BCR-GUI

What is BCR-GUI

BCR-GUI is a call recordings manager app, started as companion app for the great BCR (Basic Call Recorder) Android application and grown up to support many other call recorders:

• BCR - Basic Call Recorder
• GrapheneOS Call Recorder (see here)
• ColorOS Call Recorder (see here)
• Huawei Call Recorder (see here)
• LineageOS Call Recorder (see here)

To manage BCR (and other call recorders) recordings, you need to use a file manager... and that's not so user-friendly 😉. It's hard to "extract" call informations from audio filename, and it's even harder to search them when the list grows.

Such a feature was already requested, but chenxiaolong (the author of BCR) wants to keep BCR Basic; and I do agree with him! Call recording on Android is a hard work, and I'd like (and hope) him to stay focused on it... recordings management is a job made for BCR-GUI 😂. Other call recorders never had one.

Requirements

If used with BCR, BCR-GUI needs BCR v.1.49 (or newer) to work at its best; that version features the new JSON call metadata file, used by BCR-GUI to read detailed call info and show them in its call list. In case of missing JSON file (eg. recordings done before 1.49 or when using another recording app), BCR-GUI will try to extract call data from recording filename. You can customize the format of the filename being parsed.

Permissions

• BCR-GUI does not need root access to work.
  It only needs READ access to the directory used by BCR to save recordings. At the first start, it asks you to select your recordings directory (using the well-known Android SAF dialogs) and allow read access to it.

• It does not need Internet access at all.
  NOTE: this may change in the future if an auto-update feature will be added, but actually the app can't send/receive anything to/from internet.

• (optional) It needs Contacts permission to update recordings names with contacts or create new contacts for recordings from unknown callers. Feel free to deny the permission: app will remember you how to enable it the next time you use a feature requiring it.

What's working/missing?

BCR-GUI is stable and ready for usage!

Working:

• list: show an ordered list of your call recordings
• play: play each call recording straight from the list (no external player needed)
• share: share recording file with other apps, like messaging, email, ...
• delete: delete recordings
• manual edit: edit caller name
• create contact: create a new contact with recording phone number
  (to be used after recording a call from an unknown contact)
• search number: search an existing contact with recording phone number**
  (to be used if you've already created the contact after recording the call)

Still missing (not ready yet...):

• edit: allow user to add own data to call recording, like notes, tags, ...
• filter: be able to filter list by tags, content, date range, length, ...

Other things could be improved and added.
Feel free to share your thoughts!

Install

BCR-GUI is not available in the PlayStore (...yet).

I'll publish it there if its popularity grows but... since BCR is a Magisk module, and it requires some skills to be installed, I'm sure that you're also able to download & install a simple APK 😉.

Latest version is available here.

Libraries

• Ionic 7
• Capacitor 5 (with custom AndroidSAF plugin)
• Angular 17
• Icons from Ionicons and FreeSVG (public domain icons)

License

BCR-GUI is licensed under GPLv3 (please see LICENSE file).