Happy Scribe: pricing, free plan limits, languages and privacy

European transcription and subtitle platform with 150+ languages, many subtitle export formats and a meeting recorder; AI training on your content is opt-in.

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Key facts

TypeFile transcription, Meeting notes
PlatformsWeb source
Free planNo free plan
One-time 10-minute trial for uploaded-file AI transcription, subtitling and translation. The Free plan separately allows unlimited meeting recordings, up to 45 minutes each, with limited history. source
Paid from£17/mo
£8.50/mo billed yearly (Basic)

Basic includes 120 min of AI transcription per month (1,440 min a year on annual billing), up to 90 min per recording; extra minutes cost £0.20. Prices were shown in GBP when we checked.

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LanguagesENJAZH 150+ languages

Japanese, Mandarin and Cantonese are listed for AI transcription.

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Max length per filePaid: Not verified

The pricing table places the 45-minute Free and 90-minute Basic limits under AI Notetaker meeting-recording duration; Pro and Business have no meeting-recording duration limit. It lists 10 trial AI minutes for uploaded files, but does not establish their per-file duration cap.

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Speaker labelsYes source
ExportTXT, SRT, PDF, DOCX, VTT, HTML

Free: TXT and SRT. Basic adds PDF and DOCX. Pro and Business unlock 15+ formats including VTT, STL, XML, FCPXML, EDL and HTML.

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Meeting botZoom, Google Meet, Teams source
OfflineNo source
Trains on your data?Only if you opt in

Privacy policy (effective 8 June 2026): machine-learning training is opt-in at signup; if you opt in, de-identified content may be licensed or shared with partners to train their models too.

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APIYes

Not on the free plan.

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