User guide

How to use MinutedAI

Everything you need to know — from recording your first meeting to organising your outputs like a pro.

Contents
1

Getting started

Sign up

Open the MinutedAI app and tap Sign up. Enter your full name, email and password. Optional fields like job title and industry help us improve the product — they're not required.

Your password must include at least 8 characters, an uppercase letter, a lowercase letter, a number, and a special character.

Screenshot: Sign up screen
The sign up screen with password validation rules

Home screen overview

After signing in, you'll land on the Home screen. Here you can see:

1
Hero banner — your plan, remaining recording time, uploads left, and when your usage resets.
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Record card — tap to start recording a meeting.
3
Upload card — tap to upload an existing transcript or audio file.
4
Recent meetings — your latest 3 meetings with key themes, duration, and folder badges.
Screenshot: Home screen
The Home screen showing usage stats, action cards, and recent meetings

Understanding your plan

MinutedAI has three plans:

Free — 45 minutes recording per month, 3 uploads, all 6 AI outputs.
Pro ($14/month) — 20 hours recording, unlimited uploads, folders, edit action owners and due dates.
Pro+ ($25/month) — Unlimited recording (fair usage), plus everything in Pro.

You can upgrade at any time at minuted.ai/pricing.

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Recording a meeting

Start recording

Tap the Record card on the Home screen. The recording screen shows a live timer and audio waveform. MinutedAI captures audio directly on your device — nothing is sent to the cloud during recording.

Screenshot: Recording screen
The recording screen with timer and waveform
Tip

Place your phone on the table between participants for the best audio quality. MinutedAI works with any meeting — in person, on a call, or a mix of both.

Screen lock

You can lock your phone screen while recording — MinutedAI continues capturing audio in the background. When you unlock your phone, the recording resumes exactly where you left off.

Stop and process

When your meeting is done, tap Stop. You'll be taken to the Output screen where processing begins automatically. A 30-minute meeting typically takes around 5 minutes to process.

You can leave the app while processing — it continues in the background and your outputs will be ready when you return.

Screenshot: Processing animation
Processing your meeting — the waveform animation shows it's working
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Uploading a transcript

How to upload

Tap the Upload card on the Home screen. You can upload a transcript by:

1
Pasting text — copy and paste your transcript directly.
2
Uploading a file — select a .txt or .docx file from your device.

Give your meeting a title (optional — we'll generate one if you don't) and tap Process.

Screenshot: Upload screen
Upload a transcript by pasting text or selecting a file

Upload from the web

You can also upload transcripts from the web dashboard at minuted.ai/dashboard. The same processing happens server-side, and your outputs appear on both the app and web.

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Your outputs

Every meeting generates six outputs. Navigate between them using the tab pills at the top of the Output screen.

Screenshot: Output screen with tabs
The output screen showing tab navigation and summary view

Summary

3–5 concise bullet points capturing the highest-level takeaways. Written for someone who wasn't in the meeting and needs to understand what happened in under 60 seconds. Includes names, projects, and concrete outcomes where mentioned.

Key themes

Short 2–3 word theme tags that identify what the meeting covered. These also appear on your meeting cards in the Home and Search screens, helping you tell meetings apart at a glance.

Minutes of Meeting

Formal meeting minutes in professional third-person past tense. Captures key discussion points, decisions, risks, and next steps with specific names, systems, and timelines.

Action Items

Every action identified in the meeting, each with an owner (if mentioned) and a due date (if stated). Actions can be marked as complete, and owners and dates can be edited. See Managing actions for details.

Screenshot: Action items tab
Action items with checkboxes, owner pills, due dates, and overdue indicators

Decisions

A clear list of every decision firmly agreed upon during the meeting. Only explicit decisions — not suggestions or open questions.

Follow-up Email

A professional follow-up email with subject line, summary, key decisions, and next steps — ready to copy and send to attendees.

Full Transcript

The complete timestamped transcript of your meeting. Searchable with the built-in search bar — type a keyword to jump between matches.

Screenshot: Transcript with search
Full transcript with search highlighting and navigation arrows

Notes

A personal notes section where you can add your own observations after the meeting. Notes are saved to your account and sync across devices.

Audio playback

If the meeting was recorded (not uploaded), an audio player appears at the top of the Output screen. Scrub through the recording to hear specific moments.

Edit meeting title

Tap the pencil icon (✎) next to the meeting title to rename it. MinutedAI auto-generates titles, but you can customise them at any time.

