How to record calls on your smartphone

Have you ever wanted to make really quick voice memos, or you needed to record a phone call for future use?

Why record calls?

Maybe you had a customer service rep promise you a really good deal, only to have your next bill be a higher price. Sometimes the best proof that you need is the words directly from a person's mouth, and I have a free app that will do that, and will do it well.

Call Recorder by Bold Beast

Call Recorder by Bold Beast is a simple yet powerful free app made to record voice. First off, make sure that you have your settings the way that you want them.

Recordings are automatically saved in a folder called .bbrec. Now, since there is a dot before the name, that means that it's going to be a hidden folder.

.bbrec

You can unhide that folder by removing the period and clicking OK, and this will make it much easier for you to access your recordings.

Now, you can also turn on and off an indicator, and you can change the icon. If the tiger distracts you, you can also remove that, too.

Under call settings you can change the record mode, format, and set calls to the auto recorded or not.

Call Settings

Here you can choose to include or exclude contacts from your recording list, or just record all. You can also set a pop up to ask before saving each and every recording, and you can set similar settings for just memos as well.

Ask before save & more

Now when you go back to the main menu, you'll notice two other icons. One is for voice memos that you've recorded, so you can replay or delete them from the app, and the other is for phone calls.

Main Menu

To record you can hold down on the record button for about two seconds, and then hold down once more to activate recording. The recording will start, and to stop it, simply hold down twice again on the record button. If you've turn on ask before save, it should pull up a little window giving you details about the file.

Voice recordings can be tricky legally depending on what state or country that you reside in, so check with your local authorities before choosing to record all your friends' conversations with you. For example, in California both parties need to know a call is being recorded. This is probably going to be one of those handy tools I'll be happy to have when I'm on a never ending call with the customer service rep who's promising me green lit pricing, but no assurance that it's actually a real deal. Again, it is a free app, so why not give it a try? And speaking of free, I like to live freely, and you don't get that choice if you've been driving drunk. If you've been drinking, do me a favor-- let a sober person drive..