Recly

Your AI recorder is already on your wrist.

A Plaud-style AI notetaker, running on the watch and phone you already own.Your Drive keeps the audio, your own key transcribes it, your own AI writes the notes.

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A Plaud or a NotePin sells you three things: a recorder, transcription, and AI notes. You already wear the recorder, and you already pay for the AI. Recly supplies the one piece you are missing, transcription on a supported device or with your own API key, and keeps the original audio in your Google Drive, iCloud or a folder you pick. There is no Recly server, no bot joining your call, and no monthly fee.

Minutes that write themselves

Stop recording, and your ChatGPT agent writes the minutes by itself, usually within a minute. Every new transcript becomes an MCP event: recly-events, a small program you run on your own computer, sends recording.transcribed to your agent, a dot or a Work chat, and the agent reads the transcript and does what you asked for every recording: minutes, decisions and action items, a follow-up email to draft.

• An event, not a prompt. OpenAI's MCP Events let an app start your agent. recording.transcribed reaches ChatGPT signed, and every new transcript starts a run of your agent.
• Through your own tunnel. Your agent calls recly-events back through your own OpenAI Secure MCP Tunnel. recly-events opens it from your side, so your computer needs no public address and opens no port, and there is still no Recly server.
• The transcript only when your agent asks. The event carries the recording's name, title and Drive links. Your agent reads the transcript through your own tunnel when it needs it, with get_transcript; ChatGPT needs no Google Drive app.
• Nothing missed. A computer that slept catches up when it wakes, and events your agent has not picked up wait in an inbox for 30 days.

Set it up: run recly-events yourself on a Mac, Linux or Windows computer, or a server. You need recordings stored in Google Drive; a ChatGPT dot (at the time of writing, ChatGPT Business Premium, or ChatGPT Pro outside the EEA, Switzerland and the UK) or a Work chat on ChatGPT web; an OpenAI Platform account for the tunnel and its key; and a computer that stays on.

Why Recly

• The recorder you already wear. A double press of the Galaxy Watch's home key starts recording; the watch hands the audio to your phone, and the phone does the rest. Phones, Macs and Windows PCs record too, and desktops capture your mic and the other side of a Zoom, Teams or Meet call as separate tracks.
• Only your own storage. Recordings go to a folder like recly/memo/2026-10/ in your own Google Drive, through drive.file, the narrowest permission Google offers; or to your iCloud on iPhone and Mac; or to a local folder you pick, such as an Obsidian vault. The original is never deleted before the upload is confirmed, and Recly has no server that could see your files.
• Files are the interface. Transcripts are plain files next to the audio, in a documented format any agent, script or app can read. Transcribe on the device or with your own key (AssemblyAI, CLOVA, Deepgram, OpenAI, Azure and more), with speakers separated on the device or by a provider that can, or not at all. Notes are your agent's job, not a paid tier — or your own ChatGPT plan's after Continue with ChatGPT: key points, decisions, to-dos, questions and sections of your own, organized as you record and after you stop, which you can edit.
• Fix it, find it. After a recording, fix a word, name the speakers, transcribe again with your current settings, search every title and transcript, or share the transcript as .txt, .md, .srt or .vtt and the audio as .m4a. A vocabulary of names and terms helps them come out spelled right, and audio or video files from elsewhere can be imported as recordings.
• Nothing covert. Recording is always visible. Desktops detect a meeting, ask, and only then record. No analytics, no crash reporting, no update pings.

What runs where

Step	Where it happens	What leaves your device
Recording	Your watch, phone or desktop	Nothing. A watch hands the audio to your paired phone, and only there.
Storage	Your Google Drive (or your iCloud on iPhone and Mac, or a local folder you pick on iPhone, Mac, Windows and Android)	To Google Drive or iCloud: the audio parts and a small metadata file, to your own account. A local folder: nothing leaves the device.
Transcription	On device, or a provider you chose with your own key	On device: no audio goes to a speech service. External: the joined audio goes to the provider you selected, with your vocabulary if you set one. Results are written next to the recording.
Notes	Your own AI agent (Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, ...)	The agent reads the transcript from your storage and writes the notes wherever you keep them (Notion, in the example skills). If you run recly-events for automatic minutes, it tells your ChatGPT agent about each new transcript through OpenAI: the recording's name, title and Drive links, and the transcript when the agent asks for it; never the audio.
Notes in the app (optional)	Your ChatGPT plan, once you sign in with ChatGPT and agree to organizing, and when you choose Organize on a recording	The transcript text — while you record and after you stop — with what you wrote in Settings → Notes, to OpenAI, with phone numbers, emails and long numbers replaced first; never the audio. Ask about this recording sends the transcript and About you with your question. The notes, which you can edit, are kept with the recording in Drive or iCloud for your other devices, or on the device with a local folder.
Processing settings and API keys	Your device	Nothing is synced. Settings file → Export settings moves configuration only; enter keys separately on each device.

