How to Record Messenger Calls on PC (Windows and Mac)

Short answer: Messenger does not offer a call recording feature. Since Meta retired the Messenger desktop apps (December 2025) and messenger.com (April 2026), PC calls run on facebook.com/messages in your browser. To record one, run a desktop recorder that captures your microphone and system audio, such as Reline, and ask everyone first.

Yes, in a browser. Meta shut down the Messenger desktop apps for Windows and Mac on December 15, 2025, and the standalone messenger.com site in April 2026. Meta's help center says messenger.com now sends you to facebook.com/messages for messaging on a computer, and Meta keeps a help page on the browsers that support video calling on Facebook. If you use Messenger without a Facebook account, Meta says you can continue only on the mobile app, so there is no PC call to record.

No. Meta's help center covers starting voice and video calls and fixing your camera, microphone and speakers, and it describes no option to record a call. Messenger's option to leave a voice or video message when someone misses your call does not record the call itself. Any recording of a Messenger call on a PC comes from software on your computer.

• A Facebook account and an up-to-date desktop browser, signed in at facebook.com/messages. Check Meta's help center page on the browsers that support video calling on Facebook.
• A recorder that captures system audio (the other side) as well as your microphone (your side). Reline's desktop app does this on Windows, macOS and Linux (beta).
• Headphones, ideally. On open speakers your microphone also hears the other side, and some of their words can land on your side of the transcript.
• The other person's yes, or the group's.

1. Open facebook.com/messages in your browser and sign in. Allow the microphone, and the camera for video calls, when the browser asks.
2. Install the Reline desktop app for Windows and sign in. The Free plan is enough to start.
3. Allow the microphone for Reline: in Windows 11, open Settings, Privacy & security, Microphone, and turn on "Let desktop apps access your microphone".
4. Keep the call on your Windows default output device. Reline records everything that device plays, so the other side is missed if the call plays somewhere else, and music or notification sounds on it are recorded too.
5. Open the conversation and start or answer the voice or video call. When the browser starts using your microphone, Reline can show a prompt to record; it shows up as a browser meeting, not as Messenger.
6. Ask at the start of the call whether you may record for notes. Once you hear a clear yes, press Record in the prompt or in Reline.
7. Stop the recording when you hang up. You get the transcript, an AI summary and the kept audio, with a play button on every transcript line.

Sign in at facebook.com/messages in your browser and use Reline's Linux desktop app (beta), which records your microphone and system audio through PulseAudio or PipeWire. The steps match Windows. If the transcript only shows your side, check that your output device is not muted: a muted output gives Reline silence.

A recorder on your computer shows nothing in the Messenger call, so nobody knows unless you say so: the notice is on you. Several US states, California among them, require every party to agree before a call is recorded, and in the EU you need a lawful basis under the GDPR and should say why you record. Rules differ by country and state, so check the rules where everyone on the call is. The simple habit: say at the start of the call that you are recording for notes, and stop if someone objects.

• Fits: one-to-one and group Messenger calls you take at facebook.com/messages on Windows, Mac or Linux (beta), when everyone agrees and you want a searchable transcript in 60+ languages plus a summary.
• Audio and transcript only: Reline does not record the video or a shared screen.
• Speaker labels are Me vs Other (your microphone vs the call audio). In a group call everyone else is "Other"; Reline cannot name Messenger participants.
• Not for calls on your phone: there is no Reline mobile app.
• Not local-only: audio goes to a cloud transcription provider, audio and notes are stored in cloud storage (Cloudflare R2), and summaries and chat use cloud AI models. Notes are private by default.
• If everything must stay on your machine, an offline recorder with a local transcription model is the better match.

The same setup works for other calling apps that no notetaker bot can join. WhatsApp and Telegram still have desktop apps, each with its own quirks around recording.

Start on the Free plan to record your first calls. Professional is $15 per month ($140 per year) and Enterprise is $32 per month ($26 per month on annual).