Voice Memos & Sound Recorder alternatives

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R1] Voice Memos & Sound Recorder 1/5 · US Horrible: Price is Too high. Didn’t use to be a price. Also… You deleted several of my very important meeting logs. Over a years worth.
2. [R13] Voice Memos & Sound Recorder 1/5 · US Why does app even exist?: I can’t see a single feature this app does better than the built in app. Why would anyone want or develop this? And cation - the 3-day trial ending auto-subscribes you for a year!
3. [R31] Voice Memos & Sound Recorder 1/5 · US Subscription required: I’m not paying a subscription for this
4. [R44] Voice Memos & Sound Recorder 4/5 · US Where did the free app go?: I loved the free part. I use it so infrequently that I can’t justify paying for the Voice Memo Pro. Now my only option is to click get started for a free trial. I had a few small recordings on there but can’t get to them. It may be time to look for a new app.
5. [R3] Voice Memos & Sound Recorder 3/5 · US Mehh…: It is not clear how to edit a recording to keep one part and discard the rest, even tho there is an « edit «  button. Also it is constantly asking for a review. Frustrating. I hate also being asked for a comment. bothersome.
6. [R7] Voice Memos & Sound Recorder 1/5 · US Incessantly Begging for Reviews: Looking for an easy app to use for recording voice memos, this app’s UX is currently designed around the team’s desire to flash the “usefulness” of their app. At launch, the app will display a collage of high user ratings. Then, as you click through the app, pop-ups soliciting for reviews will come up time and again. This is a visually noisy app and you’re better o
7. [R10] Voice Memos & Sound Recorder 2/5 · US Incessantly Asks For Rating: Too aggressive about ratings.
8. [R12] Voice Memos & Sound Recorder 3/5 · US Recorder: This is an easy app to use. Only complaint is the infernal pop up to enroll drove me crazy.
9. [R2] Voice Memos & Sound Recorder 5/5 · US 04.15.26 important recording: Shows recording of select board meeting. Recording disappeared when stopped and asked to listen to
10. [R19] Voice Memos & Sound Recorder 1/5 · US Sucks: Does not save
11. [R28] Voice Memos & Sound Recorder 1/5 · US Junk: All my files got lost after upgraded iPhone! Be careful
12. [R4] Voice Memos & Sound Recorder 1/5 · US Rip off: This is a rip off , transcription isn’t working and it’s the main reason why I purchased it
13. [R18] Voice Memos & Sound Recorder 3/5 · US It’s alright: I just wanna transcribe
14. [R21] Voice Memos & Sound Recorder 3/5 · US Transcription: Having trouble forwarding recordings and transcribing
15. [R22] Voice Memos & Sound Recorder 1/5 · US Transcription not working for me which is what i bought it for: bummer! hoping for a refund
16. [R6] Voice Memos & Sound Recorder 3/5 · US Can’t find how to trim a recording: The app says there's a way
17. [R9] Voice Memos & Sound Recorder 3/5 · US It meeeds some improvement: To the people who made this app. When the app is running in the background the volume slowly goes down and it cuts off. I would give it 5 stars if this bug can be fixed. I want it to run in the background and keep playing until I cut it off. Please!!! Thank you!!
18. [R15] Voice Memos & Sound Recorder 3/5 · US Syncing Issues: The app works fine. I have it on both my iPhone and iPad. I would like to know why it doesn’t automatically sync the two when I record.
19. [R36] Voice Memos & Sound Recorder 3/5 · GB Apple Watch to iPhone: How do I get the recording from watch app to my phone ? It has the option but no recoding comes up? Other than that the app works, sounds alright. No issues so far.
20. [R42] Voice Memos & Sound Recorder 3/5 · GB Ok: The app is functional but shuts down when transferring files from apple voice memo.
21. [R16] Voice Memos & Sound Recorder 1/5 · US VERY DISAPPOINTED: This app is very confusing I just paid $24.99 for something that does not work.. please help me
22. [R49] Voice Memos & Sound Recorder 1/5 · US What am I paying for?: This app records well and that’s about it. Transcribe is iffy. Consistently asked the language, there should be a way to store it. App stalls skips transcription of large parts of a recording. This app needs work. Needs to be user friendly and way less clunky. Also stop asking me to rate the app every touch I make in it, super annoying.
