Notetaker

How to stop Coffee joining your meetings

Coffee's call recorder joins the meetings its user chose, and only the meeting's host can take it out of a call that is running.

Read on 9 November 2026

How it got into your call

If it is yours: stop it joining

  1. In Coffee click the gear at the bottom left, choose Call Recorder, find Which meetings should be recorded? and choose Record no meetings.
  2. For one meeting: on the Today page, untick Record beside it.
  3. For a meeting already running, its owner can switch off the Recording toggle beside it on the Today page.

Get it out of a call that is running

  1. Coffee says you need to be the meeting host to remove it.
  2. Zoom: Participants → More beside the bot → Remove. Google Meet: Show everyone → More actions → Remove from the call. Teams: Participants, right-click the bot, Remove.

What it keeps

Coffee's page on removing it does not say what happens to the part already recorded. Turning the Recording toggle off and removing the bot both stop it from that moment; ask the person who uses Coffee what it had already captured, and whether they will delete it.

In Coffee's own words

The question in its settings
Coffee“Which meetings should be recorded?”help.coffee.ai/en/articles/11994131-removing-the-recording-bot-from-meetings
The choice that stops it
Coffee“Record no meetings”help.coffee.ai/en/articles/11994131-removing-the-recording-bot-from-meetings
Removing it in Google Meet
Coffee“Remove from the call”help.coffee.ai/en/articles/11994131-removing-the-recording-bot-from-meetings

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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.

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Other notetakers

SybillSybill records sales calls. It can post a chat message saying it is recording, and on Zoom a person who does not consent cannot turn on their camera or microphone.NootaNoota's meeting assistant joins the meetings on its user's calendar until one switch, Join meetings automatically, is set to No.MetaviewMetaview takes notes in job interviews. It joins named after the company that invited it, so a candidate can see whose it is.CloversClovers records job interviews, and anybody in the call — the candidate included — can make it leave by sending it the word STOP in the chat.LeexiLeexi sends a silent assistant into the call from its user's calendar. Every company using Leexi sends its own, and one that is not let in records nothing.JiminnyJiminny, a sales-call recorder, has a desktop app that records a meeting from its user's own computer. Nothing joins the call, so nobody in it sees a notetaker.

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