Recorder

Google LLC

About this app

Recorder brings new powers to meetings, lectures, band practices, family memories – anything that you want to capture. Recorder automatically transcribes and labels what you record so that you can easily find the parts that matter to you. Save, edit, share, listen to later, or even summarize. Available on Wear OS with a dedicated watch face tile to quickly capture moments and thoughts on your phone or Pixel Watch.

Ratings and reviews

Recording works great, as does transcription. Lack of ability to access the recording files is annoying though. Unless you use their cloud sync, there's no easy way to access your own files other than sharing each recording and transcript individually. Huge pain. I don't want cloud sync, I just wanna access the recording locally, easily.

This has a lot of potential but it needs some work. The search function for transcripts is pretty much useless. The automatic transcription is severely flawed. You need a way to be able to identify speakers more reliably and permanently. I shouldn't have to go into every single conversation until my phone who I am. also it appears the clipboard limits how much of a transcript can be copied now. This used to not be a problem and I could copy and paste a 1-hour conversation without difficulty.

The app essentially nags you into turning privacy settings down. I don't want Recorder to be able to record in the background. I set it this way on purpose. Yet every time I start a recording, I have to go through a pop-up warning me that background recording is blocked. Yeees. Because that's what I set it to. Please allow me to dismiss this pop-up permanently.

What's new

• Create music by adding background musical vibes to your recordings on Pixel 9 now too
• Summarize recordings in additional languages: Hindi, Chinese-Mandarin, and Italian on Pixel 8,9 and additional new languages English, German, French, and Japanese on Pixel 8