A Vocaroo alternative with audio links you control

Vocaroo’s FAQ says recordings left unplayed for a few months may be deleted, which can break a link or printed QR code. If that happened, you need the original file to create a new link here. Link in Seconds lets you set a password, choose an expiry and replace the file under the same URL. Check the current free-plan terms before relying on any link for long-term access.

• ·Choose an expiry date or disable the link yourself; check current free-plan terms for service-set expiry.
• ·The QR code points to the same link and follows its access settings.
• ·You can replace the audio without changing the URL.

This is the honest trade. Vocaroo's whole appeal is pressing one red button in a browser tab. We do not have that button. You record somewhere else first: Voice Memos on an iPhone, the Recorder app on Android, Audacity or GarageBand on a computer, or any app that saves an MP3, M4A, WAV, OGG, AAC or FLAC. Then you upload that file here. The upside is that you keep the original on your device, so the recording can never vanish with the link, and you can replace the file later while the link stays the same. On a phone the whole thing is a share-sheet tap and an upload. If you record several takes a day and share each one once, that extra step adds up and Vocaroo may suit you better. If you share recordings that need to last, the step is worth it.

• ·iPhone: Voice Memos, share, Save to Files, then upload from Files.
• ·Android: the Recorder app saves an M4A or MP3 you can pick straight from the upload box.
• ·Computer: export from Audacity, GarageBand or your DAW as MP3 and drop it in.

A Vocaroo link is public to anyone who has it and stays downloadable; there is no way to lock it or to make it stop on a date you choose. Here every link is unlisted by default, and on any plan you can add a password, set an expiry date, cap the number of opens, and hide the download button so the page is listen-only. A therapist sending a relaxation track to one client, a lawyer sharing a dictated note with a colleague, a language tutor returning marked oral homework: each gets a link that only the right person can open, that stops when the job is done, and that cannot be saved and forwarded if you turn downloads off. Changing the password later revokes anyone who unlocked it before.

• ·Password, expiry date and view limit are free on every plan.
• ·Turn the link off and on again from the dashboard without changing the URL.
• ·Listen-only hides the button; it cannot stop someone recording their speaker.

The link opens a plain page with the file name, the length and a player: a big play button, a progress bar you can drag, 10 second skips, a speed control and volume. It streams, so a long recording starts within a second and seeking to minute twenty does not wait for the rest to download. It works in Safari on an iPhone, Chrome on Android and any desktop browser, with no app, no account and no sign-in wall. If the listener closes the tab halfway, reopening the link resumes near where they stopped. A waveform is available for supported files; there is no transcript or editor.