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InqScribe Has Privacy in Its Bones InqScribe started as a tool we built for our own research. We’re educational researchers, and our work at major research universities has always gone through Institutional Review Boards (IRBs), which carefully review how we protect the people who take part in our studies. Student identities must stay confidential. Recordings…
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One of our most requested features is text styling. Transcription services sometimes require formatting. Researchers find it helpful to use styles for coding. Writers find it useful for expression. While we have long considered adding support for text styling, we decided to keep InqScribe documents simple for a number of reasons, including performance, simplicity of…
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Many of our customers need to export transcripts in a structured format, with separate columns for “In” and “Out” points and speaker names. This is particularly useful for captions, especially for broadcast. One common workflow is to export an Excel spreadsheet, where each line effectively becomes a record. For example: InqScribe’s free-form edit field provides…
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Yes, InqScribe supports macOS 27 aka “Golden Gate”. The main updates to macOS 27 are the user interface and Apple Intelligence, specifically Siri AI. You’ll see some refinement of the user interface, especially for windows. But these changes are relatively minor. InqScribe uses Whisper as our AI model, which is a completely separate AI model…
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If you are collaborating on a project with other people, you can use most cloud services to share your transcript and media. InqScribe will automatically look for media in the same folder as your transcript. You can then share that folder with others and they will be able to open your InqScribe document and your…
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We think InqScribe is a pretty good deal at $79 for a perpetual license. But that assumes you’re going to use it regularly, or at least that you expect to come back to it over time. Sometimes, that’s not the case. Maybe you have a short-term project, a stack of interviews to transcribe, or a…
A new school year often means new classes, new research projects, and—if you work with recorded interviews, lectures, fieldwork, or other audio and video—a renewed need for transcription tools. Before you purchase InqScribe 3 at the regular price, it’s worth taking a look at the discounts and purchasing options that may already be available to…
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For more than two decades, researchers, filmmakers, journalists, and transcriptionists have relied on InqScribe to take notes, log footage, and create transcripts by hand—quickly and accurately. With InqScribe 3, we’re keeping everything people already love about InqScribe… and adding something big: Automatic AI transcription, performed privately on your computer. So whether you’re discovering InqScribe for…
If you’ve been using InqScribe 3 over the past month and wondering,“Why can’t I actually buy this yet?”…this post is for you. We owe you a quick story, a small apology, and some good news. The Soft Launch That Turned into a Free Month About a month ago, we quietly rolled out InqScribe 3. It…
InqScribe is pleased to sponsor the 2026 WCQR – World Conference on Qualitative Research. We originally built InqScribe to help with our own qualitative research projects, so the needs and workflows of researchers are baked into our design. The core idea is simple: a text-first editor with a built-in media player. As you type free-form…