Good Tape is an automated transcription tool created in Copenhagen, Denmark, and aimed squarely at people who handle sensitive recordings for a living — reporters, editors, researchers, lawyers and consultants. You upload or record audio and video, and the service returns a clean transcript with speaker labels, timestamps and AI-generated summaries. It supports more than 100 languages, including smaller ones that many transcription tools handle poorly, which matters for newsrooms and academic teams working across borders.
What differentiates Good Tape is its privacy posture. Files are stored in the EU, the company is GDPR-compliant and ISO 27001 certified, and it states plainly that it never trains its AI models on customer data. There is no secondary recorder required: the iOS and Android apps capture audio directly and sync recordings to the account, so interviews are ready to transcribe the moment you stop talking. Organisational features include projects for keeping an archive tidy, bulk uploads for large batches of files, subtitle export and an API plus MCP integration for pushing transcripts into other tools.
On pricing, the core transcription workflow has a free entry point, with paid tiers for teams and enterprises and an optional 'Explore' add-on for chatting with your recordings and surfacing cross-archive insights — offered free during its launch period. Teams and larger organisations can talk to sales about custom plans. The overall value proposition is straightforward: transcripts close to perfect, handled by infrastructure that respects the confidentiality of what you record.
