Five permissions, explained
Audiee asks macOS for five permissions. Two of them (Microphone, Screen & System Audio Recording) are what make meeting notes possible; the other three are for dictation and conveniences, and everything works without them. Here is what each one does, what Audiee does with it, and how to grant or revoke it. The same five rows live in the app under Settings → Privacy & permissions, with live status and an Enable button for each.
1 · Microphone — Hear your 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 needs it. If you clicked Don't Allow earlier: System Settings → Privacy & Security → Microphone, switch Audiee on.
2 · Screen & System Audio Recording — Hear the other side of calls
This is how Audiee hears the people on Zoom, Meet, Teams or Lark — macOS puts system-audio capture under the Screen Recording permission. It is also how the Ctrl+S snap tool sees the region of screen you pick. Audiee never records your screen during meetings; it reads the audio stream.
To grant or revoke: macOS has no inline prompt for this one — Audiee opens System Settings → Privacy & Security → Screen & System Audio Recording. Switch on Audiee-Assist (Audiee's small audio helper). The row in the app turns green by itself.
3 · 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 watches for those keys only; it does not log what you type.
To grant or revoke: System Settings → Privacy & Security → Input Monitoring, switch Audiee on. Only needed for dictation; meetings work without it.
4 · Accessibility — Paste where you're typing
Drops dictated text into whatever field your cursor is in, and lets Audiee read the speaker name Zoom shows so transcript lines carry names.
To grant or revoke: System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility, switch Audiee on. Optional: without it, dictation copies to the clipboard and Zoom lines say "Others".
5 · Automation — Spot meetings in your browser
Asks Chrome or Safari which tab is a call (Google Meet, Zoom on the web) so Audiee can offer to take notes. It asks for the tab's title and address, nothing else.
To grant or revoke: macOS prompts the first time Audiee asks a browser. Denied earlier? System Settings → Privacy & Security → Automation, allow Audiee for your browser. Optional: you can always start notes with Ctrl+M.
What Audiee never asks for
- Your contacts, photos, calendar or files — Audiee reads its own folder under ~/.audiee and nothing else on disk.
- Screen recording during meetings — the Screen Recording permission is used for the audio stream and the snap tool you trigger by hand; no screenshots are taken on their own.
- 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. Check your local rules on recording consent.
Revoking everything
Switch Audiee off in each of the five 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 — the entry is called Audiee-Assist, not Audiee. Flip that one, then quit and reopen the app once.
- 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.