How to Record a Jitsi Meeting (and Get a Transcript)

To record a Jitsi meeting on meet.jit.si, join in Chrome or Edge on a computer, open More actions, select Record and then Start. Jitsi saves a WebM video on your computer and tells everyone, but makes no transcript. Self-hosted servers can add Jibri server recording. For a transcript with no bot, Reline records your mic and the meeting audio.

It depends on the server. meet.jit.si is Jitsi's free public service, and companies, schools and communities also run their own Jitsi Meet servers, where the admin decides what is switched on. Jitsi's software knows four ways to record or transcribe:

We read meet.jit.si's live settings and Jitsi's open-source code on October 29, 2026; a self-hosted server can differ. Older guides describe saving meet.jit.si recordings to Dropbox. Jitsi still supports Dropbox, but only on servers where the admin adds a Dropbox app key, and meet.jit.si's current settings have none.

1. Join the meeting in Chrome or Microsoft Edge on a computer. Jitsi offers local recording only in Chromium-based desktop browsers: not in Firefox or Safari, not on a phone, and not in the Jitsi Meet desktop app.
2. Open More actions (the three dots in the toolbar) and select Record. On meet.jit.si you do not need to be the moderator for this.
3. Local recording is already the storage location: on meet.jit.si it is the only one. To record only your own side, open Recording options and turn on Record only my audio and video streams.
4. Under Record audio and video, select Start. Your browser asks where to save the WebM file (the dialog opens in your Downloads folder), then asks what to share: pick this meeting tab and keep its audio on. If you pick another tab or window, Jitsi asks you to select the current tab.
5. Everyone in the meeting sees a notice that you have started a local recording and hears a sound.
6. Before you leave, open More actions, select Record again and select Stop. Jitsi warns that the file is saved only if you stop the recording before you exit the meeting.

What the file holds: the meeting tab's video and sound (everyone else) mixed with your microphone. If you turned on Record only my audio and video streams, it holds only you, and Jitsi does not announce it to the others. There is no transcript, because transcription is switched off on meet.jit.si.

• You are in the Jitsi Meet desktop app, a mobile app or a phone browser. Open the same meeting link in Chrome or Edge on a computer.
• You are in Firefox or Safari. Local recording needs a Chromium-based browser with file saving, such as Chrome or Edge.
• You are in a breakout room. Jitsi hides recording there, so go back to the main room.
• The admin of a self-hosted server turned local recording off. Ask what is enabled on that server.

If you want notes rather than a video, record your computer instead of the meeting. Reline's desktop app records your microphone and the system audio (everyone else in the meeting) locally, then gives you a live transcript in 60+ languages, an AI summary and the kept audio. Nothing joins the meeting, and it also works in Firefox, Safari and the Jitsi Meet desktop app, where Jitsi's own local recording is missing.

1. Install the Reline desktop app and sign in. You can start on the Free plan.
2. Allow the microphone. On Windows 11, open Settings, Privacy & security, Microphone, and turn on "Let desktop apps access your microphone". On a Mac, also allow system audio: on macOS 14.2 and later this is an audio-only permission; on macOS 13 to 14.1 Reline uses the screen and system audio permission, which can need an app restart. Before macOS 13, only your microphone is recorded.
3. Join the Jitsi meeting in your browser or in the Jitsi Meet desktop app. When a browser starts using your microphone, Reline can show a prompt to record; it shows up as a browser meeting, not as Jitsi. With the Jitsi Meet desktop app, open Reline yourself.
4. Tell everyone you are recording for notes, then press Record in the prompt or in Reline.
5. Stop when the meeting ends. You get the transcript, an AI summary next to it and the kept audio, with a play button on every transcript line.

Open Reline in another tab and start a recording. Your microphone records right away; to capture the other side, share the Jitsi meeting tab with its audio once, using your browser's screen-share. This works best in Chrome and other Chromium browsers. The desktop app captures the meeting audio without that sharing step.

Speaker labels: the transcript separates your microphone (Me) from the meeting audio (Other). In a group call, open Who is on the other side beside the record button and choose Separate speakers (beta) to number each voice on the call side. The numbers are an estimate and never names: you click a voice and name it yourself.

• No video: Reline keeps audio and a transcript, not a screen recording. For video, use Jitsi's local recording.
• No notice in Jitsi: nobody in the meeting sees that Reline is recording, so you tell them.
• No names on its own: labels are Me vs Other, and the beta Separate speakers option only numbers voices for you to name.
• On Windows it records the whole default output, not one window, so other sounds on your PC are captured too.
• No on-device AI: transcription, summaries and storage run in the cloud, outside your Jitsi server and outside Jitsi's end-to-end encryption if you turned it on. Only the capture is local.
• You press Record yourself, and there is no mobile app.

Jitsi announces its own local recording, unless you record only your own streams, and a Jibri recording shows for everyone. A recorder on your computer such as Reline puts no notice in the meeting, so the notice is on you. Several US states, California among them, require every party to agree before a call is recorded, and in the EU you need a lawful basis under the GDPR and should say why you record. Rules differ by country and state, so check the rules where everyone on the call is. The simple habit: say at the start of the meeting that you are recording for notes, and stop if someone objects.

Start on the Free plan to record your first meetings. Professional is $15 per month ($140 per year) and Enterprise is $32 per month ($26 per month on annual).