
Shadow
AI that sees, listens, and understands every meeting
4.9โข23 reviewsโข1.4K followers
AI that sees, listens, and understands every meeting
4.9โข23 reviewsโข1.4K followers

1.4K followers
1.4K followers
Iโve been using Shadow for a bit now and itโs honestly one of the few tools that actually stuck in my workflow. The best part is not having a bot join the callโit just stays in the background so I can actually focus on the conversation instead of worrying about notes. Itโs basically given me a second brain for my meetings. Highly recommend if youโre tired of the "meeting bot" era.
I've been a Shadow user for well over a year now and find it a major part of my workflow.
I was first drawn to Shadow due to its offline transcription. This is a considerable plus in highly regulated industries. The automation of skills is also another great time saver, such as exporting Markdown meeting notes to a folder for synchronization or connecting with Obsidian and other note-taking apps.
Now they've introduced screen recording, which gives the models much more context about what you were doing. This should be a significant boost in productivity and recall.
It would be difficult to keep up with work without it. I don't know how Iโor anyone elseโgot by without it before it existed.
I know this is something the team is actively working on, but speaker attribution could stand to be more accurate. To be fair to the team, no one else has figured this out yet, either. When they do, it will represent a computer science breakthrough.
With Shadow, you can just set it and forget it. It does all the heavy lifting. It detects meetings reliably and does not need manual coercion like some of its alternatives. It runs very reliably as a background process and does not consume many resources. One of its biggest features is its ability to capture screenshots as it records and transcribes, providing additional context. I had not seen this since rewind.ai, which has now been acquired by Meta.
Shadow is one of the best in its class for capturing audio reliably and clearly.
I'm not sure what is on the horizon, but they have a feedback page that they use regularly. I'm always dropping different ideas there and often get feedback on those ideas from the developers or the CEO himself.
I've spoken directly with the CEO several times as a user, and they have a Slack channel in which they are highly active and will respond to anyone quickly.
I've been using Shadow from the very beginning while in Beta test and I've seen this product improving a lot. What I love the most about Shadow is the non-invasiveness as only you will know it's listening, the accuracy in transcripting and the auto-start on a new meeting. In my opinion it's also fairly priced!
I'm looking forwards to better integrations with other tools like NotebookLM or for the ability to chat about all the meetings at once rather than per-meeting ๐๐ผ
Since it's integrated with Google Calendar now, it would also be great to have attribution to the speaker somehow.
Speech recognition is still sometimes somehow inaccurate.
Because of the non-intrusiveness, low price and automatically starting when I begin a meeting.
The recording starts automatically when the meeting start. however, you can easily stop it.
I haven't experienced a multilingual meeting where I used shadow yet. Accuracy is still not excellent in english though, so I guess accents might have an impact.
I really like how reliably it automatically starts at the beginning of a meeting and captures the transcripts for me to refer to later. I can forget about it and stay focused in the meeting without weirding-out the others on the call with a robot "listening in" and trust it to know what we discussed, summarize action items, etc. that I can refer back to later.
Would love to have this same capability on mobile but I understand that's a big challenge with the way permissions are different on mobile. I think there's a path to feasibility on Android at least and I would love to have it available there.
Price is much better for Shadow than alternatives and I didn't want an agent represented "in the room"
Yes, pausing or ending recording is very easy
Mac and Win I think (I only use the Mac version)
Pausing is easy with a floating button when recordings are going
Look, here is the reality: my brain is essentially a sieve designed by a chaotic architect.
Information enters, looks around, panics, and leaves immediately. Since April 2025, the paid version of Shadow has not just been an app; it has been the structural integrity of my entire career. It is the load-bearing wall of my workflow.
It sits quietly on my Mac, capturing everything, ensuring that when I inevitably zone out during a meeting to wonder why we haven't domesticated badgers yet, I haven't actually missed the CEOโs critical strategy update.
But the real story here, the thing that is frankly absurd, is the developer, Jay.
I have been, to put it mildly, a "high-maintenance" user. I have messaged Jay with the frequency of a panicked relative. I have sent him feature requests that range from "sensible" to "frankly needy." And do you know what? He responds.
He actually responds.
In a world where customer support usually involves shouting into a void until you lose the will to live, Jay is an anomaly. He takes every piece of feedback with a level of seriousness that is almost concerning. I ask for something, and he doesnโt just nod politely; he analyses it, he engages, and then it appears in the app. It is bafflingly efficient. The man is a legend.
If you are on macOS, do yourself a favour and get it. Donโt overthink it. Just do it.
It basically there. No additional things are really needed.
It looks at what program is opened and if a meeting is started and uses that info to start a meeting recording and it records your audio and the system audio which is the person talking.
Yes, it can be closed easily.
It can be adjusted from lite to heavy depending on your machines specs and how the program has to work to capture your meeting and maybe your screen.
Shadow is exactly the solution I was looking for. Fortunately, I discovered it through a Reddit comment somewhere. What's brilliant is that it very accurately records all audio my Mac produces during a meeting. Thankfully, this is usually primarily voices, which allows it to create a transcript of my conversation.
The AI features that automatically generate a summary and create the right action items work beyond expectations.
I tried Shadow for free initially, but the benefits are so significant that I happily subscribed. I now also sometimes use it when I make phone calls. I put these on speakerphone and Shadow then records my entire phone conversation.
Jay is a super friendly developer who always responds very quickly and often gets me sorted in one go. I once thought Shadow hadn't recorded a conversation, but it turned out to be my own fault.
So Shadow, keep up the good work!
An iOS app that actually records all my calls would be brilliant, but I think it's due to Apple's limitations that there isn't an app for that yet.
Absolutely.
This can be improved. When I have a long 1 on 1 meeting, I end up with 10 speakers that I have to convert back to 2 speakers.
Very!
Shadow is a great and useful product. I spend most of my day in meetings and keeping up with notes and remembering what happened in which meeting is a challenge. Shadow unobtrusively creates a transcript, summary, and can extract todos. The Shadow team has consistently been adding features and is quick to respond to feedback. Definitely worth giving it a try.
Speaker diarization can be improved, it's a common problem across all of these products
It's easy, reasonably priced, works well, and offeres more privacy than competitors
Nothing is stored in the cloud, transcription is local, audio and notes are stored locally. If you choose to use summary or other skills data may be transferred to an AI service, but not stored.
I've never noticed the additional load, but I run a very well spec'd machine
I've been using Shadow for a year and a half now. I tried competing products as well, including Granola and Jamie. I love that the customizability in Shadow and how supportive and responsive the founder Jay and his team have always been. I love the ability to auto save my notes to Obsidian.
It sometimes was resource heavy on my MacOS, but that was understandable and I've noticed a lot of improvements recently.
Yes speaker diarization works, but it's less accurate for people with accents.
Pretty clever! Just the snapshots are what we need instead of a video.
Very easy
The custom prompts and task automations are a god send
Its still missing windows support
no bot, custom local modal, custom prompts, automation after recordings
yes
yep
you can talk with everyone on Slack community, everyone is very accessible, be it for feature suggestions or troubleshooting


