ReelNotes — The Media Notebook
You’ve got a notebook for everything you read. What about everything you watch and listen to?
ReelNotes is a notebook for video and audio. Take notes while watching a film, YouTube or Vimeo video, lecture or interview, or while listening to a podcast or recording. Every note stays connected to the exact moment it was created, with a timestamp and visual context.
So when you find something worth remembering, you don’t just write it down. You can go straight back to the moment.
NOTES THAT KEEP TIME
Write while you watch or listen. ReelNotes links each note to playback time and can capture a thumbnail of what you were seeing.
Browse your notes visually, search them, organise them with colours and labels, and jump instantly from a note back to the original moment.
WATCH. NOTICE. REMEMBER. RETURN.
ReelNotes works with local video and audio, YouTube and Vimeo projects, podcasts and other supported media.
Use it to take notes on:
• films and documentaries
• YouTube and Vimeo videos
• podcasts and interviews
• lectures and educational videos
• research material
• your own footage and recordings
TRANSCRIBE AND SEARCH
Turn spoken material into a searchable, time-linked transcript.
Read alongside playback, search for words or ideas, jump directly to spoken passages and create notes from important moments.
ReelNotes supports local media transcription, available YouTube captions and supported transcript imports. Availability and accuracy may vary depending on the media, language, connection and Mac.
SHAPE YOUR STORY
Notes don’t have to stay in the order you found them.
Mark sections of your media with in and out points, build Sequences and rearrange moments to explore an interview, argument, lesson or story in a different order.
WORK THE WAY YOU THINK
Canvas gives you a spacious notebook for writing and reviewing.
Timeline shows where your notes live across the media.
Quick Log lets you capture thoughts rapidly without interrupting playback.
Sequences let you collect, arrange and play selected moments.
FIND THE MOMENT AGAIN
Search notes and transcripts, organise with labels and colours, annotate thumbnails and keep related projects together in the Binder.
Whether you’re studying a lecture, researching a subject, taking notes on a podcast, reviewing an interview or shaping a film, ReelNotes keeps the thought connected to the thing that made you think it.
SHARE AND EXPORT
Turn your work into reports, contact sheets, spreadsheets, web-ready documents and structured exports for research, review and professional post-production workflows.
PRIVATE AND LOCAL-FIRST
ReelNotes is local-first and built with privacy in mind. Projects remain on your device. Online media, podcast discovery and some remote features require an internet connection or access to their respective services.
ReelNotes Pro unlocks advanced layouts, professional exports and full project control with a one-time purchase — no subscription.
ReelNotes. The Media Notebook.
Notes that keep time.
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Improved timeline navigation with trackpad and Shift + mouse-wheel support.
Fixed toolbar positioning when scrolling and switching layouts.
Improved YouTube playback controls and synchronisation.
General refinements and bug fixes.
Version 3.9.3 (454)
The developer, Hassan Amini, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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