How to record a Whereby meeting without a bot
You can record a Whereby room without a notetaker bot and without being the host. Whereby's own recording is a host control, and cloud recording sits on paid plans. Reline records what Whereby plays through your computer plus your microphone, locally on macOS or Windows, so nothing joins the room and the participant list never changes.
How to do it
Open Reline on macOS or Windows and start a recording before you open the Whereby room link.
Join the room in your browser as usual. Reline records the audio your computer plays plus your microphone, on your own machine, so the Whereby participant list stays exactly as it was.
Stop recording when the call ends. You get a transcript with speaker separation in 60+ languages and a citation-backed summary in seconds, and the audio stays in the note so you can press play on any transcript line and hear it.
Tell the room you are recording where consent is required. Removing the visible bot does not remove your duty to disclose.
Why bot-free
Whereby is browser-first, and that is exactly where the notetaker market has a hole. Otter's notetaker covers Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams. Fireflies publishes a longer list (Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, GoToMeeting, Dialpad, Lifesize, Jitsi) and Whereby is not on it. So on Whereby the bot route is usually not rude, it simply does not exist. Whereby's own recording is a host control and cloud recording is a paid Embedded feature, which leaves a guest with no built-in option at all. Recording what your own computer plays clears both problems at once: no bot to admit, no host permission to request.
Frequently asked
- Can I record a Whereby meeting if I am not the host?
- Yes. Reline records on your own machine rather than through Whereby, so you do not need host rights and Whereby's recording feature does not need to be enabled. Get consent where it is required.
- Do notetaker bots work with Whereby?
- Mostly no. Otter's notetaker covers Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams, and Whereby is absent from the platform list Fireflies publishes. That is why local capture is usually the only route on Whereby.
- Does Reline record the Whereby video?
- No. Reline captures audio: what your computer plays plus your microphone. You get the transcript, the summary and the recording to replay, not a video file.
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