You remember calling someone before one o'clock, but not what you
agreed. You scroll the calendar back to one and there it is: who, what about,
and what came of it.
Callogue is on Google Play.
It is an Android app that reads phone call recordings your device has already saved
and turns them into transcripts, summaries, agreed points and calendar entries.
Before you install, one thing is worth checking - because without recordings in your
phone's storage the app can do nothing.
11:05
Garage - timing belt replacement
Quoted 620 with parts, car in for two days. They'll call back with a date.
Saturday, 10:22
You call your accountant about the VAT return. The call runs under three
minutes. Out of it come two missing invoices, one figure and one deadline - plus a commitment
that is yours, because you are the one sending the scans.
A week later you remember none of it. You know only that you called on
Saturday, some time before eleven. You open the calendar, scroll back to Saturday, and find
an entry you never created.
The entry you never created
This is what it looks like inside
The whole call fits in the event description: the number, the length, what was
agreed and by when. You typed none of it.
Where fromThe number and the time come from the filename of the
recording, not from your call history - the app has no access to it
and does not ask for the permission.
The figure„Roughly £310 difference”, „two purchase invoices”. Exactly what was
said - and exactly what leaves your head first.
Open loop„I send scans of the fuel and hosting invoices today” is
your commitment. Callogue picks sentences like that out and
lists them separately instead of leaving them buried in a paragraph.
Marked freeAt the bottom the event says „Private · Available” -
it does not block your day and does not clash with meeting invitations.
And it admits, in plain words, that Callogue added it.
And this is a whole day
One entry is a curiosity. The value shows up after a week, when the calendar
holds every call - alongside your normal events, not instead of them. Call
entries are marked as free, so the day still looks free.
Four calls, not one note taken - and each one sits at its own hour.
Scroll to midday and you know who you spoke to.
The same thing in the app, with search
The calendar is where you already look. But when you are hunting for
something by what was said, the app has its own timeline - and a search box that reads
the content of your calls.
Type „amendment” and you find the call it was said in - no need to
remember who rang, or when.
Read this before you install
Callogue does not record calls. It reads recordings your phone
has already saved - audio files in a folder you point to yourself.
The app is meant for phones that have a call recorder and save recordings
to internal storage as ordinary files. If your phone records but keeps the
calls only in the manufacturer's cloud, or inside a closed app your file manager
can't reach, Callogue won't be able to read them.
✅ Your phone records calls and keeps them in a folder → this app is for you.
❌ It doesn't record, or the recordings sit outside your phone's storage → don't
install it, Callogue will have nothing to work with.
Not sure? Open your file manager and look for a folder of call recordings.
If it's there, you're good.
When Callogue earns its place
Not in every call. In the ones that leave something behind -
a number, a deadline, or somebody's „I'll call you back".
09:14
Monday
A quote over the phone
The call takes three minutes and leaves nothing behind but a feeling that „it was around seven hundred".
11:02
Tuesday
A date agreed on the move
You're driving, carrying shopping, standing in a queue. No notebook is coming out, so you're trusting memory.
13:37
Wednesday
A helpline or an office
The agent promises to call back. They give a name and a case number - both gone in the same second.
16:20
Thursday
A call with a client
They say what needs doing and by when. In six months that will still hold. Your memory won't.
17:05
Friday
An order and a complaint
A reference number, a surname, a promised date. Three things at once and no paper in reach.
18:45
Every day
An ordinary working day
It isn't about one important call. It's that there are several every day, and each leaves a detail behind.
07:40
Before you sit down
A call before the first coffee
Someone rings before your computer is even on. By noon all you remember is that they rang.
10:15
Saturday
Personal admin
The garage, the clinic, the insurer. Deadlines get agreed at weekends too - nobody writes them down.
„I called someone before one…"
12:48
The hour always survives
And it's enough to find the rest
You remember when a call happened without trying. Callogue adds the content
to it and files it where you already look - in your calendar.
How it works
1
It watches the folder you choose
The one you point to yourself using the system picker. New
recordings are recognised by filename - that's where the number and the time
of the call come from.
The app asks for no access to your phone's storage at large or to your
call history. It reaches your contacts only if you allow it, and only when your
recorder saves numbers without names.
I only look where you let me in.
2
It turns the call into a summary
First the recording into text, then the text into a few sentences:
what the call was about, what was agreed, and what is left to
do.
The full transcript stays next to the summary - you can always check what
was actually said.
