Recorder Plus : Voice Recorder ٤+

I really like this app. I use it to create rehearsal tracks for people who sing at our church. I want to save the recordings for future use, so I tried to upload a few files at a time to OneDrive. The app crashes regularly. Sometimes it won’t upload any, sometimes one or two, but never all four. And they’re small files—45 seconds each. It did the same thing with iCloud. Emailing them works, but it’s a lot more effort.

I purchase this app a long time ago and until today was happy with it. I would discretely turn it on when needed to memorialize specific events or conversations. I paid money for unlimited recordings and a couple of other features. Today, when I pressed to discretely record, a video ad started blasting out a song! What!?! My entire phone was is silent mode! I didn’t want to disturb anyone nor did I want to “announce” the fact that I had started a recoding. I did both. Why does an app that is designed to silently record things plays a video ad!?! A visual only ad would have been bad enough, since I already paid for numerous features on this app and ads were not a part of it when I paid, but a high volume video ad?!? What the heck are these programmers thinking?!? It totally disrupted the situation I was trying to record and I was not able to record the event. I will now be spending who knows how much time downloading all my saved recordings so that I can delete this app. The alternative is to pay even more money to delete the video ads, but I now have no confidence they won’t pull the same trick somewhere down the road.

To exit the ‘Record’ app indeed proved to daunting at best. In exasperation I placed my iPhone aside to speak to someone about a tree on my property which was leaning on my neighbor’s second floor and upstairs porch. Thanks to Hurricane Florence the tree had to be removed. Understandably the phone was left aside for three or more hours as papers were signed and the tree cutters removed the tree. When I returned to my phone, not only was the battery at 12%, but also the ‘Record’ app was still “fetching” information from ‘Record'! Really? Perhaps the information fetched was not only from Record, it could have been from me! I actually like to participate in studies, however it is generally accepted that one should be notified when one is being studied. Had the battery indicated little usage, as it always does when the phone isn’t in use, I wouldn’t have reason to question why the app continued it’s installation when it had been denied. Thank you.