Reline
Reline is a bot-free AI meeting notepad that records your mic and system audio locally, then ships cited summaries to Slack, Linear, and
If a bot joining your call is a dealbreaker, Reline is the pick — transcript, audio, and citations stay tied to the note, and the September 2026 speed work makes it genuinely fast. At $12/user/month annual it lands under Granola Enterprise ($35), Otter Business ($19.99 annual), and Fathom Business ($25 annual) on unlimited recording and storage. Pass if transcription must stay on-device or if your team lives on phones — capture is desktop and browser only.
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- Privacy-conscious teams who refuse to send a bot into client or candidate calls
- Teams standardizing summaries with shared Lenses for standups, client reviews, and interviews
- Anyone building a cited, searchable meeting archive where every claim is replayable
- Developers wiring meeting context into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Gemini CLI, or Windsurf via MCP
- Compliance regimes requiring transcription and summarization to stay fully on-device — only capture is local
- Teams that live in a mobile-first workflow — no native iOS or Android capture
- Anyone needing a full CRM integration layer rather than Slack, Linear, Notion, and webhooks
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Skip Reline if your compliance regime requires transcription and summarization to stay fully on-device, or if you need native iOS or Android capture — Reline transcribes in the cloud and has no mobile recording app.
Free notes stop recording at 1 hour, and the cap counts cumulative pause/resume time rather than one continuous stretch.
Free at $0 covers solo notes, lectures, and first meetings with 1-hour-per-note recording and 10 transcription hours a month. Professional at $12/user/month billed annually ($15 monthly) removes those caps and fits teams of any size; Enterprise at $26/user/month billed annually ($32 monthly), bought self-serve with no quote, adds SSO via WorkOS and audit logs. Reline undercuts Granola Enterprise ($35/user/month), Otter Business ($19.99/user/month annual), and Fathom Business ($25/user/month
In short
Reline — Reline is a bot-free AI meeting notepad that records your mic and system audio locally, then ships cited summaries to Slack, Linear, and. Best for Privacy-conscious teams who refuse to send a bot into client or candidate calls, Teams standardizing summaries with shared Lenses for standups, client reviews, and interviews, Anyone building a cited, searchable meeting archive where every claim is replayable. Free to start; paid plans from $12/user/mo.
What's new in Reline
Checked 2 days agoAcross the latest 5 updates: 5 feature updates.
Reline listed in Claude's connector directory
Reline is now a Community connector in Claude's directory, so Claude users search for it under Customize > Connectors and click Connect. Manual MCP URL and ChatGPT developer-mode connections still work.
Meetings calendar, pictures in notes, tighter meeting notes
Meetings became a week/day calendar with drag-to-book and drag-to-move, notes can hold privately stored pictures, and generated meeting notes now write to the length of the meeting with Next Steps last.
Faster summaries, drag to organize, lighter desktop app
AI summaries, action items, and chat answers now start in about a second on a faster model and stream several times faster, while the desktop app idles with far less memory and no background CPU.
Pick your microphone, and edit anything from its menu
Four releases in eight days added a microphone picker with a live level meter, edit-from-menu for notes and folders, an Add to Slack button, and a change making dictated time count toward the 10 Free transcription hours.
Chat answers that show where they came from
Chat answers now cite the note or the exact moment with source and time chips, speaker separation uses echo cancellation instead of loudness, templates are one slash away, and the AI Organize review was rebuilt.
What people actually say about Reline — is it worth it?
We ran a structured research pass across product reviews, community discussions, and post-purchase forum threads to surface the patterns vendors won't publish themselves. Below: the recurring strengths, the hidden costs people mention most, and the cohort that consistently regrets adopting this tool.
19 mentions across 2 sources (Product Hunt, Lemmy) · researched Jul 2, 2026.
Average across the 2 sources that answered — each source counts once, not each post.
- +Bot never joins the call—eliminates the chill effect.
- +Summary citations let you verify claims in one click.
- +Local recording keeps audio and transcripts off third-party servers.
- +Supports 60+ languages for transcription—broad coverage.
- +Reusable Lenses standardize team summary formats.
- −Very limited community feedback—hard to judge real-world reliability.
- −No cloud backup by default—risk of data loss on device crash.
- −Integrations (Slack, Linear) still rolling out—not fully ready.
- −Auto-record only on paid plans—free users must start manually.
- −No app store reviews or Reddit threads to surface hidden issues.
