A D&D session recording app in your browser: nothing to install, no bot to invite
Plenty of session recorders mean installing something or inviting a bot into your server. This one is a button on the session page: it records the device’s microphone, and when you stop, the audio goes straight into transcription, the wiki and the recap.
A D&D session recorder that is a button, not a download
There is nothing to install, no bot to invite into a server, and nothing your players sign up for. The session picker stays usable while it records, so you can pull up last session’s recap mid-game; the audio is still filed under the session you started it in. Tell the table before you press it — recording consent is a session-zero conversation.
- Open the session you are about to play
- Press Start Recording and allow microphone access
- Pause and resume around breaks (paused time is not counted)
- Press Stop & Save: the file uploads and transcription starts in the background
What it records: the microphone on the device in front of you
Only the microphone of the phone, tablet or laptop it runs on — not tab audio, not system audio. That makes it right for a table in one room and wrong for a game played over a call: in Discord, Zoom or a virtual tabletop, the other players reach you through headphones the microphone cannot hear. Turning the speakers up is no fix either; the recorder asks the browser for echo cancellation, which is designed to strip that sound out.
For an online game, record the call with Craig and upload the file; recording D&D on Discord walks through it. In a room, placement matters more than the device: see how to record your D&D session.
From Stop & Save to session notes: where the AI comes in
Nothing is sent while you record. Stop & Save uploads into the same pipeline as a file from disk; once the upload finishes you can close the tab and wait for the email. Transcription runs on OpenAI’s Whisper, primed with your glossary (pronunciation hints included), player characters, aliases and recent wiki entries — how that handles fantasy names.
Then the transcript is read for the campaign: NPCs, places, items and factions go into the wiki, and a recap is written with the key events and the hooks for next session. On the Dungeon Master plan ($7.99/month) and up, the same recording also feeds the relationship map and a read-only wiki you can share with players.
- A timestamped transcript stored against the session
- Wiki entries showing each session they appeared in, with how they were mentioned
- A versioned recap you can regenerate, restore or edit by hand
Built so a four-hour recording survives the evening
Closing the tab mid-recording asks first. Moving to another screen in the app asks too, then ends the recording and keeps it — nothing uploads unless you chose to send it. Discard needs a second click. A failed upload leaves the recording in the tab with Retry and Download buttons. Running past your remaining transcription hours brings a warning, never a stop, and a file that will not fit is held rather than uploaded into a refusal.
It stops itself at six hours of recorded time and saves what it captured, inside the 8-hour upload limit. At the roughly 64 kbps it asks for, four hours is near 115 MB against the 500 MB limit. Where the browser allows it, it asks to keep the screen awake.
Recording software, a Discord bot or a phone app: picking a D&D recorder
There is no single best D&D session recorder; it depends on where the voices are. An online game has to be recorded inside the call, and some tools do that better than we do. Archivist and The DM’s ARK record through a bot in your Discord voice channel, and SessionKeeper advertises its own iOS and Android apps as well as web recording and a Discord bot. DM Scribe has no Discord bot; its built-in recorder runs in the browser, on a phone as well as a laptop.
A file from anywhere still works — a phone voice memo, a Craig mix or an OBS recording, most audio and video formats, up to 500 MB and 8 hours, multi-track files mixed together. For the wider field, see AI note takers for D&D.
Other tools named above, with sources
| What | What their site says | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Archivist — Discord recording | "Record live using Archivist's Discord Bot" | sourceas of 2026-10-03 |
| The DM’s ARK — Discord recording | "Add the ARK Bot to your Discord server in one click. It sits quietly in your voice channel until your session starts" | sourceas of 2026-10-03 |
| SessionKeeper — capture methods | "record right in the app on iOS, Android, or web — or add our Discord bot to your voice channel, or upload audio you recorded elsewhere" | sourceas of 2026-10-03 |
What this does not do
It does not record the call. Microphone only, so in an online game it captures you and not your players.
It does not transcribe live or label who spoke. Nothing is transcribed until Stop & Save, and there is no speaker diarization. If you need a per-speaker script, record multi-track with Craig and keep the tracks separate outside DM Scribe: the audio tracks inside any one file you upload here are mixed into one unattributed transcript.
It needs the tab open, in front, with the screen on. On a phone, locking the screen or switching apps can pause the microphone, and the recorder does not detect it — the timer would keep counting over silence. The app warns about this on screen; it is the failure that costs a whole session. Leaving the session page also ends the recording, so mid-game wiki lookups belong on a second device.
Until it uploads, the recording exists only in that tab, with no copy on disk unless you download one; a crashed browser or a flat battery takes it with it. For a finale you cannot afford to lose, run a phone voice memo alongside as a backup.
Nothing rules-aware, and no maps, character sheets, virtual tabletop or dice.
Which plans include it
The recorder is on every plan, including the free Adventurer tier. Recording costs nothing; transcribing it spends hours — 2.5 a month on Adventurer plus 3 one-time bonus hours at signup, 10 a month on Dungeon Master ($7.99/month), 30 on Guild Master ($14.99/month). The relationship map and player wiki sharing start at Dungeon Master. See what each plan includes.
The rest of what it does
- D&D session transcription that already knows your characters’ names
Upload a session recording and get a timestamped transcript. Your wiki’s character and place names are fed to the model, so fantasy nouns survive.
- A campaign wiki that is written by the session, not after it
NPCs, locations, items and factions are extracted from your session transcript into a linked wiki you can edit, share with players, and search.
- Session recaps you can read at the table without editing them first
AI session summaries and read-aloud recaps from your D&D audio: key events, NPCs, cliffhangers. Free: 2.5 h/mo plus 3 bonus hours. What do you get back?
- Ask your campaign a question and get an answer with citations
Ask what the party promised the duke, or who gave them the sending stone. Answers come from your own sessions, with citations you can click and check.
- A relationship map of everyone your party has tangled with
See how NPCs, factions and locations connect — built from your session transcripts rather than drawn by hand, and editable where the AI got it wrong.
- Give your players the wiki without giving them your notes
Publish a read-only wiki players open with no account. GM notes are never sent; links expire and can be revoked. What do your players actually see?
- Already have the transcript? Skip straight to the campaign wiki
Bring a transcript from Craig, Whisper or another tool: entities, a wiki and a recap on every plan, zero audio hours, plus the relationship map from $7.99.