Notetaker
A bot built on Attendee: no fixed name, often self-hosted — how to find out whose it is
Attendee is open-source software for building meeting bots for Zoom, Google Meet, Teams and Webex. It has no default name: every bot carries whatever name its sender typed, and it can run on the sender's own servers.
Shows up as any name — Attendee has no default; whoever sends it must type one
Read on 10 November 2026
How it got into your call
- A product or a person sent it to this meeting's link, either on demand, at a scheduled time, or from a connected calendar.
- It can show any picture on its camera, speak, and record and send chat messages — so it may look and sound more like a participant than a recorder.
Find out whose it is
- Ask who sent it, and keep it waiting until somebody claims it. Since Attendee can be run privately, the sender is the only one who can stop it coming back.
- If it posts in the chat or speaks when it arrives, that greeting was written by its owner and often names them.
Get it out of a call that is running
- Remove it like any guest. It joins as an ordinary participant, so the host's usual controls work.
- Left in a waiting room it gives up after a time its owner chose; once it is the only one left, it leaves after another set wait.
What it keeps
Recordings, transcripts and the list of who was there go to whoever ran the bot. Attendee lets them delete all of it permanently — ask the sender to do that.
In Attendee's own words
What it is
Attendee“a bot is an automated participant that can join virtual meetings across Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and Webex to perform various tasks such as recording and transcription.”
docs.attendee.dev/guides/basics
No default name
Attendee“The name of the bot to create, e.g. 'My Bot'”
docs.attendee.dev/api-reference/tag/bots/post/api/v1/bots
Any picture
Attendee“Bots can display arbitrary images from their virtual webcam”
docs.attendee.dev/guides/basics
Run privately
Attendee“Attendee is open source and designed for convenient self-hosting.”
attendee.dev
Waiting to be let in
Attendee“How long should the bot wait to be let into the meeting before giving up?”
docs.attendee.dev/guides/basics
Alone in the call
Attendee“How long should the bot be the only one in the meeting before it leaves?”
docs.attendee.dev/guides/basics
Deleting what it took
Attendee“You can permanently delete all data associated with a bot, including recordings, transcripts, and participant information.”
docs.attendee.dev/guides/basics
Read on 10 November 2026 from Attendee's own help pages. Something changed? Tell us.
A meeting with nothing to remove
On Meetful the notes are written by the meeting itself, from each person's own microphone, so no extra guest joins. Anybody can leave themselves out of the notes and stay in the call.
Other notetakers
ScreenApp NotetakerScreenApp is a recording and transcription app with a meeting bot. The bot is named after the ScreenApp user who sent it, and it has to be let in from the waiting room or lobby.Intelligent recap in Microsoft TeamsIntelligent recap is the AI write-up Teams produces after a meeting — notes, tasks and, when the meeting was recorded, speakers, topics and chapters. It comes with a Teams Premium or Microsoft Copilot licence and is made from the meeting's transcript.Zoom AI meeting questionsMeeting questions lets people in a Zoom meeting quietly ask Zoom's AI what has been said so far, in a side panel, and get answers with timestamps. It works from the meeting's live transcript.Zoom My NotesMy Notes is a personal note-taker in the Zoom app. In Zoom meetings it shows a banner and a pencil icon. In Teams, Google Meet and in-person meetings it listens through the user's own microphone and the sound their computer plays, and nobody else is told.Livestorm recording and transcriptsLivestorm, a webinar and meeting app, records every event unless the organiser unticks a box, and can turn the recording into a transcript afterwards. A red REC sign shows while it records.Zia keynotes in Zoho MeetingZoho Meeting's Zia writes short notes — topics, decisions, action items — from a meeting's recording transcript, using an OpenAI account the host connected. No recording, no notes.
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