Dictaphone Voice Recorder
Voice Activated Recorder
How much does Dictaphone Voice Recorder cost?
Prices are current as of 7 Oct 2026.
1 one-time purchase from $9.99
In the United States, Dictaphone Voice Recorder has 1 one-time purchase priced $9.99.
| Product | Price |
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| Monthly price | — | — | — | — | $9.99 | $4.99 | $3.99 | $11.99 | — | — | $4.99 |
| Annual price | — | — | $34.99 | — | $39.99 | $24.99 | $24.99 | $49.99 | — | — | $39.99 |
| One-time price | $9.99 | — | $1.99 | $0.99 | — | $0.99 | — | — | — | $8.99 | — |
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Dictaphone Voice Recorder reviews
4.5 out of 5, based on 1,257 reviews.
What people like
- Voice activation saves space
- Sound quality is excellent
- Easy to use interface
- Free version works well
What they complain about
- Support never actually helps
- Settings reset every new recording
- Deletes recordings without warning
- App crashes on long recordings
Very good app
This works great, sound quality is good and I like that I can adjust the sound threshold for recording. A nice feature would be to be able to use a Bluetooth microphone as an option to the phones microphone.
Nothing Special
There’s a perfectly good and free voice recorder already included with your iPhone. Why anyone would bothered to pay to have adverts removed from this second rate app is a mystery.
Does what it says it does!
Easy to use clear recording too
Accidentally Deleted Recordings
There is no help or option to recover deleted memos as I keep reading. It would be great if I could find someone to help with this before too late.
Would love to use my AirPods
I downloaded this last week and gave it a quick try, and it seems to work quite well. The only thing is I would love to be able to use it with my AirPods Pro, and use the microphone in those rather than the one on my iPhone. I can’t find a way to contact the developer, so I’m wondering if this might be a possibility?
Nice recorder
Thank you!
Cannot remove silences
Too much of my recording is taken up with silence
Bonne application
Bonne application
Dictafoon
Handige app als je snel iets op wil nemen. Alleen Jammer dat als je iets wil typen je dan geen tekst ziet. Behalve onderin verschijnt er dan tekst die je dan na op bewaard te hebben gedrukt, de tekst in t 1e scherm ziet.
2023 Was A Small Step Backwards
New 2023 version has a launch bug. My previous review was: Good recording interface. Easy to use. Voice activation with tunable sensitivity, which is lacking in Apple’s Voice Memos. ‘Dictaphone Voice Recorder’ has decent voice file exporting and importing ability via Air Drop and Voice Memos, and iTunes. It sorts your files by date and you can name them however you want, and those things are absent in Apple’s Voice Memos. It still needs the ability to sort files by name and doesn’t have that. Reliable, but no support from publisher.
Great
Great
Faulty Recording Mechanisms
The recordings failed time and again. Without notification!! Absolutely devastating!!
Nice app. Wish it had a time stamp of when sound was recorded
Works well. Wish it had a time stamp of when the sound was recorded. This app can have so many more uses with a time stamp But it is the best free voice activated recorder iPhone app available in 2020
Dictaphone app
I “had”really liked this app prior to the recent update. Before you press to record & it would record everything & i had bragged to other people how great this was BUT NOW it’s voice activated when you press record & it “doesn’t” catch the beginning part of what needs to be recorded nor the end. I hope there’s a new update to correct that problem
Gesprek per ongeluk verwijderd
Het is jammer dat ik verwijderde gesprekken niet kan terughalen dit wat per ongeluk is gegaan
Dictaphone Voice activated Recorder
This is a great app. I used another unit prior to this and it did not work. This App is a Mercedes Benz!! It is well designed. The voice clarity is excellent. It upload to iCloud is easy to set up and actually works. The file males are easy to change. I am using it for recording my dreams and it is perfect for that!!! What a terrific well designed product! I give it a five star review and am delighted to have found it.
Poor app
my installation was removed by an IOS upgrade. There is no way to recover the recordings that were removed, also. Very poor programming!
Good app
I used this app to record presentations and the quality of the recording is very good.
M4a and Wav file
Saves in m4a and .wav Format. Not mp4 like they said it would.
