It can be increased ... but not by a whole lot, as that means more RAM consumed by this background app .... (thats the way its currently designed ...)

Sorry to hear about your situation few years back ... But I am glad you wrote this comment b/c up until you said it ... my comments about bullying were based solely on a hunch...

If one person in that situation can benefit from it today ... I would think the whole thing paid off...

I cannot give a date on Android yet, but its definitely coming ... :-)

Thanks!

I expect ios7 will make that part less intrusive ... will check.

Both valid concerns ... it works reasonably well on both counts in my opinion (but others will need to try it to form their own opinions)...

Btw, I dog-fooded it for several months before deciding to release publicly, based on how useful I found it :-)

Thanks! :-) The site is built using a great (and very economical) theme from themeforest: http://themeforest.net/item/vireo-ultra-responsive-app-landi...

Good points ... will fix :-)

hehe ... did they not start a free backup/retrieval service for all the data ? One you can't actually opt out of :-)

Slightly worse than when holding the phone in your hand ... but overall perfectly audible. Thanks.

There are a few points that help:

1) This is not meant to be a spying device (given it can not remember anything more than 5 mins old anyway).

2)Instead it is meant to be kind of a "personal memory enhancer" .... so you are basically recording conversations you are a part of and there are no laws against that.

Infact an excellent use of this is to fight bullying, where you can capture the bully (or black mailer etc) without their knowledge and there is nothing illegal about it because you are a part of that conversation.

3) Nothing gets written to long term memory unless the user tells the app to do so.

4) we don't let the user do anything that they cannot already do with an actively recording (Apple supplied) Voice Memo app. We just it make more convenient to capture the interesting parts of their life without having to sift through gigs of audio data every day

> so you are basically recording conversations you are a part of and there are no laws against that.

Depends on your jurisdiction, at least in situations where the other party is not aware they are being recorded.

In the US, 12 states forbid recording of conversation without the consent of all parties. See http://www.rcfp.org/first-amendment-handbook/introduction-re... - some may exempt situations where the party being recorded should have a reasonable expectation of being recorded, e.g. consider a public speech.

Outside the US this can be an even thornier issue, with many countries having substantially stricter privacy laws.

The rules about what you can and cannot record without consent vary by state and situation:

http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/recording-phone-calls-and-co...

None of your comments about the length of time the recording remains available or about duplication of existing features address the OP's question.

Also, you say:

" .... so you are basically recording conversations you are a part of and there are no laws against that."

I think that's simplistic enough to make it simply false. This looks like a good place to start:

* http://legallad.quickanddirtytips.com/the-legality-of-record...

In terms of Australian law none of this is relevant - you're required by law to get the consent of anyone you're taking an audio recording of.

So in Australia at least you'd have a really hard time running this legally.

5) There is a big toggle switch that lets the user shut ON/Off background listening ....

Ship it with a t-shirt that says "this conversation may be recorded for quality purposes."