Notetaker

A “Meeting Notetaker” you do not recognise: bots built on Recall.ai

Recall.ai sells the plumbing that many notetaker products are built on — Meetful's own notetaker among them. Its bots are called “Meeting Notetaker” unless the product renames them, so the name alone may not tell you whose it is.

Shows up as “Meeting Notetaker”, unless the product that sent it chose another name Read on 10 November 2026

How it got into your call

Find out whose it is

  1. Ask who invited it. Each bot is made for one meeting by one product, so somebody in the call — or the organiser's calendar — brought it.
  2. Once you know the product, use that product's own way of keeping it out; many have a page on this site under its own name.

Get it out of a call that is running

  1. Remove it from the list of people, as with any guest. A Recall.ai bot is a participant like any other, so the host's usual controls work.
  2. If nobody admits it, or everybody else leaves, it leaves by itself after a timeout the product sets.

What it keeps

What it records goes to the product that sent it. To have it deleted, find out from the person who invited it which product it was, and ask them — or that product — to delete it.

In Recall.ai's own words

Its default name
Recall.ai“By default, bots show up to meetings like an anonymous participant with their mic/camera off and with the name "Meeting Notetaker".”docs.recall.ai/docs/bot-overview
Renamed by the product
Recall.ai“you can set the bot's name by setting the bot_name field in the Create Bot request.”docs.recall.ai/docs/bot-overview
White-labelled
Recall.ai“The bot is white label-able, allowing you to customize your bot's appearance and control its interaction in the meeting itself.”docs.recall.ai/docs/bot-overview
A participant like any other
Recall.ai“The bot itself exists as a participant in the call and has access to all meeting features and data any other participant has.”docs.recall.ai/docs/bot-overview
One meeting each
Recall.ai“Bots are single-use and bots are mapped to a single meeting”docs.recall.ai/docs/bot-overview
Leaving by itself
Recall.ai“After the bot sees that all other participants have left, it starts this timer.”docs.recall.ai/docs/automatic-leaving-behavior

Read on 10 November 2026 from Recall.ai's own help pages. Something changed? Tell us.

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