Transcribe a long FaceTime call from the screen recording you made.
FaceTime has no built-in call recording, so the file to transcribe is a screen recording made on the iPhone, iPad or Mac while the call ran. Upload that video here and a 90-minute FaceTime call comes back as text in about 3 minutes, with the first 20 minutes free and the $6 pack of 500 minutes covering the rest.
From a FaceTime call to a document
The call happened on FaceTime. The words end up in a file you can search.
Record the screen, not FaceTime
Nothing is saved inside FaceTime when a call ends, so the recording has to be started by you. On an iPhone or iPad, the Screen Recording control in Control Centre does it; long-press it to switch the microphone on. On a Mac, Shift-Command-5 opens the screen recording options, including which microphone to use.
Test both voices first
Some setups capture only your own side of a FaceTime call. Make a two-minute test call with a friend, stop the recording and play it back before a long call depends on it. If the other voice is missing, record the Mac with an external microphone near the speakers, or put the call on speaker and record with a second device.
Where the video lands
On an iPhone or iPad the screen recording goes to the Photos app as a video. On a Mac it usually lands on the desktop as a MOV file unless you chose another folder in the options. Screen video is large, so a long one goes up from the upload page, which takes files to 5 GB.
A 90-minute call, costed
Ninety minutes of FaceTime is 90 minutes of credit. A first-time visitor gets the opening 20 minutes free; the $6 pack of 500 minutes finishes the call and keeps 410 minutes for the next ones, and credits never expire.
Why FaceTime calls slip away
A call on FaceTime leaves no trace unless you planned for one.
✗ A screen recording you never open
Long screen recordings eat phone storage and sit in Photos between holiday clips, and nobody scrubs through an hour of a frozen video tile to find one sentence.
- No recording saved by the app itself
- Video files of a gigabyte or more
- Only your own voice, discovered too late
- Searching a call by dragging the timeline
- Notes rebuilt after hanging up
- Dates and figures remembered differently
✓ The call as a document
Upload the screen recording once; the audio is taken from the video and the call becomes text with chapters, a brief and the details people said.
- The speech pulled from the video track
- You and the other caller named in the summary
- Chapters with timestamps across the call
- Every name, number and date said, listed
- Questions answered by chatting with the transcript
- DOCX for the file, SRT if you keep the video
Sample
A long family FaceTime, as it comes back.
This sample is illustrative, written for this page rather than taken from a real call. The grandparent and grandchild labels replace the names a real summary would give.
Export
One transcript. Five clean formats.
Every pack exports all five — no format is held back for a higher tier.
Plain text
De-ummed paragraphs. Ready to paste.
SRT captions
Timed to the speech. Every video editor reads this.
WebVTT
HTML5 player + YouTube uploads.
Show notes
Formatted with chapters and pull-quotes.
Machine-readable
Timestamped text for your own tools.
Pricing
Honest pricing, no surprises.
A pack from $6 (500 minutes) opens the full transcript. After that, no subscription and no auto-renew — every tier is a one-time minute pack, and credits never expire. Buy once, use the minutes whenever you need them.
Casual pack
$6/500 min
8 hours of audio — $0.72 an hour. One-time — credits never expire.
- 500 minutes of audio
- All export formats
- Unlimited AI chat per transcript
- Executive summary & key quote
Best value
$12/2,000 min
33 hours of audio — $0.36 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 2,000 minutes of audio
- Priority queue
- All export formats
- Unlimited AI chat per transcript
Bulk pack
$24/5,000 min
83 hours of audio — $0.29 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 5,000 minutes of audio
- Priority queue
- API access for batch pipelines
- All export formats
FAQ
FaceTime recordings, the usual questions.
How quickly is a FaceTime recording transcribed?
Processing takes about 2 minutes per hour of audio, so a 90-minute call is ready in roughly 3 minutes once the upload finishes. A large screen recording takes longer to upload than to transcribe on a slow connection.
What does a 90-minute FaceTime call cost?
The call is 90 minutes. As a first-time visitor you get the first 20 minutes free, and the $6 pack of 500 minutes transcribes the rest from where the preview stopped, with 410 minutes left on the account afterwards.
Is there a way to record FaceTime without a screen recording?
FaceTime saves no copy of a video call, so a screen recording or a second recording device is the usual route. Whatever you use, recording a call needs the consent the law where you are requires, so tell the other person before you start.
The screen recording runs to several gigabytes. Can it go up?
Before your first pack, uploads can be up to 2 GB; a larger file starts once a pack is on the account, and every file can be up to 10 hours or 5 GB. A screen video at 5 Mbps is about 2.25 GB an hour (5 million bits a second times 3,600 seconds, divided by 8), so a long call can pass 2 GB.
The call ran longer than 10 hours. What then?
Trim it into two parts in Photos or QuickTime and upload both. Each part keeps its own timestamps, counted from the start of that file.
Which languages work, and is the call private?
99 languages are detected automatically, so a FaceTime call in Korean, Portuguese or Hebrew needs no setting. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, and the transcript downloads as TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT or JSON.
Related
Other calls and phone recordings
Upload the FaceTime recording. A long call, with 20 minutes on the house.
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