# Recording off of a cell phone... **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 4, 2010, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recording-off-of-a-cell-phone/545493 "2010-07-04T05:54:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2010, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recording-off-of-a-cell-phone/545493/1 "2010-07-04T05:54:19Z")
What is a reliable inexpensive device or method I can use to record conversations & messages off of cell phones? This is for consensual legitimate record keeping & not bugging conversations. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2010, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recording-off-of-a-cell-phone/545493/2 "2010-07-04T07:36:01Z")
Many cell phones already have the capability to record conversations (certainly my old Nokia phone from 4 years ago did), as long as they have sufficient memory storage. I can find several such applications for Android, and there are probably several iPhone apps for that task. The recordings can be dumped to computer for processing/archive. Si ---
**Author:** ![aaelghat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c5a1d2/32.png) [@aaelghat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aaelghat)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2010, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recording-off-of-a-cell-phone/545493/3 "2010-07-04T08:52:21Z")
From the cell phone, you could also conference into a service like [freeconferencecall.com](http://freeconferencecall.com) which will record the conversation for you.