The desktop app
The recorder that lives next to your call.
The aftercalls desktop agent is a small, focused app that runs alongside whatever you use to take calls. It captures both sides cleanly, hands the audio off to be transcribed and summarized, and stays out of the way the rest of the time. No plugins, no browser extensions, no background recording.
What it captures
Two clean tracks: your microphone, and whatever audio your computer is playing back. They never get mixed, so the transcript can label each speaker on the right side of the call.
Most call apps mix audio together by the time it leaves the speakers — your voice and theirs end up as a single stream. That's fine for the call, but it makes speaker labelling much harder. The aftercalls agent records the input device (your mic) and the system output (the call audio) on separate channels, then combines them only at the transcription step.
- Mic and system audio recorded as two separate channels
- Works with any call app — Zoom, Teams, softphones, browser-based dialers, regular phone calls picked up by your computer's mic
- Recording starts from a single button click — no driver setup, no virtual audio cable
- Local file is held briefly while uploading, then deleted from the device once the upload is confirmed
- Optional note-to-self shortcut for quick voice memos between calls — same transcription pipeline, separate archive section
- Optional recording-notice chime (org-wide setting) plays an audible cue when capture starts, for jurisdictions that need every participant to know
Record
Capture both sides of your next call.
Start recordingThree ways to start a recording
Manual when you want full control, automatic when you don't want to think about it.
Manual
Click Start in the app, or hit your global keyboard shortcut from anywhere on the system. Recording stops the same way.
Auto-detect
The agent watches the apps using your microphone. When a call app picks it up, you get a one-click prompt to start recording. Nothing happens until you say so.
From the menu bar
The system tray icon gives you Start, Stop, and a count of unread calls without ever opening the window. Always two clicks away.
Updates that don't surprise you
When a new version is ready, the app shows a banner. You click Install when you're done with what you're doing — never mid-call, never on someone else's schedule.
The agent checks for updates roughly once an hour and tells you when one is available. Nothing installs in the background. You see a small banner at the top of the window, click Install, and the new version comes down. On Windows and the Linux AppImage build, the app relaunches itself when the install finishes; on .deb and .rpm Linux installs, you re-launch it yourself.
Every update is signed. The signature is verified before anything is written to disk. Release notes for every version are published at aftercalls.io/releases.
Calls
No call active
Runs where you do.
Three platforms, one identical experience. Same recorder, same transcript pipeline, same archive — pick your machine.
Signed installer for Windows 10 and newer. Updates verified and applied in place.
Apple-Silicon and Intel builds. System-audio capture works without a virtual driver on macOS 13 and newer.
AppImage, .deb, and .rpm packages. ffmpeg ships with the AppImage, so there's no system install required.
Run it next to your next call.
Join the invite-only beta and we'll get you the installer for your platform.