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It waits in the menu bar
Rebrief stays in the menu bar and automatically starts and stops recording with your meeting.
You can always start and stop it yourself instead.
Record, transcribe and take notes onevery meeting, automatically.
Rebrief is a notetaker that waits in your Mac's menu bar, notices when a call starts, and records both sides. When the meeting ends, the transcript and the meeting notes are already waiting. No bot joins the call, and your audio, transcripts and notes never leave your Mac.
- Any meeting app
- No bot in the call
- Search or ask anything
- Everything runs on device
Act oneWhat it does
How Rebrief records a meeting
From the moment a call starts to finished meeting notes, Rebrief handles every step automatically.
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It captures both sides of the conversation
Rebrief records your microphone and the call audio separately, so it works with any meeting app and always knows which voice is yours.
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It turns the conversation into meeting notes
After the call, Rebrief transcribes the conversation on your Mac and organizes the key points, decisions, action items and open questions.
Meeting notes, ready when the meeting ends.
A model on your Mac reads the transcript and writes the meeting notes. It runs when the transcript is finished, and the notes are waiting the next time you open the window.
- What happened
- Two to four sentences: what changed, and what is blocked.
- Decisions
- What the meeting actually settled, one sentence each.
- Key points
- Which topics were the essence, most important first.
- Action points
- The action items: what needs doing, and who said they would do it.
- Open questions
- What was raised and left unanswered.
Ask anything, across every meeting.
Rebrief searches your recorded meetings and answers your question using what was actually said.
For example
What did we decide about the Atlas beta?
You locked Atlas scope on Friday and opened the beta to the first fifty waitlist customers on September 14th. Reporting ships with cohort two in mid-October, and Marcus owns the invites.
The meetings it read: Product sync 31 Aug, August All-Hands 28 Aug
Based on what was said
The lines that sentence was written from sit directly underneath it. Click one and that meeting opens at that moment.
Ask follow-up questions
"And what about last week?" keeps the person and changes the dates. If it reads a question wrongly, say so in the next message.
Works with any meeting app, because it never joins one.
Rebrief records what your Mac plays. It does not connect to Zoom, sign in to Teams, or ask for calendar access. There is no bot in the participant list and nothing for the other side to install. If you can hear the call, Rebrief can record it.
Known meeting apps
- Zoom
- Microsoft Teams
- Google Meet
- Slack
- FaceTime
- Webex
- Discord
- and any browser tab.
Nothing is added to the meeting
No participant appears, no join sound, no recording banner from Rebrief. Whether to tell the other people you are recording is your decision, and where you are it may be the law.
It records everything your Mac plays
Including notification sounds and whatever else is playing. That is the trade for needing no integration, and it is worth knowing before you start a call with music on.
No integration to break
Nothing to reauthorise, no API to deprecate, no workspace admin to ask. Every recording has a hard eight-hour limit and stops before the Mac sleeps.
What Rebrief is not
- Not a calendar assistant. It knows nothing about invitations, attendees or agendas.
- Not a cloud service. There is no account, no sync, no web app and no team workspace.
- Not a live assistant. Nothing is transcribed during the call.
- Not a video recorder. Audio only.
Act twoHow well it does it
Every line matched to a speaker
Rebrief identifies speakers automatically and remembers their voices across meetings, making it easy to see who said what.
Your voice
Recognized automatically
Rebrief records your microphone separately, so it identifies your side of the conversation from the start.
Other speakers
Separated by voice
Rebrief distinguishes the voices on the call and organizes every line by speaker.
Across meetings
Remembered over time
Name a voice once and Rebrief recognizes it in future meetings, keeping your conversations organized.
On-device transcription in 99 languages
Rebrief automatically detects the language on each side of the call and adapts when the conversation switches to another.
One call, one language, both tracksYour track frTheir track fr
0:04frJ’ai besoin du rapport des ventes d’ici vendredi.
0:11frJe peux t’envoyer les chiffres jeudi soir.
0:19frJ’enverrai la version finale demain matin.
0:26frParfait, je la relirai avant la réunion avec Northwind.
Supported languages
- en
- zh
- de
- es
- ru
- ko
- fr
- ja
- pt
- tr
- pl
- ca
- nl
- ar
- sv
- it
- id
- hi
- fi
- vi
- he
- uk
- el
- ms
- cs
- ro
- da
- hu
- ta
- no
- th
- ur
- hr
- bg
- lt
- la
- mi
- ml
- cy
- sk
- te
- fa
- lv
- bn
- sr
- az
- sl
- kn
- et
- mk
- br
- eu
- is
- hy
- ne
- mn
- bs
- kk
- sq
- sw
- gl
- mr
- pa
- si
- km
- sn
- yo
- so
- af
- oc
- ka
- be
- tg
- sd
- gu
- am
- yi
- lo
- uz
- fo
- ht
- ps
- tk
- nn
- mt
- sa
- lb
- my
- bo
- tl
- mg
- as
- tt
- haw
- ln
- ha
- ba
- jw
- su
Act threeWhat it costs
Free for recordings up to fifteen minutes.
The free plan includes complete recordings up to fifteen minutes, with transcription, meeting notes and export. Pay once to remove the limit.
Free
15minutes per recording
Everything else included. No account.
Unlocked
One-time purchaseNo subscription. No seat. No renewal.
Download for MacQuestions
The ones worth answering before you download.
Does Rebrief join my Zoom or Teams call?
No. Rebrief records what your Mac plays and what your microphone hears, so it never connects to the meeting service. There is no participant to see, no join sound, and nothing for anyone else to install.
Do I have to tell the other people that I am recording?
Rebrief does not announce itself, because it is not a participant in the call. Whether you tell the other people is your decision, and in many places it is a legal requirement rather than a courtesy. Rebrief does not make that judgement for you.
Is my audio uploaded anywhere?
No. Recording, transcription, notes and answers all run on your Mac. Only the one-time model downloads and limited usage statistics you can switch off use the network.
Does it work offline?
Yes, once the models have downloaded. Recording and transcription need no network at all after that.
Which meeting apps does it work with?
All of them. Rebrief records the audio your Mac plays rather than connecting to a service, so Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Slack, FaceTime, Webex, Discord, WhatsApp and any browser tab all work the same way.
Can I use it on an Intel Mac?
No. Rebrief requires Apple Silicon and macOS 15 or later.
Which languages can it transcribe?
Speak in any of 99 supported languages. Rebrief recognizes the language on each side of the call automatically.
How long does transcription take?
Transcription time depends on the meeting length and your Mac. It runs after the call rather than during it, and you can start a new recording while the last one is still working.
Is there a subscription?
No. Rebrief is a one-time purchase with no account and no seat. Recordings up to 15 minutes are free and complete, so you can judge the real product before paying.
How is this different from a cloud notetaker?
Most notetakers join your call as a bot, upload the audio to their servers, and bill per seat every month. Rebrief adds nothing to the call, keeps every recording on your machine, and is bought once.
Can I get my data out?
Use Export to save the transcript as Markdown, plain text, SRT or WebVTT, or to save both audio tracks. Meeting notes can be copied as Markdown.
Does it record video?
No. Rebrief is audio only, and it does not watch your screen or your camera. A recording is two audio tracks and nothing else.
Record, transcribe and take notes on every meeting, automatically.
Download for MacFree for recordings up to 15 minutes.