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Four steps: choose your platform, download it, create an account, pick your features.
Four steps. Start with the platform: it decides the rest.
1. Choose your platform
Where your meetings and events happen decides which JotMe you want. See the table below.
2. Download it
Download desktop, mobile, or the Chrome extension from jotme.io. The web app needs no install: just go to app.jotme.io.
3. Create an account
Google or email, once, on any platform. Your plan, usage, recordings, translated files, and chats follow the account. Create an account, or see Signing in.
4. Decide which features you need
Each platform and feature serves a different purpose. Pick what you need.
1. Choose your platform#
| Platform | What it is for | Install |
|---|---|---|
| Desktop | Office work, events, and conferences: the full product | Set up desktop |
| Mobile | Record a room, translate files, review notes, and chat on the move | Get the app |
| Chrome extension | An individual Google Meet call | Install the extension |
| Web app | Join sessions, review work, translate, chat, and manage the account | Nothing to install |
Still not sure? Find what you want to do:
| If you want to… | Use |
|---|---|
| Before the meeting or event | |
| Write your agenda or notes ahead of time, kept against that meeting or event | Desktop |
| Set the languages, quality, and audio devices for a specific meeting or event, remembered next time it runs | Desktop |
| Create the join link and code before a session, to put in the calendar invite or share into a multilingual chat so everyone has it in advance | Desktop |
| Set up a multilingual chat for the people attending | Desktop or web app |
| Start a session from a calendar event, with its title and attendees | Desktop |
| During the meeting or event | |
| Give participants or an audience a link or QR code to read the translated captions, or hear the voice translation, in an online meeting or at an event | Desktop |
| Put translated subtitles on your camera for a webinar | Desktop |
| Translate a conversation at a table, or a room | Desktop or mobile |
| Keep translating while you walk around a site, or translate on the go | Mobile |
| Translate a Google Meet call for yourself, without the desktop app | Chrome extension |
| After the meeting or event | |
| Read AI meeting notes and the transcript | Desktop, mobile, or web app |
| Share notes or a transcript | Desktop, mobile, or web app |
| Edit or comment on shared notes | Desktop or web app |
| Transcribe a recording you already have | Desktop, mobile, or web app |
| Translating things that are not meetings | |
| Translate text, documents, images, audio, or video | Desktop, mobile, or web app |
| Edit, comment on, and share a translated file | Desktop or web app |
| Translate text you have selected in any app, with a shortcut | Desktop |
| Translate a file selected in Finder, with a shortcut | Desktop, macOS |
| Everything else | |
| Voice Keyboard: hold Fn (macOS) or Ctrl + Win (Windows) and speak to type in any app | Desktop |
| Chat with people in other languages | Desktop, mobile, or web app |
| Teach JotMe names, acronyms, and product terms | Desktop, mobile, or web app |
| Manage seats, minutes, and team invites, as a Team plan admin | Desktop, mobile, or web app |
Note
What you can invite someone to, and what it costs them. All four open in a browser with nothing to install:
| You share | They need an account | What they can do |
|---|---|---|
| A live translation session | No, an email address | Read or hear the live translation in their own language |
| A meeting or event recording | No to view; yes to comment or edit | Play the audio recording and read the AI meeting notes and full transcript |
| A translated file | No to view; yes to comment or download | Open the translation and the original side by side |
| A multilingual chat | No, an email address | Read and write in their own language, in that one chat |
Opening shared content is free. Actions that generate translation or AI output use the allowance named on that page; a live-session guest uses the host's translation minutes.
2. Download it#
Download desktop, mobile, or the Chrome extension from jotme.io. The web app needs no install: go to app.jotme.io.
Each platform's setup steps and permissions are on its own page, linked in the table above, so you only read the ones that apply to you.
3. Create an account#
Create an account with Google or an email address. Use the same account on every platform so your plan, usage, recordings, translated files, and chats stay together. Device permissions and audio choices are still set per device. See Signing in.
4. Decide which features you need#
Desktop
Run meetings and events, use and share live captions and voice translation, take notes, translate files, organize multilingual chats, and use Voice Keyboard.
Mobile
Turn live speech into text, send it to chat, and play translated text as speech, without creating or saving recordings.
Chrome extension
For individual users: translate, transcribe, and take notes during Google Meet calls.
Web app
Join shared sessions, review notes and files, transcribe uploads, translate chats, and manage your account with no install.
Before your first meeting or event#
Two things apply whichever platform you chose:
- Set the spoken language (what people say) and the translation language (what you read): mixing these up is the most common early mistake. See Languages.
- Know what your plan includes, and what spends it fastest: Usage limits.
If something does not work#
Start with Troubleshooting, which routes to the platform pages, and check Status for an incident before reporting it.
Every feature, per platform, is under Product.