WeChat Voice is an Android app developed by Tencent Mobile International Ltd. (Level 29, Three Pacific Place, 1 Queen's Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong). Others apps created by Tencent Mobile International Ltd. are: StoryCam, ONE Browser.

WeChat Voice first became available on 29 Jul 2012. It is estimated that WeChat Voice has been downloaded between 1000000 and 5000000 times from the Play Store.

WeChat Voice 2.0 requires the following permissions:

Allows an app to access precise location. Alternatively, you might want ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION.

Allows applications to access information about networks.

Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.

Must be required by a RemoteViewsService, to ensure that only the system can bind to it.

Allows applications to change Wi-Fi connectivity state.

Allows applications to open network sockets.

Allows an application to modify global audio settings.

Allows an application to read from external storage.

Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.

Allows an application to record audio.

Allows access to the vibrator.

Allows applications to write the apn settings.

Allows an application to write to external storage.

Allows an application to read or write the system settings.