Parrot Voice Recorder

Contains adsIn-app purchases
4.1
11K reviews
1M+
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Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Parrot is a free voice recorder app which allows you to Record, Play and Share voice recordings, all within 3 taps! A simple and beautiful user interface helps you create crisp and balanced voice recordings. Use Parrot as your go-to voice recorder and start recording voices, audio, phone conversations, your singing: anything you like, in high definition!

Record yourself or any voice message in high quality with the best dictaphone for Android. Download Parrot, save your first voice memo today, and start being more organized.

Parrot Pro (available as in-app purchase) allows you to Record Phone Calls, Schedule Recordings for a specific time and date and synchronize your tracks to the cloud using Google Drive or Dropbox.
Parrot is has no time limits or no functionality limits. With over 100 different setting combinations, you can finely tune your recordings and playback.

Parrot Basic - All Users
• Record: Create voice recording with a live and buttery smooth sound wave graph as you record to help you easily identify when you’re receiving the right levels. You can record using the standard mic, camcorder mic or Bluetooth microphones.
• Play: Playback your recordings with a full waveform. Tap, touch and drag the waveform to seek to the perfect time in your recording. Playback your voice recordings with a simple and beautiful list that helps you easily identify tracks with intuitive calendar icons as well as playing and paused animations.
• Share: Share your tracks with your favorite apps with two simple taps. Your favorite apps are saved to allow you to quickly share in the future.
• Notifications: We’ve included simple and easy notifications in order to allow you to use Parrot and continue to work in the background.
• Android Wear: Manage your recording and playback right from your wrist.

Parrot Pro - In-app Purchase
• Phone Call Recording: Record incoming or outgoing phone calls either automatically or by prompt before or after the call (note: results may vary for specific device and operating system combinations, please contact us for more information)
• Scheduled Recordings: Schedule a recording for a specific date, time and duration.
• Cloud Backup: Easily synchronize all your files individually or as a zip to Google Drive, Dropbox or anywhere on your device.

Recording Options (Dictaphone options)
• Quality: Recording in WAV and MP4 formats. Choose your sample rate and bit rate.
• Source: Record your voice from your device mic, camcorder mic or Bluetooth headset.
• Effects: Use Android’s built-in recording effects to remove background noise, cancel out echo and automatically control gain. For those situations where more power is needed, set your own custom gain.
• Auto Pause (skip silence): Easily skip silence while recording by having the app pause and restart for you based on time and sound sensitivity thresholds.
• Alerts: Use both vibration and beeps to help you identify when the recording has started and stopped.

Playback Options
• Bass Boost: Boost the bass to help amplify low frequencies of the recordings.
• Volume Boost: Enhance the volume of the track to help hear even quiet noises.
• Preset Reverb: Hear your recording as if it were played in a small room or large hall.

App Permissions
• Record Audio: We need access to your mic to create voice recordings.
• External Storage: We require access to your SD card as this is our preferred location to store your tracks.
• Phone Calls: Parrot Pro mode allows users to record phone calls.
• Wakelock: Used in Parrot Pro to ensure that your phone wakes up for schedule recordings.
• Vibration: We have a setting that allows you to make your device vibrate when you start or stop a recording.

For more information, help and support visit http://www.theparrotapp.com
Updated on
Nov 23, 2023

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
This app may collect these data types
Personal info, Audio and 3 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.0
10.6K reviews
Wally Tuck
October 31, 2023
Once I was able to save to my external storage and was able to upgrade my phone by so doing. I can no longer do this. I have important recordings that I can no longer access on my phone because the app won't access external storage. By design, I can't put it into internal storage. My recordings aren't lost. I can play through other programs. Just not Parrot!
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Searing Media Inc.
November 10, 2023
Hi, We suspect that this is an issue with the device not the app. Please contact us at feedback@theparrotapp.com and we will help. Thanks!
A Google user
September 9, 2019
Update: Good app, although I really didn't like the ads. The devs assured me there are NO ADS in the paid version so I paid the one-time $20 for the "lifetime subscription". It:s an easy to use voice recorder and saves me from buying a, separate device. I haven't used advanced features like their cloud storage, which requires a fee. But the recorder works fine with phone & ext SD card storage.
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Searing Media Inc.
September 8, 2019
Hi Mike, Parrot has been in development for over 5 years. Ads or premium upgrades help us finance further development of the app. If you upgrade to Pro or Waveform Cloud, you will not see any ads. Thanks!
A Google user
May 7, 2019
I really, really want to like this app. But I just can't. Way too buggy. Seems to have all the features I'd want in a voice recorder (I've already upgraded to Pro) but few seem to work well or without issue for me. E.g. Scheduling a recording for X-hours would seem simple enough. Some of my observed issues: 1) Recording starts fine but stops or fails for unknown reasons then restarts. 2) Failed rec restarts from beginning. (I.e., Starts another full X-hour session, even if very little was missed from last one.) 3) Difficult or impossible to cancel/delete a scheduled recording once made or in progress. 4) If you change time zones (as I did) after a rec was scheduled, the schedule doesn't update with the phone clock/time so recordings are not synced relative to local time. 5) Uploading to cloud, etc works, but not seamlessly. Fails often. 6) Auto-naming convention does not work w/scheduled recordings. (With above problems this is a real pain.) 7) Won't save files to SD card--despite specific settings. (& won't allow the app itself to be transferred to my SD card). Overloads default storage 8) After all that, recorded files are frequently corrupt/unplayable.
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Searing Media Inc.
May 12, 2019
Hi Eric, We appreciate all of this detailed feedback. We have logged each point in our system for investigation. If you would like to give us an extra input, please send us an email at feedback@theparrotapp.com. Thanks!

What's new

Stop losing your recordings. Parrot is the #1 Voice Recorder on Google Play.

In this update:
- Fixed Freebird integration sync.
- Added permission prompt for Schedule Recordings on Android 13.
- Fixed missing permission for Password Protection.