No bot joins your meeting
JesRecap records the audio your computer is already playing, from your own device. There is no extra participant in the call, no join request, and no third party in the room — because there is no third party at all.
What a recording bot looks like from the other side
Bot-based notetakers work by adding a participant to your call. It is the standard architecture, and it has social costs that nobody mentions in the product tour.
Your client sees a stranger
A name they do not recognise appears in the participant list. Someone asks what it is. You spend the first two minutes of a commercial conversation explaining a vendor's software instead of talking about their problem.
Your candidate gets careful
Interviews depend on people being candid. A visible recorder in the room changes what a candidate is willing to say about their last employer, their doubts, or what they actually want.
Someone has to approve it
Many organisations block unknown participants from joining calls outright, and rightly so. Getting a bot admitted means a conversation with IT, a waiting-room override, or a policy exception per meeting.
It only works where it is invited
No calendar link, no bot. Ad-hoc huddles, a call that starts as a chat, a dial-in from a colleague — a bot has nothing to join, so nothing is recorded.
The audio takes a detour
For a bot to hear the meeting, the meeting has to reach the bot. That means the conversation is streamed to infrastructure you do not run, before you have read a word of the transcript.
And it can just fail
Bots get stuck in waiting rooms, lose their connection, or arrive late. You find out afterwards, when the meeting you needed notes from has no notes.
JesRecap records from your machine instead
Your laptop already receives the meeting audio — that is how you hear it. JesRecap takes a copy of that stream, plus your microphone, and writes both to your own disk.
Two local tracks
Your microphone and the system audio are recorded as separate files. Nothing is streamed out; both land in your application support folder as ordinary WAV.
Capture below the meeting app
macOS uses Core Audio process taps; Windows uses WASAPI loopback. Both are built-in operating-system facilities for reading the audio being played — no virtual audio driver to install.
Transcribed on device
A Whisper-family model you downloaded once turns the recording into text locally. Speaker labels are computed locally too. Nothing is uploaded.
Silent does not mean secret. Because no bot announces itself, telling people you are recording is your job. Say it in the first ten seconds and say where the audio goes — "it stays on my laptop" is a sentence most people are relieved to hear. Recording rules vary by jurisdiction; some require every party to agree.
Works with whatever you already use
JesRecap does not integrate with meeting platforms, which is exactly why it works with all of them. If the sound comes out of your computer, it can be recorded.
There is no plugin, no calendar connection, and no list of supported platforms to check before a call. For an in-person meeting, the microphone track carries the room and the system-audio track is simply quiet.
Bot-based versus local capture
A comparison of architectures, not of vendors.
| Bot-based notetaker | JesRecap | |
|---|---|---|
| Visible in the participant list | Yes | No |
| Needs to be admitted to the call | Yes | No |
| Where the audio is processed | Vendor infrastructure | Your device |
| Requires a calendar invite | Usually | No |
| Works with any meeting app | Supported platforms only | Yes |
| Records in-person conversations | No | Yes, via microphone |
| Keeps working without internet | No | Yes |
| Separate track for your own voice | No | Yes |
| Pricing model | Subscription per seat | From €34.95 once |
Bot-free recording, answered
Will anyone in the meeting be able to tell I am recording?
Not from the meeting app. JesRecap does not join the call, so there is no extra participant, no notification, and nothing in the participant list. That makes telling people your responsibility — please do, at the start of the call.
Does it work if I am not the meeting host?
Yes. JesRecap records your own device's audio, so host permissions, cloud recording settings, and "recording disabled by admin" policies are not involved. You should still ask the room before you record.
Which meeting apps are supported?
All of them. Zoom, Teams, Meet, Webex, Slack huddles, browser-based calls, anything else — JesRecap captures the audio your operating system plays, one layer below the app, so no per-platform support is needed.
How does the capture actually work?
On macOS, Core Audio creates a process tap: a read-only copy of the audio being sent to your output device, with playback unaffected. On Windows, the same result comes from WASAPI loopback capture. Both are standard operating system features — there is no virtual audio driver to install.
Do I need to give the app any permissions?
Yes — microphone access on both platforms, and on macOS the system Audio Capture permission for system audio. You grant them once and can revoke them at any time in system settings. The app links straight to the right panel.
Can I record an in-person meeting?
Yes. Start a recording and the microphone track captures the room; the system-audio track will simply be silent. Transcription, speaker labels, and exports work the same way.
What happens if my internet drops mid-meeting?
The recording continues. Nothing about capture or transcription depends on the network once your model has been downloaded, so a dropped connection affects the call, not your notes.
Where do the recordings end up?
In a folder on your own machine, with metadata in a local SQLite database. Each meeting can keep a microphone track, a system-audio track, and a mixed playback track — so you can retranscribe it later without recording again.
Record meetings without a bot
Silent local capture on Mac and Windows, on-device transcription, and no extra participant in any call. from €34.95 once.