HappyScribe Legal

Spec sheet

What it does

HappyScribe records meetings, creates transcripts and summaries, and provides searchable archives for legal teams.Read 14 Oct 2026 · happyscribe.com

API

The public REST API supports transcription creation, exports in more than 15 formats, webhooks, token authentication and folder management.Read 14 Oct 2026 · happyscribe.com

Integrations

Official integrations include Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, YouTube, Vimeo, Wistia, Zapier, Google Calendar and Outlook.Read 14 Oct 2026 · happyscribe.com

Security

The legal page states SOC 2 Type II auditing, GDPR compliance, EU data centers, access-controlled folders and AES-256 encryption at rest and in transit.Read 14 Oct 2026 · happyscribe.com

Accuracy statement

The legal page says real-world audio is transcribed at around 90% accuracy.Read 14 Oct 2026 · happyscribe.com

Changelog update

In September 2026, workspaces gained a setting to make the Notetaker join at scheduled start time instead of a few minutes early.Read 14 Oct 2026 · happyscribe.com

Company ownership

Crunchbase lists Happy Scribe Ltd. and Happy Scribe Spain SL as legal names and identifies André Bastié and Marc Assens Reina as founders.Read 14 Oct 2026 · crunchbase.com

Company status

LinkedIn describes HappyScribe as a privately held, 100% bootstrapped company with 11–50 employees.Read 14 Oct 2026 · linkedin.com

Developer documentation

API documentation covers authentication, errors, rate limits, supported languages, product operations and organization management.Read 14 Oct 2026 · dev.happyscribe.com

Exports

The legal workflow offers 12 export formats, including Word and PDF; broader plans add formats such as VTT, STL, XML, FCPXML and EDL.Read 14 Oct 2026 · happyscribe.com

Human services

Human proofreading starts at €1.75 per minute, with Business receiving a 5% discount and a listed starting rate of €1.66 per minute.Read 14 Oct 2026 · happyscribe.com

Integration method

Most integrations use OAuth to import media and can synchronize transcripts or subtitles back to the connected service.Read 14 Oct 2026 · happyscribe.com

Intelligence API

An Intelligence API for extracting company and person graphs from meeting transcripts is described as private beta.Read 14 Oct 2026 · dev.happyscribe.com

Languages

AI transcription and subtitles support more than 150 languages and dialects, while AI translation supports more than 80 languages.Read 14 Oct 2026 · happyscribe.com

Legal workflow

The legal product joins Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams calls and returns action items plus a transcript within minutes.Read 14 Oct 2026 · happyscribe.com

Limit: live use

An independent review says the core workflow is mainly uploaded or imported recordings rather than instant live captioning during a meeting.Read 14 Oct 2026 · circlebytes.com

Limit: pricing

GetApp reviewers describe personalized transcription as expensive, and one reviewer calls overall cost the biggest downside.Read 14 Oct 2026 · getapp.com

Limit: search usability

A GetApp reviewer says searching a transcript is cumbersome because the search result does not move the cursor to the matching location.Read 14 Oct 2026 · getapp.com

Mobile app

The Android listing describes recording, transcription, speaker-labelled transcripts, summaries and action items, with EU hosting and SOC 2 Type II/GDPR claims.Read 14 Oct 2026 · play.google.com

Notable news: MCP

HappyScribe announced an MCP server on March 11, 2026 for connecting transcripts, meeting notes and subtitles to AI assistants.Read 14 Oct 2026 · happyscribe.com

Notable news: mobile app

HappyScribe announced its mobile recorder app on May 14, 2026, supporting in-person recordings in 150+ languages.Read 14 Oct 2026 · happyscribe.com

Praise: G2 reviewers

Reviewers repeatedly praise transcription accuracy, the easy interface, word-synchronized editing, language coverage, export choices and Google Meet recording.Read 14 Oct 2026 · g2.com

Praise: TrustRadius reviewer

A TrustRadius reviewer praised the accurate machine translation, thoughtfully designed web app, intuitive editor, shareable editable transcripts and time savings.Read 14 Oct 2026 · trustradius.com

Rating on G2

4.6 out of 5 from 118 reviewsRead 14 Oct 2026 · g2.com

Rating on GetApp

4.7 out of 5 from 38 reviewsRead 14 Oct 2026 · getapp.com

Rating on Trustpilot

4.5 out of 5 from 1,418 reviewsRead 14 Oct 2026 · trustpilot.com

SDKs and extensibility

The reviewed developer pages document REST and MCP access but do not list official language SDK packages.Read 14 Oct 2026 · dev.happyscribe.com

Search and timestamps

Legal users can search transcripts and use word-level timestamps to locate the exact moment in a recording.Read 14 Oct 2026 · happyscribe.com

Self-hosting

The reviewed product and developer pages describe a hosted web service and do not provide a self-hosting option.Read 14 Oct 2026 · happyscribe.com

Speaker detection

Automatic speaker detection is included across the listed plans.Read 14 Oct 2026 · happyscribe.com

Plans and prices

Every HappyScribe Legal plan and price →

Where Specifiction places it

• Legal Transcription Software#1 of 249.1