iPhone call recorders

[Giggler]

Can anyone recommend to me a decent app that I could use to record phone calls on an iPhone?

I did all of the interviews for my first book face-to-face. The sheer number and geographic spread of interviewees for my second means that this will be impossible, so I'm having to do a lot of them by phone.

I've tried putting the phone on speaker and using my voice recorder, but the sound quality is dreadful, hence this question.

Any help gratefully received.

[Stumpy Pepys]

iPhone call recorders

I'm pretty sure there's no direct way to do it, in that I don't think third-party apps are allowed to access such low-level functions.

But I believe there are ways of recording off VOIP (voice over internet) clients, such as Google Voice.

There might also be gizmos you can plug in.

[Stumpy Pepys]

iPhone call recorders

There are also loads of Skype plug-ins – you could speak to interviewees via Skype or Skype-Out.

[HORN]

iPhone call recorders

When I was looking for this I only found stuff that would work if someone called me, not if I initiated the call.

I never tried using it, as that wasn't what I wanted.

[Giggler]

iPhone call recorders

Thanks Stumpy. I've recorded from Skype before but I'm unsure as to whether a lot of former footballers in their mid-40s would use such a programme. Recording a phone call seemed like much less hassle.

[HORN]

iPhone call recorders

If Stumpy's plugin suggestion works you can of course call land line numbers via Skype.

[Stumpy Pepys]

iPhone call recorders

HORN wrote: If Stumpy's plugin suggestion works you can of course call land line numbers via Skype.

Yeah, that was my thought, phone their landlines using Skype Out (which is pretty cheap) from a PC or Mac. Recording from a computer is relatively trivial.

If you can do video chat, so much the better.

[HORN]

iPhone call recorders

Ahh, sorry. Miles ahead of me.

[Stumpy Pepys]

iPhone call recorders

So bit of a tangent, but when I used to do interviews, I happened to have one of these – the iRiver HP-120.



This was iRiver's "iPod killer". It looked like it was designed in the Soviet Union and had a user interface to match. Except it could play loads of file types and had all manner of outputs and inputs. Its built-in microphone was great for voice recording. It met its demise when I dropped it on the platform at New Cross Gate.

As you were.

[Gangster Octopus]

iPhone call recorders

I still use my iHP-140.

[Ginger Yellow]

iPhone call recorders

If you can use a landline (or VOIP) for your calls you can get a £10 dongle that sits between the handset and the base which lets you output to a 3.5mm jack.

Alternatively, pick up a cheap Android handset, plug in your SIM, and there are probably a billion apps that do this.

[Stumpy Pepys]

iPhone call recorders

Ginger Yellow wrote: Alternatively, pick up a cheap Android handset, plug in your SIM, and there are probably a billion apps that do this.

I think you'd also need an adapter for the SIM card though.

[Ginger Yellow]

iPhone call recorders

Depends on the phone(s).