23. [R51] Voice Memos 1/5 · US Why I think you’re Should be delete it: Because you guys aren’t even doing nothing all you’re making us do is do wraps and stuff and then make it on that then you won’t even let us do it on YouTube so at least making a app where you can record yourself making song put it on your voicemails or your camera, then make a video then go on that one app and then make it together and then make another app
24. [R53] Voice Memos 3/5 · US Recording turns off for dumb reasons: I started recording 40 minutes ago and see that only 13 seconds were recorded. It's like, twice you turn on the camera and it turns off, you turn on video and it turns off. You lock the phone and it turns off! Fix it. · translated
25. [R54] Voice Memos 1/5 · US Deleted voice memo: I had recorded the last conversation I had with my dad before he passed on here. I bought iCloud storage a few months after thinking the voice memo would sync and I wouldn’t ever lose it. During syncing, the voice memo was deleted and after contacting Apple was told they don’t know what happened and I haven’t been able to recover it since.
26. [R56] Voice Memos 3/5 · US Aggravating: Sometimes while I’m recording an ad will pop up that cannot be closed. I’m unable to stop or save the recording and am forced to close the app. Extremely annoying.
27. [R65] Voice Recorder & Audio Editor 1/5 · US Beware of your recording automatically disappearing!!: I am extremely disappointed in this product. I first had a 5 day free trial and then was automatically charged for a monthly subscription. I would not have minded that except that a very important 3 hour recording was automatically deleted. I send two emails to customer support and never heard back. I’d give them a zero rating if I could.
28. [R66] Voice Recorder & Audio Editor 5/5 · US Sound: Great
29. [R67] Voice Recorder & Audio Editor 3/5 · US Lost Recordings: Many times I have sent a recording to someone only for it to be a recording from the previous week. Now, today’s recording has just disappeared. Frustrating.
30. [R68] Voice Recorder & Audio Editor 2/5 · US Bug fixes: I love this app but I keep getting a notification that says “no speech detected” and I genuinely don’t know what to do.
31. [R79] Voice Recorder Lite 1/5 · US This app is the worst’s app: This app is worst even download so many apps fake advertising at the lease price for 5.99 months damn joke
32. [R80] Voice Recorder Lite 5/5 · US Okay deliana: Good
33. [R81] Voice Recorder Lite 3/5 · US Other apps are better: The app records well, but it cost money to purchase the pro version which is needed to do most of anything with the app including emailing yourself or someone a shared copy of what you have recorded.
34. [R82] Voice Recorder Lite 1/5 · US BLEW MY EARDRUMS OUT!: I was trying to test the mic on my Bluetooth headset, when suddenly, this app, without warning, popped up an unbelievably loud, full screen ad, blowing my eardrums out and hurting my ears. Deleting immediately.
35. [R93] Call Recorder for iPhone ㅤ 1/5 · US Unacceptable, & misleading.: I’m trying to put my phone number in the app, but it won’t accept it. I don’t have any cash in international number, I have a personal phone. The app should’ve included information describing the need for an international phone before it requested my money. Now I’ve played for a service that I cannot use. I truthfully rate this app below the grading level offered.
36. [R94] Call Recorder for iPhone ㅤ 5/5 · US Maura Saracino: Cannot use the keypad of the phone to make needed selections for a phone tree. Please fix this! Cannot get back to my phone’s keypad and the sight doesn’t supply one.
37. [R95] Call Recorder for iPhone ㅤ 3/5 · US Issue: It looks like this app will not record calls coming in on WhatsApp.
38. [R96] Call Recorder for iPhone ㅤ 1/5 · US Worst: This app is the worst! Why should I have to call a number first to record a number? The entire point of a call recorder is to capture dynamic situations. You can’t do that with some garbage like this. I want a refund!
39. [R107] Voice recorder 1/5 · US App corrupted?: App opened to suspicious ads claiming my iPhone had been infected
40. [R108] Voice recorder 5/5 · US I love this app!: It works so good and the audio is so good! You get to record as much as you want and go back to listen to it.
41. [R109] Voice recorder 3/5 · US Rich with Ad’s: Simple product work as expected but has ads popping up in full screen. I’m okay with them on a part of the screen just not full screen. Some of the Ads are also clickbait as if something was detected wrong with your phone.
42. [R110] Voice recorder 1/5 · US No longer usable: Used to be a solid app. Then the ads started getting very aggressive and hard to click out of. But now it will just randomly stop recording after under 30 seconds. Moving on.
43. [R25] Voice Memos & Sound Recorder 2/5 · US None: Good except ability to retrieve accidental deletion of recording when leaving app to answer incoming calls.