Notetaker
A guest called “Alex from Acme” who never speaks: bots built on Skribby
Skribby rents meeting bots to developers, and its own guide tells them to give the bot a human-sounding name so meeting apps are less likely to block it. A Skribby bot can look like a quiet person.
Shows up as an ordinary-looking name, such as “Alex from Acme”
Read on 10 November 2026
How it got into your call
- An app somebody in the meeting uses sent it, through Skribby, to this meeting's link. It joins Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet.
- Skribby advises its customers to avoid names with “Bot”, “Notetaker” or “AI” in them and to pick a name that looks like a real participant's instead. If it is blocked, Skribby tries again, up to three times.
Find out whose it is
- Treat a silent guest nobody recognises as a possible recorder and ask, out loud, who invited it. The answer tells you which product to switch off.
- Keep guests in the waiting room or lobby until somebody vouches for them. A bot nobody lets in stops after ten minutes, unless its owner set a longer wait.
Get it out of a call that is running
- Remove it from the participant list as you would anyone. Skribby records that a participant removed it, and it leaves.
- Guests are watched most closely by the meeting apps themselves; Skribby suggests its customers sign the bot in to an account to get round that, so a signed-in bot may look even more like a person.
What it keeps
The audio, video and transcript go to the developer whose app sent it. To have them deleted, you need to know which app that was — ask the person who brought it.
In Skribby's own words
The name is chosen
Skribby“The bot_name parameter controls how your bot appears to meeting participants.”
skribby.io/docs/guides/bot-naming
Bot-like names get blocked
Skribby“Names containing common bot-related keywords are more likely to trigger detection”
skribby.io/docs/guides/bot-naming
Human names advised
Skribby“Names that look like real participants (e.g., "Alex from Sales", "Meeting Support - Jane") are significantly less likely to be flagged.”
skribby.io/docs/guides/bot-naming
Hard to spot
Skribby“Skribby handles much of the heavy lifting (like IP rotation and browser stealth)”
skribby.io/docs/guides/bot-detection
It tries again
Skribby“If a bot is blocked, we will automatically attempt to rejoin up to 3 times.”
skribby.io/docs/guides/bot-detection
Guests are checked hardest
Skribby“Guest participants are the most scrutinized.”
skribby.io/docs/guides/bot-detection
Removing it works
Skribby“A participant explicitly removed the bot from the active meeting.”
skribby.io/docs/guides/bot-lifecycle
Nobody lets it in
Skribby“How long the bot waits to be admitted before stopping as not_admitted”
skribby.io/docs/guides/bot-lifecycle
Read on 10 November 2026 from Skribby'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
A bot built on Nylas NotetakerNylas sells a meeting bot to software companies, alongside its email and calendar tools. Unless the company renames it, it arrives as “Nylas Notetaker” and posts a recording notice in the chat.A bot built on VexaVexa is free, open-source software for sending a transcribing bot into Google Meet, Teams and Zoom. Anyone can run it on their own computer or servers, so the bot may belong to a colleague's side project rather than a company.A bot built on AttendeeAttendee 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.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.
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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.