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The Metal Desktop App is a lightweight recorder that captures meeting audio and video locally on your machine and feeds it straight into Meeting Intelligence. That makes taking calls easier and more reliable — and it runs the same post-call analysis experience you already get on the Metal platform.
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Download and Install

Go to Settings → Meeting Intelligence → Notetaker Integrations and download the Metal Notetaker App. Install it and sign in with your Metal account so recordings link back to your workspace.
The Desktop App currently runs on Apple Silicon Macs only:
  • macOS with an Apple Silicon chip (M1, M2, M3, or newer)
  • macOS 13 (Ventura) or later
Windows and Intel-based Macs are not supported at this time. If you’re on an unsupported device, use the native bot Notetaker or upload a transcript manually — both produce the same Meeting Intelligence analysis.
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Grant Permissions

On first launch, the app asks for a few macOS permissions so it can detect, record, and transcribe your meetings:
  • Microphone — captures your voice and audio during the meeting.
  • Screen Recording — lets the app detect and record your meetings.
  • Accessibility — lets the app detect meeting windows and control system audio.
  • Full Disk Access (optional) — improves meeting detection for Microsoft Teams. Without it, some Teams meetings may be missed.
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Record a Meeting

Once set up, recording is mostly automatic. Calendar events Metal recognizes as investor-related are flagged and appear in the Desktop App. When the meeting starts, you’ll get a notification and recording begins by default. You can turn it off from the notification if you don’t want the call captured.If a meeting isn’t detected automatically, you can add it manually:
  • Add Upcoming Meeting — for an upcoming call the app didn’t detect as investor-related.
  • Record a Live Meeting — for an ongoing call the app didn’t detect as investor-related.
While recording, the app shows a recording indicator. You can stop at any time, or it stops automatically when the call ends. The recording then uploads to Metal, where it’s transcribed and analyzed automatically.
Post-meeting analysis is generated and viewed on the Metal platform, not in the Desktop App. Once a call is completed, open Meeting Intelligence → Completed to see the transcript and analysis.

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Why Use the Desktop App

Nothing to Admit Mid-Call

A bot notetaker has to be let into the meeting and managed as a participant — a waiting-room step or an admit prompt at the start of every call. The Desktop App just records from your machine, so there’s one less thing to handle when a call kicks off.

Reliable Even When a Bot Can't Join

Bots can be held in a waiting room, blocked by host settings, or dropped mid-call — and when that happens, you lose the recording. Because the Desktop App captures the audio on your device, the call is recorded regardless of how the host’s meeting is configured.
Both methods feed the same analysis and cover the same conferencing platforms — Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams. The Desktop App simply removes the moving parts of getting a bot into the call.
Recording requirements vary by jurisdiction, and some conversations may require participant consent. For more information, see Metal’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

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FAQs

No. Closing the app window doesn’t quit it — it keeps running in the background so it can detect and record meetings. However, if you quit it fully from either the Dock or the menu bar, it can’t detect or record meetings.
We’d recommend against it. Running another meeting recorder at the same time as Metal can prevent Metal from recording, so we recommend keeping Metal as the only Desktop Recording App for calls you want captured.
This may be either because the meeting wasn’t detected as investor-related on our platform, the app was quit, or some other issue or conflict. If you’re unable to identify the cause, reach out to us via Help → Chat with Us on our platform.
On the Metal platform, not in the Desktop App. Once a call is completed, open Meeting Intelligence → Completed to see the transcript and analysis.