IronMemo: Free Audio Recorder & Transcribe Meetings & AI Notetaker

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Free local audio recorder for meetings and calls. Records mic + tab audio. Transcription and AI notes coming next. Meet + Zoom + Teams audio recorder for your browser — no bot in the call, no cloud upload, no subscription, no account. Every free meeting-recorder extension on the store has the same three catches: a bot has to join the call (or the host has to allow it), the audio is uploaded to a vendor's cloud, and the "free" tier caps you at 5 minutes or stamps the export with a watermark. IronMemo does none of that. Transcription and AI notes are coming in the next release. For now IronMemo is a rock-solid audio recorder; the transcription pass is planned to run locally in the browser as soon as the model-download step is ready. It will NOT be locked behind a paid tier. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHY THIS ONE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Privileged calls (legal, medical, HR) that cannot leave your device. • A personal keep-your-own copy of a call your organization already records. • Workspaces that ban third-party AI notetakers by policy. • You want an audio file, not a "notes doc". IronMemo gives you the audio. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT YOU GET ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • 100% free. No subscription. No free-tier length limit. No account required. • No bot joins the call. Nothing appears in the participant list. • Records your microphone + the browser tab audio in one click. • Files stay on your device (browser's OPFS storage). Nothing leaves your computer without your explicit action. • Works during Google Meet, Zoom (web), Microsoft Teams (web), Discord (web), or any browser tab that plays audio. • The real limit is your free disk space, not an artificial monthly cap. • Live waveform in the popup so you can see the microphone is arriving before you commit to a long session. • Per-role downloads: microphone, tab audio, and a mix. Not all three glued into one file. • Interruption-resilient: behavior measured across 7 kinds of failure (tab crash, service-worker eviction, storage full, mid-recording browser update, and more). Reboot and system sleep are not yet measured. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT IT DOES NOT DO (also a feature) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Does not join meetings as a bot participant. Some meeting recorders on the store add a bot to your call — IronMemo does not. • Does not upload your audio to any server. • Does not train any AI model on your recordings. • Does not read page text, passwords, or browsing history. • Does not require sign-in or an account. • Does not add a watermark or a silence gap to your exports. • Does not auto-join meetings from your calendar. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ COMING NEXT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Transcription — browser-local, no cloud. • AI-generated summary and action items — browser-local, opt-in per recording. • Speaker labels for multi-participant meetings. None of these will require a subscription or an account. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HOW IT WORKS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Chrome's tabCapture API grabs the audio of the active tab; getUserMedia grabs the microphone. Both are user-gestured — you click Start, no silent capture. • Encoding: Opus in an OGG container (via WebCodecs when supported, MediaRecorder as fallback). Default 48 kbps; adjustable in Settings. • Storage: browser's Origin Private File System (OPFS) — not the OS file system. Files never appear in Explorer or Finder; download them from the extension's Recordings page. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ RECORDING CONSENT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Before your first recording, IronMemo shows a full disclosure — what it captures, where files are stored, and that you are responsible for meeting-participant consent under the law of your jurisdiction. Some jurisdictions require all-party consent; some are one-party. IronMemo does not automatically tell participants a recording is happening. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DATA CATEGORIES DECLARED TO CHROME ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Personal communications: microphone voice. • Website content: tab audio. That is it. No cross-site tracking, no analytics, no health or financial data, no location. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ STATUS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ v0.5.0. Source available at igorsaevets/ironmemo-recorder on GitHub (MIT license). Bug reports and pull requests welcome.

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