Does Fellow join the meeting as a bot?
Both are possible. Fellow's meeting bot joins as a participant to record and transcribe, and Fellow also offers botless recording in its Mac and Windows desktop app, which captures the call from your device with nothing in the attendee list. Reline only records locally, and also runs on Linux and in the browser.
Both are possible. Fellow's meeting bot joins as a participant to record and transcribe, and Fellow also offers botless recording in its Mac and Windows desktop app, which captures the call from your device with nothing in the attendee list. Reline only records locally, and also runs on Linux and in the browser.
The details
- Fellow's own integration page puts it plainly: the meeting bot joins as a participant to record and transcribe the audio, while the desktop app records the call audio directly from your device without sending a participant into the meeting.
- Fellow's help centre describes botless recording as capturing at the system level from the Mac and Windows desktop app, across Google Meet, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Slack huddles, dialers and more.
- So on the bot question this is parity, not an advantage, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. The structural difference is that Reline has no bot mode at all, so there is no setting that can put one back.
- Where Reline differs: it runs in any browser and on Linux as well as macOS and Windows, it keeps the audio in the note so you can press play on a transcript line and hear it, and it transcribes 60+ languages.
- Capture is local on your machine. Transcription and AI summaries run in the cloud. Reline does not claim on-device AI, and it is not HIPAA compliant.
Last updated August 2026
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