I summarise, but I leave the transcript beside it - you can check on me.
3
It writes an entry in your calendar
At the time the call took place. Entries are marked as free,
so they don't block your day.
That turns your calendar's search box into a search across the content of
your calls - type „firewood" and you find a conversation from last month.
I mark the entry as free, so it won't take up your day.
It can get things wrong - and then you fix them
Summaries are written by a language model - and like anyone taking notes
on the move, it can garble a name or flatten a thread. So it isn't a record
of the call. It is a shortcut meant to lead you back to one.
There is only one record: your recording. It sits on your
phone and plays in one tap. The summary you can fix, rewrite or delete - the recording stays
untouched.
Under every call
Five things you can do with it
▶ PlayOpens a player with a scrubber, without leaving the list.
You get back to the moment the disputed figure was said.
✎ EditFix the topic and the text by hand. The change goes to the calendar
entry too, so you don't fix it twice.
RetrySends the recording to be read again. Useful when the call was cut
short or the background was noisy.
Paste by handWould rather write the summary yourself? Paste your own text and the
app leaves it alone.
DeleteRemoves the summary along with the calendar entry. The recording stays -
your phone manages it, not us.
What not to do
Do not base decisions with legal, financial or health consequences on a summary
without checking the recording. Callogue organises your own notes - it is not an
evidentiary source and not an official record, and a calendar entry is not a document
within the meaning of any law.
A call takes three minutes.
What was agreed in it can matter for six months.
You ring for a quote and hear four numbers. You agree a date with nowhere
to write it down, because you're driving. You call an office and a week later you can't
remember the name of the person who promised to ring back.
Callogue doesn't ask you to change your habits. There's
nothing to write down and nothing to remember to switch on - the recording already exists,
and the rest happens by itself.
What it costs
Ten calls a month cost nothing. If they run out sooner, one ad unlocks one
more - up to fifteen a day. Or you take the subscription and stop watching the limit - and the ads go with it.
There is no third option - either ads or a subscription.
Free
€0
No account, no card, no email address.
10 calls a month - the allowance returns every month
One ad = 1 more call, up to 15 a day
Transcript, summary and the calendar entry
Timeline of your calls, with search
Banner ads - at the bottom of the screen and in the call list
Subscription
€6.99 / month
Cancel any time in your app store, which shows the price
in your own currency. In some countries the store offers more than one plan,
with its allowance shown before you buy.
Never watch the limit
No ads - none at all
Transcript, summary and the calendar entry
Timeline of your calls, with search
Why it costs anything at all
Every call is two bills somebody has to pay: one for turning the recording
into text, another for summarising that text. Audio is the expensive half - a four-minute call
is several megabytes to chew through before there is anything to summarise.
That is why the counter sits on the server rather than in the phone: what gets
counted is what actually costs money, and there is no way around it. Calls unlocked by an ad
belong to that day - you cannot stockpile them for next week.
When the allowance runs out, the app keeps working. The
calendar entry is still created, with the time and the number; only the summary is something
you type in yourself.
What happens to your data
Turning a recording into a summary happens outside your phone - and we
think you have a right to know exactly what we send and where. So the app says it plainly
before it sends anything, and names the actual providers rather than
talking in generalities.
The consent screen on first run. Without it, the cloud features stay
switched off.The folder, the calendar and background work stay under your control.
Where your call is processed depends on its language. The
recording is turned into text by Cloudflare in the United States (EU-US DPF). The summary
is then produced by CloudFerro in Warsaw - for Polish, for English and for every other
language. Groq in the United States is only a standby, used if CloudFerro fails.
We keep no archive of your calls. Our server passes the data on
and stores none of it - only a counter of processed calls remains.
We don't know who you are. The account is anonymous: no email
address, no phone number, no name.
Your caller's number never leaves the phone when the recording's
filename carries their name.
The details - including the list of providers and the bases for
transfers - are in the privacy policy.
Before you record anything
The rules on recording calls differ from country to country. In some
it is enough that you are one of the participants. In others everyone on the call has
to agree.
Callogue never records - it reads files you already have on your phone, and those are
your responsibility. Before you start, check what applies where you are; there is more in
the terms, section 4.1.
One check tells you whether this is for you
Open your file manager and look for a folder of call recordings. It's there -
Callogue will have something to work with. It isn't - don't spend time installing,
because the app records nothing by itself.
09:14
