App to Record Phone Calls Sending AND Receiving.

Let me start by saying every one of the threads I searched on this and read through involved a bunch of people who aren't lawyers commenting on the legality of recording calls without someones knowledge blah blah blah...

If that is what you have to contribute, please don't. It's completely irrelevant and leads to people like me searching for useful information winding up here reading through a bunch of garbage.

Now, I'm looking for an app that will allow me to record my incoming and outgoing calls. Imagine if you will a microphone in front of my mouth and also at the speaker of the phone that would record what I say, and what the other person says, in order, in a listenable quality. Something a little more streamlined than using my macbook pro as a voice recorder and my iphone on speakerphone in close proximity.

Why I want this: So I can record my calls to customer service departments for the express purpose of documenting my struggle against their corporations in small claims suites. WHENEVER you call a customer service line you are told "your call may be monitored or recorded for quality assurance." LEGAL DISCUSSION OVER. They know, you know, everybody knows it could be recorded. You could even say, I'm recording this call to each rep you spoke to, but it wouldn't be necessary.

ONWARDS: Does anyone know of a good app, that meets these requirements. Preferably doesn't require a monthly fee, doesn't require the phone to make an outgoing call to another phone and "merge the calls" or any other nonsense that will breach the "chain of trust" of data between me and the other person's/people at the end of the line.

My iphone is jailbroken: Cydia apps as well as official Itunes apps are completely acceptable.

Thank you for your help.

This is an official app that does it, but breaks chain of trust and has reliability issues.



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SAD*FACED*CLOWN said:

There are NO authorized apps to record phone calls as the law is different from state to state...if you want to record phone calls the only way I know to accomplish this is via google voice, just press 4 to start recording.... as far as cydia apps you might want to post in the hacks section

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I just wanted to say thank you for the information about google voice. That is a possible solution, however, I really want to keep my personal cell phone number involved in this action, and not use my G#. Thank you though.

As for the no authorized app, please see above as I have edited my original post to show one example I found.

iceterminal said:

He is correct, Apple will have to be very careful as this use is extremely viable to be illegal in several states that require 2 way confirmation of recording. Illinois is one, Texas only requires 1 way.
So Apple would most likely try to stay out of the court room in many a state.
But the Google Voice is the way I have used before. It seems to work fine, but I have not put it through its paces really. Someone else could easily be more of an expert than I.
As for wanting to use your main number, I'm wondering why it could matter. Not against you, but in a legal sense, why would it matter from which telephone you used to contact said company/individual. You possess both of the number in question. So where is the division?

The app you show above seems to break your "chain of trust" as it calls "their server" as a third party for recording. This could possibly make your recording suspect in any court. It also requires you to be presently in a call before activating it. Thus making it easy for any lawyer to state that this call cannot be proven that it is indeed the defendant. YOu need one that records upon completion of dialing.

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What did you contribute to this discussion? I don't understand why you even bothered posting. I made it pretty clear this thread didn't need to be polluted by a bunch of non lawyers running their mouths about legal issues that aren't relevant to the goal of this thread: FIND A SOLUTION TO RECORD BOTH PARTIES OF AN INCOMING OR OUTGOING CALL ON THE IPHONE. If you don't have a solution, or an idea, don't post. Your post is exactly the kind of cancer infecting this forum, causing people researching solutions to arrive at worthless threads devoid of useful ideas or intelligent discussion.

THE ONLY USEFUL THING YOU POSTED: "But the Google Voice is the way I have used before. It seems to work fine, "

That is the only relevant comment in your entire post. Everything else is restating things I already said, or worthless legal nonsense.

/flame

Speaking of actually contributing things that are relevant. I found this as I continue my research for SOLUTIONS TO THE ABOVE STATED PROBLEM.

This comes from:
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While it isn't as streamlined as I would like, it's a small step in the right direction.

I think I'm going to have to switch gears from finding an app that records calls to finding a tactic to record audio data from an active call, then make an app to apply the tactic efficiently.

I'm going to test my second idea tomorrow which is to call my OWN skype or even OWN voicemail while on a call, merge the calls and record the output in order to keep every data hand off at least somewhat internal. I fear my voicemail will have a 2 minute limit or some other restriction that won't make this viable. Will test tomorrow when I have time. My mind is on using my personal skype and recording that via wiretap on my mac or some built in feature I haven't explored yet.