Fonctionne mai problème
Comment récupérer un enregistrement de 36 min pour le mettre sur l ordi ?
Consumer
Simple, efficient & reliable. Helps me monitor my snoring.
A trap
Can’t unsub from Remove Ads—aargh
Great app, just a few requests
This is one of the best voice recorders I found, I have just a few requests: 1. Add setting to disable sound when you start recording 2. Add setting to set number of seconds to stop recording after silent 3. Add setting to auto-start recording when you open app 4. Add quick action to start recording by pressing app button with 3D Touch Thanks!
Some Good Things But Could Do Better
It records well enough. The editing facility is frankly abysmal! "Set End", "Set Start", "Trim", "Save Trimmed As New"you can do all that and every time the app shuts down. Reboots, hard resets don’t make a difference. I’d use apples voice recorder but it records continuously unlike this app which doesn’t record silences, which saves a lot of time. This could be a five star app but being unable to edit it is a major setback.
Ok, but could be better
So I’ve used this app a few times of times and it does record... just like it says. However there is so much room for improvement. I have three main issues with the app right now: 1) Recordings start automatically as soon as I tap the + to create a new recording. This is the silliest default setting I’ve ever seen. I have looked and have not not found anywhere in this app to change the setting so that it does not automatically start recording immediately. I have it set on least sensitive so that it is less likely to record anything before I’m not ready. However, it will still pickup background noise on occasion and records it anyway. ***There should be an option in the app settings where you can choose if you want recordings to start automatically or manually. 2) ***It would be more user friendly if the settings options were on the main screen like most other apps are rather on the recording screen. With the issue in #1 above, it’s a pain! I’d rather have my settings already set from the main screen before I create a new recording. 3) The file organization could user some significant development. ***A folder system where I could create separate folders and then file all my related recordings in one place would be helpful*** When I am looking for a specific recording, it would be much easier to find if I could set up a folder called “Meetings“ or “Reminders” or whatever. Having to scroll through a list of recordings all bunched together is tedious and time consuming. I might continue using this app on occasion… But will most likely choose to use a more robust one over this. Glad it was free as I would never pay for the app as it is. Very generically developed at this point.
A good voice-activated recorder
Dictaphone does a great job recording, and it knows to start and stop, so it only records when people are talking. Saves time and space on playback.
Major bug and zero customer support
Originally I loved this app. But after much use… I discovered that if you are using it on your watch and you stop the recording but forget to tap on save (there’s an option for cancel or save) you lose the entire recording and can’t recover it. Being on my watch and arm it makes it difficult because sometimes it gets bumped before I can push save and I’ve lost really important recordings that way. I’ve searched and searched online to try to figure out how to recover it and I haven’t found any way possible. I wish the default set up was to save it rather than delete it if that happens. I have sent four emails to customer support trying to recover very important recording I had and I have had no response whatsoever. So I’m changing my review to one star
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Love it
No longer working after last update
Use to work but now will not even open nor can I delete the app. Whatever was updated did not help me at all.
To hard to find what I need
I wish someone would make a recorder you could edit. I would like to take the best of my recordings and listen to them in one recording.
Great app
Very useful and easy to use. I use this app to record my language classes. I especially like that I can speed up the playback to double-time so that the review is faster.
LOSING RECORDINGS ON WATCH app fetal Spooky and irritating bug
This thing will not record on command you better save a nonsense recording when you started up on your watch and then go back and record what you had in your mind because it won’t save it all when you initially press save any time opening the watch app. I’ve been losing recordings because the watch app will not save when I start it up that’s not very convenient but you have to save something when starting it up for it to start actually saving what you recorded and won’t even be in the pending transfers until your second recording you’ll likely find that in the transfers pending
I like it!
I do like this app. I use in school to record a very fast talking professor. Wonderful!
It's free, but you get what you pay for.
