What is the best app to record a coaching session with a client?

The details

• 01Coaching needs something different from a sales tool: no extra participant in a conversation that runs on trust, the client's exact words kept, and every session filed by client. Reline records your microphone and the call audio on your computer, keeps the recording with the note, and lets you press play on any transcript line.
• 02Before a session, ask a client's folder what you agreed last time. Chat answers can cite the note or the exact moment they came from, with a clip you can play.
• 03In the room, put your laptop on the table. A laptop microphone is enough across a desk, but both voices arrive through one microphone, so Reline cannot tell you and your client apart the way it does on a call, where it uses speaker separation (Me vs Other: your microphone vs the call audio). There is no Reline phone app yet.
• 04Other apps that fit: Speakwise is an iPhone app for in-person sessions and does not record video calls. Scribbl records Google Meet through a Chrome extension and Zoom and Teams through a Mac or Windows desktop app, with no bot in the call and a free plan.
• 05Not for clinical work: Reline is not HIPAA compliant and has no SOC 2 report, so a therapist who keeps health records should use a clinical documentation tool.
• 06Tell your client you record and get their agreement before you start; no bot in the call does not change that. Reline is free to start with no card: 1 hour per note and 10 hours of transcription a month.

Last updated September 2026