Recorder Plus : Voice Recorder 4+

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.

The app description says “record seconds or hours” but makes NO mention of the fact that you have to pay to record over 2 minutes. It doesn’t tell you when you start recording that you’ll be stopped at 2 minutes. It also tells you that you can record in the background. So I recorded an important meeting today with this app. After the 90 minute meeting I find out that the app stopped at 2 minutes. It gave me NO notification. I had my notes app opened because that had my talking points. I lost over 80 minutes of that meeting because of this stupid app. I’ll be filing a complaint with the Apple team about this app as well. Highly deceiving app. Just tell people up front that you want $2, or charge like $5 for your app. This would have been a great app if the developers weren’t idiots about the way they implemented the pay features.