It get the job done eventually, but it seems like the developer never actually used their own app. The good: 1) It's free. 2) Once recording starts, it seems to do a good job. 3) The voice activation works well (for me). 4) Deleted recordings go into a temporary delete location (so you can recover them if you accidentally delete them) and can then be permanently deleted later. The not so good: 1) You can make setting adjustments ONLY while a recording is in session. As soon as you open a new session, it starts recording immediately, so you have to start a new recording, choose your settings, stop the recording, click back to the summary page and delete the recording, then start all over with the recording you wanted in the first place. 2) With all the deleted recordings you end up with, you will need to visit the permanent delete option often. Good luck. The developer decided the only way to access this is to shake the phone. If it work most of the time, it might be acceptable, but you'll end up spending more time shaking the phone trying to delete the recordings than you did making them in the first place.
Good, but annoying
This app works well. I like it and I use it. BUT, it's really annoying that I need to reset the sensitivity for every new recording!
Great app
This is very useful and easy to use. The only issue I have is the color scheme and not being able to change it.
Too sensitive, no "off" delay
There are three problems with this app that make it nearly unusable in the voice-activated (VOX) mode. First, it is much too sensitive, even in the least-sensitive setting. Second, when mic activity stops, there is no delay before pausing the recording, so recordings sound very choppy and have missed syllables. Finally, the only way to change the VOX sensitivity is to slide a control after the recording has begun, and the setting does not "stick" between recordings, it needs to be re-set at the beginning of each recording.
Great!
Excellent quality!
Good functionality, fatal GUI flaw
Works great, but in order to be used as a dictaphone the first screen should show a big prominent "record" button, not a small plus sign on the corner. Just like the native voice memo app.
Not Bad
Worth every penny, sound quality needs improvement and the ability to use in landscape format for iPad would be nice too. Otherwise, Apple's Voice Memos app is superior... imo.
easy to use and export
Works great for recording anything from sleep sessions to ghosts! Highly recommend it! Easy to export files in multiple formats.
Crashes
Left it running for the day during lectures and it crashes after about 8 hours. Root cause appears to be larger audio file/memory. Suggest creating smaller recording files to prevent this.
Great but with annoying beep
I like the app. It has the right features and good sound quality. I want my iPhone to be silent but there is an annoying beep which I can't control when starting a recording. Nice feature to make recordings directly on appleWatch. It would be great with a screensaver. It would also be great to be able to control the iPhone recording from the watch.
Ne marche pas avec Apple Watch
Le produit paraît attractif mais l'enregistrement autonome sur Apple Watch os 2 ne marche pas (pas de son)
Functional but lacking iPhone 6+ rendering.
Great sound quality recordings! Would have rated 4 stars if it were updated and optimized for larger iPhone 6 Plus screens. Definitely needs this soon, or i will delete it and replace with another dictaphone app that supports my larger screen.
Excellent app...
Been using it for several years and has never failed to work properly. I’ve found it to be very easy to use and it has all of the features I was looking for.
Extremely Poor Performance
I have an iPhone 6s and this app records audio as if it is a strobe light. Recording shimmers in and out. Please refund my money!
Great app, I use it frequently.
This app does exactly as it is advertised. I like that you can rename your recording to more easily identify each one. I contacted support for an issue & response was extraordinary, replying quickly, addressing all my concerns, and giving clear explanations. Great communication. The only reason I gave 4 stars instead of 5 is because of a bug, which loses your recording if you tap an ad during recording. Support discovered that when I emailed about losing mine. (They are going to fix it in an update.) So be cautious not to open an ad while recording & you are golden. Of course you avoid that possibility altogether if you have purchased the ad free version or use airplane mode during recording.
THE app
Could iT have also that you can record more voices and put them to gather and play them al at ones that would be nice
Alle sterren als reclame verdwijnt.
Alle sterren als reclame verdwijnt. Desnoods betalen!
