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Voice recorder online
Record sound from your microphone right here in the browser, record over the parts that came out badly, balance the layers and download the mix. Free, no sign-up, and nothing is uploaded — multi-track voice recording that never leaves your browser.
What the recorder can do
Record straight from the microphone
Press one button, or R, and the browser starts capturing. No installer, no account, no upload queue.
Choose your microphone and count in
Pick any input your computer knows about, and give yourself a three- or five-second countdown before recording starts. Both are remembered for next time.
Let the browser clean up the input
Switch automatic gain, noise suppression and echo cancellation on or off, wherever your browser supports them.
Hear yourself while you record
Turn on monitoring to hear the microphone in your headphones, and choose the output device and how loud it is.
Add effects to your headphone mix
Start from a preset (Dry, Clean vocal, Radio voice, Vocal plate, Slapback or Big hall) or set low cut, presence, compression, reverb and echo yourself, even while recording. The effects only change what you hear; the recording stays clean.
Fix the part you got wrong
Put the playhead where the clip went bad and record again. The new audio replaces that stretch and nothing else.
Split, move and delete clips
Cut a clip at the playhead and throw away the piece you do not want: cut on both sides of a fluffed line, then delete the middle. Drag a clip along its layer or onto another one, and it snaps to the playhead and to the edges of other clips.
Stack clips on separate layers
Add a layer for each voice or pass, then set its volume or mute it until the mix sits right.
See what you captured
A level meter shows what the microphone is hearing, and every layer draws its own waveform as it records, so a silent microphone is obvious immediately.
Move around the timeline
Zoom in on a single word or out to the whole recording, drag the playhead along the ruler and loop playback.
Undo anything
Every edit, from a new clip to a volume change or a deleted layer, can be undone and redone.
Drive it from the keyboard
Space plays, R records, the arrow keys step the playhead and ⌘Z undoes. Press ? for the full list.
Download MP3, WAV and more
The layers are mixed down in the page and saved straight to your disk as MP3, WAV, AAC, OGG or FLAC, depending on what your browser can encode. Any layer can also be saved on its own, lined up with the rest.
Pick up where you left off
Your layers and clips are kept in the browser on this device, so a reload or a closed tab brings the project back.
Nothing leaves your machine
Capture, mixing and encoding all run in the tab. Your voice is never sent to a server, because there is no server.
Why you can trust it with your microphone
Dictaphone is built and maintained by Alex Chuev, a web developer. It started as a personal itch: every free recorder on the web wanted an account, an upload, or both — and none of them let you re-record just the sentence you fluffed.
Recording your own voice is a private act. A tool that asks for your microphone should not also ask you to trust a server with what it hears, so this one does not have a server to trust. There is no account system, no analytics on your audio and no upload step — not as a policy, but as an architecture.
Do not take that on faith. Open your browser's developer tools, switch to the Network tab and record something. You will see the page and its fonts load, and then nothing further. Your audio is captured, mixed and encoded entirely inside the tab, so the download comes out of your own machine's memory rather than from a server. The privacy page spells out the rest.
It is not a digital audio workstation. There is no noise removal, no effects rack and no cloud library. It records voice, lets you patch the bad parts, balances a few layers and gives you a file — and it tries to do only that well.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. The recorder is free to use, with no account, no trial and no limit on how long or how often you record.
No. It is a web page. Open it, allow the microphone and record — there is nothing to download or update.
No. Recording, mixing and encoding all happen inside the browser tab. The audio never leaves the machine you are sitting at.
Yes. Move the playhead to the spot you are unhappy with and record again. Only that stretch is replaced, so the rest of the clip survives.
The mix can be saved as MP3, WAV, AAC, OGG or FLAC, depending on what your browser can encode.
Any current version of Chrome, Firefox, Edge or Safari. The recorder needs microphone access through the MediaDevices API and the Web Audio API.
Yes. The layers and clips are kept in your browser's own storage on this device, so a reload or a closed tab brings them back. A clip still being recorded is lost, and clearing the site's data deletes everything, so download the file once the recording sounds right.
New to it? Read how to record your voice, step by step.