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Voice recorder transcription app.

12 apps · 2,992 reviews held · 1,325 negative · 2026-09-02 snapshot

The market’s shape

2.3star
How angry
44%
Negative reviews
35%
Room to enter
9 of 12
Willingness to pay

Mostly solved: login & auth. 10 of 11 apps run below the store’s typical rate on it, while 9 of 12 still carry limits & caps complaints.

2 gaps.

Shares of this market’s 1,325 negative reviews.

Limits & capselevated

3.2% vs 1.9% typical store-wide.

Counted in 42 reviews · 9 of 12 apps · 2.3star mean

What they said · 3 of 42
  • Otter Transcribe Voice Notes1star· Aug 3, 2026

    So Sad — Paywalled out of seeing the last 19 minutes of an enthralling conversation because I didn’t press stop at the 89 minute mark to start a new one. My fault for being engaged in the conversation. It was a very unpleasant feeling seeing the message that Otter has it transcribed but if I don’t pay up to upgrade to Business from my 99.99/year Premium subscription, then I can get lost. Even funn

  • Otter Transcribe Voice Notes2star· Aug 2, 2026

    Wow. This is how former kings fall — Otter was the king of AI transcribing before ChatGPT was a thing. The secret weapon. Then like many lazy kings they do things at 50%. Example: I had a dozen meetings last week so I paid the quite expensive monthly subscription cost. Now I need otter to do what every other AI platform can do today: go through each of those 12 meeting scripts and take notes

  • Otter Transcribe Voice Notes2star· Jul 25, 2026

    Used to be my go to… — Calling a paid subscription “pro“ but placing an additional paywall limit at 90 minutes per meeting transcription is an absolute miss. Otter.ai’s 1200-minute monthly limit is fair, but user should be able to access as needed, not limited per recording. As such, after several years of satisfying service, I am now forced me to move on to other providers with more user-centric

Billingelevated

38.3% vs 30.8% typical store-wide.

Counted in 508 reviews · 12 of 12 apps · 1.9star mean

What they said · 3 of 508
  • Call Recorder for iPhone.1star· Aug 5, 2026

    SUBSCRION??? Hell no — Rellry bro. We need to pay to use it. Get it. Pay it. like these are scams that I hate. I hate the creator 😾👿😠😡😤🤬👀 👄

  • Wave AI Note Taker & Recorder1star· Aug 3, 2026

    free trial will rob you — 100 taken from my account after 3 days of free trial. So predatory and shameless

  • Otter Transcribe Voice Notes1star· Aug 3, 2026

    So Sad — Paywalled out of seeing the last 19 minutes of an enthralling conversation because I didn’t press stop at the 89 minute mark to start a new one. My fault for being engaged in the conversation. It was a very unpleasant feeling seeing the message that Otter has it transcribed but if I don’t pay up to upgrade to Business from my 99.99/year Premium subscription, then I can get lost. Even funn

Named problems · 4
  • Trial converted without clear consent44 of 508
  • Price judged too high for the value30 of 508
  • Cancellation blocked or broken15 of 508
  • Charge the user never authorised11 of 508

Also counted

ThemeOf 1,325 negatives
  • Performance162 · 12.2% · 12 apps
  • Support111 · 8.4% · 9 apps
  • Ads81 · 6.1% · 8 apps
  • UX52 · 3.9% · 12 apps
  • Login & auth21 · 1.6% · 8 apps
  • Accuracy20 · 1.5% · 7 apps
  • Sync & data12 · 0.9% · 8 apps

The tick marks the store-typical rate. A review can mention more than one theme, so these sum past 100%.

Is anyone looking for this?

What Apple and Google complete after voice recorder transcription app, in their order.

Who they're for
singingmusiciphonesdropbox
Google
voice recorder transcription appvoice recorder transcription app iphonevoice recording transcription app freevoice recording transcription applevoice recording transcribing appvoice memo transcription appvoice memo transcription applevoice memo transcription app free
App Store
ai note taker freetranscribe voice memos into textvoice notesvoice recordervoice recorder for iphone freevoice recorder transcriptionai note takerai note taker & voice recorder free

Marked App Store phrases are searched, but no app in this market says them in its name. Audiences are what Apple and Google complete after “voice recorder for”, with the query stripped.

Potential customers

People the apps here do not serve, and what they asked for.

  • Shut out by device or contextiPad 210
  • Wants lesstoo many features 5 · just a basic one 25
  • Outgrown itbulk edit 2 · bulk export 23

Counted in 1 to 4 star reviews. The small numbers are how many reviews named each thing. What they wrote is in the free trial.

Who’s in it

All 12 apps counted in this market · 2026-09-02.

Installs are Google's own count, captured 2026-09-06. 3 of 12 apps have an Android listing we could match. A dash means we could not pair the two stores, not that the app is absent from Play.

What they charge, and what it costs them

Prices from Apple’s public pages; the share counts payment-mechanics language only.

