How to record a VoIP call on your computer
If the call plays through your computer, Reline can record it. That covers softphones and dialers such as Zoom Phone, RingCentral, Dialpad, Aircall and 8x8, and desktop calls in Microsoft Teams, WhatsApp Desktop or Signal Desktop. Reline captures the audio your machine plays plus your microphone, locally on macOS or Windows. It cannot record a call happening on a separate mobile phone.
How to do it
Take the call on your computer, in the desktop app or a browser dialer, not on a separate handset.
Open Reline on macOS or Windows and start recording before you dial or answer.
Talk normally. Reline records the call audio your computer plays plus your microphone, on your own machine, so nothing is added to the call and no dial-in recorder is needed.
Stop recording to get a transcript with speaker separation in 60+ languages and a citation-backed summary, with the audio kept so you can replay any line.
Get consent first. Recorded calls are treated more strictly than meetings in many places, and some jurisdictions require every party to agree.
Why bot-free
Call recording used to belong to the phone system, which made it an admin setting you either had or did not. Since Microsoft retired Skype on 5 May 2025 and dialers moved into desktop apps and browser tabs, the audio of most business calls now passes through your own speakers, and that is something you can capture without asking the phone system for anything. This is also where we draw the honest line. Reline records what this computer plays. A call on a mobile phone sitting next to your laptop is out of reach, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. Putting that call on speaker records a room, not a call, with the quality loss that implies.
Frequently asked
- Can Reline record a call on my mobile phone?
- No. Reline records audio playing through the computer it runs on, so a call on a separate phone is out of reach. Take the same call in a desktop or browser dialer and Reline records it normally.
- Does the other side hear a recording beep?
- No, because Reline is not recording inside the phone system. That makes disclosure your responsibility, and call-recording rules are stricter than meeting rules in many places.
- Which dialers does this work with?
- Any that play audio through your computer, including Zoom Phone, RingCentral, Dialpad, Aircall, 8x8 and browser-based softphones, plus desktop calls in Microsoft Teams, WhatsApp Desktop and Signal Desktop.
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