The full list of every network path, with nothing left out, is in the privacy policy.

Get Recly

Platform	Requires	On-device transcription	Get it
Android phone	Android 14+	64-bit, 6 GiB+ reported memory (an 8 GB device in practice), ~1 GB one-time download	Google Play
Galaxy Watch	Wear OS 5+	— (the phone transcribes)	Google Play, with the Android phone app
iPhone	iOS 17+	iOS 26+	App Store
Apple Watch	watchOS 10+	— (the iPhone transcribes)	Comes with the iPhone app from the App Store
macOS	macOS 14.4+, Apple Silicon	macOS 26+	Notarized DMG from Releases
Windows	Windows 11, x64	64-bit, 6 GiB+ reported memory (an 8 GB device in practice), ~1 GB one-time download	MSI from Releases (beta, unsigned: see the guide)

Devices without on-device transcription use an external provider with your own key, or record without transcription.

The install guide has the steps for each platform, including sideloading the phone and watch APKs that each release carries and getting past the Windows SmartScreen warning. Building from source is in docs/development.md.

Next: set it up (storage and transcription), then, if you like, automatic minutes with a ChatGPT agent. Questions: FAQ.

Beta. The Windows app is built and tested in CI but has not yet been checked on a real Windows PC. Please report what you find in Issues.

How it works

1. Record. Tap Record on the watch (a Galaxy Watch can bind it to a double press of the home key), or the menu-bar icon on a Mac or the tray icon on Windows. Desktops notice when a meeting app opens your mic and ask whether to record.
2. Upload. When you stop, the recording goes to your storage as it is: Google Drive, or the iCloud or local folder you chose. Watches hand off to the phone first. If the network is down, it waits and retries. The original is never deleted before the upload is confirmed.
3. Transcribe and finish. After the original upload, the phone or desktop transcribes and uploads the result. Choose the transcription method and storage folder in Settings. Turning transcription off keeps the original upload.

New installs transcribe on the device where it can: with Apple's speech recognizer on iPhone and Mac, and with the open-source Qwen3-ASR 0.6B model on Android and Windows, a one-time download of about 1 GB that starts only when you ask. The requirements are in the table above. Elsewhere transcription starts off; choose an external provider with your own key. On-device transcription separates speakers too, with models bundled in the iPhone and Mac apps and, on Android and Windows, about 41 MB more in the same download (there, sentence by sentence). It never falls back to a cloud service.

The interface supports English, Korean, Japanese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Spanish, French, German, Brazilian and European Portuguese, Arabic, Hindi, Russian, Italian, Polish, Turkish, Filipino, Bengali, Urdu, Swahili, Vietnamese, Persian and Thai. Transcription offers 20 language choices, filtered by the provider or the device's speech engine. Desktop recordings always use meeting mode (microphone plus system audio), with automatic microphone selection.

Settings and transcript formats are documented in spec/.

Notes: bring your own agent

Recly's pipeline ends at the transcript on purpose. Turning it into notes is something your existing AI subscription already does well, so instead of a metered feature Recly hands the transcript to your agent: on its own, the moment the transcript lands, or whenever you ask.

For notes in another format, notes kept outside ChatGPT, or questions across past recordings, Recly ships two example skills for any agent: Claude, ChatGPT, Codex and others. Use them as they are, change them, or write your own for your format and notes app. The agent only reads the recordings; in the examples, the notes live in your Notion.

