The Mac app lives in the menu bar. It notices when a Teams, Zoom or Webex call starts, asks whether to record, and records your microphone together with the call’s sound, so everyone ends up in the transcript.

Install and set up

  1. In the web app, click your name at the bottom of the sidebar, choose Get the apps and click Download for Mac. The app needs macOS 26 or later.
  2. Open the downloaded file and drag Notulist to Applications. The app only updates itself from the Applications folder.
  3. Follow Set up Notulist: sign in, allow the Microphone and the Meeting audio, connect your calendar and turn on Open Notulist at login.

Without System Audio Recording, Notulist only hears your microphone. Both permissions are in System Settings → Privacy & Security.

When a call starts

When Teams, Zoom or Webex starts using the microphone, Notulist says a meeting was detected. Check the calendar event and language, then choose Record or Not now. Let the others know you’re recording and that AI processes the recording.

When the call ends, Notulist asks: Stop recording or Keep recording. Without an answer, it stops after 15 seconds and uploads the recording, unless you turn off Stop automatically when the call ends under Settings › Detection.

If nobody has spoken for 10 minutes, or for 5 minutes while the Mac isn’t being used, Notulist asks Are you still in a meeting? and stops after a minute without an answer.

Record without a call

Click the Notulist icon in the menu bar and choose Record. This records your microphone and everything the Mac plays. Under Settings › General you can also set a Keyboard shortcut to start or stop recording; it works in every app.

Calls in the browser

Google Meet and other calls in Chrome, Safari or Firefox are only detected if you turn that on under Settings › Detection › Detect calls in the browser. It’s off by default, because browsers also use the microphone for voice search and dictation. Notulist then asks once a browser has used the microphone for 10 seconds.

Good to know

  • With the lid of a MacBook closed, its built-in microphone records only silence. Choose another microphone under Settings › Audio.
  • “The meeting audio is silent”: allow Notulist under System Settings → Privacy & Security → Screen & System Audio Recording.
  • Recordings stay on your Mac until uploaded. Transcripts and reports are in the web app: choose Open Notulist in the menu.