Even if you carry around a different Android phone in your pocket, there's a workaround to install Recorder on your Android device. The app is available to all Pixel phones, and updates have added editing features introduced with the Pixel 5. Recorder was so good, Google hasn't restricted it to just the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL. And all that transcription work was done locally, without sharing your recordings to the cloud. Recorder could transcribe your recordings in real-time, even as you were speaking. Recorder not only filled one of the big missing gaps on Pixel phones - which previously didn't feature a built-in voice recorder - but did it in style. When the Pixel 4 debuted in 2019, one of the best things to come with it was Google's Recorder app.