Consent, tracked per speaker. Free in every tier.
Every speaker in every recording carries a consent state. Non-consenting speakers are redacted from every export. Every change is logged. None of it is a paid feature.
Consent is a feature, not a footnote.
Most recording apps hand you a microphone and a privacy policy and trust you to figure out the rest. Bonfiyah gives you the tooling to do this right: a per-speaker consent state that follows each person across recordings, automatic redaction on every export, and an audit log of every change you can hand to a lawyer.
A note up front: Bonfiyah doesn't give legal advice. Recording laws vary by state and country, and knowing which rule applies to a given conversation is on you. What we do is build the tools to make compliance with whichever rule applies as clean as possible.
Six speaker states · Two privilege types
Six states. Two privilege types: Attorney-Client OR Doctor-Patient.
Most recorders give you a single consent toggle. Bonfiyah tracks six distinct speaker states: You, Granted, Unknown, Revoked, Internal Use Only, and Privileged. Each renders with its own color and icon — in the app, in every email summary, on every PDF export, even on plain-text shares.
The Privileged state is unique: it overrides consent display, adds a red banner to outgoing emails and PDFs, and prefixes subject lines with the matching bracket tag. Per-speaker privilege handles multi-party meetings where only one party's words are protected; story-level privilege covers the whole conversation.
As of v3.0.911 the Privileged picker has two types, chosen at recording start or anytime during playback:
- · Attorney-Client Privilege — banner
ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGE — CONFIDENTIAL· prefix[ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGE] - · Doctor-Patient Privilege — banner
DOCTOR-PATIENT PRIVILEGE — CONFIDENTIAL· prefix[DOCTOR-PATIENT PRIVILEGE]
How consent works in Bonfiyah
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Per-speaker consent state
Every speaker the app identifies — in a meeting, an interview, a hallway conversation — carries a consent state. New speakers start as Unknown. You can promote them to Granted with a tap, Revoked if they say no, or move the whole story into Internal Use Only or Privileged (Attorney-Client or Doctor-Patient). The state follows them across every recording they appear in, so you set it once and it sticks. By default, Internal-Use-Only speakers are included in what you send or export — turn the toggle off before sharing externally.
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Verbal-consent auto-detection v3.0
Bonfiyah listens for the phrases people actually use to announce a recording — "This call is being recorded," "Please note this conversation is being recorded for quality purposes," "Just so everyone knows, I'm recording," and similar variants across customer-service, financial, medical, and corporate phrasings. When the system detects one, every participant who speaks after that point is auto-granted consent on that recording, and the detection is logged with a timestamp.
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SMS consent request
For the case where you didn't announce the recording verbally — or want a written record — Bonfiyah generates a one-tap consent SMS to any speaker. The Messages composer pre-fills with a clean explanation and a single approval link. Their reply updates their consent state in your library automatically.
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Automatic redaction on export
Non-consenting speakers are redacted from every transcript, email, and PDF you send out. Their utterances render as "[redacted — consent not granted for this speaker]" with their share of the conversation marked as redacted in the speakers block. The original recording stays intact in your own library; the redaction is a guardrail on what leaves your account.
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Revocation cascade
Change a speaker's state to Revoked — at any point, on any story — and the redaction applies immediately to every future export. Pro AI analyses the story fed into are flagged for re-run. If you delete the whole story, the cascade is instant; the audio falls under our 7-day auto-purge regardless.
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Consent audit log
Every consent state change is timestamped, attributed to the change source (verbal detection, SMS reply, manual tap), and stored in an audit log you can review or export. When you need to show your work — to a counterparty, a compliance officer, or a court — the log is the record.
What Bonfiyah is not
A clean line worth drawing, because the category often blurs it.
- Not legal advice. Bonfiyah doesn't tell you what's legal to record in your jurisdiction. That's your call, your lawyer's call, or your compliance officer's call.
- Not a substitute for written consent where written consent is required. Some jurisdictions and many professional contexts (medical, financial, legal) require a signed agreement. Get one separately when it's needed.
- Not court-certified. Our audit log is timestamped and signed, but admissibility depends on jurisdiction, case posture, and other evidence. If you're heading to litigation, talk to your attorney about what they need.
- Not HIPAA-compliant. See our HIPAA posture for the full picture.
Knowing what a product doesn't do is part of trusting what it does do.
FAQ
Does Bonfiyah tell me what's legal to record in my state?
No. Recording laws vary by state and country, and that's your call to make. Bonfiyah doesn't give legal advice. What we give you is the tooling — per-speaker consent state, automatic redaction of non-consenting speakers from any export, an audit log of every consent change — so once you know the rule that applies to you, you can act on it cleanly.
What happens to a speaker who hasn't consented?
By default, the app keeps the recording intact so you can review it on your own device, but it redacts that speaker's utterances from every transcript, email, and PDF you send out. Their lines render as "[redacted — consent not granted for this speaker]" on every shared surface. The audio bytes themselves auto-purge from our servers within seven days regardless.
Does the consent log work in court?
Our log is timestamped, attributed (to verbal detection, SMS reply, or manual change), and exportable. Whether a court accepts it depends on jurisdiction, case posture, and other evidence — admissibility is your attorney's call. We make the cleanest record we can and let the legal system evaluate it.
What about HIPAA?
Bonfiyah is not a HIPAA-compliant service and is not a HIPAA Business Associate. We do not currently offer Business Associate Agreements. We build to HIPAA-aligned data-handling principles, but those design choices don't amount to certification. Read our HIPAA posture for the full picture, and talk to your compliance officer before any clinical use.
Why is this in every tier instead of behind a paywall?
Recording someone without their consent is a category of harm we don't want any of our users — paid or free — to drift into. We don't charge for the safety rails.
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