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A note from the people who make it

Why Recordist exists

There are many meeting tools, and a lot of them are good. We built Recordist because of three moments that kept happening to us.

The guest in the room

You open the call and there it is in the roster: a notetaker bot, waiting to be admitted. Some people stop talking freely. In some companies it isn’t allowed in at all. We wanted the notes without the guest. Recordist records the call itself, so there is nothing in the roster. By default it asks before it records a call, and telling the other people is up to you, in your own words.

Where the audio goes

A client tells you something they would tell nobody else, and a cloud notetaker sends it to a server to be transcribed and summarised. That is a reasonable way to build software, and it comes with a privacy policy you have to trust. We wanted a version where the meeting stays with you. So Recordist keeps a ledger of the network requests it makes, and you can read it any time, instead of trusting us.

The price of a seat

Many meeting tools are priced for teams, per seat and per month. That is fine for a company buying for fifty people. It is a lot for one person who wants their own calls handled. In Recordist, recording, transcription and search are on the Free plan, which has no time limit, and Pro is one price for one person, stated in one sentence on the pricing page.

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What we believe

  • Your meetings are yours. They stay with you, and the software works for you. We have no data business.
  • Software should ask before it records, unless you have told it not to.
  • Nobody should get marketing email from us. The only email we send is one you asked for.
  • A price should be easy to explain in one sentence.
  • A company that never holds your meetings can’t lose them, sell them, or be asked to hand them over.

The longer argument is a paper called Nobody Owns What Was Said. It sets out ten articles for anyone who keeps a record of a conversation, and it says how far our own product still has to go.

What this isn’t

Recordist won’t be the right choice for everyone. If your team needs a shared cloud library, or names for each person on the other side of the call, other tools do that better right now, and we say so plainly. We would rather you pick the right tool than pick us.

Who we are

An independent studio in Ontario, Canada. We sell the app, not your data. The only way we grow is by being worth recommending. If Recordist helps, tell one person who would be helped too. If it doesn’t, tell us.

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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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