Call recorder · macOS and Windows · 2026
A free call recorder that keeps every speaker on a separate track
I'm on calls most days and kept losing track of what we agreed on. The tools I tried were paid, or gave me a summary when I wanted the transcript. So a friend and I built our own. He wrote the recording engine, I designed the app and built its interface.
Record a call without adding a bot to it, and get the full text afterwards. For free.
- Contribution
- Product design, UI, design system, front‑end
- Platforms
- macOS 14.4+, Windows 10/11
Recording and text should be the free part
Most recorders join the call as a bot or keep the transcript behind a paywall. MeetRec records what your computer plays and what you say into the mic. The call never sees it.
An app that asks once, then stays out of the way
It notices the call
When Zoom, Teams, Slack or Discord starts a call, a small panel appears over the call window and asks whether to record. A minute before a calendar meeting with a Zoom, Meet or Teams link, the same panel offers to join and record in one click.
Nothing gets cut off
The app keeps the last 30 seconds of audio in memory, so the recording starts a little before you press the button.
One track per speaker
Your mic and the call audio are saved as two separate files. Otherwise the transcript can't tell who said what.
One small window, one set of rules
Before drawing screens, I set up a design system for the 460×640 window: four kinds of buttons, one “⋯” menu for everything secondary, and the Tokyo Night palette. Every screen after that was built from those parts.
Your computer, your server
Recording happens on your computer. For transcription the audio goes to a server you set up yourself. Leave those settings empty and nothing leaves the machine.
Read the launch post on LinkedIn →See the code on GitHub →
Happy to walk through the parts that did not fit here. Let's get on a call.