Desktop

The desktop recorder

You are already having the meeting. What gets lost is what was said in it: the nuance, the commitment, the name that rang a bell. BlaBlaNote Recorder lives in your menu bar, captures the conversation and files it against the person you spoke to.

Always the latest version. macOS on Apple silicon, and Windows 10 or 11.

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Ready

No meeting detected

Start recording
The recorder, opened from the menu bar

Why a recorder and not one more note app

Every note system has the same problem: it only works if you remember to use it. This one starts where you already are.

Capture without friction

One click before you start and that is it. No notes to take, nothing to remember halfway through, no switching tools while someone is talking to you.

Filed against the person, not a file

The recorder reads the event you have running and hangs the interaction off the contacts who were in the room. It is not a loose audio file in a folder.

You decide what gets recorded

It starts when you say so, pauses whenever you want and is discarded with one click.

Who said what, with names

The recorder hears your microphone and the call separately, so it knows which voice is yours: the note arrives as a dialogue, with your turns under your name and the others as Speaker 1, Speaker 2. Put a name to each voice and the conversation stays on that person's profile.

Who is speaking

Listen to a few short snippets of each voice and choose who it is: someone from the meeting, one of your contacts or a new one. Confirming a voice links that contact to the note.

The AI suggests, you confirm

If someone says "Hi Pedro" or mentions their company, the AI suggests who that voice is, with the sentence it is based on. It only looks among the meeting's guests and the contacts detected in it, and it links nobody until you confirm.

No voiceprint

Apart from the audio itself, deleted after 24 hours, we keep nothing that describes what anyone sounds like, and nobody is recognised by their voice. The other names come from what was said and from what you choose.

The icon already tells you what is going on

One glance at the bar, nothing to open. It is monochrome, so it follows the system appearance.

Idle

Black on a light bar, white on a dark one. It stays out of the way.

Recording

Solid red rings. You know you are still recording even with the popup closed.

Uploading

The rings open up and turn while the audio finishes uploading, then settle back down.

Every screen, no surprises

From first launch to the update banner, at real size: 320 pixels. The interface is in English, as in the recorder.

Connect

the first time you open it

BlaBlaNote

Connect your BlaBlaNote account to record and transcribe your meetings.

Connect BlaBlaNote

Not connected

Sign in once with your account and the recorder is ready. There is nothing else to set up.

Ready to record

it reads your calendar and gets there first

BlaBlaNoteOpen BlaBlaNote ↗
Ready

No meeting detected

Start recording

Nothing in the calendar

No meeting is running right now, but you can still record whenever you want.

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Ready

Weekly sync with OriolChange

Start recording

Meeting detected

It finds the event that is running and files the recording under it, with its attendees. If that is not the one, Change lets you record with No event.

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Ready

2 meetings live

Which one are you recording?

1:1 with Ana10:00Sprint review10:00No event
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Two meetings at once

When two events overlap it asks instead of guessing. Until you pick one, or No event, recording will not start.

Recording

while the audio is being captured

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Recording02:14

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NotesFree-form ⌄
00:4201:58
Ana leads the Lisbon rollout
Send her the pricing deck by Friday
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PauseFinish

Recording

Red frame, a recording indicator and the timer running. Take notes as you talk; new lines get a timestamp from the recording. Discard, pause or finish.

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Paused02:14

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Notes2 anchors
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Paused

The frame stays, the session is still open, but the timer stops. Resume when you are back.

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Processing02:41

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Processing…

Wrapping up

It uploads the last of the audio and returns to ready on its own. You can walk away.

When something needs you

one message per system, with what to do about it

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Ready

No meeting detected

Screen Recording permission needed

BlaBlaNote Recorder needs macOS Screen Recording access to capture meeting audio.

Open Screen Recording settings
Start recording

macOS asks for permission

The only screen where you have to do something: one click opens the right settings pane.

BlaBlaNoteOpen BlaBlaNote ↗
Ready

No meeting detected

Couldn't capture system audio

BlaBlaNote Recorder couldn't capture your computer's audio. Make sure a playback device is active, then try recording again.

Start recording

No sound on Windows

There is no permission to grant here, so there is no button that leads nowhere either.

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Update ready — restart
Ready

No meeting detected

Start recording

Update ready

It downloads on its own in the background. One click restarts into the new version, whenever suits you. While you record, the banner waits.

Recording with intent

The audio travels and is stored encrypted. It is transcribed by Amazon Web Services, in the European Union, and, once transcribed, is deleted one day after it is received. We do not use it to train AI models, and neither does Amazon Web Services, because we turned on its opt-out. And telling the other person you are recording is not just the right thing to do: in many places it is what the law requires.

How we protect your data

How many good conversations have you lost track of?

The recorder does not ask you to change your habits. It opens where you already work, captures what is said and gives it back as context about the people in your network.