Recly

Recly: Audio recording software that captures meetings and notes on your watch or desktop, transcribes them, and saves files to your own cloud storage.

Recly acts as a conduit between your wearable devices, your desktop computer, and your personal cloud storage. It captures audio from smartwatches, phones, or computers and immediately uploads the files to Google Drive, iCloud, or a local folder. The software provides transcription options using either on-device engines or external API providers with your own keys. It integrates with ChatGPT agents using MCP events to automatically generate meeting minutes from transcripts. The system is designed to avoid proprietary backend infrastructure, ensuring data remains under user control.

Recly at a glance

Best for: Product manager, Software engineer, Writer
Runs on: macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, Apple Watch, Galaxy Watch
Pricing: Free and open source software.
Released: October 2026
Category: AI productivity tool
Website: recly.dev

Key features

One-tap recording on Apple Watch and Galaxy Watch
On-device transcription
Integration with personal Google Drive or iCloud storage
Automated meeting minute generation via ChatGPT agents
Desktop capture for Zoom, Teams, and Meet calls
Support for 14 external transcription API providers
Open source codebase

Use it for

Recording meetings directly from a smartwatch
Automatically generating meeting minutes via AI agents
Capturing desktop audio from video calls
Storing transcriptions and audio in personal cloud storage

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