# Life Recorder: Record the Past — Retroactive voice recorder

> Retroactive voice recorder (iPhone/iPad app by Bar Ish SHalom.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/life-recorder-record-the-past/id6812500586 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Bar Ish SHalom](https://appshunter.io/developer/6812500588)
- Category: Utilities, Productivity
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 16.2 · 88 MB
- Languages: American English, Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Filipino, Finnish, French (France), German (Germany), Greek and 20 more
- Released: 2026-10-06
- Data updated: 2026-10-24

## What is Life Recorder?

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

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| PRO Yearly | $14.99 | per year |
| PRO Monthly | $2.49 | per month |


## Is Life Recorder safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Life Recorder.

## Is Life Recorder legit?

Life Recorder: Record the Past has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Life Recorder is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.1.7 — 2026-10-18

• The subscription page shows the store's actual terms in your country
• A pending payment is shown clearly, and you get a notification when it goes through
• Fewer false alerts that another app is using the microphone

### 2.1.6 — 2026-10-16

• Sharing a recording is much faster: the video is ready in seconds
• Entering a code from a friend is clearer
• Prompts no longer vanish right after they appear

### 2.1.5 — 2026-10-10

• The transcription model download picks up where it stopped if the connection drops, and now works in more countries
• Trim cuts exactly where you set the handles, and keeps them when the screen turns
• Clearer transcription notifications and smoother progress
• Where the store can't sell PRO, every feature is now free

### 2.1.3 — 2026-10-08

• If your phone cuts a transcription short, the app retries by itself and tells you if it could not finish
• Transcription starts right away in your phone's languages, with a one-tap redo in another
• Turn a recording into text with one tap right after you save it
• Quiet notifications: sound only when recording stops and needs you
• Changing plan now replaces your subscription instead of adding a second one

### 2.1.1 — 2026-10-06

No release notes.

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