The replacement for Voice Recorder gets a new name, a new look, and new input and output capabilities.
Windows’ sound and voice recording app has long been very basic, but Windows 11’s updated recording app adds some new nice-to-have features. For starters, it’s now called Sound Recorder, replacing the Voice Recorder moniker in previous Windows versions. It’s more than a name change, too. The app, though still simple, gets a new look in addition to new features. Microsoft announced the Sound Recorder app last month, and it’s currently still in preview. But there’s a good chance it will be updated before the next big Windows version coming in the fall, just as the Media Player app was. Until then, here’s a quick spin around the new sound-recording app. A New Look
As you can see, the new Sound Recorder app looks markedly different than the previous Voice Recorder app:
For comparison, here’s how bare-bones the Windows 10 Voice Recorder app interface is:
The new app also offers a light mode, shown below. Getting Started With Sound Recorder in Windows 11
As with Windows 11’s new Media Player app, if you type in the old app name, in this case “Voice Recorder,” the new one, Sound Recorder, opens and updates itself. (The Media Player behaves similarly when you type “Groove” in the Start menu.) You can also find the app in the Microsoft Store, though oddly under the old Voice Recorder name.
