Recording a Teams call with no bot
The whole trick is that Chrome and Edge can share the audio of a tab. Your browser hears what you hear, and MeetingSidekick transcribes it.
Join Teams in a browser tab
Open the meeting link in Chrome or Edge and pick "Continue on this browser". If you prefer the Teams desktop app, that works on Windows too; see the note below.
Open MeetingSidekick in a second tab
Go to meetingsidekick.ai, sign in free or use the 5-minute trial. Tick the consent box and press Start. Allow the microphone.
Share the Teams tab with audio
A share picker appears. Choose the Teams tab and tick "Share tab audio", then Share. Your microphone and the call audio are now captured together.
Say so, then press Stop at the end
Tell the meeting you are taking notes. When it ends, press Stop for a summary with decisions and action items, an email recap, and a chat box scoped to that call.
Zoom, Google Meet and Webex work the same way
MeetingSidekick never connects to the meeting platform. It captures the audio of the tab or screen you share, so the platform does not matter.
Zoom
Join from the browser ("Join from your browser" on the launch page) and share that tab. Or use the Zoom desktop app on Windows and share your entire screen with system audio.
Google Meet
Meet already runs in a tab. Share the Meet tab with audio and you are done. No extension, nothing on the participant list.
Webex
Webex has a web version too. Join in the browser and share the tab, or on Windows share the whole screen with system audio.
Anything else
Slack huddles, Discord, a phone call on speaker next to the laptop. If your computer can play it, the browser can capture it.
The limits, before your first call
Chrome or Edge only, on a desktop. Safari and Firefox cannot share system audio and will show an error when you press Start on a call. Your microphone works in any browser, so a meeting in a room is fine everywhere; a call is not.
On a Mac, share the tab, not the screen. Chrome and Edge on macOS can share a tab's audio but not the whole screen's, so run Teams, Zoom or Webex in a browser tab and share that. On Windows, sharing the entire screen with system audio works, which is how you capture the Teams desktop app.
No recording banner appears in Teams. Teams shows its banner when Teams records. Here your browser is recording, so nothing on screen tells the others. That is why you say it out loud. Recording laws vary by place, many companies have policies, and some clients will say no. MeetingSidekick is for open note-taking; it asks you to acknowledge that before Start is enabled.
Audio, not video. You get a transcript, a summary, the saved audio (replay on Pro and Max), an email recap and a share link. There is no video file and no calendar auto-join.
Other tools can do this too. Granola, Fathom, tl;dv and Circleback all offer bot-free capture, each through a desktop app you install. If you can install software, they are worth comparing. If you cannot, a browser tab is the difference.
Recording Teams without a bot, answered
How do I record a Teams meeting without a bot joining?
Open meetingsidekick.ai in Chrome or Edge in a second tab, press Start, and in the share picker choose your Teams tab (or your screen with the audio box ticked). The audio is captured on your own computer, so nothing joins the meeting and no new name appears on the attendee list.
Does this work for Zoom, Google Meet and Webex too?
Yes. MeetingSidekick does not connect to any meeting platform. It captures the audio of whichever tab or screen you share, so Teams, Zoom, Google Meet, Webex and anything else that plays through your computer all work the same way.
Do I need admin rights or the meeting organizer's permission?
No technical permission: there is nothing to install and no participant for the organizer to admit. Legal and workplace permission is separate. Recording laws vary by place and many companies have policies, so tell the meeting you are taking notes and follow the rules that apply to you.
Will Teams show a recording banner?
No, because Teams itself is not recording; your browser is. That is exactly why you say so out loud. MeetingSidekick is for open note-taking, not covert recording, and it asks you to acknowledge that before you can start.
Which browsers can capture the call audio?
Chrome and Edge on a desktop. Safari and Firefox cannot share system audio and show an error. On a Mac, the browser can share a tab's audio but not the whole screen's, so run the call in a browser tab rather than the desktop app. Phones capture only through the microphone, so put the call on speaker.
Try it on your next Teams call. Nothing joins.
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