Record meetings
Start recording
Section titled “Start recording”Create a New Note, or open an existing empty note, then click Record in the top-right corner.
Free Meeting Transcriber captures your microphone and system audio on your Mac. It does not join the call as a participant.
While the meeting is running
Section titled “While the meeting is running”Write your own notes in Memos. Those notes are included as context if you generate a summary later.
The Transcript view shows text during the meeting when the active model and language support live transcription. Otherwise, transcription runs after you stop recording.
Turn on Show floating bar in Settings → App → Meetings if you want compact controls while the main window is out of the way.
Finish or resume
Section titled “Finish or resume”Click Stop listening. The app finishes any pending transcription and generates a summary when an Intelligence model is configured and the transcript is long enough.
You can resume the same note from the recording control if the conversation continues.
Start from an existing file
Section titled “Start from an existing file”On an empty note, open the ••• menu and choose Upload audio or Upload transcript. See Import audio or a transcript for the supported formats.
You can also import from the terminal: fmtr import recording.m4a --transcribe creates the meeting and transcribes it without opening the app. See the CLI reference.
For microphone reminders and automatic stopping, see Automate meeting capture.