Students and faculty
Every lecture stays yours, on your own devices.
Recordist records and transcribes your lectures, seminars, office hours and study groups on your own machine, so you can listen in the room and find any moment later by what was said. Students, faculty and staff at colleges and universities get 14 days of Pro with the address their school gave them, and their own code for 50 percent off Pro monthly for 12 months.
We keep your address until you confirm (a day at most) and for an hour after. After that we keep only a one-way code made from it, with your key's dates and your code, so each address gets one of each. If your code has to follow by email, we keep the address until it goes, 60 days at most. Our email service, Resend, keeps its copy of each email for 30 days.
This form sends two emails: the confirmation link, then your key and your code once you press Confirm. Each one ends with a link that stops us sending that address a Recordist key again. Questions: support@recordist.app.
14 days of Pro
Notes for every lecture you record, with the Lecture template's study notes, and Ask, which answers a question in plain words from your recent recordings or the ones a search found.
Your own code, 50 percent off
Half off Pro monthly for your first 12 months, if you choose to stay on Pro. It is yours alone, works once, on your first purchase, and you have 90 days to use it.
Free stays free
Recording, transcription, search and export have no time limit on Free, with 3 AI notes a month. Nothing you recorded is ever taken away.
How it works
- 01Type your college or university address. Choose Student, or Faculty and staff, and tick the one box. We check the address against our list of colleges and universities.
- 02Open the link and press Confirm. The email has one link. It works once, for 24 hours. Pressing Confirm shows your key and your code on that page.
- 03Paste the key in Recordist. Install Recordist on Mac, Windows or Linux, then choose Settings, then License, and paste it. The same key and code arrive by email.
Where it helps
From the first lecture of term to the last study group before the exam, every conversation stays yours, on your own devices.
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The lecture
Ask your instructor first, then start recording when the lecture begins. The transcript builds on your machine as the lecture goes, so you can follow the argument instead of copying the slides. Afterwards the Lecture template turns it into study notes with the key concepts, the definitions and the examples.
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The seminar
In a room, every voice reaches the one microphone, so every line of the transcript is labelled You. Search still finds the moment someone made the point you want to come back to, in their words, weeks later.
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Office hours
The answer to the question you were stuck on, word for word, to read again the night before the exam. On a video call Recordist notices the call and, by default, asks before it records, and you and the other side are recorded on separate channels.
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The study group
Ask everyone, then record. When someone finally explains the proof in a way that makes sense, search across every session finds it by the words they used.
By default it asks before it records. Transcripts are written by software and can be wrong; the audio is kept on your machine for 30 days by default, so you can check a line against it.
For faculty and staff
Instructors, professors, researchers and staff get the same 14 days of Pro and their own code with their college or university address. Choose Faculty and staff on the form above.
- Office hours and advising. Tell the student first. Afterwards the transcript holds what you agreed, in the words you both used, on your own machine.
- Department and committee meetings. Ask the room, then let the notes carry the decisions and the open questions, so you can take part instead of taking minutes.
- Research interviews. Remote one-to-one interviews suit Recordist, because you and the participant are recorded on separate channels; group and in-room interviews do not separate voices. Your ethics board decides whether you can use it, and our summary for reviewers is written so you can attach it to your application.
- Your own lectures. A transcript of what you said in class, kept on your machine, to turn into notes for students who missed it.
Ask first, every time
Recording a class or a meeting is something you do with the people in it, never to them. These are the rules we ask everyone in Education to keep.
- Ask your instructor before you record a class, and follow your school's policy on recording. Some schools ask you to keep recordings for your own study and to delete them when the course ends; each recording is a file on your own machine, so you can.
- Ask your classmates before you record a seminar, a tutorial or a study group, and do not record if anyone says no.
- If you need recordings as an accommodation, your school's accessibility office can arrange it. Recordist keeps the recordings on your own machine, as many recording agreements ask.
- If you teach or research, tell your students before you record a class, follow your institution's policy, and for research interviews follow what your ethics board approved.
- Keep them to yourself. Do not post or share a recording of someone who did not agree to it. A lecture is the work of the person giving it, and often their copyright or their school's, so a recording of one is for your own study unless they agree otherwise.
The law on recording differs from place to place. Recording consent law, in plain English sets it out by country, state and province, and How to ask to record a call gives you the words to say.
We are sorry that we cannot include school pupils below college level. They are minors, and recording a class of children carries risks we do not take.
After your 14 days
Recordist moves to the Free plan by itself and deletes nothing. Recording, transcription, search and export have no time limit on Free, with 3 AI notes a month. Pro is $9 a month or $90 a year for anyone who subscribes by 8 January 2027, and that price stays for as long as the subscription stays active; from 9 January 2027 new subscribers pay $15 a month or $144 a year. Your own code takes 50 percent off Pro monthly for your first 12 months, once, on your first purchase, within 90 days of the email that brings it. It has no cash value; the Terms of Service set out the rest.