SageOx Desktop is the only SageOx app that hears both sides of a computer call. On a Zoom, Google Meet, or VoIP call, it captures your mic and the system audio (everyone else on the call), so the whole conversation lands in your Team Context, not only your half of it.
It lives in your menu bar. There's no window to keep open and nothing to join your call.
When to use this
Reach for Desktop when the discussion happens through your computer, not in the room.
| You have | Use this | Not this |
|---|---|---|
| A Zoom, Google Meet, or VoIP call | SageOx Desktop | — |
| An in-room meeting with a dedicated device | Ox Dot | this page |
| A discussion in the browser, at your desk or on your phone | web app recorder | this page |
| Audio you already recorded elsewhere | Audio + transcript upload | this page |
Install
SageOx Desktop is a macOS app. It needs macOS 14.4 or later — that's the first version with the narrow system-audio permission it uses to hear the other side of a call without recording your screen.
- Apple Silicon (every Mac since late 2020): download SageOx Desktop
- Intel: download the Intel build
Not sure which you have? Open the Apple menu → About This Mac. "Apple M1" or later means Apple Silicon.
The app is signed and notarized by Apple, so it opens normally — there's no right-click-to-open workaround.
macOS only. Windows and Linux builds aren't planned for 2026.
Grant two permissions
The first time you record, macOS asks for two things. Both are requested at the moment they're needed, not at install.
Microphone — your half of the conversation.
System audio recording — everyone else's half. This is a narrow macOS permission that captures audio only. SageOx never asks for Screen Recording access and never sees your screen.
If you dismissed a prompt by accident, both live in System Settings → Privacy & Security.
Try this first
Before a real meeting, spend two minutes proving to yourself that Desktop hears both sides. You don't need anyone else.
Play a podcast or any video with people talking in it.
Open SageOx from the menu bar and click Start Recording.
Talk over it for thirty seconds — say something you'd recognize later.
Stop the recording and open it in your workspace.
The transcript has both the podcast voices and yours, separated by speaker. That's the thing Desktop does that a phone on the table can't: it captures the audio coming out of your computer as cleanly as the audio going in.
Once you've seen that work, the next real call needs nothing new from you.
Record a call
Start a recording before or during a call from the menu bar. Desktop captures your mic and the system audio together, so a call with several remote participants comes through as one recording of the whole conversation.
- It offers when it sees a meeting. When a conferencing app opens your microphone, Desktop offers to record. Turn on auto-record and it starts on its own. It's deliberately choosy about what counts: dictation tools, voice assistants and screen recordings hold the microphone too, and none of them are a meeting.
- Auto-stop when you hang up. When the call releases your microphone, Desktop stops on its own, with a brief window to undo if that was wrong.
- A ceiling on long recordings. Desktop warns as a recording nears four hours and stops it there — the only SageOx surface with a hard cap.
Stay resilient offline
Desktop streams your recording to your workspace as you capture it. If your network drops, it keeps a local copy and resumes the upload once you're back online, so a recording isn't lost because the connection blinked.
Stay updated
Desktop updates itself: a signed build ships from updates.sageox.ai and replaces the old one. Each update is the whole signed app, not a partial patch.
Updates never interrupt you. They install when you quit or during a quiet stretch — never while you're recording, and never while a recording is still being saved.
Where your recordings land
A Desktop recording follows the same pipeline as every other capture mechanism: it's transcribed, speakers are separated, and an AI coworker extracts the decisions and action items into your Team Context. You'll find it in your team's Media section on the web, alongside Ox Dot, web app, and Ox App recordings.
What's next
- Ox Dot: capture in-room discussions from a dedicated device.
- Web app recorder: capture a discussion straight from your browser.
- Context capture overview: every way to feed your Team Context.