Good Tape (web)

by Zetland (Good Tape)

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The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free: a recording up to 20 minutes transcribes in full, a longer one is previewed, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export, and credits never expire.

Browser transcription built by Wired's parent for journalists.

Web  ·  free starter / Pro from $12/mo

TL;DR

Best for journalists needing accurate multilingual transcription with strong EU privacy guardrails. Pricing: free starter / Pro from $12/mo.

Category
Products
Pricing
free starter / Pro from $12/mo
Platforms
Web

What it is

Good Tape is a browser transcription product built by the team at Danish publisher Zetland. Aimed at journalists, EU-hosted, multilingual.

Best for: Journalists needing accurate multilingual transcription with strong EU privacy guardrails.
Watch out for: Audio uploaded to Good Tape's EU servers; cloud-based inference.

Install / use

Go to Good Tape (web) goodtape.io

What people actually do with Good Tape (web)-style transcription

The tool is the means. These are the jobs — each one priced at published rates, each one wired up on its own page.

Wire it into Google DriveMake.comZapiern8nZoomSlack

Features

Speaker diarizationYes
Word-level timestampsYes
Streaming / real-timeNo
Languages supported100
HIPAA eligibleNo

Good Tape (web) vs Whipscribe

FeatureGood Tape (web)Whipscribe
CategoryProductsTranscription APIs
PricingNot verified$6–$24 one-time packs (credits never expire) · first 20 minutes free
Speaker identificationNot verifiedNamed in the summary, key quotes and chapters
Word timestampsNot verifiedYes
StreamingNot verifiedNo
Languages10099
PlatformsWebWeb, API, MCP

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Frequently asked about Good Tape (web)

Is Good Tape (web) free?

Partly. Good Tape (web) has a free tier with paid plans above it — published pricing: free starter / Pro from $12/mo. Free-tier limits change more often than this page does; verify on the vendor's pricing page.

Does Good Tape (web) work on Mac, Windows and Linux?

Good Tape (web) runs in the browser, so it works on any desktop OS with a modern browser, and on phones and tablets.

How do I get started with Good Tape (web)?

There is nothing to install — Good Tape (web) is used in the browser. Create an account on the vendor's site and upload or connect your audio.

How many languages does Good Tape (web) support?

Good Tape (web) lists 100 languages. That is the Whisper-family multilingual set, so quality varies by language — English and the large European languages are strongest.

What are the limitations of Good Tape (web)?

Audio uploaded to Good Tape's EU servers; cloud-based inference.

Who is Good Tape (web) best for?

Journalists needing accurate multilingual transcription with strong EU privacy guardrails.

Is Good Tape (web) open source?

No. Good Tape (web) is a proprietary product from Zetland (Good Tape). If you need source you can read and run yourself, the open-source tools in this directory are the place to look.

Is there a Good Tape (web) desktop app?

No — Good Tape (web) is browser-only. There is nothing to install and nothing runs on your machine.

Who makes Good Tape (web)?

Good Tape (web) is made by Zetland (Good Tape).

What kind of tool is Good Tape (web)?

In this directory Good Tape (web) is filed under web app, transcription as a product.

What are the alternatives to Good Tape (web)?

There is a side-by-side page at /tools/good-tape-web-alternatives comparing Good Tape (web) with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.

Can I automate Good Tape (web)-style transcription without running it myself?

Yes. If what you want is transcripts rather than the tool itself, Whipscribe does the same job as a hosted API: submit a file or URL, poll a job id, pull the result as txt, json, srt, vtt or docx. $0.012 a minute — about $0.72 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. The automation recipes on this site show it wired to Drive folders, Zoom recordings, S3 buckets and no-code platforms.

How is Whipscribe different from Good Tape (web)?

Good Tape (web) is another vendor's product; Whipscribe is a per-minute transcription service. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and never used for training, and every job returns five formats plus an AI summary, quotes and topics. The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export.

What does transcription cost if I use Whipscribe instead of Good Tape (web)?

$0.012 a minute — about $0.72 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. There is no subscription and no monthly minimum: a 3-hour recording is about $2.16, a thousand-hour archive is about $720 once. The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export, so you can see what your recording holds before paying anything.

Where is the Good Tape (web) category heading?

Three things are moving across the whole speech-to-text market right now: summaries, action items and speaker insights generated on top of the transcript rather than sold separately; private, secured deployment where the audio never leaves a boundary you control; and agent access — transcription exposed as a tool that Claude, Cursor or a workflow runner can call directly. Whipscribe ships all three today: per-job insights, our own servers, and an MCP server.

Whipscribe is a hosted transcription service. If you want transcripts without running infrastructure, paste a URL or drop a file in the form below — you'll have a transcript in seconds.

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