Notula for Google Meet
Privacy policy
Last updated 4 September 2026. It applies to the Chrome extension Notula for Google Meet, and to nothing else.
Overview
Notula for Google Meet transcribes Google Meet calls in real time and keeps the transcript on your device. It has no server, no account and no analytics, so there is no copy of anything anywhere else. This page says what it handles and what it does not.
What the extension handles
While you are in a Google Meet call, the extension reads:
- Spoken words from the meeting, transcribed from Google Meet's own live captions
- Chat messages sent during the meeting
- Speaker names as shown in Google Meet
- Meeting metadata: title, meeting code, start and end time
All of it is stored in chrome.storage.local, a storage area that exists only on your own device and is not reachable by us or by anyone else.
What it never touches
- Your name, email address, or any account information
- Passwords or authentication credentials
- Location data or IP addresses
- Your browsing history
- Anything at all outside an active Google Meet session
Sharing
The extension transmits nothing to any server, and does not sell, share or transfer your data to any third party under any circumstances. There is no analytics in it and no crash reporting.
Saving to Notula
If you connect the extension to Notula, the desktop app, a finished call
is written into a Markdown file in a folder you chose. That request goes
to 127.0.0.1, the loopback address of the machine the
browser is running on, and carries a token you granted from inside
Notula. It never leaves the machine, and there is no route by which it
could: the address is not on any network.
Notula asks before it lets the extension in, and the permission covers only the repositories you have open in it. The extension writes Markdown documents and nothing else, and you can revoke it from Notula's settings at any time. Notula itself has no server either.
Keeping and deleting
Transcripts stay on your device for as long as the extension is installed. Individual meetings can be deleted from inside the extension at any time, and uninstalling it removes everything it stored, permanently. A meeting that ended with nothing said in it is removed on its own.
A transcript already written into your repository is an ordinary file in your own folder. Deleting a meeting in the extension does not touch it, and it is yours to keep or remove like any other file.
Permissions it asks for
These are every permission in the extension's manifest, and what each one is for.
storageto keep transcripts on your deviceactiveTabto tell when you are on a Google Meet pagetabsto route the toolbar icon correctly across tabsalarmsto end a meeting that lost its tab, and to clear an empty onehttps://meet.google.com/*to run on Google Meet pages and nowhere else
Questions
Open an issue on the extension's repository, or send it through the feedback form.