Recordia
Simple audio recorder that lives in your macOS menu bar
Recordia launched on September 11, 2020 with 200 votes, #114 of 3,898 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.
What it does
Recordia lets you record audio directly from the menu bar or with a global keyboard shortcut. This can be useful for recording voice memos, meetings, lectures, interviews, phone calls, voice-overs, and more.
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This is absolutely accessible and simple! works 100% with VoiceOver, and I have access to recording, pausing/resuming, etc. Please continue to enhance it's accessibility with VoiceOver in future updates. This is absolutely accessible and simple! works 100% with VoiceOver, and I have access to recording, pausing/resuming, etc. Please continue to enhance it's accessibility with VoiceOver in future updates. I was worried about the black hole sound plug in but after the developers contacted me I realized I was mistakenly associating the name with malware. This is a good safe app. Thanks Apps in the App Store are not able to record system audio. The only way to do it is using an audio driver…from apps.apple.com
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