Life Recorder: Record the Past
Retroactive voice recorder
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Ever wished you could go back and record something that just happened? Life Recorder is a retroactive voice recorder: it listens quietly in the background and lets you save the last few minutes of audio - AFTER the moment has passed. A funny thing your kid said, a sudden idea, an important detail from a call - tap Save and it's yours.
Perfect as a meeting recorder, lecture or interview recorder, or for quick voice notes and memos - like a rewind button for sound, with speech-to-text built in.
HOW IT WORKS
Start the recorder once. It keeps a rolling buffer of the recent past. When something worth keeping happens, save it with one tap - from the app, the notification, or the home screen widget - and the last minutes become a recording. Nothing else is kept.
KEY FEATURES
- Save the moment after it happens - one tap for the last 5 or 10 minutes, or any amount up to a full hour
- Save from the home screen widget or straight from the notification
- On-device transcription - turn any recording into text in ~100 languages, right on your phone; pick the language, or several for a recording that switches between them (automatic transcripts may contain mistakes)
- Recording schedule - record only during the hours you choose and save battery
- Skip silence - quiet stretches are not stored, so your buffer reaches even further back in time
- iCloud backup - every recording is copied to your own iCloud and restored by itself after a reinstall
- Living sound wave while recording
- Waveform player - see the sound graph and drag right on it to seek
- Share as video - every shared recording becomes a waveform clip that plays anywhere: WhatsApp, Instagram, email
- Battery friendly - optimized to sip power while listening in the background
YOUR PRIVACY COMES FIRST
Everything stays on your device. Recordings never leave your device unless you turn on iCloud backup to your own iCloud, and only audio you explicitly save is kept - the rest is continuously discarded. Even transcription runs entirely on your device.
GO PRO
Invite a friend: when they install from your link, you both get a month of PRO free.
Please respect local laws: in some places you must have the consent of everyone being recorded.
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://liferecorderapp.com/privacy.html
Ratings & Reviews
• Security and reliability improvements
The developer, Bar Ish SHalom, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Purchases
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Bar Ish SHalom
- Size
- 92.8 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.2 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 16.2 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 13.1 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 29 more
- English, Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- PRO Yearly $14.99
- PRO Monthly $2.49
- Copyright
- © 2026 Bar Ish-Shalom