Free online voice recorder.

Press record and accept your browser's permission prompt. If you denied it earlier, click the lock or tune icon at the left of the address bar, set Microphone to Allow and reload the page. On iPhone and iPad, tap “AA” in Safari's address bar → Website Settings → Microphone → Allow. The recorder shows the exact steps for your browser when it detects a denial.

Yes. Safari supports getUserMedia and MediaRecorder from iOS 14.3 onwards, and the recorder negotiates audio/mp4 (AAC) on Safari instead of WebM. One Safari quirk: recording stops when you lock the screen or switch apps, because iOS suspends the browser tab. That limit is the browser's, not the microphone's.

Yes, and without uploading it. Every take has a “Transcribe” action that hands the recording to the free audio-to-text tool on this site, which runs OpenAI Whisper in your browser — no account, no minute cap and no upload. It is the same on-device promise as the recorder: the audio moves between two pages in the same tab and never touches a server.

Whatever your browser can encode — WebM with Opus on Chrome, Edge and Firefox, MP4 with AAC on Safari. Both play in modern players and upload to transcription tools. You can also export a 16-bit PCM WAV, which is encoded on your device in a Web Worker, so it works for editors that refuse compressed input.

There is no fixed limit in the tool. In practice the ceiling is your device's free storage and the tab staying alive — the take is written to IndexedDB as it records, so length is bounded by disk rather than memory. Realistically, expect a browser tab to hold up for a meeting, not for a whole day. For all-day capture you need an app that runs in the background.

Yes. Once the page has loaded, recording, the waveforms, trimming and WAV export all run locally with no network calls at all — the worker is built in the page rather than fetched. Turn off Wi-Fi and try it: the recorder keeps working.

It is free with no account, no email, no trial and no watermark. There is nothing to sign up for because there is no server-side component — the recorder is JavaScript running in your tab.

In your own browser, in IndexedDB, on the device you are using. Nothing is copied anywhere else. Deleting a take removes it, and “Delete all” clears the store completely. Clearing your browser's site data for this site also wipes them, so download anything you want to keep.

No. This feature has no upload endpoint and no API route behind it, so there is nothing for audio to be sent to. You can verify it yourself: open DevTools → Network, record, stop, and download — no request carries audio. To be precise about scope: the site does load page analytics (Vercel Analytics, plus Google Analytics and Ads tags if you accept the consent prompt), which count page visits and store-link clicks. They never touch your recording.

Not reliably. On a phone, only one app can hold the microphone at a time, so starting a call usually mutes or ends the browser's capture — and the recorder will tell you when that happens. Recording calls is also legally restricted in many places; check the recording consent checker before you try.

Because mobile operating systems suspend browser tabs to save battery. A web page has no background-audio entitlement, so when the screen locks or you switch apps, capture stops. Native apps can request that entitlement — which is how BlackBox keeps recording with the screen off.