Notetaker
How to stop Rev Notetaker joining your meetings
Rev, the transcription company, has a Notetaker bot that joins Zoom, Google Meet, Teams and Webex calls from its user's calendar. If nobody admits it, it leaves and records nothing.
Read on 10 November 2026
How it got into your call
- Somebody in the call uses Rev with their calendar connected, and their auto-join setting covers this meeting: every meeting with a video link, ones they host, ones with outsiders, or internal ones. They can also paste a meeting link to send it in.
- Auto-join does not cover recurring meetings — for those, its user switches it on one meeting at a time.
If it is yours: stop it joining
- Its user sets auto-join to Meetings I manually select, so it joins only meetings where they switch on Add Rev.
- For one meeting, its user leaves Add Rev off on that meeting in the Meeting Hub.
Get it out of a call that is running
- It has to be admitted. If the host or an attendee does not let it in, it leaves and nothing is captured.
- Rev says the host can remove it during the meeting, like any participant.
What it keeps
The transcript and notes go to its user's Rev Meeting Hub. Its user decides whether they are shared with everybody in the meeting, only with colleagues, or kept private.
In Rev's own words
What it is
Rev“Rev Notetaker is an AI meeting assistant that automatically joins meetings to create a transcript of your meeting.”
support.rev.com/hc/en-us/articles/29563392825741-Meeting-Hub-and-AI-Notetaker
Joining only when chosen
Rev“Meetings I manually select: Notetaker joins only the meetings you turn on yourself with the Add Rev toggle.”
support.rev.com/hc/en-us/articles/29563392825741-Meeting-Hub-and-AI-Notetaker
Recurring meetings
Rev“Auto-join settings do not apply to recurring meetings.”
support.rev.com/hc/en-us/articles/29563392825741-Meeting-Hub-and-AI-Notetaker
The host can remove it
Rev“The meeting host can also remove Notetaker during a meeting.”
support.rev.com/hc/en-us/articles/29563392825741-Meeting-Hub-and-AI-Notetaker
If nobody admits it
Rev“If the host or an attendee doesn’t admit Notetaker, it leaves the meeting and nothing is captured.”
support.rev.com/hc/en-us/articles/29563392825741-Meeting-Hub-and-AI-Notetaker
Who sees the notes
Rev“Notes can be shared with all participants, only internal participants, or kept private to the note owner.”
support.rev.com/hc/en-us/articles/29563392825741-Meeting-Hub-and-AI-Notetaker
Read on 10 November 2026 from Rev'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
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Try Meetful
Meetings that take their own notes
Free video meetings in the browser: every line of the transcript under the name of who said it, and the summary and action items when you hang up. Nothing to install — guests just open the link.