Installing on a Mac

What you need

• A Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or later). Intel Macs aren’t supported.
• macOS 13 Ventura or later.
• An administrator on the Mac, or someone who can approve a system extension. Managed Macs may do this for you.

Install

1. Download Nametags from the download page.
2. Open the disk image. Drag Nametags onto the Applications folder beside it.
3. Open Nametags from your Applications folder.

Or with Homebrew

brew install --cask getnametags/tap/nametags

This puts Nametags in your Applications folder for you. Nametags updates itself either way, and brew upgrade follows new releases too.

It has to run from Applications. macOS only installs camera extensions for apps in the Applications folder. If you open Nametags straight from the disk image or from Downloads, the camera step fails with a message asking you to move it. Move it, then open it again.

Set up Nametags

The first window walks you through three steps. Only the next unfinished step is active.

Sign in

Click Sign in and finish in your browser. See Signing in and your account.

Allow camera access

macOS asks whether Nametags may use your camera. Nametags reads your webcam so it can add your nametag before sending the video on to your call. Click OK.

If you said no by mistake, the step shows Open Privacy settings. Click it, turn on Nametags under Privacy & Security → Camera, and come back.

Add Nametags as a camera

This installs the small piece of Nametags that shows up as a camera in your other apps.

1. Click Install camera extension.
2. Open System Settings → General → Login Items & Extensions, find Nametags, and turn it on. You may be asked for your password.
3. Come back to Nametags. It notices within a few seconds and marks the step done.

macOS doesn’t pop up a prompt for this approval, so you have to go to System Settings yourself. You only do this once, not on every call.

Afterwards

Once all three steps are ticked, the window shows your nametag and Ready for your next call. Next, fill in your nametag and choose the Nametags camera in your meeting app.

Rolling out to many Macs

If your IT team deploys Nametags with device management, they can pre-approve the camera extension with a system extension policy, so people skip the System Settings step. The extension’s bundle identifier is nerdev.com.nametags.cameraextension, and the team ID is T7AG6F3KVC.