- • Auto-record only on paid plans—free users must manually start each recording
- • Integrations (Slack, Linear) still rolling out—may need workarounds until fully shipped
Viability Score
How well maintained and how widely used is Reline? Built from what the vendor actually publishes (docs, changelog, tutorials, integrations, pricing), whether the site is live, and how much real users discuss it. How we calculate this
Last calculated: October 2026
How we score →Key Features
- Bot-free local recording of microphone and system audio into one archive
- Speaker source preserved on every transcript segment, separated by echo cancellation
- Live speaker-separated transcription in 60+ languages
- Summaries, action items, and chat answers start in about a second and stream several times faster
- AI summaries with timestamps and citations
- Reusable Lenses enforce one summary shape across a workspace
- RAG chat across one note, one folder, or the entire workspace
- Chat answers cite the note or exact moment with a playable clip
- Chat in seven languages including right-to-left scripts rendered natively
- Meetings week/day calendar with drag-to-book and drag-to-move
- Pictures pasted into notes, stored privately, exportable to Notion and Linear
- Meeting notes written to the length of the meeting with Next Steps last
- Reline Studio generates slide decks and AI drawings from meetings
- Microphone picker with live level meter
- Dictation anywhere — hold a key, talk, it types
About Reline
Reline (reline.so) is an AI meeting notepad for macOS, Windows, the web, and Linux (beta). It captures your microphone and the call audio right on your computer, so no bot ever joins the room, and it keeps the audio with the note so any transcript line plays back in place. Channel source survives every edit, and since the September 9, 2026 release speaker separation uses echo cancellation rather than loudness, so Me-vs-Other attribution no longer depends on which channel was louder. Live transcription covers 60+ languages with speaker separation; you can record, summarize, and ask in any of seven, including right-to-left scripts rendered natively. Summaries run through Lenses, a prompt you define once and share across the workspace, so every standup or client review comes out in the same TL;DR / decisions / action items shape. RAG chat spans one note, one folder, or the whole workspace, and answers cite the note or the exact moment with a clip you can play. Reline Studio turns a meeting into slide decks and AI drawings, capped at 1 a day / 10 a month on Free and uncapped on paid plans. Slack, Linear, Notion, Zapier, signed webhooks, calendar sync, and the MCP server sit on every plan, Free included. September 2026 was busy: summaries, action items, and chat answers now start in about a second and stream several times faster, the desktop app idles with far less memory, Meetings became a week/day calendar with drag-to-book and drag-to-move, notes can hold privately stored pictures, and generated notes write to the length of the meeting with Next Steps last. On September 30, 2026 Reline landed in Claude's connector directory as a Community connector, so Claude users connect from Customize > Connectors instead of hand-adding the MCP URL. Free starts at $0 with 1-hour recordings, 10 transcription hours a month, and 2 GB storage. Professional is $12/user/month billed annually ($15 monthly) for unlimited recording, transcription, storage, and workspaces. Enterprise is
Behind the Verdict
Reline's whole argument is that the notetaker shouldn't be a participant. Nothing joins your call, audio gets captured locally into the note, and any transcript line is replayable in place. For client calls, candidate interviews, or anything where a visible recorder changes the room, that's a real difference rather than a marketing line. We'd reach for it when a team wants identical output shape across every meeting. Lenses are the reason: define the prompt once, share it workspace-wide, and standups and client reviews come out in the same structure. The RAG chat that cites the exact moment — with a playable clip — is what makes the archive trustworthy months later. The September 2026 releases moved it past notepad territory. The week/day Meetings calendar with drag-to-book, pictures inside notes, and the speed bump that puts summaries and chat answers at roughly a second make it a daily driver rather than a demo. The lighter desktop app (far less idle memory, no background CPU) matters if you leave it running all day. Where it bites: capture is desktop and browser only. No native iOS or Android app, so a mobile-first team will fight it. Transcription, summaries, and storage run in the cloud — only the capture is local — so a compliance regime requiring on-device processing throughout should look elsewhere. And if you burn more than 10 transcription hours a month, Free stops being usable and you're on Professional. The closest alternative is Granola: similar bot-free positioning, $14/user/month Business, $35 Enterprise. Reline undercuts that on the top tier and throws in the MCP server, Studio decks, and Lenses across every plan. Otter and Fathom win on integrations breadth and CRM plumbing; Reline is narrower (Slack, Linear, Notion, Zapier, webhooks) but honest
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Real-world workflow fit
Concrete scenarios for the personas Reline actually fits — and what changes day-one when you adopt it.
Install the desktop app, connect Google Calendar, and let auto-record start the capture when the client meeting begins. Reline writes the transcript with your mic and the call separated by echo cancellation, then applies the client-review Lens you shared with your team.
Outcome: The client never sees a bot, the note keeps the audio so any disputed line plays back in place, and the summary lands in the format the client already reads.
Connect Microsoft 365 so each recording files onto the right meeting with attendees attached, define a standup Lens once for the whole workspace, and give action items an owner that pushes straight to Linear from the note.
Outcome: Every standup produces the same TL;DR / decisions / action items shape, and the action items show up on Home and in Linear without anyone retyping them.
Connect Reline through Claude's connector directory or add the MCP endpoint as a custom connector, scope it to the workspaces the assistant may reach, and ask the agent to pull action items from last week's planning call or create a note for the next one.
