Standup and design-review notes
with no bot in the call.
Reline records your standups, sprint planning, design reviews, retros, and incident calls without ever joining as a participant — no bot on the attendee list. You get citation-backed summaries, action items, and Jira-ready tickets, organized by sprint or project. Capture is local; transcription, storage, and AI run in the cloud.
Engineering meetings are where decisions quietly get lost
The hard part of a design review or an incident call isn't the meeting — it's what survives it. Decisions get made out loud and then live only in someone's memory until they're contradicted three sprints later. A recording bot doesn't fix that, and on a candid architecture debate it actively gets in the way. Reline takes a different path: it never joins the call.
Decisions made in a design review or retro vanish into Slack threads and nobody can find the rationale when it matters. There's no durable, searchable record of why you chose the approach.
Action items from standup get half-remembered. The thing someone said they'd unblock never makes it into Linear, and it surfaces again next standup.
A visible recording bot makes a candid architecture or incident debate go quiet — people get guarded when a third party is on the attendee grid, which is the opposite of what a good review needs.
Plenty of orgs' IT blocks third-party meeting bots outright. A notetaker that has to join the call is dead on arrival; one that captures locally keeps working.
Context is scattered across Zoom, Meet, Teams, and in-person rooms, with no single place to ask 'what did we actually decide about the retry logic?'
How Reline works on an engineering call
Reline runs as a desktop app on macOS and Windows, plus the web, with Linux in beta. When you start a recording it captures the meeting's system audio plus your microphone locally — through the operating system's documented audio API — so it works on Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, a dial-in, or an in-person room the same way. Nothing joins the call. There is no Reline participant on the attendee list, and because the meeting platform never sees a third party, an IT policy that blocks recording bots does not block you. Speaker labels are Me vs Other, derived from which audio stream each line came from — your mic versus the system feed — not named diarization. There is no mobile app today; capture happens on your laptop in the call.
Where your data actually lives — the honest version
We're precise about this because engineers will check. Capture is local: the raw audio is recorded on your machine, with no bot joining the call. But the work after that runs in the cloud — transcription is done in the cloud, recordings and files are stored in Cloudflare R2, and summaries are generated by cloud AI models. Reline does not do on-device transcription or on-device AI, so we will never tell you the audio never leaves your device. What protects internal discussions is access control: Reline is private by default with a five-level permission model on every note and folder. A workspace role alone grants nothing — each person who can see a note is an explicit grant. Transcription supports 60+ languages.
Turn a meeting into Jira tickets and decision records
Apply a Lens and the transcript becomes the artifact you actually need. The Jira-ticket Lens drafts paste-ready tickets — title, context, acceptance criteria — from what was discussed. The tech-decisions Lens writes an ADR-style record of the decision and its rationale. The bug-reports Lens turns an incident call into a structured report. Every summary is citation- and timestamp-backed: each claim links to the exact transcript moment that justifies it, and click-to-seek playback lets you replay the 20 seconds where the call was made before you commit it to a ticket.
One source of truth per sprint or project
Put each project in its own folder. Then ask questions across a project's entire meeting history with folder-scoped RAG chat: 'what did we decide about the retry logic,' answered with citations back to the specific call. Notes are a real Notion-style editor with real-time collaboration and version history, so the whole team can work the same retro doc without overwriting each other — and the rationale behind a decision is searchable months later, not lost in a thread.
Push to the tools you already run on
Send summaries and action items to Slack, Linear, or Notion when you want — those connectors are rolling out (there's no GitHub, Jira, or Zapier push; the Jira-ticket Lens drafts tickets you paste in). Calendar sync with Google and Microsoft is read-only and keeps each recording attached to the right meeting automatically. On macOS, Reline can auto-detect when a meeting starts so nobody has to remember to hit record on the design review that matters.
Pricing for individual engineers and teams
Free is $0 — solo note-taking with a one-hour limit per note, enough to try it on a real standup. Professional is $15 per user per month ($140 per year, about $12 a month) and unlocks unlimited recording, transcription, storage, and every integration. Enterprise is $32 per user per month ($26 a month billed annually) and adds shared workspaces, SSO via WorkOS (Google and Microsoft), an audit log, admin controls, a DPA, and an SLA. There is no SOC 2 or HIPAA certification today — if you have specific compliance requirements, talk to the team first.
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Engineering questions, answered
- Will a recording bot show up in our standups and reviews?
- No. Reline never joins the call as a participant and never appears in the attendee list. It records your mic and system audio locally, which also means it keeps working when your IT blocks third-party meeting bots.
- Are our internal discussions private?
- Yes. Reline is private-by-default with a 5-level access-control model on notes and folders — a workspace role alone grants no access; every share is an explicit grant. You control exactly who can see each project's notes.
- Is audio processed on-device?
- No. Capture is local, but audio is transcribed in the cloud, stored in cloud storage, and summarized by cloud AI. Reline does not do on-device transcription or AI, so we don't claim data never leaves your device.
- Can it create Jira tickets or push to Linear?
- The Jira-ticket Lens drafts paste-ready tickets from the transcript. Direct push to Slack, Linear, and Notion is rolling out; there is no GitHub, Jira, or Zapier integration today.
- Can I trust the AI summary for a decision record?
- Summaries are citation- and timestamp-backed — every claim links to the transcript moment, and click-to-seek playback lets you verify exactly what was decided before you write it into an ADR or ticket.
- What languages and platforms are supported?
- Transcription supports 60+ languages. Reline runs on macOS, Windows, and the web, with Linux in beta; there is no mobile app.
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