What happened
R117 published tayorino v1.1 on the App Store on 2026年11月12日, adding free meeting-minutes creation and ¥980 one-time task management to the Apple Watch and iPhone recorder app.
Why it matters
The app needs no dedicated recorder or monthly transcription plan, so managers who already wear an Apple Watch may be able to capture decisions and deadlines without extra hardware, the company says.
WHO IT HITSManagers and team leaders who run back-to-back meetings and one-on-ones, especially Japanese-speaking professionals who already wear an Apple Watch, are the users R117 is aiming at.
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R117 frames tayorino around a specific daily frustration: managers leave meetings with decisions and assignments scattered across memory, chat and someone's notes, and dedicated AI voice recorders add another device to carry and charge. The company says its answer is to use the Apple Watch people already wear, with one-tap recording that continues even when the screen turns off and transcription that runs on the iPhone every 15 minutes.
The v1.1 update extends that from recording to output. Recordings can be merged, split by topic, and turned into minutes covering attendees, agenda, decisions, ToDos with owners and deadlines, and open items, with a link back to the original audio. Task management pulls out the user's own commitments with deadlines sorted into overdue, today and within seven days. R117 CTO 堀井 大輝 says he built the app from his own experience of forgetting decisions the day after a run of meetings.
The company is also positioning privacy as a differentiator: it keeps no server for recordings, runs Japanese transcription and semantic search on the device, and lets users bring their own API keys from providers such as OpenAI, Claude and Gemini, with voice never sent. Users without a key can still record, transcribe and search.
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