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Every call,
on the record.

A pocket recorder for phone interviews. It sits between your phone and your headset: you talk as usual, and Scout keeps a clean copy of both sides on its own memory card.

Get notified at launch How it works
  • No cloud. Recordings never leave your hands.
  • Any calling app. If it uses a headset, Scout records it.
  • Plug in and talk. No app required, though there's a good one.

Phone. Scout. Headset.
That's the whole setup.

L
Left channel: them. The other end of the line, exactly as your phone hears it.
R
Right channel: you. Straight from your headset's microphone.

Made for people who interview for a living.
Good enough to air.

Interview, city council

Journalists and researchers

Plug Scout in, call your source the way you always do, and come back to a broadcast-quality recording of both voices, ready to transcribe, quote, or put straight into the radio piece or podcast.

  • Broadcast quality. Uncompressed 48 kHz WAV, clean enough for radio and podcasts.
  • Two clean channels. Your source on the left, you on the right, so each voice can be levelled on its own.
  • Any calling app. Regular calls or any app that uses a headset. Nothing to install on the phone.
  • Find the quote. The app transcribes on your phone and searches every word.
  • Protect your sources. Scout is always offline, the app never goes online, and recordings can be encrypted.
  • Every file dated. A built-in clock stamps each recording, even after a week unplugged.
  • Tell your source you're recording. It's good practice, and in some places it may be required.

Also made for

  • Ep. 42, guest call-in

    Podcasters and radio

    Phone guests in broadcast quality, each voice on its own channel for the edit.

  • User interview #7, checkout flow

    UX and market research

    Talk to users by phone, then search every transcript for the quote that makes the case.

  • Grandma Inge, growing up in Aarhus

    Oral historians

    Memories recorded by phone, kept as plain files that will open in fifty years.

  • Dr. Miller: test results

    Hearing it twice

    When a call goes by too fast or details slip away, listen again or read it back afterwards.

Scout mascot sitting by a campfire, wearing headphones

What's said by the campfire stays by the campfire.

No cloud. No account. Scout is always offline. Your recordings sit on a card you can hold in your hand.

An app that stays offline. It makes no internet connections. Transcripts and titles are made on your phone.

Sources stay protected. Encryption travels with the microSD card. Your recordings play only on your own devices.

Read the app's privacy policy →

Plug in, call, it's on tape.
No app required.

Scout starts recording when your call starts and stops when you hang up. There's nothing to set up or pair before the interview.

Records by itself

The moment a call or recording app opens the microphone, Scout is rolling. Hang up and it stops.

Or never stops

For the interview you can't afford to lose, Always on records from the moment Scout gets power and ignores every attempt to stop.

Plain files, no lock-in

Scout shows up as a drive on any computer. The recordings are standard WAV files that open in any audio editor, and there's no subscription.

Your headset, either kind

Use the wired headset you already trust, 3.5 mm or USB-C.

Hours on one card

A 32 GB card holds about 45 hours of tape. That's a week of interviews before you think about storage.

Dated, always

A built-in clock stamps every recording with when it happened, even if Scout spent the week in a drawer.

The Scout app's Recordings list, with Scout R1 connected and 45 hours of space left.

Add the app,
and find anything you said.

The Scout app syncs recordings over the same cable, writes them out as text on your phone, and lets you search every word. Like Voice Memos, but for every call.

  • Transcripts on your phoneEvery interview written out on the phone itself. The audio never leaves it.
  • Search every wordFind the quote by what was said, typos and all, and jump straight to it.
  • Names itselfApple Intelligence suggests a title, so "Rec 0412" becomes "Interview, city council".
  • Sync over the cableNo Bluetooth to pair. Plug in and tap Sync.
  • Encrypted recordingsTurn it on and only your own devices can play them.
  • Control from the phoneStart, stop and switch mode from the app, and see how many hours of tape are left.
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Scout R1 is on its way.
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We're making the first small batch now. Drop us a line and we'll write when it's ready.

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