Your First Recording
Open Good Take and tap the record button. That’s it — hum a melody, strum some chords, tap a rhythm, or speak lyrics. When you’re done, tap stop.
Your recording lands in your library as a new idea, ready to play back, tag, or analyze.
The Library
Every recording lands in your library. You’ll see the title (editable), the duration, and — once you’ve analyzed it — the detected key, BPM, and transcription. Tap any recording to open its detail view.
Analyzing a Recording
Open an idea and tap Analyze recording. Good Take runs on-device analysis to detect:
- Key — the musical key of your idea, on-device. A ”~” in front means the detector wasn’t confident; tap the key to set it yourself.
- BPM — tempo estimated from onset analysis
- Transcription — speech-to-text in 60+ languages
Analysis is optional. Some ideas you just want to capture and move on; others you want filed properly. Your call.
Works best on: clean recordings of one instrument or voice, 15–30 seconds of tonal material, well-tuned instruments.
Can struggle with: dense full-band mixes, modal/blues/atonal material, key changes, percussion-only or spoken takes.
Key and BPM run entirely on your device. Transcription uses Apple’s Speech framework, which can process some languages on-device but may send audio to Apple’s servers for others. See our privacy policy for details.