Great concept, but too unreliable for real use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Voicenotes.com is a great idea, but it has too many issues — to the point where it becomes unreliable and defeats its own purpose.
This app is primarily meant for recording voice notes, right? Then it should be something you can trust. Unfortunately, in my experience, you can only rely on it in “perfect conditions”: short notes where you keep your phone active the whole time, the screen doesn’t lock, you don’t switch apps, and nothing interrupts the recording. In those cases, the note usually saves.
But the moment you try to use it for what many people actually need — like recording a 30–50 minute meeting — it becomes a coin toss. These are the scenarios I’ve repeatedly encountered:
Best case (rare): everything works and the note saves normally.
Most common case: the recording seems saved, but then gets stuck in a “limbo” state (uploading or processing). Sometimes it never finishes. You end up with a log entry but no audio, no transcript, no summary, and you can’t listen or download anything — meaning you lose the entire recording.
This app should record locally as a fallback in case the internet fails, the screen locks, or something interrupts the upload. If it does that, it’s not working properly in my case, because I’ve lost countless recordings.
I tried a workaround: recording locally on my iPhone first (Voice Memos / Notes) and then uploading to Voicenotes.com. This works for short recordings, but longer meetings can easily be 70MB+ — and Voicenotes.com doesn’t accept files that large. So again, it fails for the exact use case where reliability matters most.
More examples of recordings I’ve lost:
Recording while walking outside and the phone locks without me noticing → the note is gone.
Being on Wi-Fi and the connection drops briefly → it triggers an error, the audio never uploads, and there’s no way to recover it.
And what motivated me even more to leave this review is a serious issue with the feature they promote heavily: recording meetings using the Chrome extension.
Today I joined a Google Meet webinar, granted all the required permissions, and the extension clearly showed it was recording. After 58 minutes, I stopped the recording. A log was created — but it said “note without audio.” No file, nothing to play, nothing to download. I lost the entire session that the extension claimed it recorded.
Bottom line: amazing concept, but currently too unreliable to recommend for serious use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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