Transcriptions
Transcriptions is a Mac text editor for creating and editing manual transcriptions from audio or video, with tools for faster playback-based typing.
What is Transcriptions?
Transcriptions is a native Mac transcription editor built for people who turn recorded speech into text. It helps users play audio or video, type while listening, and manage transcript text in a workflow designed for manual transcription rather than general note-taking. The app includes playback controls that support repeated listening and faster text entry, and it also supports subtitle editing for users working with timed media. Recent versions add automatic transcription features alongside its established manual transcription tools, making it useful for interviews, lectures, research recordings, and other spoken-content workflows. It is best suited to Mac users who need a focused desktop app for preparing transcripts and related text documents.
Key features
- Play audio or video while typing a transcript
- Control playback to review short sections more easily
- Edit transcript text in an RTF-based document workflow
- Work on manual transcriptions with tools optimized for listening-and-typing tasks
- Edit subtitles for timed media projects
- Use automatic transcription features in newer versions
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
This app is designed to work with audio or video content and the text you create from it, so access to media files and documents is normal for its purpose. Transcript files can contain sensitive conversations or personal information, so store and share them carefully. If you no longer use the app, removing it is usually low risk, but keep any transcript documents you want to preserve.
Recommendation: Keep Transcriptions if you actively create transcripts or subtitle text on your Mac. If you no longer use it, you can remove the app after making sure any transcript files or exported text you want to keep are saved elsewhere.
Common paths
/Applications/Transcriptions.app
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