Dictaphone Voice Recorder price by country
A one-time purchase costs $9.15 in Canada and $15.60 in Colombia — 1.7× more for the same thing. Below is the going rate for each plan in every country that sells it — the middle price of what the app charges there, in the country's own currency with the dollar equivalent beneath it.
| Country | One-time |
|---|---|
| Afghanistan | $9.99 |
| Albania | $11.99 |
| Algeria | $9.99 |
| Angola | $9.99 |
| Anguilla | $9.99 |
| Antigua And Barbuda | $9.99 |
| Argentina | $9.99 |
| Armenia | $11.99 |
| Australia | A$14.99$10.48 |
| Austria | €9.99$11.24 |
| Azerbaijan | $11.99 |
| Bahamas | $9.99 |
| Bahrain | $9.99 |
| Barbados | $11.99 |
| Belarus | $11.99 |
| Belgium | €9.99$11.24 |
| Belize | $9.99 |
| Benin | $11.99 |
| Bermuda | $9.99 |
| Bhutan | $9.99 |
| Bolivia | $9.99 |
| Bosnia & Herzegovina | €9.99$11.24 |
| Botswana | $9.99 |
| Brazil | R$59.90$12.03 |
| British Virgin Islands | $9.99 |
| Brunei Darussalam | $9.99 |
| Bulgaria | €9.99$11.24 |
| Burkina Faso | $9.99 |
| Cambodia | $9.99 |
| Cameroon | $11.99 |
| Canada | CA$12.99$9.15 |
| Cape Verde | $9.99 |
| Cayman Islands | $9.99 |
| Chad | $9.99 |
| Chile | CLP 9,990$10.28 |
| China | CN¥68.00$10.13 |
| Colombia | COP 49,900$15.60 |
| Congo | $11.99 |
| Congo, Democratic Republic | $9.99 |
| Costa Rica | $9.99 |
| Cote Divoire | $11.99 |
| Croatia | €9.99$11.24 |
| Cyprus | €9.99$11.24 |
| Czech Republic | CZK 249.00$11.49 |
| Denmark | DKK 89.00$13.40 |
| Dominica | $9.99 |
| Dominican Republic | $9.99 |
| Ecuador | $9.99 |
| Egypt | EGP 499.99$9.56 |
| El Salvador | $9.99 |
| Estonia | €9.99$11.24 |
| Fiji | $9.99 |
| Finland | €9.99$11.24 |
| France | €9.99$11.24 |
| Gabon | $9.99 |
| Gambia | $9.99 |
| Georgia | $11.99 |
| Germany | €9.99$11.24 |
| Ghana | $11.99 |
| Greece | €9.99$11.24 |
| Grenada | $9.99 |
| Guatemala | $9.99 |
| Guinea-bissau | $9.99 |
| Guyana | $9.99 |
| Honduras | $9.99 |
| Hong Kong | HK$88.00$11.21 |
| Hungary | HUF 4,490$13.83 |
| Iceland | $11.99 |
| India | ₹999.00$10.36 |
| Indonesia | IDR 199,000$11.12 |
| Iraq | $9.99 |
| Ireland | €9.99$11.24 |
| Israel | ₪29.90$9.84 |
| Italy | €9.99$11.24 |
| Jamaica | $9.99 |
| Japan | ¥1,500$9.48 |
| Jordan | $9.99 |
| Kazakhstan | KZT 5,990.00$13.26 |
| Kenya | $11.99 |
| Kosovo | €9.99$11.24 |
| Kuwait | $9.99 |
| Kyrgyzstan | $9.99 |
| Lao Peoples Democratic Republic | $9.99 |
| Latvia | €9.99$11.24 |
| Lebanon | $9.99 |
| Liberia | $9.99 |
| Libya | $9.99 |
| Lithuania | €9.99$11.24 |
| Luxembourg | €9.99$11.24 |
| Macao | $9.99 |
| Macedonia | $9.99 |
| Madagascar | $9.99 |
| Malawi | $9.99 |
| Malaysia | MYR 49.90$12.20 |
| Maldives | $9.99 |
| Mali | $9.99 |
| Malta | €9.99$11.24 |
| Mauritania | $9.99 |
| Mauritius | $11.99 |
| Mexico | MX$199.00$11.07 |
| Micronesia | $9.99 |
| Moldova | $11.99 |
| Mongolia | $9.99 |
| Montenegro | €9.99$11.24 |
| Montserrat | $9.99 |
| Morocco | $11.99 |
| Mozambique | $9.99 |
| Myanmar | $9.99 |
| Namibia | $9.99 |
| Nauru | $9.99 |
| Nepal | $11.99 |
| Netherlands | €9.99$11.60 |
| New Zealand | NZ$19.99$11.23 |
| Nicaragua | $9.99 |
