ReclyInstalling Recly
The phone and watch apps are on the stores:
- Android phone and Galaxy Watch: Google Play. Android 14 / Wear OS 5 or later.
- iPhone and Apple Watch: App Store. iOS 17 / watchOS 10 or later.
The watch cannot upload on its own — it hands recordings to the phone app, so install both.
The Mac and Windows apps, and APKs of the Android apps for sideloading, are on
GitHub Releases, tagged v<version>-build.<n>. The
newest app release is marked Latest, and this link
opens it; the events-v… releases next to it are recly-events, not the apps. The file each device
needs:
| Device | File |
|---|---|
| Android phone (sideloading) | Recly-Android-<version>-<build>.apk |
| Galaxy Watch (sideloading) | Recly-WearOS-<version>-<build>.apk |
| Mac | Recly-macOS-<version>-<build>.dmg |
| Windows | Recly-<version>.msi |
The build number in a file name differs per platform: v0.2.0-build.34, for example, carries
Recly-macOS-0.2.0-34.dmg, Recly-Android-0.2.0-39.apk and Recly-WearOS-0.2.0-1000039.apk.
The .aab files are Google Play upload bundles and the .ipa is the App Store upload package;
neither is for installing.
Each release also carries SHA256SUMS. Put it in the folder with your downloads and run
shasum -a 256 --ignore-missing -c SHA256SUMS (macOS, Linux): it checks only the files you
downloaded. In Windows PowerShell, run Get-FileHash .\Recly-0.2.0.msi -Algorithm SHA256 and
compare the hash, which it prints in capitals, with that file’s line in SHA256SUMS.
Once Recly is installed, set it up: connect your storage and choose how to transcribe.
Android phone
Install Recly from Google Play.
Sideloading instead: open the release in the phone’s browser, download
Recly-Android-<version>-<build>.apk, open it, and allow installs from that source. If Play
Protect warns about an app from outside Play, you can still install it. The APKs are signed with
the project’s upload key, not the key Google Play signs with, so a Play install and an APK install
cannot update each other: to switch, uninstall first, and only after every recording shows as
uploaded — uninstalling deletes the ones still on the phone.
To check an APK’s signer on a computer, run apksigner verify --print-certs Recly-Android-*.apk
(apksigner comes with the Android SDK Build-Tools). For the phone and the watch APK alike, the
output starts with:
Signer #1 certificate DN: CN=Recly, O=Recly
Signer #1 certificate SHA-256 digest: edf7b9502a55a9f845292e6c3ff6278dd3018be8f092bfc531531e4e43e43e9f
An install from Google Play is signed by Google Play’s app signing key and shows a different certificate.
Galaxy Watch
With the phone app installed, open Play Store on the watch and install Recly, or install it on the watch from Google Play on the phone.
Double press home key → record: on the watch, Settings → Advanced features → Customise keys → Double press home key → Open app, and choose “Recly Quick Rec” (the second launcher entry, the red square; “Recly” only opens the app). Take Galaxy Wearable off the phone’s background-battery limits or the Bluetooth link drops.
Sideloading instead: install the phone APK as well — the watch and phone apps must come from
the same place. Wear OS has no browser and no APK installer, so Recly-WearOS-<version>-<build>.apk
can only arrive over ADB. ADB is Android Debug Bridge, the command-line tool in
Android SDK Platform-Tools that
installs apps on a phone or watch over USB or Wi-Fi. On the watch, Settings → About watch →
Software → tap the version seven times, then Developer options → turn on ADB debugging and
Wireless debugging, and pair from a machine on the same Wi-Fi:
adb pair <pairing IP:port> <code> # Wireless debugging → "Pair new device"
adb connect <IP:port> # the address on the Wireless debugging screen
adb -s <IP:port> install -r Recly-WearOS-*.apk
Without a computer: download the watch APK on the phone and push it with an ADB-based installer app from Play (for instance “Wear Installer 2”); the watch settings above are the same.
iPhone · Apple Watch
Install Recly from the App Store. The Apple Watch app comes with it: if it does not appear on the watch, open the Watch app on the iPhone and install Recly from there.
The .ipa on each GitHub release is the App Store upload package; it cannot be installed on a
device directly. Building from source is in development.md.
macOS
Download Recly-macOS-<version>-<build>.dmg from the newest
release, open it and drag Recly to
Applications. The app is signed with a Developer ID certificate and notarized by Apple, so it opens
without any Gatekeeper workaround. macOS 14.4 or later, Apple Silicon.
Windows
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.
Download Recly-<version>.msi from the newest
release and open it. Windows 11 on x64. The
MSI is not code-signed, so SmartScreen shows “Windows protected your PC”: choose More info →
Run anyway.
NVDA and JAWS read Recly through the Java Access Bridge, which is off until it is turned on once.
jabswitch comes with any Java Development Kit for Windows; run it, then restart Recly and the
screen reader:
jabswitch /enable
Updating
The phone and watch apps update through Google Play or the App Store. A sideloaded APK updates when you install the newer APK the same way you installed the first.
The Mac and Windows apps do not update themselves. Quit Recly (Quit in the Mac menu-bar popover or the Windows tray popup), then install the newer DMG or MSI from the latest release over the old one; the MSI upgrades the existing install.
To hear about new releases, choose Watch → Custom → Releases on rokrokss/recly on GitHub.
Uninstalling
- Phone and watch apps: uninstall Recly like any other app. First make sure every recording shows as uploaded: uninstalling deletes the ones still on the device.
- Mac: choose Quit in the menu-bar popover, then move Recly from Applications to the Trash.
- Windows: Settings → Apps → Installed apps, then … next to Recly → Uninstall.
Recordings already uploaded stay in your storage. What else stays on the device, and how to remove it, is in the privacy policy.