Audiee.ai's permissions, explained

The first-run screen asks macOS for three permissions: Microphone (transcribe your voice), Screen & System Audio Recording (transcribe the others on the call) and Accessibility (see who's speaking — optional). The first two are what make meeting notes possible. Two more are optional and live in Settings → Privacy & permissions: Input Monitoring for the dictation hotkeys and Automation for spotting meetings in your browser. Every entry in System Settings is called Audiee. Here is what each one does, what Audiee.ai does with it, and how to grant or revoke it; Settings → Privacy & permissions shows all five with live status and an Enable button for each.

1 · Microphone — Transcribe my voice

Your side of meetings and everything you dictate. Without it, a meeting records only the other side.

To grant or revoke: macOS asks the first time Audiee.ai needs it. If you clicked Don't Allow earlier: System Settings → Privacy & Security → Microphone, switch Audiee on.

2 · Screen & System Audio Recording — Transcribe others' voices

This is how Audiee.ai hears the people on Zoom, Meet, Teams or Lark — macOS puts system-audio capture under the Screen Recording permission. No video is ever recorded. The same permission lets Audiee.ai read the screen during a meeting: with Read screen on (the default since September 2026), about every 6 seconds it reads the text on the meeting window with Apple's on-device text recognition — slides, a shared document, chat. The picture is never saved or uploaded; the recognised text is kept with the meeting on your Mac (and on its Knowledge page) and goes to the AI with the transcript, for the summary and when you ask about the meeting. Switch it off in the live window or in Settings. Finally, it is how the Ctrl+S snap tool sees the region of screen you pick.

To grant or revoke: macOS has no inline prompt for this one — Audiee.ai opens System Settings → Privacy & Security → Screen & System Audio Recording. Switch on Audiee. The row in the app turns green by itself.

3 · Accessibility — See who's speaking

Lets Audiee.ai read the speaker name Zoom shows, so transcript lines carry names, and drops dictated text into whatever field your cursor is in.

To grant or revoke: System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility, switch Audiee on. Optional: without it, Zoom lines say "Others" and dictation copies to the clipboard.

4 · Input Monitoring — Hear the dictation hotkeys

Notice your Ctrl and fn taps in any app, so speak-to-type and Ctrl+Space work wherever your cursor is. Audiee.ai watches for those keys only; it does not log what you type.

To grant or revoke: Not on the first-run screen — enable it in Settings → Privacy & permissions, or System Settings → Privacy & Security → Input Monitoring, switch Audiee on. Only needed for dictation; meetings work without it.

5 · Automation — Spot meetings in your browser

Asks Chrome or Safari which tab is a call (Google Meet, Zoom on the web) so Audiee.ai can offer to take notes. It asks for the tab's title and address, nothing else.

To grant or revoke: Not on the first-run screen — macOS prompts the first time Audiee.ai asks a browser, and Settings → Privacy & permissions shows its state. Denied earlier? System Settings → Privacy & Security → Automation, allow Audiee for your browser. Optional: you can always start notes with Ctrl+M.

What Audiee.ai never does with them

• Your contacts, photos, calendar or files — Audiee.ai reads its own folder under ~/.audiee and nothing else on disk.
• Video, or kept screenshots — Audiee.ai never records your screen as video. During a meeting it reads the text on the meeting window (Read screen, on by default, with a switch); the image is discarded once the text is read, and only the text is kept. The Ctrl+S snap is the one picture it keeps, and only when you take it.
• Keystrokes — Input Monitoring is used to notice the Ctrl / fn hotkeys; what you type is never read or stored.
• A bot in your calls — nothing joins the meeting; the people on the call see no participant, no banner, no recording notice from Audiee.ai. Check your local rules on recording consent.

Revoking everything

Switch Audiee off in each of the System Settings panes above, or delete the app. Your transcripts and notes stay in ~/.audiee as plain Markdown either way; nothing about the permissions changes what is already on disk.

If a row won't turn green

• Screen Recording stays off after you flipped it — quit and reopen Audiee once; macOS often applies this grant only after a relaunch.
• Upgraded from 0.1.81 or earlier? You'll see the permissions screen once more: allow Audiee. Older versions used a separate entry called "Audiee-Assist"; it is no longer used and can be ignored or removed.
• Microphone never prompts — a denied mic never re-prompts on macOS; grant it in the Microphone pane by hand.
• Automation says "no browser open" — start Chrome or Safari first; macOS can only ask a running app.