com.google.android.apps.recorder Copy

Labelled "Recorder", this is Google's audio recording and transcription app for Pixel devices. Google publishes a Play listing at this package name which describes it as an app that "automatically transcribes and labels what you record", with saving, editing, sharing and summarising of recordings, and states that it is also available on Wear OS. Google's Pixel help states that Recorder can be used on Pixel 3 and later phones and on Pixel Tablet. On this site it is recorded on Pixel models from Pixel 6 to Pixel 10 Pro and on one HP Googlebook 14 profile, across OS API levels 31 to 37, signed by two Google-classified keys that do not sign the Android framework. The Googlebook sighting sits outside the device list in the help page cited here. Where the recordings go is the part worth understanding. Google's help states that recordings are only available on the device and are not synced to a Google Account unless the user turns on backup, shares them, copies them to another app or saves them elsewhere. Backed up recordings can be reached at recorder.google.com, and a recording link can be shared as a public link, with specific people or kept private; the help page warns that a publicly shared link can be opened by anyone who has it. Transcripts can be sent to Google Docs and NotebookLM. The same pages state that Recorder can be used without a Google Account, that it "sends audio to an on-device Google service or app to transcribe it", and that the summary feature "runs in a secure, isolated environment in the cloud" and may need internet access for certain languages. This site records the package requesting microphone, fine and coarse location, contacts, Bluetooth connect and internet permissions, along with a bind permission named for Google's AICore service. This site aggregates permissions across observations rather than per build, so which builds declare each of them cannot be established. Version note: the documented differences follow the Pixel generation rather than the Android release. Google's help gives Pixel 3 to Pixel 5a a shorter list of real-time transcription languages than Pixel 6 and later, limits language detection and speaker labels to Pixel 6 and later, summaries to Pixel 8 and later, and the "Create music" enhancement to Pixel 9 and later. This site's roll-up reports version names from 4.0.491496795 to 4.2.20260823.992025916. No change in the app's role tied to a specific Android release was found in the sources cited here. For Android Enterprise, EMM and kiosk use this is an ordinary user-facing app with no management role identified in the sources cited here. The points an organisation may weigh are that it records audio, that recordings can be backed up to a Google Account and shared by link, and that some features process content off the device. Where it is not wanted, the Android Management API's application policy documents a "disabled" field for an app, noting that app data is preserved when it is set. No dependency of another device function on this package is identified in the sources cited here.

• Recorder - Google Play listing →
• Create, edit and delete a recording on your Pixel device - Pixel Phone Help →
• Save and share recordings and transcripts - Pixel Phone Help →
• Create, edit and manage transcriptions - Pixel Phone Help →
• Policy resource (ApplicationPolicy) - Android Management API →
• Package provenance for com.google.android.apps.recorder - Android System App Database →

• Signed by Google's own signing key (the same key Google uses across devices), so it is a Google-provided preinstall that updates independently of the system image, though 2 different Google signing keys appear across the fleet. This certificate spans 4 device makes - the hallmark of a globally distributed Google key.
• Its largest observed manifest declares 24 permissions: 6 runtime (user-granted), 11 install-time and 7 vendor or uncatalogued.
• APK size ranges from 33.9 MB to 89.2 MB across the reporting device profiles, so the build differs substantially between them.
• Reported as an updated system app in 55 of 57 observations - a newer build was installed over the one in the system image. Multiple observations can come from the same device profile.