Which Windows permissions Recordist needs

Recordist asks for as little as it can. On Windows there is one setting to check, and it has two switches.

Required to record

Microphone, two switches. Windows controls microphone access in two places, and both must be on for your side of the call to be recorded. In Settings → Privacy & security → Microphone:

1. Turn on Microphone access.
2. Turn on Let desktop apps access your microphone. Recordist is a desktop app, so this one matters even when the first is on.

On Windows 10 the same page has Allow apps to access your microphone and Allow desktop apps to access your microphone. If a recording has the other participants but not you, check these first. A work PC can lock them; ask whoever manages it.

System audio needs no permission

The other participants’ sound is captured from your computer’s output through Windows’ own loopback (WASAPI), without a virtual audio driver and without a permission prompt. Windows does not ask, and nothing needs approving.

Optional

Calendar feeds. Windows has no calendar permission to grant. If you want meetings named from your calendar, add a calendar feed in Settings → Detection. Without one, meetings are titled from the transcript.

Notifications. Recordist tells you when notes are ready. If Windows is hiding notifications, check the app instead.

Never requested

Contacts, location, camera, photos and administrator rights. If a version of Recordist ever asks for one of these, treat it as a bug and tell us.

Window titles and browser calls

Off the Mac, Recordist does not read window titles, so a call in a browser is detected through the microphone and stays “Browser”. Pair the Chrome extension to get the meeting’s name.

When the installer is blocked

That is a different problem, with its own page: Windows says it protected your PC.