Reline for Mac
the bot-free AI notepad.
Reline runs as a native macOS app that records your meetings without sending a bot. It captures your microphone and your Mac's system audio locally, notices when you're on a call, and turns the conversation into a speaker-labeled transcript, a citation-backed summary, and a recording you can scrub through later.
We're aligned on the rollout date — what's the gating risk on the auth flow?
The refresh-token edge case. Once that's covered we can ship to the pilot cohort.
Send me the failure modes before EOD and I'll bake them into the test matrix.
Will do — pairing with the platform team tomorrow morning to align on the schema...
Everything a meeting needs, on macOS
Reline for Mac is the desktop app the rest of the product is built around. Start a recording from the menu bar or let auto-detection prompt you, and Reline handles the capture, the live transcript, and the summary — then keeps the audio so you can replay any moment. Here's what's in the box.
Live transcription that streams in as you talk, so you can read the conversation in real time instead of waiting for the meeting to end.
Me-vs-Other speaker labels that separate your microphone from the room's system audio, so it's clear who said what without setting up named voices.
Citation-backed AI summaries where every claim links to the exact transcript segment that supports it — nothing invented, everything checkable.
Recording playback with a timeline scrubber: click any line of the transcript to jump straight to that moment in the audio, and isolate the mic or the system track.
Reusable Lenses — 16 ready-made AI templates for sales calls, standups, interviews, and design reviews that turn a raw transcript into the format you actually need.
A Notion-style editor with real-time collaboration and full version history, so your notes are a living document your team can edit together.
Private-by-default sharing with five granular permission levels per note and per folder — workspace role alone grants nothing until you say so.
RAG chat across your notes, folders, and workspaces, with answers grounded in your own transcripts and timestamps.
Automatic meeting detection on macOS
The hardest part of recording a meeting is remembering to hit record. On macOS, Reline can notice when you're in a call and offer to start recording for you, so the notes are already running before the conversation gets going. You stay in control — it's a prompt, not an ambush — but you stop losing the first five minutes of every call because you forgot to press the button. Auto-detection is one of the things that makes the Mac app feel less like a recorder you operate and more like a notepad that's simply there when you meet.
How capture works on your Mac: mic plus system audio, no bot
When you start a recording, Reline taps macOS's documented audio APIs to capture two streams locally: your microphone — your own voice — and your Mac's system audio, which is everything the other side is saying as it plays through your speakers. You grant permission once. From then on, Reline records whatever your Mac plays, no matter which app the meeting is in. Nothing joins the call as a participant. There is no "Reline has joined the meeting," no extra tile on the grid, and nothing for the meeting platform to support or block — because from the call's point of view, no tool is present.
An honest word about privacy
We want to be precise about what "local" means here, because it's easy to overpromise. The capture step is local: the raw audio is recorded on your Mac. But that's where the local part ends. To produce a transcript, the audio is sent to Reline's cloud transcription provider. Your recordings and notes are stored in cloud storage. And the summaries, Lenses, and chat answers are generated by cloud AI. Reline does not do on-device transcription or on-device AI, and your audio does leave your Mac for processing. What you get is bot-free capture — no participant on the call — not an air-gapped pipeline. If a vendor tells you their AI notetaker keeps everything on your device, ask them where the transcription happens.
Works with any meeting app — and in person
Because Reline records what your Mac plays through the speakers plus what your microphone hears, the meeting platform is irrelevant. Google Meet, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Webex all work exactly the same way, and so do browser-based phone systems. There's nothing for the platform to integrate with, because nothing tries to join. The same mechanism means Reline records in-person conversations too — a one-on-one across the table, a workshop, a hallway decision — anywhere your Mac's microphone can hear the room.
Also on Windows, Linux, and the web
The Mac app isn't an island. Reline ships native desktop apps for macOS, Windows, and Linux, plus a full web app, and your workspace is the same across all of them. Record a call on your MacBook, open the notes on a Linux machine, share a summary from the web — it's one account and one set of notes. There is no mobile app today, so if you need to record from a phone, that's a gap to know about. But for desktop work, the cross-platform reach is real, and it's one of the things that sets Reline apart from Mac-only recorders.
Pricing
Free is $0 — solo note-taking with a one-hour limit per note, enough to try the whole flow on real meetings. Professional is $15 per user per month (or $140 a year, which works out to about $12 a month) and unlocks unlimited recording, unlimited transcription, unlimited storage, and every integration. Enterprise is $32 per user per month (about $26 a month billed annually) and adds shared workspaces, SSO via WorkOS with Google and Microsoft, an audit log, admin controls, a DPA, and an SLA. See the pricing page for the current breakdown.
Reline for Mac, answered
- Does Reline for Mac join my meetings as a bot?
- No. It records your microphone and your Mac's system audio locally and never joins the call as a participant. It works with any meeting app or in-person conversation.
- What is macOS auto meeting detection?
- On macOS, Reline can detect when you're in a call and prompt you to start recording, so you don't have to remember to hit record.
- Does my audio stay on my Mac?
- The capture step is local, but audio is sent to Reline's cloud transcription provider, stored in cloud storage, and summarized by cloud AI. Reline does not do on-device transcription or AI.
- What macOS versions and chips are supported?
- Reline ships a macOS desktop app alongside Windows, Linux, and web. Check the download page for current OS version and Apple Silicon/Intel details.
- What languages does transcription support?
- Reline transcribes 60+ languages.
- How are speakers labeled?
- Reline distinguishes Me from Other using microphone-vs-system audio energy. It does not do named speaker diarization.
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