Meeting notes without a bot in the room
Most AI notetakers work by sending a bot into your meeting. It shows up in the participant list with a name nobody recognises, and everyone sees it. Konvo does not do that.
How it works instead
Konvo runs on your computer and listens to the audio your machine is already playing, plus your microphone. That is the whole mechanism. There is no guest to admit, no link to paste, no account to connect.
Because it reads audio at the operating system level rather than joining a platform, it works the same in Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, Slack huddles, a browser tab, or a recorded video you are watching.
Why this stopped being a preference in 2026
In March 2026 Google Meet began flagging third-party notetaker bots as a potential risk and defaulting to keeping them out. In June, Microsoft Teams started labelling external bots as unverified and requiring the organiser to approve them.
Tools built on bots now have to ask permission every time, and often get refused. Konvo never asked in the first place.
How the two approaches differ
| Bot-based notetakers | Konvo | |
|---|---|---|
| Appears in the participant list | Yes | No |
| Needs the organiser to admit it | Increasingly yes | Nothing to admit |
| Works outside supported platforms | No | Any app on your machine |
| Works on a call with no meeting link | No | Yes |
| Where your audio goes | Vendor servers | Straight to the transcription provider |
What it does not do
- Desktop only: macOS, Windows and Linux. There is no phone app.
- It captures what your computer can hear. If you are on a phone in another room, it cannot help.
- It does not accept existing audio or video files.
Questions we get
Will other people know I am using Konvo?
Does it need permission from my IT team?
How is that different from just recording my screen?
Try it on your next call
About an hour free, no card needed. Then $9/month.