# Instant Rec: Audio Recorder & Voice Recording — user reviews > 99 indexed App Store user reviews of Instant Rec by Wim de Nood, rated 4.00/5 from 19 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/instant-rec-audio-recorder-and-voice-recording/id417262884/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/instant-rec-audio-recorder-and-voice-recording/id417262884.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 12 · 4★ 2 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 3 ## What do users think of Instant Rec? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Instant one-tap recording startup - 👍 Simple and intuitive user interface - 🎵 High-quality audio recording - 🔄 Background recording while using other apps - 📧 Easy file sharing via email and Dropbox - ⚡ Quick and responsive developer support - 🎓 Excellent for educational and professional use - 💾 Reliable file management and playback - 🔊 Works with external audio inputs - ⏸️ Loop and pause functionality **Cons** - 🐛 iOS compatibility issues (iOS 6, 7 crashes) - 🔋 High battery drain and device heating - 📧 Email limitation for large files (20MB+) - 🔐 Concerns about secret recording capability - ❌ Intrusive review request pop-ups - 💳 Repeated billing/charging issues - 🎯 Automatic recording on startup can be inconvenient - 📁 Limited file organization and folder system - 🔄 No pause-and-resume for continuous recording - ❓ Poor customer support responsiveness (older reviews) **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes on iOS 7 and iOS 6 upgrades - Audio loss after saving recordings - App freezes and locks up with certain iOS versions - Crashes when attempting to email large files - Repeated unauthorized charges for upgrades - App store auto-update billing loop - Recording stops unexpectedly mid-session - Black screen of death on iPhone 4 with iOS 7 - Loop feature malfunction - Keyboard input issues when renaming files - Cannot record audio from other apps as advertised **Most requested features** - Audio file trimming/cutting tool - Folder system for organizing recordings - iCloud support for cloud backup - Pause and resume recording functionality - Automatic naming prompt after recording - Multiple file format export options - Waveform visualization during recording - Fast-forward/rewind in playback - Alternative file sharing methods beyond email - Playlist feature for multiple recordings - Option to disable automatic recording on startup - Badge counter for number of recordings - SMS sharing capability - Larger, more visible save button ## Newest reviews (15 of 99) ### 4/5 — Works great *2022-01-15, version 8.3.2* Works great for a affordable Bluetooth recorder for my smart watch. This way I can secretly record conversations with my watch and no body will ever know. ### 3/5 — Excelenta *2018-10-25, version 8.3.2* Muy buen recurso ### 4/5 — Good app *2016-12-26, version 8.3.1* I like this app and I like that the developer Wim is quick to respond to any issues. Only app I could find where I am playing live stream and recording at the same time on the same phone ### 3/5 — Like the instant Rex *2016-04-08, version 7.6* Though one thing missing which I would love to have is iCloud support!! When that comes it will get 5/5 ### 4/5 — Great for studying!!! *2015-10-11, version 7.6* I've been using this successfully to memorize quotes for hsc. I find the loop option very useful. An idea to improve the app would be to have the option to play all or some selected fragments in a playlist (so I can do all my quotes in one night without having to change it) ### 2/5 — No support *2015-08-27, version 7.6* Need updated instruction on moving recordings to computer via itunes using most current version of ios and itunes for Windows. Two requests for help to developer yielded no response. ### 2/5 — Yes and No *2015-08-20, version 7.6* Great recording app. Used to be great to recording and thru a bit of maneuvering in I Tunes you could download recordings. Now with contacting the company and newer iTunes versions I can't figure out how to get large files off of my phone let alone the company to respond to my questions multiple times about how to do it. If I pay for your product you should offer support hence my star review! Contact me please! Check your email AGAIN. They are in the Netherlands so it's no wonder things take forever. Also I have had recordings just "quit" after a meeting and not know why but others record longer even though I have the space. What is going on here?! ### 4/5 — pretty good *2015-05-06, version 7.6* Overall, good app, but here are a few critiques and requests: After I am finished reviewing a recording, it goes back to my list of recordings and does not highlight which one I just played, so it's always difficult to know which one to review next, esp if I have not labeled a recording yet. Also, how do you trim recordings? I agree that the "save" button could be a little larger and easier to hit. ### 3/5 — OK (compelled review) *2015-04-30, version 7.6* Have used this app for two minutes. Has not screwed up yet, so far as I can tell. Bought pro to avoid ads. Hoping that posting this review will stop annoying pop-up. Really, if you want good reviews, you should not annoy customers with pop-ups! ### 4/5 — Great app! *2015-03-30, version 7.6* Works great! ### 2/5 — Works just as described if you don't mind your device getting hot *2014-11-20, version 7.6* It drains my battery on my iphone 5 at about 1% per minute! My iPad mini retina also gets really warm when it's recording - even in the background. This does not happen in any of my other apps unless they are games with intense graphics. ### 5/5 — Great app *2014-07-16, version 7.6* Good for students. ### 5/5 — Amazing *2014-06-14, version 7.6* Great app and works out of the app. Great audio and just a tip, if you don't want it to start when you open the app, then go to settings and turn off record automatically. Worth it💰💰 ### 5/5 — Solid app *2014-04-06, version 7.6* Great app, though I wish it was a but more selective about when it started recording. For instance, only on launch or when returning from the background, but not when waking from sleep. ### 3/5 — A bit confusing *2014-03-25, version 7.3* How does one delete a recorded fragment? Not intuitive this app. Recording quality good. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — This app is a scam *2017-08-09, version 8.3.2* This app could not record any other apps. Do not buy. All it could do is record my voice and when i tried to record a geometry dash gameplay. It stopped recording. I paid 3 dollars for this app. Another rip off. ### 1/5 — Seriously Crappy App *2015-12-11, version 7.6* Zero stars if I could... Since you nag a customer who paid until they review. Please go out of business!!!!! ### 1/5 — Charged for this app 5+ times, broke my AppStore *2015-03-30, version 7.6* Instant audio recorder. I keep getting charged again and again for this upgrade, no matter how many times I have deleted this app I keep getting charged for the upgrade everytime my applestore tries to auto update any of my apps, so now my app store is bugged. Please fix and refund these incorrect, even fraudulent charges. ### 1/5 — Forced review !! *2015-03-30, version 7.6* I paid for it but why do I have to write preview ? Your pop up review request always there when I try to close apps. That is not right. It is your ad. MUST STOP!! ### 1/5 — New look *2014-03-10, version 7.3* I loved this app but not anymore. If the developers think the new look is good let alone practical I can't be confident they know how to code either. If you want a classic example of how to ruin a beautiful app look no further. This is for you. ### 1/5 — ios6 support, kthx *2013-11-20, version 7.1* it'd be great if you could still sell the ios6 version. i bought this and can't install it on my 4th gen... ### 1/5 — Crashes since installing iOS 7 *2013-10-24, version 4.5* This used to be a great app until I installed the iOS 7 update. Now it just closes whenever I open it. Please fix this!!!! ### 1/5 — Traps on iOS7 *2013-10-08, version 4.5* Black screen of death on iOS7 on an iPhone 4:( ### 1/5 — What is happen *2013-10-01, version 4.5* What's happen with this great app after iOS 7 I can't believe I loss my dataaaaaaaaaaa please update your app ### 1/5 — Crashes in iOS 7 *2013-09-28, version 4.5* This was a great app until I upgraded to iOS 7. Now it crashes on opening and I can't get to the files I need for my quartets next rehearsal. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — NICE APP *2022-01-06, version 8.3.2* Easy to use. Very helpful. ### 5/5 — Great for music teachers *2020-06-23, version 8.3.2* I have learned to use this in the COVID crisis whilst teaching singing on Zoom. I record accompaniments and send them as files to my students, attached to an email. Then they can practise to them and use them in the lesson, thus avoiding the time lag problem. The filing system is easy to use too. ### 5/5 — Wonderful! *2019-09-12, version 8.3.2* This tool is so handy and useful - from quickly playing in composition ideas, to sending student recordings to parents. ### 5/5 — Works perfect ios 12 *2018-11-03, version 8.3.2* This app is made to instantly 1Touch open and start recording audio with no other intervention or hunting for tiny record buttons . It can play back the audio back with its built in player. Its kinda like a 1 touch solution when your under stress or in a hurry. You can mail the recording and open it on another device or computer or you can open or copy to whatever other app you have on the same device. If your going to be opening and listening to the recording over and over again common sense would tell you to send it to another app that does not create a new recording every time you open it... This app is meant to start recording the second you tap on the icon on the home screen. Its simple and fool proof. I can't help but to thank the gentleman who called the app a SCAM because it does not record the audio from his game app being played on the same device this app resides on. lolololololololololololololololololololololololol Thanks for the laugh xD ### 5/5 — Great school app. *2016-12-24, version 8.3.1* This is a great quality app that I use in the classroom to record music students and then instantly play back for them to hear on my Bluetooth sound system. Sound quality is great and my students have learned to recognize the good vs. the bad. Has made this aspect of teaching much easier and faster. Thank you Wim for this product. ### 5/5 — Great App, Excellent Customer Service *2016-12-11, version 8.1* I have been using this app to record and loop ideas and affirmations and have recommended this app to many friends. Recently, the loop feature stopped working. I emailed the support team and had a response within minutes. A temporary solution was offered as an interim measure until the update which came out 4 days later. I honestly did not expect such a quick response and personable assistance. Well done Instant Rec! I cannot recommend you highly enough! ### 5/5 — Best I have used *2016-12-01, version 8.0* Best I have used. Near instantaneous bug fixed when reported ### 5/5 — Works great! *2016-05-15, version 7.6* I needed an app that would let me capture audio through the mic port on my iPhone, because I wanted to record audio from an FM radio. I was able to rig up a connection from the handheld radio to my iPhone using an old cable I got with a Sony camcorder that had three connections at the end with the 1/8" jack. It was originally for video, plus stereo audio. Anyway, using this, plus a little attenuator adapter to bring the level from line level to mic level worked great. And Instant Recorder had the ability to record audio from that port, which I haven't found in any other app. So kudos to the devs. Thanks for a simple app that does exactly what I need! ### 5/5 — Super easy to use *2015-07-11, version 7.6* Love this app for on-the-go audio recordings. Just tap to start and stop recording. Very easy to rename files. Logically designed. ### 5/5 — great ergonomics *2014-10-11, version 7.6* this app is the best voice recorder app I have used and I have tried quite a few. only slight criticism would be a little more defined save button. maybe red with bold letters with edging around it or something in that order. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-06-10.*