| Niger | $9.99 |
| Nigeria | NGN 14,900.00$11.22 |
| Norway | NOK 129.00$13.49 |
| Oman | $9.99 |
| Pakistan | PKR 2,900$10.48 |
| Palau | $9.99 |
| Panama | $9.99 |
| Papua New Guinea | $9.99 |
| Paraguay | $9.99 |
| Peru | PEN 44.90$13.05 |
| Philippines | ₱599.00$9.54 |
| Poland | PLN 49.99$12.88 |
| Portugal | €9.99$11.24 |
| Qatar | QAR 39.99$10.99 |
| Romania | RON 49.99$10.52 |
| Russia | RUB 899.00$10.66 |
| Rwanda | $9.99 |
| Sao Tome & Principe | $9.99 |
| Saudi Arabia | SAR 39.99$10.66 |
| Senegal | $11.99 |
| Serbia | €9.99$11.24 |
| Seychelles | $9.99 |
| Sierra Leone | $9.99 |
| Singapore | SGD 14.98$11.70 |
| Slovakia | €9.99$11.24 |
| Slovenia | €9.99$11.24 |
| Solomon Islands | $9.99 |
| South Africa | ZAR 199.99$12.10 |
| South Korea | ₩17,000$12.70 |
| Spain | €9.99$11.24 |
| Sri Lanka | $9.99 |
| St. Kitts and Nevis | $9.99 |
| St. Lucia | $9.99 |
| St. Vincent & The Grenadines | $9.99 |
| Suriname | $9.99 |
| Swaziland | $9.99 |
| Sweden | SEK 129.00$12.91 |
| Switzerland | CHF 9.00$10.82 |
| Taiwan | NT$320.00$10.06 |
| Tajikistan | $9.99 |
| Tanzania | TZS 29,900.00$11.30 |
| Thailand | THB 399.00$11.87 |
| Tonga | $9.99 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | $9.99 |
| Tunisia | $9.99 |
| Turkey | TRY 499.99$10.16 |
| Turkmenistan | $9.99 |
| Turks and Caicos | $9.99 |
| Uganda | $11.99 |
| Ukraine | $11.99 |
| United Arab Emirates | AED 39.99$10.90 |
| United Kingdom | £9.99$13.25 |
| United States | $9.99 |
| Uruguay | $9.99 |
| Uzbekistan | $9.99 |
| Vanuatu | $9.99 |
| Venezuela | $9.99 |
| Vietnam | ₫299,000$11.53 |
| Yemen | $9.99 |
| Zambia | $11.99 |
| Zimbabwe | $11.99 |
Dictaphone Voice Recorder FAQ
- Is Dictaphone Voice Recorder free?
- Yes. The app and its basic features are free, in all 175 countries it sells in. Premium features are paid: they start from $9.99 (US), across 1 one-time purchase.
- Does Dictaphone Voice Recorder have a free trial?
- No. None of its offers (US) come with a free trial.
- Where is Dictaphone Voice Recorder cheapest?
- A one-time purchase costs CA$12.99 (≈$9.15) in Canada and COP 49,900 (≈$15.60) in Colombia, its cheapest and dearest countries.
- What are the best alternatives to Dictaphone Voice Recorder?
- Voice Recorder - HD Voice Memo (4.5 from 44,727 reviews), Recorder Plus: Voice Recorder (4.4 from 44,394 reviews, premium from $1.99) and Dictaphone - Audio Recorder (4.0 from 37,582 reviews, premium from $0.99).
Dictaphone Voice Recorder download
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Dictaphone Voice Recorder sells in 175 countries. It was released 12 years and 6 months ago, on 13 Mar 2014. It holds a 4.5 rating from 1,257 reviews.
Supports 12 languages: English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian Bokmål, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Swedish.
How much does Dictaphone Voice Recorder make?
Third-party estimates for the last 30 days, worldwide — not the store's own figures, which Apple publishes for nobody.
Revenue by plan
- One-time 100%
Revenue by country
- United States 21%
- Sweden 11%
- France 8%
- Netherlands 8%