Recorder for iPhone

If I could rate this as 0 stars I would! I recorded 50 IB orals which are 15 minute recordings of students completing their most important speaking exam of their Spanish learning career. These files need to be sent to the International Bachillerato program for grading. When I opened up my app this morning, ALL the files are gone and it prompts me to make my first recording. And this is while I am paying for Premium access to the app! This is literally the worst thing a recording app could do! Not happy!!! And scrambling to figure out what to do about my students exams! I will update this if the company proves to be helpful, but right now I am extremely disappointed to say the least and DO NOT recommend!!!

What’s a predatory app? It’s the kind you shouldn’t buy. Signs of Predatory Apps: 1 - a selection to buy a premium subscription before you use it for voice recording 2 - no easy, identifiable way to move past the subscription paywall 3 - once you tap the small x on the corner to bypass the paywall, you immediately get an ad. A big ad, in your face as if to say, “you cheapskate. Now I’ll punish you with a big fat app in your face so you can’t record your voice.” Then the extra step to save the recording isn’t user friendly. So no. I’m uninstalling this app on my iPhone Mini because it doesn’t give me what o need right away and pushes ads at me—which renders the tool USELESS. I don’t like apps that push you through a paywall. And even then, that’s not good: because you’ll buy it and won’t use it. The recordings don’t save automatically. A user has to rename and save the file, then it shows up. Somewhere.

The setup was simple and the product is intuitive making it easy to send recordings to others.