Live input monitor
The waveform stays active before recording, so a silent input or wrong target is visible immediately.
Focused audio capture for Windows
Record one app.
Leave the rest out.
Choose a running app and capture only its audio—or switch to a microphone or the full Windows mix. A live waveform confirms the signal before you press Record.
- Per-app audio
- Local processing
- Windows 10 & 11
3 source modesApp · system · microphone
4 formatsMP3 · M4A · FLAC · WAV
1–10 secPre-record recovery buffer
Always liveMonitor before recording
Inputs that stay ready
Choose the right device.
Let sound handle the pauses.
Follow the Windows default input or choose a connected microphone directly. Live monitoring confirms the device before recording, while voice or level detection can pause an active recording during silence and resume when sound returns.
Serious recording without the clutter
Everything important
stays in one workspace.
The interface shows source, signal, recording state, processing, and automatic pause behavior together—without hiding the controls behind multiple pages.
Sound activation
Voice or level detection can pause during silence and resume when sound returns. A 1–10 second rolling buffer restores the audio just before detection.
Real-time noise reduction
An adjustable low-cut and adaptive gate reduces steady low-frequency rumble and quiet background noise before audio reaches the file.
Compact mode
Essential controls.
A much smaller footprint.
Move the recorder into a corner-friendly mode with a VU meter, stable timer, status indicator, and the core recording controls. It remembers the position you choose and keeps itself visible after display changes.
- Live VU meter with peak hold
- Record, pause, resume, and stop states
- Double-click or use Restore to return
Encoding & storage
Choose the file you actually need.
Audio Recorder+ filters settings to valid combinations, so sample rate, channels, bit depth, and bit rate remain compatible with the selected format.
MP3Broad compatibility
Smaller files
Smaller files
M4AEfficient AAC audio
Great everyday choice
Great everyday choice
FLACLossless compression
Smaller than PCM
Smaller than PCM
WAVUncompressed PCM
Direct editing workflow
Direct editing workflow
Audio stays on your PC
Input monitoring, detection, noise reduction, and encoding run locally without an upload step.
State you can trust
Recording, manual pause, and automatic pause are visually distinct and share one explicit recording state machine.
Responsive Windows UI
A native Windows interface uses Direct2D with a GDI fallback while audio work stays away from the UI thread.
Questions
Know what gets recorded.
Clear behavior matters as much as clean audio.
Can I record only one app?
Yes, on supported Windows systems. Select App audio and choose a running application. Audio Recorder+ does not silently fall back to system audio if that target becomes unavailable.
Does Sound activation start recording by itself?
No. You start and stop the recording. Sound activation only pauses and resumes writing inside that recording when the selected voice or level signal disappears and returns.
What happens when sound returns after an automatic pause?
The recorder writes the configured 1–10 seconds of rolling pre-record audio first, then continues in real time. If less audio is available, it restores everything it has.
Is audio uploaded for processing?
No. Input monitoring, detection, noise reduction, and encoding run locally on the Windows PC.
Which languages are available?
Audio Recorder+ includes English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Thai, Dutch, Swedish, and Turkish.
Audio Recorder+ 3.0
A focused way to record on Windows.
The new native Audio Recorder+ is being prepared for its Windows release.
Microsoft Store release coming soon
Version 3.0.0 · Build 3.0.0.1