Getting Started

Most "getting started" guides assume the reader has already decided to install. The questions in this cluster start one step earlier: what does setup actually require, what permissions get prompted, does it work on this Mac with chip X, can I install Friday and use it Monday.

SubcueAI ships as a signed native desktop app — .dmg for macOS 14+ (Sonoma and later, both Intel and Apple Silicon) and .exe for Windows 10 1903+ (x64 only). First launch requests two permissions: Screen Recording on macOS (used purely for system-audio capture — the system audio API on macOS happens to live under that permission category, and we do not record video), and Microphone on both platforms. No kernel extensions and no virtual audio devices. The iPhone and iPad app (iOS/iPadOS 16.1+) installs from the App Store and the Android app (Android 10+) from Google Play; their Listen mode uses the built-in microphone to hear an interview playing on another device, because iOS, iPadOS and Android do not let an app hear a call running on the same phone or tablet. The setup tutorial covers each step with screenshots.

What setup does not solve: audio routing on a borrowed laptop where the interviewer's voice goes to a hardware headset that bypasses system audio, and meetings where you join from a phone instead of the laptop running SubcueAI. The answers below name those specific edge cases so you can tell them apart before the interview, not during it.