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FireTone can record a call and keep the file on the phone. It never leaves the phone by itself — there is no upload, no sync and no server copy.
Recording a call without telling the other person is illegal in many places, and the rules differ by state as well as by country. FireTone will record what you ask it to; whether you may is yours to know.

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What can be recorded

FireTone calls only. A carrier call is handled by the phone’s own telephony stack, which does not hand the audio to an app — on both platforms, and by design. The Record button on a carrier call is disabled and says so.

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Who decides

Three settings, and they resolve in this order:
  1. The call is a carrier call → never recorded. Nothing below applies.
  2. The contact’s own setting — Always or Never on their page. Either one wins, in its own direction.
  3. Settings › Auto-record FireTone calls — Off, Ask once per contact, or Always.
Ask once per contact means what it says: you are asked the first time, and the answer is kept — against that contact if FireTone knows who they are, and app-wide if it does not. You are not asked again.

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The files

Microphone and far end are mixed into one file — Ogg/Opus, or .m4a where the platform prefers it.
  • Android — the private app folder by default. Settings › Recording folder lets you pick a folder of your own, and the app keeps the permission to it.
  • iPhone — Files › FireTone › Recordings, which is read-only in the app and says so.
Settings › Recordings lists everything on the phone, grouped by who you spoke to. Tap one for the player: play, scrub, Share, Copy path, Delete. It will not play during a call — the audio device is busy with something more important. You can also reach a single recording from its row in Recents, by swiping the row to the right.

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Per-contact exceptions

Settings › Per-contact recording is where the exceptions live, with the list of everybody who has one. It is the same setting as the chooser on a contact’s page, gathered in one place so you can see what you have set without going person by person.