Install Recall

About ten minutes, most of it granting permissions. Every feature works without its permission until you grant it; it just shows a "Grant access" row in Settings.

Requirements

macOS26 or later

ChipApple silicon

AIClaude subscription or your own key

To buildSwift 6.3 command-line tools

Build from source

Recall isn't available to download yet, and the source isn't public yet. When it is, you'll build it with the Swift command-line tools. No Xcode needed. The steps below show what that will look like.

$ git clone <repo URL, when public> recall
$ cd recall
$ ./build.sh
✓ Built and signed Recall.app
✓ Installed ~/Applications/Recall.app
✓ Launcher at ~/bin/recall

Recall has a Dock icon, a menu-bar icon and the island, which floats at the top of your screen. Idle, it uses under 150 MB of memory and close to no CPU.

Bring your own AI

Use a subscription (Claude through Claude Code, ChatGPT through Codex), an API key (Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, OpenRouter) or a local model (Ollama, LM Studio). Keys go in Settings › AI and are stored in your Keychain. The engine you pick runs the whole app: chat, triage, your brief, meetings and voice. The chip in the chat box shows the exact model, how much context is used and how much of your plan is left.

For a Claude subscription: install Claude Code, run claude, and sign in when it asks.

$ npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code
$ claude
# sign in when it asks

Coming soon: Recall's setup will install the engine and open its sign-in for you. More on bringing your own AI ›

Permissions

Grant these in System Settings › Privacy & Security. Recall asks for each the first time a feature needs it.

Microphone and Speech Recognition Hold to talk and meeting captions. Speech is recognised on your Mac when it supports on-device recognition.

Calendars Today, next-meeting countdown and prep cards.

Screen and System Audio Recording Hearing the other side of a call, and "what's on my screen".

Automation (Apple Events) Reading mail from Outlook while keeping it hidden, and music control.

Notifications Prep cards, reminders and server alerts. Quiet in meetings and out of hours.

Accessibility Lets Recall notice the right Option key for push to talk. Without it, hold ⌃⌥ Space instead.

Hotkeys

Quick panel (optional; pick the key in Settings) ⌥ Space

New chat ⌘ N

Search ⌘ K

Today ⌘ 0

Push to talk, release to send Hold right ⌥

Move through recent questions and suggestions in the quick panel ↑ ↓

Close the quick panel esc

Pair your iPhone

1On your Mac, open Settings › iPhone and turn on phone access.

2Install Recall on your iPhone and tap Pair.

3Scan the QR code shown on your Mac.

4Away from home? Install Tailscale on both devices. Recall never changes network settings for you.

The phone server is off until you turn it on. It only listens on your local network and Tailscale, never the public internet. Revoke a phone any time in Settings › iPhone.

Where your data lives

Meeting notes, transcripts and state are plain files on your Mac.

~/Library/Application Support/Recall/
  meetings/   2026-10-22-platform-review.md
  state/      last-reply.json, checkpoints

Uninstall

Recall doesn't change your hooks, scripts or system settings, so removing it is three lines.

$ rm -rf ~/Applications/Recall.app
$ rm ~/bin/recall
$ rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Recall