Example skill	What it does
recly-notes	Finds a recording (the latest, or the one you name), reads its transcript and writes minutes, a decision log, interview or lecture notes, or a memo
recly-notion	Keeps those notes in a "Recly Recordings" database in your Notion, one page per recording, and finds them again later

npx skills add rokrokss/recly            # any agent that supports Agent Skills
# or, inside Claude Code:
/plugin marketplace add rokrokss/recly
/plugin install recly@recly

The plugin registers Notion's hosted MCP server; run /mcp once to sign in. In the Claude app, upload recly-notes.zip and recly-notion.zip from the latest release as skills. In the ChatGPT app, unzip them and upload the five files inside to a project. Setup for each is in skills/README.md.

Then ask: "Make minutes from the latest recording and put them in Notion" or "What did we decide about pricing last week?". Want another format, or notes somewhere other than Notion? Edit a skill, or copy one and write your own. That is the point.

Recordings in a local folder, or in iCloud on a Mac: recly-events mcp gives Claude Desktop, Claude Code or Codex on the same computer tools to list, search and read them, with no sign-in and no network. Setup: Local MCP server.

Clients

Client	Built with	What it does
Galaxy Watch (Wear OS)	Kotlin · Wear Compose	Record, hand off to the Android phone
Android phone	Kotlin · Compose	Record, configure processing, Google sign-in
Apple Watch	SwiftUI	Record, hand off to the iPhone
iPhone	SwiftUI	Record, configure processing, Google sign-in
macOS	SwiftUI menu-bar app	Meeting capture (mic + system audio), process recordings
Windows	Compose Desktop + Rust capture helper	Meeting capture, process recordings

All six share one Kotlin Multiplatform core: the fixed recording flow, resumable Drive uploads, transcription adapters and the job queue.

Privacy

Recly has no server. Data goes only to the storage you choose (your Google Drive, your iCloud on iPhone and Mac, or a local folder that stays on your device), to the transcription provider you chose with your own key, between your own paired watch and phone, and, if you set up automatic minutes, to your ChatGPT agent through OpenAI: the recording's name, title and Drive links, and its transcript when the agent asks for it; never the audio. The privacy policy lists every one of those paths, and docs/recly.md §15 is the engineering contract behind it: any change that adds a network call must update that section first.

Contributing, security, license

• Contributing: bugs, questions and ideas all go to Issues. Conventions are in CONTRIBUTING.md. There is no CLA.
• Security: report vulnerabilities privately via SECURITY.md.
• License: AGPL-3.0-or-later, with two additional permissions in LICENSE-EXCEPTIONS.md so the apps can be distributed through app stores. "Recly" and its icon are trademarks; see TRADEMARK.md. Third-party components are listed in THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md.

For developers

core/        Kotlin Multiplatform shared core (:core)
android/     :app (phone), :wear (Galaxy Watch), :recording (shared recorder), :datalayer (phone↔watch contract)
apple/       Rec.xcworkspace — RecKit (Swift package) + RecPhone / RecWatch / RecMac
windows/     app/ (Compose Desktop) + capture-helper/ (Rust, WASAPI)
spec/        JSON Schema + examples — the contract every client honors
skills/      example agent skills (the `recly` plugin) — recly-notes (transcript → notes) · recly-notion (notes ↔ Notion)
events/      recly-events — optional program that tells a ChatGPT agent about new transcripts (MCP events) and serves local recordings over MCP
scripts/     icon rendering
docs/        recly.md (the design source of truth) + user guides (install, setup, agent, recly-events, faq) + development.md + policy/

Document	Contents
docs/development.md	Build and test every client, values filled in locally (OAuth client IDs), cutting a release
docs/recly.md	The design source of truth. Architecture, the internal step model, recording and retention, processing settings and secrets, auth, transcription, per-platform notes, privacy, open decisions. Its section numbers are a contract: code comments cite them as docs/NN "…"
docs/install.md · setup.md · agent.md · recly-events.md · faq.md	The user guides, also at recly.dev
spec/	Machine-readable contract: recording-settings.schema.json, recording.meta.schema.json, transcript.schema.json, examples/
events/README.md	The recly-events reference: commands, configuration, the event and its tools, building it
skills/README.md	The recly plugin: what the two example skills do, how to set them up in Claude Code, the Claude app and ChatGPT, and how to write your own