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Managing actions

Mark as complete

Tap the checkbox next to any action item to mark it as done. Completed actions show a strikethrough, a "Done" badge, and no longer trigger overdue warnings. Tap again to uncomplete.

Screenshot: Completed action item
A completed action with strikethrough and Done badge

Edit action owners

Pro & Pro+

Tap an existing owner pill to change the name. If no owner was detected, tap the + Add owner pill to assign one. Each owner gets a colour-coded pill based on their name.

Screenshot: Edit owner modal
Editing an action owner name

Add or edit due dates

Pro & Pro+

Tap an existing due date to change it, or tap + Add date to set one. Dates use DD/MM/YYYY format. If a due date has passed and the action isn't marked complete, it shows as Overdue.

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Organising with folders

Pro & Pro+

Folders help you group meetings by project, client, or team. All folder features are available to Pro and Pro+ users.

Creating a folder

On the Search screen, tap the dashed + New folder pill in the folder row. Type a name and tap Create. You can also create folders from the Output screen when assigning a meeting.

Screenshot: Create folder modal
Creating a new folder from the Search screen

Assigning meetings to folders

Open any meeting and tap the folder icon in the title row. Select an existing folder or create a new one. The meeting card will show a folder badge on the Home and Search screens.

Screenshot: Folder selection modal
Assigning a meeting to a folder from the Output screen

Filtering by folder

On the Search screen, tap any folder pill in the row to filter your meetings. Only meetings in that folder will show. Tap again to clear the filter.

Renaming a folder

Long press on a folder pill (hold for about 1 second) to open the rename/delete menu. Choose Rename and type the new name.

Deleting a folder

Long press on a folder pill and choose Delete. Deleting a folder does not delete your meetings — they simply become unassigned and appear in the "All" view.

Removing a meeting from a folder

Open the meeting, tap the green folder pill in the title row, and tap Remove from folder at the bottom of the picker.

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Sharing outputs

Share a single output

On the Output screen, tap the small button in the bottom bar to share the currently active tab. This copies the content formatted with the meeting title and sends it via your device's share sheet.

Share all outputs

Tap Share all outputs in the bottom bar to share all six outputs at once. The shared content includes section headers for each output type.

Screenshot: Share bar
The share bar with "Share all outputs" and per-tab share buttons
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Web dashboard

Accessing your meetings online

Visit minuted.ai/dashboard and sign in with the same email and password. All your meetings sync automatically between the app and web.

What you can do on the web

View all meetings — search, filter by source (recorded/uploaded), filter by folder.
Upload transcripts — paste a transcript and process it directly from the browser.
View all outputs — summary, MoM, actions, decisions, email, transcript.
Edit titles — hover over the title and click Edit.
Manage folders — assign, create, and remove folders.
Edit action owners and due dates — click to edit, same as the app.
Mark actions complete — tick the checkbox.
Copy outputs — share individual tabs or all outputs to clipboard.
Screenshot: Web dashboard
The web dashboard showing your meetings list with folder filtering
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Account & billing

Edit your profile

In the app, go to the Account tab and tap Edit Profile. You can update your name and email address. On the web, go to the Account tab in the dashboard.

Upgrade your plan

Visit minuted.ai/pricing to upgrade from Free to Pro or Pro+. Subscriptions are managed securely through Stripe. You can pay monthly or annually (save ~30%).

Manage billing

If you're on a paid plan, you can manage your subscription, update payment methods, and view invoices through the Stripe customer portal. Access it from the Account tab on the web dashboard.

Forgot password

On the sign in screen, enter your email address and tap Forgot? We'll send you a password reset link to your email. Click the link to set a new password at minuted.ai/reset-password.

Cancel your subscription

You can cancel at any time from the Stripe customer portal — no cancellation fees. Your paid features remain active until the end of your current billing period.

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Privacy & security

Audio stays on your device

During recording, audio is captured and stored locally on your phone. It is never uploaded to the cloud during recording. When you tap Process, the audio is sent transiently to generate a transcript, then immediately deleted from our servers.

How processing works

Your audio is sent to a transcription service (OpenAI Whisper) solely to generate a text transcript. The audio is processed transiently and never retained. The transcript is then analysed by our AI to generate your six outputs.

Encryption at rest

All meeting outputs stored on our servers are encrypted at rest using AES-256 encryption. The encryption key is never stored alongside your data — it lives exclusively in our secure server environment.

No AI training

Your meeting data is never used to train AI models. Your content is not shared with any third parties beyond the transient transcription step.

For full details, read our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.