Chrome and Edge

Browser meetings, recorded by themselves.

The EchoPilot extension tells EchoPilot for Mac when a meeting in a browser tab starts and ends. Set Google Meet to Auto and the recording starts when you join and stops when you leave. The extension records nothing and reads no page content.

Add to Chrome Open EchoPilot
  • Works with EchoPilot for Mac
  • Three permissions
  • Reads no page content

Starts when you join

Set Google Meet to Auto and the recording starts when you join the call and stops when you leave.

A helper, not a recorder

The extension records nothing. It tells EchoPilot on your Mac whether a meeting tab is in a live call.

Three permissions

One to reach the EchoPilot app, one to retry that link, one to store a random value. No access to other sites, your history or your tabs.

Chrome and Edge

Chrome or Microsoft Edge 111 or later, from the Chrome Web Store.

In depth

Browser extension, in depth.

Calls in a browser tab are hard for a desktop app to follow: the browser owns the microphone, and one tab looks like any other from the outside. The EchoPilot extension closes that gap. It runs only on meeting sites and tells EchoPilot for Mac whether a meeting tab is in a live call. The desktop app makes the recording, exactly as it does when you press Record yourself.

Set it up

  1. Install EchoPilot for Mac and sign in.
  2. Add the extension from the Chrome Web Store. Microsoft Edge adds it from the same listing.
  3. Turn on Browser meetings in EchoPilot’s Settings and press Connect.
  4. Choose Auto, Ask or Off for each app under Meeting apps.

Auto, Ask or Off

Auto records the call by itself. Set Google Meet to Auto and the recording starts when you join a call in Chrome and stops when you leave. The “Ready to join?” screen starts nothing, a tab left open after you hang up does not keep the recording going, and a tab moved to the background does not stop it. Auto is part of Pro, and EchoPilot asks you to agree to it once before it starts anything.

Ask offers to record when the call starts, and one click starts it. Off leaves that app alone. Auto is offered for the calls checked on real meetings: Google Meet in Chrome, and the Zoom and Microsoft Teams apps on a Mac. Every other app can be set to Ask or Off.

Tell the people on the call that you are recording, as you would if you pressed Record. The recording consent guide covers the basics.

What it tells EchoPilot

For each meeting tab, and nothing else: whether the tab is on a call page, whether a call in it is live, whether the page still holds a connection it has not closed, whether the tab is playing sound, and a salted fingerprint of the meeting code so two tabs of the same call count as one.

What it never sees

No web address, no page title, no page content, no participant names and nothing about any other site. It has no access to your tabs, your history or all sites, so the browser does not give it any. It makes no network requests of its own, has no account and has no switch: whether browser meetings are followed is one setting, and it lives in EchoPilot.

Where it runs

Only on the meeting sites named in its permissions: Google Meet, Microsoft Teams on the web, Zoom’s web client, Webex, Slack and Discord. On every other site it does nothing and sees nothing.

What you need

EchoPilot for Mac, signed in, with Browser meetings turned on, and Chrome or Edge. Ask and Off are on every plan; Auto is part of Pro. The Windows app does not use the extension yet. Without the Mac app, the extension’s toolbar button offers the download page.

What this does not claim

EchoPilot extension for Chrome and Edge. Tells EchoPilot for Mac when a browser tab is in a live call. It records nothing itself and reads no page content. The Windows app does not use it yet.

Automatic recording on Mac. Mac only, on Pro, after you agree to it once. Auto is offered for the calls checked on real meetings: the Zoom and Microsoft Teams apps, and Google Meet in Chrome with the EchoPilot extension. Every other app can be set to Ask or Off.

Keep reading

EchoPilot for Mac

Your microphone and the call, from the menu bar. No bot.

Mac and Windows

Record the call on the computer you take it on.

Record Google Meet calls

Meet calls recorded on your Mac or PC, with no bot in the meeting.

FAQ

Questions worth answering.

Can EchoPilot start recording a call by itself?
On a Mac with Pro, yes, for the meeting apps you set to Auto: the Zoom and Microsoft Teams apps, and Google Meet in Chrome with the EchoPilot extension. The recording starts when you join and stops when the call ends, after you agree to it once. Elsewhere, and on Windows, you start each recording from the panel, the menu bar or the system tray, or with one click on the offer EchoPilot shows when it notices that a call has started.
Does EchoPilot record the video or the screen?
No. On a computer EchoPilot records audio only: your microphone and the sound your computer plays, which is where the other people on the call come through. It does not record video, the screen, shared slides or the meeting chat. The minutes, the transcript and the answers are built from what was said.
Does a bot join my meeting?
No. EchoPilot records on the phone in the room, or on your own computer for an online call. There is no meeting bot to invite and no extra recorder to buy, so it works for in-person meetings as well as calls.
iPhone, Android, Mac, Windows and web

Your next meeting can end with the work already drafted.

Install EchoPilot on the phone or the computer you already work on, record the next conversation you would otherwise try to remember, and read the minutes, the transcript and the drafted actions it gives you back.

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Questions? support@echopilotapp.com