How to Record Google Meet on Mac With Audio (2026)

To record Google Meet on a Mac, use Meet's Record button if your Google Workspace plan and the host allow it. Otherwise, Shift-Command-5 records the Meet window, but before macOS 27 it takes sound only from your microphone. For the call audio plus a transcript and summary with no bot, Reline's Mac app records your mic and the call.

On a Mac, Google Meet runs in your browser (Google lists Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari) or as the Meet web app you install from Chrome, so every route below records a browser call. The steps are the same on a MacBook Air, a MacBook Pro, an iMac or a Mac mini.

Meet records to the cloud, but only on certain paid plans. Google lists Business Standard and Business Plus, the Enterprise editions, Essentials, Education Plus (staff), the Teaching and Learning Upgrade, Workspace Individual and Google One plans with 2 TB or more. Free personal Google accounts are not on that list. Your admin must allow recording, and you need the host's permission: the host, a co-host, or someone in the host's organization when Host Management is off can record. Google says you can record only on a computer or an Android device, so a Mac works and an iPhone does not.

1. Join the meeting at meet.google.com in Chrome, Safari, Firefox or Edge, or in the Meet web app.
2. Click Meeting tools at the bottom right, then Recording. You can pick a caption language to record captions into the video. Click Start recording and confirm with Start. If you see no Recording option, your plan, your admin or the host does not allow it.
3. Everyone in the meeting is notified when the recording starts and stops.
4. To stop, click Meeting tools, then Recording, then Stop recording, and confirm. Google also stops the recording after 8 hours or when everyone leaves.
5. The recording lands in the organizer's Google Drive, in the Google Meet folder. The organizer and the person who started it get an email with the link, and the link is added to the Calendar event.

The Mac's own Screenshot toolbar records the Meet window as a video, with no notice in the call. Whether you hear the other people in it depends on your macOS version.

1. Press Shift-Command-5 to open the Screenshot toolbar.
2. Choose to record the entire screen, a portion you drag, or, on macOS 26 or later, a single window, and pick the Meet window.
3. Open Options. On macOS 27 or later, choose Include System Audio so the other people are in the recording, and choose a microphone for your own voice. On earlier versions, a microphone is the only sound you can pick.
4. Click Record. To stop, click the Stop button in the menu bar or press Command-Control-Esc. The video is saved to your desktop.

Apple's guide to recording the screen on a Mac says you choose a microphone to record your voice or other audio, and that Include System Audio exists only in macOS 27 or later. So on macOS 26 and earlier the toolbar records only what your microphone hears. With speakers, that is a faint, echoey copy of the call. With headphones or AirPods, your microphone hears nothing from the other side, and the recording holds only your voice. QuickTime Player's screen recording also takes a microphone, and Apple lists no system audio option for it.

If you want notes rather than a video, record your Mac instead of the meeting. Reline's Mac app records your microphone and the call audio locally, then gives you a live transcript, an AI summary and the kept audio. Nothing joins the call, the participant list does not change, and you need neither host rights nor a paid Workspace plan.

1. Download Reline for Mac and sign in. You can start on the Free plan.
2. Allow the microphone when macOS asks, then allow system audio: on macOS 14.2 and later this is an audio-only permission, in System Settings > Privacy & Security > Screen & System Audio Recording.
3. Join your meeting in your browser or the Meet web app as usual.
4. Press Record in Reline. The live transcript starts as people talk, in 60+ languages with automatic language detection.
5. Stop when the call ends. You get the transcript, an AI summary next to it, and the kept audio, with a play button on every transcript line.

Speaker names: Speaker Tags, which is rolling out and not on for every account yet, names who is speaking when it is switched on in Reline, the Reline browser extension is installed in Chrome or Edge, and Google Meet is open in that browser. In Safari, Firefox or without the extension, the transcript is labeled Me vs Other (your microphone vs the call audio).

Meet cannot hear you? On a Mac the browser itself needs the microphone: open System Settings > Privacy & Security > Microphone and turn it on for Chrome, Safari or the browser you use. In the browser, allow meet.google.com to use the microphone.

• No video: Reline keeps audio and a transcript, not a screen recording. For video, run Meet or Shift-Command-5 at the same time.
• It records what your Mac plays, not one tab, so other sounds on your Mac can end up in the recording.
• Speakers are Me vs Other unless Speaker Tags (rolling out) is on and Meet is open in Chrome or Edge with the browser extension.
• Before macOS 13 there is no system audio capture, only your microphone.
• No on-device AI: transcription, summaries and storage run in the cloud. Only the capture is local.
• You press Record yourself, and there is no iPhone or iPad app.

Meet's notice only covers its own Record button. Shift-Command-5 and Reline put no notice in the call, 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 call that you are recording for notes, and stop if someone objects.

The same capture works in the Reline apps for Windows and Linux (beta). Start on the Free plan; Professional is $15 per month ($140 per year) and Enterprise is $32 per month ($26 per month on annual).