How to Search Your Transcripts with ChatGPT
Connect AnyScribe to ChatGPT and ask about anything you transcribed on your iPhone: "What did I transcribe this week?", "Find every talk that mentions spaced repetition" or "List my highlights from the memory lecture." ChatGPT searches your AnyScribe library, reads the transcripts it needs and answers from them, with the titles and dates of the notes it used.
Step by step
Connect once, then ask ChatGPT
- 1
Turn on Cloud Sync in AnyScribe
Sign in with Apple and turn on Cloud Sync. Your completed transcripts, folders and highlights are then kept in your AnyScribe account, which is what ChatGPT reads.
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Connect AnyScribe in ChatGPT
In ChatGPT, open Settings → Apps and add AnyScribe with the server URL https://mcp.anyscribe.app (Developer mode under Advanced settings until AnyScribe is in the app directory). Sign in with the Apple ID you use in AnyScribe and choose Allow.
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Ask across your library
Turn on AnyScribe for the chat and ask a question. ChatGPT searches titles, summaries, descriptions, transcripts and highlights, newest first.
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Go deeper on one transcript
Ask ChatGPT to read a whole transcript, compare two talks or turn your highlights into notes. Long transcripts are read page by page.
Who this workflow is for
People with a growing library of videos, podcasts, lectures and voice memos in AnyScribe
Students reviewing a semester of recorded lectures
Researchers pulling every mention of a topic across interviews
Anyone who remembers hearing something but not where
How search works
Search finds transcripts and highlights that contain every word of your query. It matches whole words, so ask for "repetition" rather than "repetit". If nothing comes up, ask with other words; ChatGPT can run several searches and read the best matches in full.
Folders work too: "What's in my Learning folder?" lists those transcripts, and ChatGPT can read them one by one.
Privacy
ChatGPT only sees your library after you sign in on AnyScribe's page and choose Allow, and only the account you signed in with. The library copy is encrypted in each database row and decrypted only for what a request asks for. Disconnect ChatGPT in its settings or in AnyScribe under AI assistants.
What works
Transcripts of videos, podcasts, voice memos, lectures and dictation
AI summaries and descriptions
Translations you created in the app
Highlights and folders
Good to know
Only transcripts synced while Cloud Sync is on are visible; open AnyScribe once after turning it on so it can upload
Search matches whole words, not parts of words or synonyms
ChatGPT can't edit, delete or highlight anything in your library
Requires AnyScribe on iPhone or iPad with iOS 18 or later
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FAQ
Common questions
- Does searching use my transcription time?
- No. Searching and reading your library is free; only transcribing new links uses time.
- ChatGPT says my library isn't on AnyScribe yet. What now?
- Open AnyScribe on your iPhone, make sure you're signed in and Cloud Sync is on, and leave it open for a minute to upload. Then ask again.
- Can I use Claude instead of ChatGPT?
- Yes. The same library works in Claude, Claude Code, Cursor and other apps that support MCP connectors. Setup steps for each are on anyscribe.app/mcp.
- I see an empty library. Why?
- You probably signed in with a different Apple ID than the one in the app. Disconnect AnyScribe in ChatGPT, connect again and sign in with the Apple ID shown in AnyScribe.
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Download for iOSLast verified on November 13, 2026 against the current version of AnyScribe for iOS.