There are two reasons people land on a page like this. Either you're tidying up after a trial and you want Fathom off your machine, or a client just asked why a notetaker was sitting in your meeting and you need it gone today.
Both are covered below. One thing to know before you start: dragging the Fathom app to the trash doesn't stop it turning up on your calls. Fathom runs off your connected calendar, so the app and the calendar link have to be dealt with separately. If you don't remove the calendar connection, the notetaker keeps showing up, which is why Zoom's community forum is full of people asking why it won't go away.
Everything below reflects Fathom's own help documentation as of August 2026. Where Fathom's instructions no longer match the current Zoom or Google interface, we've flagged the path that actually works.
Quick check before you go further: this guide covers Fathom the meeting notetaker, at fathom.video. There are two other companies called Fathom, one doing web analytics and one doing accounting software. If your billing emails don't come from fathom.video, you're in the wrong place.
Stop Fathom recording your next call
If you have a meeting soon and you just need Fathom to stay out of it, do this first. It takes a minute and it works no matter which video app you use.
Open your Fathom settings at fathom.video/customize
Find the auto-record dropdown and set it to No meetings
Fathom will then only record when you start it manually. Fathom's help center also confirms the notetaker can't attend on its own: it can only record a Zoom, Microsoft Teams, or Google Meet call if you're on the call too, and it exits when the meeting ends. So it won't sit in a client call you didn't attend.
The catch - Turning off auto-record leaves your account, your recordings, and the app itself exactly where they are. Keep going for a full removal.
One more setting worth checking if you use Slack: Fathom's newer releases can also pick up Slack huddles, controlled by its own separate toggle in settings. Turning off calendar auto-record doesn't cover that.
Remove the Fathom app from your computer
On Mac
Quit Fathom completely. Right-click the icon in your dock and choose Quit, or use Activity Monitor to force quit if it won't close
Open your Applications folder and drag Fathom to the trash
Empty the trash
Open System Settings, go to General, then Login Items, and remove Fathom from the list so it stops opening at startup
Two leftovers worth clearing. If you installed from a disk image, Fathom may still be mounted under Locations in your Finder sidebar, so eject it. And Fathom writes log files to ~/Library/Logs/Fathom, which you can delete safely.
On Windows
Quit Fathom, including from the system tray
Open Settings, go to Apps, then Installed apps. On Windows 10 this is labeled Apps and features instead
Find Fathom, open the menu next to it, and choose Uninstall
Fathom stores its app data in %APPDATA%\FathomVideo, which you'll find at C:\Users\[YourUsername]\AppData\Roaming\FathomVideo. Delete that folder to clear the leftovers.
Remove the Chrome extension
Fathom's Chrome extension exists so it can intercept Google Meet links and sit in on unscheduled calls. Removing the app doesn't remove the extension.
Look for the extension icon to the right of your address bar, right-click it, and choose Remove from Chrome
If you can't see the icon, open the three-dot menu at the top right, go to Extensions, then Manage extensions, find Fathom, and click Remove
Check the publisher - The one you want is "Fathom AI Note Taker for Google Meet" by Fathom Video Inc. There's an unrelated extension listed simply as "Fathom" by a different developer, so read the publisher name before you remove anything.
Remove Fathom from Zoom
This is where most guides are out of date, including Fathom's own. Fathom tells you to go to Manage, then Installed Apps. Zoom retired that path. Here's the current one, per Zoom's documentation:
Sign in to the Zoom App Marketplace
Click My Library in the bottom left corner
Find AI Notetaker by Fathom, click the More icon in the Actions column, then click Remove
Confirm by clicking Remove again
If you're on a Zoom account managed by someone else, you may not be able to do this yourself. Multi-user Zoom accounts have app pre-approval switched on by default, so removal may need your account owner or admin. Admins remove it for everyone through Manage, then Admin App Management, then Apps on Account.
If Fathom is still intercepting your Zoom calls after all that, Fathom's own advice is to update Zoom to the latest version, which clears the intercept from your account.
Remove Fathom from Google Meet and Google Calendar
Fathom's Google Meet integration is a calendar connection plus the Chrome extension, so this is the step that actually cuts it off. There's no separate Fathom-to-Calendar permission to revoke, it's all one link.
