Doze-Hardened, Long-Form Android Voice Recorder for Journalists, Therapists, and Field Researchers Tired of Recordings Mysteriously Stopping
Across Play Store reviews and Reddit, the dominant complaint about every modern Android voice recorder app is the same: 'recording stops when my phone screen turns off' or 'the app gets killed in the background after 20 minutes.' This is Android's Doze and battery optimization killing foreground services, and most popular recorders (Otter, Audio Notes, Voice Notes) blame the user's settings instead of engineering around the OS. Professionals who actually rely on multi-hour recordings (interviews, sessions, depositions, fieldwork) want a recorder that survives Doze, survives reboot, and proves it recorded the full session.
The product is the integrity report. Sell professionals the certainty that the file is complete and timestamped, not another shiny transcription UI. Pair with on-device whisper.cpp transcription as a follow-up paid layer once the recording-doesn't-die story lands.
landscape (3 existing solutions)
Every recorder kind of works for short clips. None of them have engineered for the actual constraint (Android background restriction) the way a professional product should... foreground service with a sticky notification, file pre-allocation, journal-on-disk for crash recovery, and a 'session integrity verified' green check after the fact.