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.
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.
Who decides
Three settings, and they resolve in this order:
- The call is a carrier call → never recorded. Nothing below applies.
- The contact’s own setting — Always or Never on their page. Either one
wins, in its own direction.
- 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.
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.
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.