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Rylo Sidekick is a free Mac app that puts live captions on your video calls — Zoom, Teams, and more — so you never miss a word.

What is Rylo Sidekick?

Yes — Rylo Sidekick is free to use, with no subscription or hidden charges.

Is Rylo Sidekick free?

What you need to run Rylo Sidekick on your Mac, including supported macOS versions.

System requirements for Rylo Sidekick

Step-by-step guide to downloading, installing, and opening Rylo Sidekick on your Mac for the first time.

How to download and install Rylo Sidekick

Rylo Sidekick uses the same account as Rylo Phone — here's how signing in works, and what happens if you're already a Rylo user.

How to sign in to Rylo Sidekick

How Rylo Sidekick notices when you've joined a call in Zoom, Teams, and other apps — and what to do if it misses one.

How call detection works in Rylo Sidekick

Chat, Bottom Bar, and Notch — the three caption layouts in Rylo Sidekick, and how to switch between them.

The three ways to view your captions in Rylo Sidekick

How to change caption font size, language, and appearance in Rylo Sidekick.

Customizing your captions in Rylo Sidekick

How to find, search, rename, export, and delete your saved call transcripts in Rylo Sidekick.

Viewing, searching, and exporting your call history in Rylo Sidekick

How to pick which voice speaks your typed messages aloud in Rylo Sidekick.

Choosing your Sidekick voice

How to update your name and email in Rylo Sidekick, and how your account relates to Rylo Phone.

Managing your Rylo Sidekick account

What happens when you delete your Rylo Sidekick account, including why it also affects your Rylo Phone number and history.

Deleting your Rylo Sidekick account

What to do if Rylo Sidekick doesn't notice when you've joined a call, and how to start captioning manually.

Rylo Sidekick isn't detecting my call

How Rylo Sidekick handles your call audio and transcripts, and what does — and doesn't — leave your computer.

Does Rylo Sidekick send my audio to the cloud?

Rylo Phone and Rylo Sidekick explained — what each app does, and how they work together on the same account.

What's the difference between Rylo Phone and Rylo Sidekick?

Which video call apps Rylo Sidekick supports, and how it captions calls made in a browser.

Does Rylo Sidekick work with Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, and other call apps?

Rylo Sidekick is currently available for Mac. Here's what to use if you're on Windows.

Does Rylo Sidekick work on Windows?

Why Rylo Sidekick asks for Microphone, System Audio, and Accessibility access on your Mac, and how to grant each one.

Setting up Rylo Sidekick's permissions

How Rylo Sidekick's speaking vs. typing preference works, and what it changes about your setup and in-call experience.

Speaking vs. typing: choosing how you communicate on calls

How to start, pause, resume, and end live captioning in Rylo Sidekick.

Starting, pausing, and ending a caption session

How to use Rylo Sidekick's type-to-speak feature to have your typed messages spoken aloud into a call.

Typing to speak: sending typed messages during a call

How to connect Google Calendar to Rylo Sidekick so it can give you a heads-up before meetings and auto-start captioning.

Connecting Google Calendar for automatic meeting detection

How Rylo Sidekick's automatic, on-device call summaries work — topics, decisions, and action items after every call.

Getting an AI summary of your call

Troubleshooting steps for when Rylo Sidekick isn't showing live captions during a call.

I don't see captions / captions stopped working

Troubleshooting steps for when Rylo Sidekick's type-to-speak feature isn't available or isn't working.

Fixing issues with typing to speak (Rylo Microphone driver)

Why some Bluetooth headsets stop transcribing your voice during type-to-speak, and how to fix it.

Why did my Bluetooth headset stop picking up my voice?

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