDULED RECORDINGS
• Weekly or one-off schedules with a name, a length and a sound quality
• The recording starts at the set time with the phone locked and stops by itself at the end
• To open the app by itself, Android needs two permissions you grant once from the Schedules screen: "Appear on top" (display over other apps) and "Alarms & reminders". Recorder uses them only to start the recordings you scheduled. The recording notification is shown the whole time
• If a start could not happen, the schedule says why and how to fix it

OPTIONAL TRANSCRIPTION
• Tap Transcribe on a recording: you see the estimated cost first, then pick the language (or Auto) and whether to label speakers
• Needs a Code Red account (sign-in is optional and only asked for at this moment) and a balance that you top up in the app, through Google Play
• Only the recordings you choose to transcribe leave your phone. They are cut into short pieces and sent through Code Red AI to Google's Gemini to turn speech into text. We do not keep the audio or the text; the transcript is stored in the app on your phone
• Timestamps and speakers; tap a line to jump to that moment; edit the text; copy, share, or save as .txt or .srt
• Jobs resume after a lost connection or a closed app without paying twice
• "Transcribe new recordings automatically" exists in Settings, off until you switch it on and confirm what is sent

GOOD TO KNOW
• Android does not allow apps to record phone calls, so Recorder does not
• Recorder does not upload, sync or back up your audio. Titles, favourites and transcripts can be backed up; audio leaves only through the share sheet
• Optional tips support development; they never unlock features
• Crash reports are off unless you choose to send them
• Check the law where you are before recording other people

What’s new

First release of Recorder by Code Red.
• Records with the screen off and recovers a take if the app is closed
• Pause, markers, live level meter and microphone sensitivity
• Searchable library with waveforms; playback with speed and marker jumps
• Scheduled recordings that start and stop by themselves
• Optional transcription per recording: you see the cost first
No ads. Recording needs no account.