How to record a Slack huddle on your Mac

Not with Slack's own tools: its help pages describe no way to save a huddle's sound or video. What Slack offers instead is AI notes: click “AI notes: Off” at the top left of the huddle, then Start AI notes & transcription, and Slack writes the key points, action items and a transcript into a canvas, telling everyone in the huddle.

For the sound or the video itself, you record your Mac instead:

• The Screenshot toolbar, built into macOS, records the huddle window, with the other people's voices on macOS 27 or later.
• Apps like Audio Hijack record the Slack app's sound.
• Note takers like Otter's desktop app take notes from huddles without a bot.

Some of the guides people find still say you need QuickTime plus a separate audio driver. On macOS 27 you may not. The details below come from Slack's, Apple's and the apps' own pages, checked October 16, 2026. We make Koi, a Mac app that records calls, and say below where it fits.

From Slack's huddle notes article, on the desktop app:

1. Start or join the huddle.
2. Click AI notes: Off in the top-left corner.
3. Click Start AI notes & transcription, then Start notes.
4. Everyone in the huddle is notified when notes start, stop or are canceled.

The notes land in a canvas in the huddle's thread: the key takeaways, the action items, who was there and the topics. The transcript is inside that canvas, though it won't show up in Slack search. Anyone in the channel or DM where the huddle happened can see the notes.

Two limits to know. Slack's guide to its AI features lists huddle notes on the Pro, Business+ and Enterprise+ plans. And AI notes can't be used in huddles with external people or guests.

Huddles also have live captions, but Slack's huddles page says they're English only and not saved once the huddle ends. Each huddle has a canvas for notes you type yourself, which stays in the conversation afterwards.

1. Join the huddle in the Slack desktop app.
2. Press Shift-Command-5.
3. Choose Record Selected Window (macOS Tahoe 26 or later) and pick the huddle window, or Record Entire Screen.
4. Click Options. Choose a microphone for your own voice, and on macOS 27 Golden Gate or later, Include System Audio for the others.
5. Click Record. To stop, click Stop in the menu bar or press Command-Control-Esc.

The .mov is saved to your desktop. Per Apple's how-to, Include System Audio needs macOS 27 or later. On Tahoe 26 and earlier, a microphone is the only sound option, so the others are faint, or missing if you wear headphones. That's where the old advice about drivers comes from: see how to record internal audio on a Mac for BlackHole and the rest. Test before a huddle that matters.

From each app's own pages:

• Audio Hijack lists the Slack desktop app among the call apps it records out of the box. It makes audio files and can transcribe them on your Mac. $69.
• Otter's desktop app says it takes notes on Slack huddles without a bot. Transcription is in Otter's cloud.
• MacWhisper Pro, in its direct-download version, lists Slack among the apps it detects for meeting recording, and transcribes on your Mac.

Koi's Record calls records your microphone as You and what the Mac plays as Them, transcribes both on your Mac, films the screen if you pick Audio and video, and with your yes writes a summary and your to-dos. It's made for online calls in apps like Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams, with no bot joining.

Koi's Online call records whatever app the Mac plays, a Slack huddle included, and the dock offers to record when a huddle starts. For the other call apps, see every way to record a meeting on a Mac.

Only with the people in it agreeing. In many places recording a call needs everyone's consent, and your company's Slack rules may say more. This isn't legal advice.

Slack's AI notes tell everyone when they start. The Screenshot toolbar and recording apps don't. So say it in the huddle or the thread before you start, wait for a yes, and don't record if anyone says no. Keep the file to the people who agreed.

• Your workspace is on a plan without huddle notes. Slack lists them on Pro, Business+ and Enterprise+.
• Someone external, or a guest, is in the huddle. AI notes can't be used then.
• Your workspace's owners or admins have limited who can use AI features.
• Your screen recording is missing the others' voices: on macOS Tahoe 26 and earlier the Screenshot toolbar only records a microphone.

• Want notes and action items, and everyone's in your workspace? Slack's AI notes.
• Need the video, on macOS 27? The Screenshot toolbar with Include System Audio.
• Need an audio file of the huddle? Audio Hijack.
• Want notes from huddles and other calls in one cloud app? Otter's desktop app.