What the app writes, what it costs, and what it deliberately does not do.
A take is a plain directory of files — nothing proprietary. A recording lives inside a project folder you can copy, archive or hand over:
proving-ground/
project.json
sessions/
2026-08-05_1042_damper-sweep/
session.json
audio/000000.wav
events.jsonl
transcript.jsonlThe files are the source of truth; anything indexed or derived from them is rebuildable. Everything is append-only, so a crash costs seconds of a take, never a whole take — a chunk written when the process was killed is still playable because its header is repaired from the file length on recovery. Each session records its own project identity, so a torn project manifest cannot hide or orphan a recording. A take can also be exported as SRT, WebVTT or JSON.
Free is 10 sessions and 3 minutes each, counted as sessions currently present — deleting a take frees a slot. The app enforces exactly these numbers: when the library already holds 10 Free-stamped takes, Record is refused.
A 14-day trial of uncrippled Pro. It needs sign-in, and it is one per device and per account. Anonymous users get Free and nothing more.
Sign-in fetches a licence. It never uploads your recordings. The app captures, transcribes, reviews and exports entirely on-device at every tier, so it never needs a network at any point.
A lapsed subscription falls back to Free. Existing recordings and their export stay available — the app never locks your work.
There is no sync, no web playback and no collaboration. One user, no seats, no server, no sharing. Recordings stay on your machine.