Go to myaccount.google.com/linkedapps
Select Access to your Google Account, then select Fathom
Click See details, review the access, then click Remove access and confirm
Fathom's privacy policy is clear about what happens next: deauthorizing Fathom through your Google or Outlook account settings disables your Fathom account until you reconnect a calendar, because the calendar link is core to how the product works.
That makes this the single most effective step on this page. If you only do one thing, do this one.
Remove Fathom from Microsoft Teams
Fathom doesn't appear to install as a Teams app. Its Teams support works by watching your connected Microsoft calendar for meetings with a Teams link, then joining through that link as an anonymous participant. Several guides tell you to block or uninstall Fathom in the Teams admin center under Manage apps. Admins report it isn't listed there, so that path won't work.
What does work is revoking its Microsoft 365 permissions:
Go to myapplications.microsoft.com
Hover over Fathom, open the menu, and select Manage your application
Click Revoke Permissions
Microsoft notes one limitation here: permissions your administrator consented to on your behalf can't be revoked by you. If Fathom was approved at the organization level, you'll need your IT admin to remove it in Azure AD under Enterprise applications.
If you're an admin trying to keep notetakers out of Teams meetings generally, the lever Microsoft points to is switching off "Anonymous users can interact with apps in meetings" in your meeting settings, alongside join verification checks.
Cancel a paid Fathom plan
Log in to Fathom and go to Settings
Scroll to Premium Features and click Downgrade to Free, or go straight to fathom.video/manage_subscription/billing
Click Cancel Plan
Your subscription then runs to the end of the current billing period with no further charges. If you need it canceled immediately, Fathom asks you to email [email protected]. Team plans can't be canceled this way at all, those go through [email protected].
Canceling is not deleting - Downgrading to free leaves your account, transcripts, and recordings in place. Deleting them is a separate job.
Delete your Fathom account and recordings
Go to fathom.video/customize
Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Delete Account
Fathom's help center says the request takes around 12 hours to process, after which account data is permanently deleted and can't be recovered. Its privacy policy gives a longer window, committing to commercially reasonable efforts to delete recordings and personal information within 30 days of the request, without guaranteeing that timeframe. If deletion timing matters for a client confidentiality reason, plan around 30 days rather than 12 hours.
The privacy policy is also explicit that nothing happens by default: if you stop using Fathom, your account and the personal information in it stay put unless you actively delete the account.
To remove individual calls rather than everything, open the recording, hover over the three dots next to the Share button, and click Delete Call. Deleting a call also removes all its notes, and it can't be undone.
If you're on a Fathom team plan
Individual users on a team plan don't get a Delete Account button. You'll need your team admin to do it. Admins work from Settings, then the Users tab, where there are two different actions worth understanding before you click:
Removing a member takes them out of the team immediately, and any recordings they shared are removed with them
Deactivating a member blocks their login but keeps all their recordings accessible to the team
Account-wide retention policies aren't self-serve. Fathom asks Enterprise customers to email [email protected] to set one up.
Why agencies leave notetakers like this behind
The reason this page gets so much traffic from frustrated people isn't really about uninstall steps. It's the bot.
When a notetaker joins a client call as a visible participant, your client sees it in the participant list. Fathom's help center confirms that hiding the recording banner doesn't hide the bot from that list. On an internal standup, nobody minds. On a first pitch with a new client, or a call where someone is about to say something candid about a competitor, it changes the room. And you're the one who has to explain it.
Supernormal takes a different approach. It transcribes your meetings in the background from your own machine, so there's no extra participant and no permission conversation at the top of the call. We've written more about that trade-off in bot versus no bot, and the Supernormal notetaker page covers how it works.
What to use instead
If you're switching rather than just switching off, the thing to look at is what happens after the call, not the transcript itself. Every notetaker gives you a transcript and a summary. The write-up is only the start of the job.
With Supernormal, your meeting notes become the context for the actual work. Ask for a campaign brief from the kickoff call, a set of Slides for the internal review, a project plan, or the follow-up email, and you get a draft built on what was really said, ready to polish and send. You're reviewing work rather than starting it from a blank page.
Getting started takes a couple of minutes, and you don't need to have finished the Fathom cleanup first. Just make sure you've turned Fathom's auto-record off, or you'll end up with two notetakers on the same call.
