How to Remove Read AI from Teams, Zoom, or Google Meet

Read AI — sometimes called Read.AI — is an AI app that acts as a meeting assistant and note taker. It can join your calls to record and create AI meeting notes. 

Read AI works with Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and Google Meet, but it may have overstayed its welcome. Whether you find it too intrusive, not comprehensive enough, or you’ve simply found a better AI meeting assistant, it may be time to give Read Ai the boot.

In this guide, we’ll go over how to remove Read AI from Teams, Zoom, or Google Meet as well as take a closer look at why some people are getting rid of Read AI.

Why you may want to remove Read AI

Here are some of the common reasons that organizations and individuals have decided it’s time to remove Read AI.

Too intrusive

On review site G2, users have complained about Read AI showing up to meetings unexpectedly and embedding itself in calendars and invites unprompted. The theme seems to be that unless you read the fine print carefully, it’s hard to understand when and where Read AI will show up. As well, some have complained that Read AI still shows up to meetings even after steps are taken to prevent that. “Once installed, they never leave you,” said one review. Another said that Read AI has a habit of “spreading through the organization with little or no permissions from users.”

Poor customer support

Another common complaint is poor customer service and support from the Read AI team. “They don’t respond to my support messages. We had to send repeated support requests in order to get a response from them,” said one review. Another said customer support wasn’t useful when they reached out for help to remove Read AI.

Privacy and security

Users have complained that Read AI appears in meetings without first asking permission, which is a problem if the meeting involves sensitive topics. More importantly, there have been complaints online that Read AI doesn’t comply with GDPR regulations, such as ensuring users can contact custom support to have all their data deleted.

High price point

Finally, Read AI is expensive for what it offers. While there is a limited free plan, paid plans start at $15 per user per month, while many competitors’ paid plans start at less than $10 per user per month.

How to remove Read AI from a single meeting

If you need to just remove Read AI from a single meeting but don’t want to remove the whole app, follow these steps. This should work with all video conferencing tools, whether Zoom, Google Meet, or Microsoft Teams.

1. Open your attendees list.
2. Find Read AI, which attends meetings as a separate attendee.
3. Remove Read AI from the meeting. You may need to right click on Read AI to do this.

How to remove Read AI from Microsoft Teams

If you’ve been using Read AI alongside Microsoft Teams and want to remove it, follow these steps.

1. Open Microsoft Teams.
2. Click on your profile picture in the top right corner and select “manage apps.”
3. Find Read AI in the list of installed apps.
4. Click on the three dots icon for “more options” next to Read AI and select “uninstall.”
5. Confirm the removal by clicking “remove.”
6. Restart Teams.

How to remove Read AI from Zoom

To remove Read.ai from Zoom, follow these steps.

1. Sign in to your Zoom account on a web browser — not in the app.
2. Navigate to the Zoom App Marketplace.
3. Click on “manage” in the top right corner.
4. Under “installed apps”, find Read AI.
5. Click on “remove” or “uninstall.”
6. Confirm your selection.
7. Restart Zoom.

How to remove Read AI from Google Meet

Unlike Zoom or Microsoft Teams, Google Meet does not have a built-in app marketplace. Rather, Read AI can be connected through Google Calendar or a Chrome extension. Here’s how to remove it in either case.

If Read AI is connected via Google Calendar

1. Open Google Calendar.
2. Click on the gear icon and select “settings.”
3. Navigate to the “event settings” section.
4. Look for Read AI under “conferencing providers” and remove it.

If Read AI is installed as a Chrome extension:

1. Open Google Chrome.
2. Click on the puzzle piece icon to open extensions in the toolbar.
3. Find Read AI and click “remove.”
4. Confirm by clicking “remove” again in the pop-up.
5. Restart Chrome.

How to delete your Read AI account

Finally, if you’re done using Read AI, you should also permanently delete your account to erase all your data. Here’s how.

1. Log in to your Read AI account.
2. Navigate to “account settings”
3. Click on the “advanced” tab in the left-hand menu.
4. Click the red “delete my account” button.
5. Confirm your selection.

These steps will immediately log you out of your account and complete the deletion.

A better AI note taker alternative

If you’ve decided to remove Read AI, you may still want an AI note taker — but a better one. We recommend trying Fellow. 

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Like Read AI, Fellow can join Google Meet, Zoom, or Microsoft Teams to record, transcribe, and summarize meetings. However, Fellow has some key differences:

• More private: Fellow can be paused and resumed at any time, plus the summary, recording, and transcription can have portions redacted after.
• More secure: Fellow is HIPAA and GDPR compliant and never uses your data to train AI.
• Better meeting support: Fellow comes with built-in collaborative agendas and pre-meeting briefs for every meeting, so it helps with preparation.
• Follow-up support: You can use Ask Fellow — like ChatGPT for meetings — to get quick answers about your calls or even have it write a follow-up email.
• Extensive permissions: You’re in full control of which meetings Fellow attends with a simple toggle. As well, meeting recaps are only shared with attendees unless you choose to share them beyond that.
• Less expensive: Fellow has a free plan, and paid plans start at $7 per user per month.

Plus, Fellow supports 99 languages and integrates with more than 50 other apps. Try Fellow for yourself for free.

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