Install and first run

Conclave for Mac requires macOS 14.2 or later.

Conclave for Mac is in beta. Download it and sign in with Google; you get 3 free hours a month.

Install

1. Download the DMG from app.conclavehq.org/download.
2. Open the DMG and drag Conclave to Applications.
3. Open Conclave from Applications. It is notarized by Apple; macOS asks once whether to open an app downloaded from the internet.
4. Sign in with Google.

During the beta you have 3 free hours a month, and testers get codes. See Hours and pricing.

Your first recording

Turn on Accessibility when Conclave asks. Right after you sign in, Conclave asks once:

Conclave needs Accessibility to see your calls

Choose Open Settings, and in System Settings ▸ Privacy & Security ▸ Accessibility turn Conclave on. If it isn't in the list, click +, choose Conclave in Applications, and turn it on. Without it Conclave can't see your meeting, so Record isn't offered and the status line says "Accessibility is off, so Conclave can't see your calls — Open Settings". If you chose Not now, the question doesn't come back: use Open Settings on that line. Within a few seconds of your call opening, Conclave shows "Meeting detected" and the status line says "Ready to record".

Tell Conclave your name. Before your first recording, Conclave asks:

What name do you use on Meet and Zoom?

Use the name the meeting shows for you. Conclave uses it to tell your lines from the other person's. Use the name you use in Meet: in a two-person Meet, that's how Conclave tells your tile from theirs. You can change it later in the app's account sheet, under Name.

1. Start a Zoom or Google Meet call and press Record.

2. The recording notice opens:

   This meeting will be recorded. Tell the others before you start.

   Choose Start recording, or Cancel to record nothing. Before you record, Conclave reminds you to tell the others, and your confirmation is kept with the meeting.

3. macOS then asks for any permission Conclave doesn't have yet, one at a time: Microphone, Screen & System Audio Recording, and Accessibility. Permissions says what each one is for and what happens without it.

4. When you press Stop, the meeting shows "Transcript ready · Writing the notes", then "Notes ready".

Headphones give the cleanest transcript.

If Record says "No meeting detected", see Troubleshooting.