Voice Record Pro 4+

I’ve seen every audio recording software on the UK store whilst looking for a fast and effective tool for recording my soon to be ex wife to deter her from verbal abuse and spurious allegation and to give me a record in case of litigation as I’m still living in the house pending divorce. So you can be sure that my need has great importance for me.

Voice Record Pro has such a wide spectrum coverage of facilities from 3D Touch fast start recording to, through reconstructed data in case of battery failure, to tag editing and notes addition. Wow what a software! The recordings are clear in all environments. The playback is easy and convenient. The downloading options make backing up simple whatever your preferred repository (I use WiFi to PC).

I cannot sing the software’s praises highly enough. There is only one other that has my needs covered so effectively and even then it misses on the notes and tags side (though it does have instant start recording which this doesn’t). I won’t mention it’s name in this review so as not to detract from Voice Record Pro but the keen to seek could find it by knowing the price which as of Aug ‘22 is £8.99. Having had to pick between the two though I’ve easily fallen on the side of Voice Record Pro.

I’ve had this app on an iPhone since it was first launched and used it for recording vacation reports and travel logs. It was great. But. Outside of slow cloud based exports my only other option was to convert files to mp4 and put in camera roll. Then export this to pc and convert back to mp3. For this reason I stopped using the app and found a new one with better direct export functionality. I’ve now found a workaround using a usb insert that files can export too. So I am back and happy using the app. I really like the online effect options but I don’t like that these can’t be set before the recording has started and also b they are not remembered from one recording to an other. This is a weird setup. I would like to use the limiter on all recordings but have to go through the setup procedure for it once I am recording live. Like I said it is nearly perfect and those updates would make this app 5 star.

Update June 2023.
I’m doing a lot more recording and this export nonsense is so backwards. Uploading files anywhere is painfully slow, especially the larger ones. Why oh why can we not batch export to any of the plug-In memory sticks that are common now, rather than have to do it one file at a time. On nearly any other recoding app I can export multiple files together. It is for this, and only this reason that I can no longer support using this app, which is a shame because it’s so good in every other way.

It is so flexible in it’s operating modes, it’s editing functions, it’s variable sensitivity to automatically pause during silence if required and so much more.

I happily paid for the ad-free version and I’m always recommending this app to everyone who sends me a voice message using the standard iOS app. One particular reason is because I have my phone enter standby mode after 5mins so I’m always having to stop what I’m doing to unlock the phone to continue playing the messages (something that used to drive me to distraction when recording long messages myself before switching apps).

A couple of family members were unconvinced and I rate this app so highly I paid the price of the ad-free version for them (and they are now recommending it to others themselves). It’s price is in a the mid-range of the average apps I buy but it’s worth it.

One more thing, I mentioned that the basic iOS voice recorder is irritating but I was delighted to find it is so very simple to convert from that app to this it’s almost seamless playback from the time it’s opened there to the time it’s played back here. Converting between many formats is just as easy.

There are so many good features I want to praise but I’m tired and it’s late – read the app description, even download the free app if you want to check it out first… but I would be rather surprised if anyone using it for the average kind of tasks I use it for chooses not to upgrade.