Last updated: October 28, 2026
You don't need an app for this. spkeep runs entirely in your phone's browser — Safari on iPhone, Chrome on Android — and the file lands in your normal downloads. Here's how it differs by phone, and the two settings worth knowing.
Install it like an app. After your first successful download, the site offers to install — then spkeep sits on your home screen like an app, no app store involved. It's still just the website, but one tap away.
Your format is remembered. Pick M4A or MP3 once and the site remembers it for next time. And if a download link expires (files live 2 hours), your history lets you re-download while the Space is still in the 24-hour cache.
Trimming works the same: mm:ss start and end on replays. Live recording has the same rule as desktop — keep the tab open until the live ends. On a phone, try to keep the browser in the foreground while a live recording runs; background tabs can get suspended by the system, and a suspended tab can't keep a recording alive.
On iPhone, Safari puts the file in Downloads in the Files app — open Files, tap Downloads, and it's there. You can also tap Safari's download icon in the address bar to jump straight to it. From Files, everything else is standard iOS: play it in place, move it into a folder, send it to your music library, or share it with the share sheet. On Android, Chrome saves to Downloads — find it in the Files app under Downloads, or in Chrome's own menu under Downloads. From there, move it to a music folder, open it in your player of choice, or share it however you normally share files.
One thing to check on either phone: the filename. It comes from the Space title, which is usually descriptive enough. If you're saving several Spaces from the same host, rename the ones that matter as you go — a folder of files all starting with the same show name gets confusing fast, and renaming later is a chore nobody does.
The desktop rule — keep the tab open — is harder on a phone, because phones actively suspend background tabs. On iPhone, Safari in the background gets suspended by the system; on Android, battery optimization can kill a backgrounded Chrome tab. So for a live recording, treat the phone as a recorder for the duration: browser in the foreground, screen timeout set to its longest, charger plugged in. Don't take a call on the same phone mid-recording if you can help it, since the call pushes the browser to the background.
Check the elapsed timer now and then. Ticking means alive; frozen means something stalled. If it stalled, reload the page — the reload tells you whether the recording survived. If it didn't, start a new recording for the remainder. Two files instead of one is annoying, but it's the honest fallback, and both files are still free.
Replay downloads come down as a stream of segments, so a brief stall usually clears on its own — give it a moment before you retry. If you're on mobile data, think about size first: a two-hour Space is a large file, and M4A is larger than MP3. On a slow connection or a tight data plan, MP3 is the practical pick — smaller, and the quality difference on spoken audio is hard to hear. On Wi-Fi, take the M4A and keep the original.
There is also a hard ceiling: a single file caps at 500MB. Very long Spaces can get near it, and if a download fails at the top end, size is the first suspect. The fix is trimming — cut the segment you actually want, and the file shrinks below the cap. That's one more reason trimming exists: it's not just for clips, it's the escape hatch for oversized Spaces.
A file sitting in Downloads is only half the job. On iPhone, the share sheet from Files sends it to Apple Music, VLC, a cloud drive, or AirDrop to your computer. On Android, the same share sheet reaches your music apps, your drive app, or a USB transfer. M4A plays in Apple Music and VLC; MP3 plays everywhere, which is why it's the safer choice if you're not sure what the other end plays.
One line on sharing: sending a file to yourself — your own computer, your own cloud — is just moving your own copy. Passing someone else's recording on to other people is redistribution, and that's where the host's permission matters. The legality guide draws that line in full.
First, know where your browser puts files. On iPhone, Safari's download location lives in Settings, then Safari, then Downloads — it can be On My iPhone or iCloud Drive, and the Files app shows it wherever it went. If a download ever seems to vanish, that's the first place to look: it probably went to the other location. On Android, Chrome has an optional "ask where to save" setting under Downloads — turning it on means you pick the folder each time, which is handy if you sort Spaces by show or host.
Second, check free space before a long download. A phone that's nearly full can fail a large download with no clear error — the browser just stops, and the file is either missing or partial. A two-hour Space is a big file, and it's a bad way to discover you're out of storage. Clear a little room first if you're close to the limit, or pick MP3 to shrink the download.
Once the file is on your phone, it's just audio — no connection needed, no browser tab to keep open, no expiry. That's the whole point of downloading instead of streaming: the file plays on a plane, in a dead zone, or with mobile data off. Your normal player's lock-screen controls work with it, it plays over Bluetooth in the car, and it survives closing every app on the phone. The only thing that ever needed the browser open was a live recording in progress; a finished download is free of all of that.
If you listen in a podcast app, MP3 is the smoother choice — the tags carry the title and host, so the episode shows up with a name instead of a bare filename. If you listen in a music library, either format works, and M4A keeps the original audio. Either way, the file is yours to organize: make a folder per show, rename the keepers, and delete the ones you only needed once.
No. Everything happens in your phone's browser — Safari on iPhone, Chrome on Android.
Safari saves it to Downloads in the Files app.
Yes. iPads and Android tablets use the same browser flow.
Yes, with the same rule as desktop: keep the browser tab open until the live ends.
If the Space already ended, the normal free download guide covers it; if it's live right now, use the live recording guide.
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