Notetaker
Records the call, writes it down, finds it again later.
How it hears both sides
Two tracks, never mixed
Your microphone is you. Your speakers are everybody else. They are recorded and written down as two separate tracks, which is why the transcript can say who was speaking without guessing at voices. Set what you want to be called in Settings, and everything on your microphone gets that name.
It starts when a call starts
The Windows app watches for any program opening your microphone. That is what happens the moment a call is answered, in Teams, Zoom, Meet, a browser tab or a softphone. It does not need to know which app you use, so it keeps working when you change.
Nothing is ever recorded silently
Before it starts, a window counts down with a cancel button, and an indicator stays up while it runs. You choose how many seconds. You can also have it say out loud into the call that it is recording, which is worth thinking about seriously if you take calls across state lines.
While it runs
Paste a screenshot into it
A whiteboard, a shared screen, a figure that was up for four seconds. It goes into the transcript at the moment it was taken, next to the sentence that explains it, rather than into a folder somewhere else.
Recording in the browser today
The Windows app is still being built. Until it lands, Record in the menu will record from this browser: it asks for your microphone, then which window to listen to. It works and it produces the same transcript, but the tab has to stay open and you have to start it yourself.
Afterwards
What it was about, and what was agreed
A short summary and a list of things somebody committed to do. Action items are suggestions until you keep them, because an invented commitment in a client meeting is worse than none at all: somebody will act on it.
Correct anything it misheard
Every line can be edited, and so can the name against it. Names and numbers are what a transcript gets wrong most, and those are the parts worth reading before you rely on them.
Find it again a year later
The search goes through every line of every transcript, not just the titles. Half remember a figure and you will find the meeting it was said in.
Keeping and getting rid of it
The audio expires, the transcript does not
The text is the useful part and is tiny. The recording is the large part and is somebody else's voice. Set how many days audio is kept in Settings; nought means keep it until you say otherwise, and any single recording can be pinned so it never expires. You can delete a recording's audio at any time and keep the words.
Questions
Does the other person know?
Only if you tell them. The countdown and the indicator are on your screen, not theirs. Turn on the spoken announcement if you want them told, and think hard about whether you should.
Is it legal?
We cannot answer that for you and will not pretend to. Tennessee requires one party to consent, and that is you. Some states require everyone. Where the other person is sitting can matter, and so can what you record. If you take calls across state lines, ask somebody whose job that is.
Where does the audio go?
It is uploaded to your account and sent to a transcription service to be written down. It is not used to train anything and it is not shared. If that is not acceptable for a particular conversation, do not record that conversation.
Can it record a call on my phone?
Not a normal phone call, no. Android has blocked that for every app since 2019 and iPhone never allowed it. In person meetings and anything played through the phone are fine.