AppMoney complaints
Call Recorder for iPhone.$5.99–$49.99 · 8 tiers13.6% of 352
Voice Recorder & Notes Pro$16.99–$99.99 · 2 tiers11.7% of 60
Otter Transcribe Voice Notes$16.99–$239.99 · 5 tiers8% of 261
Wave AI Note Taker & Recorder$6–$139.99 · 9 tiers5.1% of 59
Voice Recorder & Audio Editor$4.99–$4.99 · 4 tiers0% of 235
Voice to Text - Speak Notes$4.99–$69.99 · 6 tiers0% of 114
SpeakApp AI: Voice Notes$6.99–$119 · 7 tiers0% of 21
Voice Recorder: AI Note Taker$6.99–$79.99 · 9 tiers0% of 30
Voice Recorder - Memo + Editor$1.99–$19.99 · 3 tiers0% of 13

What each one owns, where each is exposed

Voice Recorder & Audio Editor

451,271 ratings · 69% negative

Owns. Dominant reach; 451K ratings, free entry

Exposed. Nudity ads, lost recordings, killed playback, no functional cancel — ads theme throughout receipts

Otter Transcribe Voice Notes

70,282 ratings · 57% negative

Owns. Brand recognition, meeting integration, 70K ratings

Exposed. 6,000 min/month cap at $240/yr feels extortionate; billing loops; support ghost town

Voice recorder - Voz

25,548 ratings · 43% negative

Owns. Mid-tier reach, no upfront cost

Exposed. Crashes, third-party redirect links, recordings not saved — basic reliability absent

Voice Recorder & Notes Pro

13,234 ratings · 42% negative

Owns. IAP up to $99.99 proves willingness to pay at high price

Exposed. No cancellation path; charges full year after free trial; zero support contact

Wave AI Note Taker & Recorder

11,742 ratings · 46% negative

Owns. AI positioning, 9 IAP tiers up to $139.99

Exposed. Non-US phone number blocks onboarding; 300-min cap unchanged across paid tiers; app freezes on install

Voice to Text - Speak Notes

11,322 ratings · 32% negative

Owns. Relatively lower anger; 6 IAP tiers

Exposed. Apple Watch save bug loses all recordings; UI committee-designed to confusion

Easy Voice Recorder

10,412 ratings · 17% negative

Owns. Lowest anger in set; clean recorder reputation

Exposed. No transcription; no IAP listed — leaves monetizable workflow entirely uncaptured

The Deep Report on this market

Each rival’s exposed weakness, what not to build, and the call, argued from the same reviews counted above.

Read the Deep Report

Browse the apps behind these counts

Every app we count, with the complaint it runs furthest above the store’s typical rate.

Open the app library

Is there a market for a new voice recorder transcription app?

12 apps compete on this shelf, holding 2,992 App Store reviews. And the widest unfixed complaint, limits & caps, runs in 9 of 12 of them at 3.2% of negative reviews against 1.9% typical. Those are counts, not a verdict. The page shows what is unfixed, not whether to build.

What do users complain about most in voice recorder transcription app?

1. Limits & caps: in 9 of 12 apps, 3.2% of negative reviews; 2. Billing: in 12 of 12 apps, 38.3% of negative reviews.

How many voice recorder transcription app reviews did App Imp count?

2,992 US App Store reviews across 12 apps, 1,325 of them negative. Counted on the 2026-09-02 snapshot, never estimated.

How markets are ranked

We give each market a mark out of 100 for seven things (nobody's fixed it 20 · above the norm 15 · how angry 10 · room to build 15 · room to enter 15 · getting bigger 20 · willingness to pay 5). Then we multiply the marks together. We do not average them.

Averaging lets a market hide one bad problem behind good numbers. Multiplying means one bad mark pulls the whole score down. That is the point. A market you cannot win is still a market you cannot win, however badly it is served.

Each mark has a fixed rule. Nobody’s fixed it and willingness to pay are plain shares. Above the norm maxes out at 4 times the store’s usual rate. How angry runs from star3.0 down to star1.5. Room to enter is what the biggest app does not own. Getting bigger hits 100 at 10% growth. Room to build is different. It is a sweet spot, not a size. A market can be too small to live on, or too big to break into.

If we cannot count something, we leave it out. We never guess it. The score only sorts this list. Every other number you see on a market is counted.

How this is counted

Every number is arithmetic over the reviews we hold, re-counted weekly: nothing modelled, nothing scored. Themes come from a frozen pattern classifier rather than a model reading reviews, so the same review always lands in the same bucket. A market rate is pooled across every app here; the store rate is the same count across 12,728 apps. A complaint is only called a gap when at least half the market carries it, at least 20 reviews are behind it, and the market’s rate is elevated above the store’s, the same cutoff used everywhere on this site, because a problem concentrated in one app is that app’s bug, and a problem every app on the store shares is nobody’s gap.