RecForge II Pro: Voice Rec

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About this app

RecForge II Pro is the ad-free version of RecForge II: a professional audio recorder and dictaphone for Android, built for people who need control over how sound is captured — not just a red button.

No ads, anywhere. No banners while you record, no interstitials when you stop. One-time payment.

Most voice recorder apps hand your audio to the system and hope for the best. RecForge II lets you set the gain yourself, switch off Automatic Gain Control, pick your codec and sample rate, and check your levels before you record. What you hear is what you get.

▬ WHY RECFORGE II PRO ▬

• No advertising of any kind
• Disable AGC (Automatic Gain Control) — no pumping, no auto-ducked levels
• Manual gain adjustment for quiet sources
• Live level preview BEFORE you record, so you set gain before the take, not after
• Real-time monitoring with a live audio spectrum analyzer
• 8 encoding codecs, including lossless FLAC and uncompressed WAV (PCM)
• Full external microphone support: TRRS adapter, RODE SC6, RODE smartLav, iRig Mic, iRig Cast, iRig Pre
• No recording time limit, and background recording while you use other apps
• Control the recorder from the notification shade

▬ RECORDING ▬

• High quality sound recorder for interviews, lectures, meetings, rehearsals, field recording, wildlife and nature sound, band practice, studio takes and voice notes
• Record to mp3, m4a, ogg, wma, opus, flac, speex or wav
• Sample rate from 8 to 48 kHz, bitrate from 32 to 320 kbps, 16-bit
• Mono, mono x2 or stereo
• Choose front, rear or external microphone
• Skip silences to keep long sessions compact

▬ PLAYBACK ▬

• Built-in player with stereo signal and spectrum display
• Loop any selection — for transcription, memorization, actor lines, recitation, instrument practice
• Music speed changer: time stretching with independent tempo, pitch and playback rate

▬ EDITING AND CONVERTING ▬

• Cut, crop, concatenate and merge your recordings
• Convert between all supported formats with full control over sample rate, bitrate and channels
• Extract the sound stream from a video file
• Tag your recordings and edit metadata
• Save speed and pitch changes as a new file

▬ FILE MANAGEMENT ▬

• Recordings are saved to your Music folder by default, so they stay on your device if you uninstall and are visible from a computer
• Organize in folders: rename, delete, copy, move
• Sort by date, name or size
• Share by email or messaging apps, or send to your cloud storage

▬ SUPPORTED FORMATS ▬

• Encoding: mp3, m4a, ogg, wma, opus, flac, speex, wav
• Decoding: mp3, ogg, wav, wma, flac, opus, speex, m4a, m2a, mp2, aac, m4v, mp4, mka, mkv, ac3, eac3, amr, 3gp, 3g2, avi, mov, asf, ogv, wmv, flv, f4v, webm
• Sample rate 8–48 kHz, bitrate 32–320 kbps, 16-bit, mono / mono x2 / stereo

▬ MADE FOR ▬

Journalists and podcasters recording interviews. Students recording lectures. Musicians capturing rehearsals and song ideas. Field recordists and naturalists chasing quiet sources. Researchers, transcribers and language learners who need a clean, unprocessed file. Also used for concerts, sermons, conferences, ASMR and paranormal (EVP) recording.

▬ GOOD TO KNOW ▬

RecForge II Pro is not a call recorder and does not record phone calls.
Recording quality depends on your device's microphone and on the audio inputs Android exposes; AGC control and manual gain are not available on every device.
If recording stops while the app is in the background, check that a battery optimizer or task killer is not closing it — see dontkillmyapp.com

Every setting is explained in the FAQ: https://www.recforge.ovh/help
Found a problem, or need a feature? Contact us and we will work through it together.

▬ PERMISSIONS ▬

• Microphone: record sound from the built-in or external microphone
• Music and audio: find and play back the recordings already on your device
• Notifications: show recording controls and status while recording

Ratings and reviews

Even after you pay money you still get ads covering up the interface and making it difficult to continue any kind of a recording. You would think buying the full version would include all the features and remove the advertising, but it does not. You can only record for 3 minutes with the full version. You have to spend another $5 to remove that limitation.

Works well but I can't get the widget to work for quick recording. I use the app to record wildlife and I want to be able to record quickly without opening the app, but the widgets just make blank recordings where nothing happens. I'm not sure what settings I'm supposed to have enabled, but the app records fine if I open it up and do it manually. I'm using a Google Pixel 3.

Excellent App, easy to use, if only for a quick recording, or something more complex. Great support also.

What’s new

• Fixed: an interrupted conversion or edit left an incomplete file under the finished file's name. You could delete the original believing it had worked.
• Fixed: on some installations the app would not start at all.
• Fixed: a waveform that went flat stayed flat forever. It now rebuilds itself.
• Fixed: crashes when setting a ringtone, when recording from the notification, and during conversion.
• Opening a file no longer freezes the app.