Students and faculty
Every lecture stays yours, on your own devices.
Students, faculty and staff get 14 days of Pro and a code for half 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 link and then your key and code, and each ends with a link that stops us sending that address a key again. Questions: support@recordist.app.
After 14 days Recordist moves to Free by itself and deletes nothing. 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 code works once, on your first purchase of Pro monthly, within 90 days of the email that brings it, and has no cash value; the Terms of Service set out the rest.
Where it helps
From the first lecture to the last study group, every conversation stays yours, on your own devices.
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The lecture
Ask your instructor first, and the Lecture template turns it into study notes.
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The seminar
Search finds the point someone made, in their words, weeks later.
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Office hours
You can read the answer you were stuck on again, word for word, before the exam.
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The study group
Ask everyone first, and search finds the explanation that finally made sense.
By default it asks before it records. Transcripts are written by software and can be wrong; the audio is kept on your devices for 30 days by default, so you can check a line against it.
For faculty and staff
Choose Faculty and staff on the form. For research interviews, our summary for reviewers is written to attach to an ethics application.
Ask first, every time
Recording a class or a meeting is something you do with the people in it, never to them.
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 devices, 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 devices, 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.