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Extension testers

Tell us how Recordist did on three of your calls in Chrome, and Pro is yours until 31 March 2027.

This round is for people who use the Recordist extension in Chrome. Use it on three real calls in Google Meet or Microsoft Teams, with the agreement of the people on them, then answer eight questions about how it went. Every answer we accept gets a founding place, which is Pro until 31 March 2027 with no card.

The five answers that teach us the most also earn a CA$50 gift card of their choice. A person at Recordist reads every answer in the round and chooses them by Friday 11 December 2026. How the five are chosen

How to take part

  1. Step 1

    Have Recordist in Chrome

    If you don't have it yet, it's free in the Chrome Web Store and needs no account. It works in Chrome and in browsers built on it, such as Edge and Brave.

  2. Step 2

    Use it on three real calls

    Each call should last at least 10 minutes, in Google Meet or in Microsoft Teams in the browser, with the agreement of the people on it. Turn on the meeting's captions, open the Recordist side panel and press Start transcript. The Tell the room button copies a short line for you to paste into the meeting chat. The transcript stays in your browser on your own machine and is never sent to us.

  3. Step 3

    Answer eight questions

    It takes about 20 to 30 minutes. Please write in English, in your own words, as much or as little as each question needs.

Already use the Recordist app? Pair the two under Integrations in the app's Settings, and the Get notes from this call button hands the transcript to the app, which writes the notes on your own machine. You don't need the app to take part.

All 100 places are open. We read each answer within 5 business days.

What you get

Every answer we accept gets a founding place, which is a key for Recordist Pro that works through 31 March 2027, with no card. Pro adds AI notes with no monthly limit, a follow-up email after each call, and Ask, which answers questions about your calls, in the Recordist app on your own machine.

On 1 April 2027 at 12:00 UTC the key ends, and Recordist moves to the Free plan by itself and deletes nothing. If you ever write about Recordist in public, please mention that your Pro was free, and the gift card too if you get one.

The five answers that teach us the most also bring a CA$50 gift card each, as the section below explains.

Why we ask

Recordist is your memory of every conversation that matters, and it stays with you. The extension sends us nothing about how you use it, so the only way we learn what it gets wrong in your calls is a person telling us. Three real calls, with the agreement of the people on them, is what it takes to have an opinion we can act on.

How places are given

  • This round shares the founding testers' 100 places. Places go in the order answers arrive, counted when the address is confirmed, with no draw. Quality matters only for the five gift cards.
  • A person reads each answer within 5 business days and approves it unless the answer says nothing about Recordist in your own words, the address already has a place, the key email bounces, or the box is unticked.
  • Each address holds one place. If yours already has a founding place or an answer waiting, no email comes and these answers are not counted.
  • The decision comes by email to the address you confirmed.
  • The count on this page is the real count, read from our records within the last minute or two, with no timer.

Questions: support@recordist.app.

The five gift cards

By Friday 11 December 2026, a person at Recordist reads every answer in this round and chooses the five that teach us the most. We look for answers that are specific and that we can act on, the kind that walk us through what happened step by step. How kind an answer is never counts, and praise counts for no more than criticism.

Each of the five gets a CA$50 gift card of their choice. We write to each of them first to ask whether they'd like it and to check that the rules here hold for them, and send the card only once they say yes. It comes by email from Tremendous, our gift card service, which has local cards in most countries, by Friday 18 December 2026.

Your answers are read by people at Recordist. We never put them into an AI or a translation service, and we never publish or quote them.

The rules

  • Send your answers by Sunday 6 December 2026 at 23:59 Toronto time, and open the link in our email within 24 hours.
  • The round shares the founding testers' 100 places, so its form can close before 6 December if they are all given or have an answer waiting.
  • The round is for people who don't already hold a founding place or have a founding answer waiting.
  • One answer per person, and you don't need to buy anything.
  • Please write your answers in English, so that the people who read them can judge every answer the same way.
  • The gift cards are open to people 18 or older who don't live in Quebec, wherever the law allows it and a card can be delivered. The founding place is open to anyone the founding testers page is open to.
  • The five are chosen for what their answers teach us, never by chance, and our choice is final. There are five gift cards of CA$50 each.
  • The founding place and the gift cards are for your answers alone. Adding the extension or keeping it earns nothing, and you're free to remove it whenever you like.
  • Nothing here asks for, or depends on, a rating or a review of Recordist anywhere.
  • People who work at Recordist, and the people they live with, can't take part.
  • Any answer we accept brings a founding place. A gift card comes only with the five.
  • If one of the five says no, or hasn't said yes by Tuesday 15 December 2026, we may ask the person whose answer taught us the next most, who then has until Thursday 17 December to say yes.
  • We tell the five by email by Friday 11 December 2026, and we don't publish who they are.
  • In this round we keep your address until 19 December 2026, so we can write to you if your answer is one of the five, and then we delete it. If you say yes to a gift card, we give your address to Tremendous so it can send the card. The Privacy Policy says more.
  • The round is run by Havihi Digital Inc., 2 McMillan Place, Welland, Ontario L3B 0L5, Canada.

Recordist

Recordist for Mac is downloading.

Thank you for trying Recordist. Three steps and it is ready before your next call. Open it now, so it is set up in time.

  1. 1Open the download and drag Recordist to Applications, then open it from there.
  2. 2Allow the microphone and system audio when your Mac asks, so both sides of the call are heard. Calendar is optional: it names your meetings and who is in them.
  3. 3Close the window when you like. Recordist waits in the menu bar and, when your next call starts, asks: Record this meeting? Nothing is recorded until you say yes.

The first time it opens, Recordist downloads its speech model: 142 MB in English, 466 MB for other languages. That usually takes a minute or two, and you can record once it finishes. The notes engine, 1 to 3 GB, follows in the background.

While it downloads, see a finished call in your browser

Every install includes 7 days of Pro, so your first calls are written up in full.

No call today? Import a recording you already have: in Recordist, Meetings, then Import audio. One of 10 minutes or more starts your 7 days of Pro, and the notes follow the transcript.

While it downloads, get your Free key. More AI notes each month, with no end date. Optional: your download has already started.

Two emails: a link to confirm, then a copy of your key. Nothing else unless you ask. We never sell or share your address, and Resend, our email service, sends them for us. Privacy

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