Outcome: Meeting context flows into the tools you already work in, workspace-scoped and revocable, without copy-pasting transcripts between windows.
Use Cases
- Recording Zoom or Teams calls without a bot joining, capturing mic and system audio locally.
- Generating meeting minutes and action items in a standardized format using workspace-shared Lenses.
- Asking questions across your entire meeting library and getting answers cited to exact timestamps.
- Pushing summaries to Slack, filing action items in Linear, and publishing wiki pages to Notion.
- Booking meetings on Reline's own week/day calendar and recording straight into that meeting's note.
- Keeping client meeting notes private per engagement, with audit logs and policy locks on Enterprise.
- Letting Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Gemini CLI, or Windsurf search and write to your notes via MCP.
- Capturing lectures or personal audio notes on the free plan and syncing when you are back online.
Models Under the Hood
as of 2026-10-17
Limitations
- Transcription, AI summaries and storage run in the cloud — Reline explicitly does not claim on-device AI, so on-device-only compliance regimes are out.
- Recording and transcription are capped on Free: 1 hour per note, 10 hours of transcription a month, and 2 GB of storage (dictated time counts toward those hours).
- Uploads are limited to 1 MB per file on Free vs 50 MB on paid plans.
- There is no mobile app yet, Linux is still beta, and booking in Reline's Meetings calendar does not send invites through Google or Outlook.
as of 2026-10-08
Verification history
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Plans compared
For each published Reline tier: who it actually fits, and what it adds vs. the previous tier. Cross-reference the cost calculator above for projected annual outlay.
Free
$0/mo
Ideal for
Solo users and students covering lectures, personal audio notes, and first meetings without paying — 1-hour notes, 10 transcription hours a month, 2 GB storage.
What this tier adds
Free entry point: bot-free recording, live speaker-separated transcription, AI summaries, and the full Lenses library, but capped at 1 hour per note.
Professional
$12/user/mo billed annually ($15 monthly)
Ideal for
Professionals and teams who live in meetings and need unlimited recording, transcription, storage, and workspaces with per-seat billing.
What this tier adds
Removes the Free caps entirely: unlimited recording length per note, unlimited transcription, unlimited storage and workspaces, plus auto-record meetings and priority support.
Enterprise
$26/user/mo billed annually ($32 monthly)
Ideal for
Organizations that need audit trails, policy controls, and a written SLA — bought self-serve at $26/user/month billed annually with no quote required.
What this tier adds
Adds single sign-on via WorkOS (Google and Microsoft), workspace audit log, org-wide policy locks, custom DPA and MSA, and a priority SLA on top of Professional.
Where the pricing makes sense
The company stage and team size where Reline's pricing actually pencils out — and where peers do it cheaper.
Free at $0 covers solo notes, lectures, and first meetings with 1-hour-per-note recording and 10 transcription hours a month. Professional at $12/user/month billed annually ($15 monthly) removes those caps and fits teams of any size; Enterprise at $26/user/month billed annually ($32 monthly), bought self-serve with no quote, adds SSO via WorkOS and audit logs. Reline undercuts Granola Enterprise ($35/user/month), Otter Business ($19.99/user/month annual), and Fathom Business ($25/user/month
Setup time & first value
How long it actually takes to get something useful out of Reline — broken out by persona, not the marketing-page minute.
Solo user on a laptop: about five minutes to install the desktop app, sign in, and take a first note on Free. Team rollout: add an hour to connect Google Calendar or Microsoft 365, define and share your first Lens, and wire Slack, Linear, or Notion. Enterprise adds SSO setup via WorkOS and org-wide policy configuration before the first seat goes live.
Switching to or from Reline
How to bring data in from common predecessors and how to get it back out — written for the switcher, not the buyer.
- →From Otter.ai: re-record upcoming meetings bot-free in Reline, then keep Otter as read-only history — there is no bulk transcript importer.
- →From Granola: move your summary shapes across by rebuilding them as workspace Lenses, then point auto-record at the same calendar.
- →From Fathom: replace the bot invite workflow with the desktop app, and re-point Slack, Linear, and Notion destinations on the Reline integration page.
- →From manual note-taking: start on Free, keep the 1-hour-per-note cap in mind during the trial, and define one Lens for the meeting type you run most.
- →From a company email signup: you get 30 days of Professional without a card, which is the window to test unlimited recording before deciding on $12/user/month billed annually.
- ↗To a general notepad: workspace admins can export the whole workspace as JSON plus raw audio archives, and individual notes export to Markdown or PDF from the editor menu.
- ↗To Notion: note images and content travel with exports to Notion, so the written record survives without Reline.
- ↗To Linear: action items export to Linear, which keeps the task trail intact if you leave the note archive behind.
- ↗To on-device tooling: expect to lose the archive — Reline transcription is a cloud service and there is no offline transcript export path.
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Tutorials & Learning
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