Getting Started with the Wave Web App

The Wave web app at app.wave.co is the full product in a browser — your whole library, every AI feature, and all your settings, with nothing to install. This is the lay of the land; for recording in the browser specifically, see Wave for Web.

Sign in

Choose Log in with Google, Log in with Apple, or Log in with Microsoft — the same provider you use in the phone or desktop app. A Last used badge marks the method you picked last time on this browser. If you sign in with a different provider that shares your email address, Wave links it to your existing account rather than starting a fresh one. See using Wave on multiple devices.

The dashboard

After signing in you land on Sessions. Across the top you get Total Sessions, This Month, and Hours This Month, followed by your Favorites and Unsorted sessions and cards for the other places Wave runs — Wave Desktop, Wave for Chrome, Wave Phone, and Calendar Sync.

The header nav holds everything else: Sessions, Folders, Calendar, Action Items, Phone, Assistant, Settings, Desktop App, Recently Deleted, and Sign Out.

Finding a session in the sidebar

The left sidebar lists every session and is where most of the work happens.

• Search — type in the Search… box. Wave matches on meaning as well as words, so "the conversation about the budget" finds the right session even if nobody said "budget". Each hit shows a match percentage, and you can order results by Best Match or Recent. Brand-new sessions show "Search will be available once your sessions finish processing" until indexing catches up.
• Sort — Newest First, Oldest First, Longest First, Shortest First, A to Z, or Z to A.
• Filter by type — All Types by default, or narrow to meetings, phone calls, imports, YouTube, desktop, Apple Watch, Chrome, and more.
• Show favorites only — the star toggle.
• Multi-select — turn on selection mode to act on several sessions at once, with Select all and Clear. Press Esc to leave. See bulk actions.

Adding something new

Click New Session to open the Add Audio to Wave dialog. It has four modes:

• Record — from your computer's microphone, up to 3 hours per session. See Wave for Web.
• Upload — drag in audio, video, or PDF files, up to 500MB each and several at a time. See importing audio files.
• Meeting — send a bot into a Zoom, Google Meet, or Microsoft Teams call. See record any meeting by link.
• YouTube — paste a link. See importing YouTube videos.

Inside a session

Open a session and you get tabs for Summary, Transcript, Chat, Photos, Notes, and Action Items. Click the title to rename it, click the date to change when it happened, and use Previous session and Next session to step through your library without going back to the list.

Share & Export covers PDF, copying the summary or transcript, emailing it, pushing it to a connected app, and publishing a public link. Delete moves the session to Recently Deleted, where it stays for 30 days before it's removed for good.

Settings

Settings is organized into six tabs.

Where to go next

• Connect your calendar so your recordings pick up meeting titles and speaker names — and Wave can join meetings for you.
• Wave Assistant chats across everything you've ever recorded.
• Action items in Wave rolls every follow-up into one list.
• Wave plans and pricing covers what the free plan includes.