LegalRecorderIt was already recording.
The important thing is usually said before anyone thinks to press record. LegalRecorder keeps the last few hours on your phone, so you can keep that moment afterwards, with proof that stands up.
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A voice memo is a recording. This is evidence.
Any phone can record. But recordings get questioned: when was it made, was it edited, is part of it missing? LegalRecorder answers those questions before anyone asks.
An ordinary voice recorder
- Only has what you thought to record, after you'd fumbled for the button
- Can be trimmed, spliced or re-dated without a trace
- Its date is whatever the phone's clock said, and clocks can be changed
- "Trust me, it's real" is the best you can offer
LegalRecorder
- Already has the last few hours. You keep the moment after it happened.
- Every second is sealed with a digital fingerprint, so any edit shows
- Dated by an independent timestamp authority, not your phone
- Anyone can check it themselves, free, without trusting us
Recording is always on. Keeping is one tap.
People rarely know in advance which conversation will matter. So the phone keeps the last few hours, quietly, and you decide afterwards what to keep.
Record in a loop
The app records in the background and keeps a window you choose, from 15 minutes to two days. Older audio is recorded over, so it never fills your phone. Six hours takes under 100 MB.
Keep the moment
Tap Keep wherever you are: the app, the notification, the lock screen, a home-screen widget or Quick Settings. It saves the last 15 minutes, or any stretch you pick to the second.
Share it with proof
Share sends a recording that plays anywhere, plus an evidence pack. Anyone, from opposing counsel to a judge, can check it on our site or offline.
Thought through, down to the second.
Keep from anywhere
Notification, lock screen, home-screen widget, Quick Settings tile. No unlocking, no hunting for an app.
Pick to the second
Zoom into a timeline of the last few hours and drag the handles to keep exactly the stretch you need.
Scheduled keeps
Set a hearing or meeting ahead of time, or let your calendar do it. It's kept automatically when it ends.
Organised by matter
Name it, tag it by client or case, add private notes. Search everything, filter by tag, or pick days on a calendar.
Know when each word was said
Playback shows the real time of day as you scrub, so "at 14:07 he said…" is easy to find and to prove.
Hard to stop
If Android kills the app, it picks up again by itself. You lose only the moment it takes to restart, and the proof shows the gap.
Light on storage
About 14 MB an hour, in a standard format that plays on any phone or computer. Kept recordings are never recorded over.
Honest about battery
Built-in battery stats measure what recording actually costs on your phone, instead of guessing.
Proof built in
Every recording carries its own five layers of proof. Nothing to set up, nothing to remember.
Can't touch your phone in court? Schedule it.
Set the window ahead of time, on any day, and leave the phone in your bag. When it ends, it's kept automatically, already named and tagged.
- From your calendar. Appointments with words like hearing or consultation are scheduled for you, and follow along when they move. Google Calendar included, no sign-in, and nothing leaves the phone.
- Runs long? No problem. Audio in a scheduled window is held until it's kept, however long the hearing goes.
- Checks itself. Ten minutes before, the phone makes sure it's recording, and starts or alerts you if not.
- Never forgets. If the phone was off when a window ended, it's kept as soon as the app runs again.
Five layers of proof, checked by anyone.
Each layer answers a different question a court might ask. You don't have to understand them to benefit; they just happen. (If you do want to understand them, each underlined word leads to the nerdy details.)
Every second is sealed
Each two-minute piece of audio gets a unique fingerprint, linked to the one before it like a chain. Cut, change or reorder anything and the chain breaks.
Signed by your phone's security chip
A key locked inside your phone's secure hardware signs the chain. Google confirms it was made by this app on an unmodified phone.
Dated by an outside authority
Every ten minutes, a public timestamp authority certifies the recording existed by then. The same kind of stamp protects signed software and contracts.
Logged where it can't be backdated
Fingerprints also go into a tamper-evident log. Not even we could slip in an entry with an earlier date.
Checkable without us
The verify page runs every check in the browser, and there's an offline checker too. If our site vanished tomorrow, the proof would still hold.
This is what someone sees when they check a recording you've shared. Green ticks, in plain language.
Try the verify pageWhere it was recorded, and who was there.
Sometimes when isn't enough. Turn these on and the recording can also show where it was made and who was nearby. Each is sealed into the same chain as the audio, and when you share, you choose what to reveal.
Where the phone was
GPS, mobile cells and Wi-Fi networks nearby, noted every couple of minutes and shown on a map.
How it's sealedChecked against satellites
Raw signals from GPS satellites let the verifier work out the position on its own. Faking that takes far more than an app.
The orbital mathsPhones as witnesses
Two people with LegalRecorder can vouch for each other: their recordings show the phones were side by side.
How beacons workThe hum of the grid
The faint hum of mains power drifts in step across a country. Matching it dates a recording, and reveals cuts.
Electrical forensicsYour recordings never leave your phone.
The proof works with fingerprints of the audio, which reveal nothing about what was said. Your recordings are only ever sent where you send them yourself.
What leaves the phone
- Fingerprints of the audio
- Your phone's signature on them
- What you choose to share, when you share it
What never does
- The audio itself
- Your names, tags and notes
- Anything to advertisers or analytics
For anyone who might need to say "here's exactly what was said".
Lawyers and advocates
Consultations, hearings and settlement talks, kept automatically from your diary and filed by matter.
At work
Disciplinary meetings, verbal agreements, the promise your manager made and later forgot.
At home
Landlords, contractors and difficult conversations where your word is against theirs.
Anyone, anywhere
When something unexpected happens, the last few hours are already safe on your phone.
We're upfront about the limits. The proof shows a recording is unchanged and when it existed. It can't show who is speaking, and whether it's admitted is up to the court.
In South Africa you may record a conversation you take part in.
The Regulation of Interception of Communications Act (RICA), section 4. Laws differ elsewhere. This is not legal advice.
Curious how it really works?
Hash chains, hardware keys, timestamp authorities and satellite orbits, explained with diagrams.