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title: "About Murlivo: a free offline voice recorder for Android"
url: "https://murlivo.com/about/"
language: "en"
description: "Why Murlivo exists and how it works: a free voice recorder that transcribes on your Android phone, offline, and saves Markdown notes in a folder you choose."
---

# About Murlivo

Murlivo is a free voice recorder for Android phones. It turns what you say into text on the phone itself and saves every recording as a plain Markdown note in a folder you choose, such as an Obsidian vault. A Wear OS watch is an optional extra: start a recording from your wrist and the phone does the rest.

## Why Murlivo exists

Voice notes are quick to record and slow to use. Audio files pile up, and most transcription apps send your words to a server you do not control. Murlivo keeps the recording and the text on your own devices and puts the text where you already keep your notes.

## What it does

- Records quick memos and long recordings: dictations, meetings you sit in, interviews and lectures.
- Transcribes on the phone, offline after a one-time model download. It detects the spoken language, or you choose one of 20.
- Saves plain Markdown, one file per day, with the audio in a subfolder.
- Plays recordings back and searches inside a transcript.
- Needs no account, shows no ads and has no subscription.

## How we build it

- Your recordings and transcripts stay on your devices and in your notes folder. Murlivo never uploads them to us, and there is no server copy of your notes.
- The app sends anonymous usage and crash data so we can fix bugs. It never contains audio, transcripts or note text, and you can turn it off in Settings.
- The [product facts](https://murlivo.com/product-facts/) page lists the current facts with the date they were checked.

## Contact

Questions, bugs or ideas: [support@murlivo.com](mailto:support@murlivo.com). News: [@murlivo on X](https://x.com/murlivo).