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macOS app

Use the macOS app for a faster and convenient experience.

Clarify desktop app provides a seamless and efficient way to manage your contacts and workflows without the hassle of switching between browser tabs.

The macOS app is super fast and responsive and will soon provide richer features not available on the web.

Download the macOS app and start using it today!

Clarify macOS app

Local recording

Local meeting recording lets you capture meetings directly from your desktop, without a bot or notetaker joining the call. Similar to local note-taking tools like Granola or Notion Meeting Notes, it captures the transcript from your call quietly in the background. The recording captures both your system audio and microphone input, creating a transcript that's automatically saved to your meeting record. All audio processing happens locally on your machine - only the final transcript is uploaded to Clarify.

Consent

Laws vary by location, so if you’re recording or transcribing a meeting with Clarify, make sure everyone’s in the loop. A quick heads-up and consent from participants keeps things clear and compliant.

System tray

System Tray Image

Ongoing meetings

Shows all meetings currently in progress.

Each meeting displays:

  • Time and title
  • Conference call icon (if it's a video meeting)

For each ongoing meeting you can:

  • Join the meeting (if it has a video link)
  • Join and start recording
    • Will join the meeting (e.g. Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Team)
    • Start the local recorder
  • Start recording
    • Starts the local recorder, without joining the meeting
  • Take notes in a popover window
  • Open full meeting details in Clarify

Starting soon

  • Shows meetings starting in the next 5 minutes
  • Same options as ongoing meetings
  • Helps you prepare for upcoming meetings

Today's meetings

  • Shows all meetings for the current day
  • Past meetings are listed but not clickable
  • Upcoming meetings can be clicked to open in Clarify
  • If no meetings, shows "No meetings" option

Tomorrow's meetings

  • Lists all meetings scheduled for tomorrow
  • Click any meeting to open it in Clarify

Tray title

The tray title shows the nearest upcoming meeting.

  • Shows "Meeting title · now" (if started in last 5 minutes)
  • Shows "Meeting title · X time left" (if ongoing longer)
  • Clears if next meeting is tomorrow

Starting a local recording

There are two ways to start recording a meeting.

Record from meeting notification

When a meeting is about to start, you'll see a notification. Click "Join and record" to start the meeting with local recording enabled.

Meeting Starting Notification

Record from system tray

If the meeting is imminent, you can navigate to the meeting in the system tray and click "Join and record" or if you are already in the meeting, just "Start recording".

During recording

While recording locally, you will see our recording widget in the top right, you can expand it by hovering over it.

Local Recording Widget

Recording controls

While recording, you have several options:

  • Pause: Temporarily stop the recording
  • Resume: Continue a paused recording
  • Stop: End and save the recording.
  • Stop and discard: Stop and delete all local recording data. Nothing will upload to Clarify.

While paused the widget will look like this:

Paused widget

After recording

Navigating to the record you can see the recording progress through these stages:

  1. Processing
  2. Transcribing
  3. Uploading

A progress indicator will show you which stage the recording is in.

Process indicator

Audio and local recording settings

There are some configurable settings for local recording available via the desktop settings page in the desktop app. The two relevant sections are:

Audio permissions

This section manages the audio recording capabilities required for meeting transcription

Contains two permission settings:

  • Transcribe my voice: Controls microphone access for recording the user's voice
  • Transcribe other people's voices: Controls system audio access for recording other participants' voices

Each permission shows either a green checkmark when enabled or an "Enable" button when disabled.

Audio permissions

Local recording preferences

Here you have the option to open meeting on recording end. When enabled the app will automatically opens the meeting page after finishing a recording.

Open on recording end

Best practices

Before recording

  • Test your microphone
  • Close unnecessary applications

During recording

  • Keep the application window open
  • Avoid system sleep/hibernation
  • Don't disconnect from the internet

After recording

  • Verify the transcript is visible on the meeting record before closing the Clarify application.