Chrome extension

The desktop app already notices browser meetings, because Chrome opens the microphone like any other app. The extension adds what the operating system cannot see: the meeting’s title, its address and who is on the call, so the prompt and your notes are labelled properly. It also lets you drop a marker from its popup.

The extension never records audio, video or your screen. It talks only to the Recordist app on your own machine and nowhere else. From version 0.3.0 it can also keep a live transcript of a browser call from the meeting’s own captions, in your browser.

Supported sites

Google Meet, Microsoft Teams on the web, the Zoom web client, Webex on the web, and Slack huddles.

Getting it

The extension is optional; browser calls are detected and recorded without it. Install it from the Chrome Web Store, free. It works in Chrome, Edge, Brave and Arc (Chrome 120 or later). The first time you install it, it opens a short welcome page on this site, once.

Pairing it with the app

Pairing is a one-time handshake so that nothing else in your browser can talk to Recordist by pretending to be the extension.

1. In Recordist, open Settings → Integrations and click Show pairing code under Chrome extension. An 8-digit code appears.
2. Click the extension icon and type the code.
3. Done. The code works once, for a few minutes.

To unpair, choose Forget pairing in the extension’s options. Recordist has no button to revoke the extension yet.

What it does during a call

• When a meeting page is active and your microphone is on, the extension tells the desktop app, which shows its usual confirm-to-record card with the title and participants filled in. The extension cannot start a recording on its own; you still click Record, unless you put that meeting app on Record without asking for in Settings → Detection.
• While the app is recording, the extension’s icon shows REC on an ember badge; a grey dot means it is connected.
• The extension’s popup has buttons to drop a marker, the same as the hotkey, and to stop the recording.

Live transcript from the captions

From version 0.3.0, in Google Meet and Microsoft Teams on the web (the live transcript is coming to the Zoom web client soon; for a Zoom call today, record it with the Recordist app):

• Open the extension’s side panel and press Start transcript. It starts only when you press it, never on its own.
• It reads the meeting’s captions as they appear, with the name the captions show beside each line. The captions are made by Google or Microsoft, so the transcript is as good as they are. If captions are off, the panel says how to turn them on.
• What it keeps: the words of each caption line, the name beside it, its time, the meeting’s title and site, and when the transcript started and ended.
• Where: in your browser’s storage for the extension, on this machine. It is never sent to us or to anyone else. It goes to the Recordist app on the same machine only when you press Get notes from this call.
• For how long: until you delete it, one transcript or all of them, in the side panel, or until you remove the extension.
• Tell the room copies a short line for you to paste into the meeting chat and send yourself. The extension never posts anything.
• Find a call later by a client’s name or by something that was said, and search the transcript you are in, from version 0.4.0.
• Copy for AI, from version 0.4.0, shows you the exact words of one call and copies them when you press it, for you to paste into the AI you use. Recordist sends them nowhere, and whatever you paste is read by that AI under its own terms.
• Get notes from this call hands the transcript to the Recordist app on the same machine, which writes the summary, the decisions and the action items, and on Pro the follow-up email or, on the Fast built-in model, the lines to pick for it, for you to read and send yourself. When the app is not running on this machine, or is older than version 1.0.7, the button says Get the free app and opens the download page.

Permissions it asks for

Its scripts run only on the meeting sites listed above. It holds Chrome’s tabs permission, which Chrome describes as reading your browsing history; the extension uses it only to find meeting tabs and notice when one closes. It loads no remote code and runs no analytics.

Limited Use of what it reads

The extension reads what a meeting page shows to give you the features described on this page and on its store listing, and for nothing else. Its use of that information follows the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements:

• It is used for those features alone, which you can see and control.
• It stays in your browser on this machine, or goes to the Recordist app on the same machine (127.0.0.1). It is never sent to us or to anyone else, so no one at Recordist can read it.
• It is never sold, never used for advertising or to decide anyone’s credit, and never used to train an AI model.

The privacy policy covers the app and this site.

Troubleshooting

• “Recordist is not running” in the popup: open the desktop app. The extension can only talk to it while it is running.
• The prompt shows without a title: the page had not finished loading; the title is updated as soon as it appears. If it never does, the site may have changed its layout; please tell us.
• Pairing code rejected: a code works once and only for a few minutes. Start again from Settings → Integrations for a new one.

If the extension earns its place in your browser, a few honest words on the Chrome Web Store help the next person decide.

Developers: the pairing mechanics, the endpoints the extension calls and the full permission list are in Extension pairing.