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a bot in standup.
Spinach is an AI scrum master that joins your standups as a bot to produce agile recaps and Jira tickets. Reline records standups — and every other meeting — bot-free on your own device, then gives you speaker-separated transcripts (Me vs Other — mic vs system audio), citation-backed summaries, reusable Lenses, and a real collaborative notepad. Free to start.
Choose Reline if you want standups — and every other meeting — recorded bot-free on your own device, with citation-backed summaries, reusable Lenses, and a real notepad. Choose Spinach if you run recurring agile ceremonies and want a bot that auto-joins and files tickets in Jira, Linear, or Asana, with SOC 2 Type 2 and SAML SSO.
What Reline does that Spinach doesn't.
Spinach focuses on agile ceremonies: it joins your standup, retro, or planning call as a participant and turns it into a recap with blockers and action items pushed to Jira. Reline is built for every meeting, bot-free: it captures mic and system audio locally so nothing joins the call, then turns the recording into a cited, co-editable note your whole team can work in — standups included.
Records bot-free on your own device — no Spinach participant in the standup, on any platform or in person.
Works for any meeting, not only agile ceremonies — customer calls, 1:1s, interviews, design reviews.
AI summaries cite the exact transcript segment behind each point — verify before you share.
Notion-grade real-time collaborative editor (Tiptap + ProseMirror) for a living team doc.
Reusable AI Lenses with four output formats, including a JIRA-ticket Lens and a decisions log.
RAG chat across notes, folders, and entire workspaces, grounded in citations.
Transcribes 60+ languages with auto-detection; capture is local, AI runs securely in the cloud.
Five-level granular permissions, private by default; starts free, Professional $15/user/mo.
Reline vs Spinach — feature comparison
| Capability | Spinach | |
|---|---|---|
No bot joins your meeting Spinach joins Zoom/Meet/Teams as a participant; Reline never joins | Yes | No |
On-device, local audio capture | Yes | No |
Works for in-person meetings | Yes | No |
Built for every meeting type (not just standups) Spinach is optimized for agile ceremonies | Yes | Partial |
Agile/scrum facilitation (live agenda, blockers) Spinach's signature strength | Partial | Yes |
Speaker-separated transcription | 60+ languages | 100+ languages |
Bot-free desktop capture app | Yes | No |
Free tier | 1 hr per note, 10 hrs / mo, unlimited notes, full AI + Lenses | Free Starter plan |
Professional price Spinach public pricing at the time of writing | $15/user/mo · $12 annual | Business from $19/user/mo |
AI summaries with citations back to transcript | Yes | No |
Keeps the recording + click-to-seek playback Both keep the meeting and let you play it back from that minute. Spinach stores a video recording in its dashboard. Reline keeps audio captured locally on your machine, with no bot in the call, and every summary point seeks back to the moment behind it. | Yes | Yes |
Reusable AI Lenses (templates with 4 output formats) Spinach formats agile recaps; Lenses reshape any meeting into any deliverable | Yes | Partial |
Generate Jira tickets / push action items Spinach is Jira-native; Reline ships a JIRA-ticket Lens, with Slack/Linear/Notion rolling out | Yes | Yes |
Notion-grade collaborative notepad (real-time co-edit) | Yes | No |
RAG chat across notes / folders / workspaces | Yes | No |
Granular permissions per note and folder | 5 levels | Partial |
Calendar sync (Google + Microsoft) | Yes | Yes |
Audio + transcripts never train third-party models | Yes | Yes |
Comparison reflects public pricing + feature pages at the time of writing. Found something out of date? Let us know.
Last updated July 2026
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When Spinach is the better choice
Choose Spinach over Reline if you run recurring agile ceremonies (standups, sprint reviews) and want a bot that auto-joins Zoom/Meet/Teams/Webex calls and turns discussion into filed tickets in Jira, Linear, Asana, or ClickUp. Spinach also offers a more enterprise-ready compliance stack out of the box: SOC 2 Type 2 (audited by EY), HIPAA with BAAs, plus SAML SSO and SCIM.
Switching from Spinach
- Is Reline a good Spinach alternative?
- Yes — if you want bot-free capture and a notepad for every meeting, not only agile recaps. Reline records standups and customer calls, 1:1s, and interviews alike on your own device with no bot, cites every summary point, and gives your team a collaborative document. Spinach stays strong if dedicated live scrum facilitation is your main need.
- Does Spinach join the meeting as a bot?
- Yes. Spinach joins your Zoom, Google Meet, or Microsoft Teams call as a participant to listen, record, and transcribe. Reline works the opposite way: it captures your mic and the meeting’s system audio locally on your device, so no bot joins the standup and nothing appears in the participant list.
- Can Reline run my standup like Spinach?
- Reline captures and summarizes standups bot-free and can output blockers, action items, and Jira tickets through Lenses. Spinach offers dedicated live agile facilitation — an in-call agenda and scrum-master prompts — that Reline doesn’t; Reline is a general meeting notepad that happens to handle standups well.
- Does Reline push to Jira like Spinach?
- Reline ships a JIRA-ticket Lens that formats ready-to-paste tickets from the meeting, and native push integrations (Slack, Linear, Notion) are rolling out. Spinach is Jira-native with deeper two-way ticket sync today.
- How much does Reline cost compared to Spinach?
- Reline is free for solo note-takers (1 hour per note, 10 hours of transcription / month, full transcripts, AI, and Lenses). Professional is $15/user/month ($12 billed annually); Enterprise — with SSO, audit log, DPA, and SLA — is $32/user/month ($26 billed annually). Spinach has a free Starter plan, a per-meeting-hour Pro option, and a Business plan from $19/user/month.
- Reline vs Spinach: which is better?
- Reline is better if you want every meeting — not just agile ceremonies — captured bot-free on your device, with citation-backed summaries and a collaborative notepad. Spinach is better if you want a scrum-master bot that auto-joins standups and files tickets straight into Jira, Linear, Asana, or ClickUp, with SOC 2 Type 2 and SSO.
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