Good Take can put your recordings in your own iCloud storage so they’re available on your other devices. It’s worth being precise about what that does and doesn’t cover, because the answer isn’t “everything.”
What Syncs
Your audio files — recordings, MIDI exports, and project exports — live in Good Take’s iCloud Documents container when sync is on. Those are the large files, and those move between your devices.
What Stays on the Device
Everything Good Take knows about a recording is stored in a local database that does not sync:
- Titles and tags
- Detected key, BPM, and chords
- Transcribed lyrics and text ideas
- Projects and the order of ideas inside them
- App settings, including your API key and audio quality choices
This is a deliberate technical constraint rather than an oversight. The app’s database is a SQLite store, and a SQLite file can’t safely live inside an iCloud Documents container — iCloud will hand it back as a placeholder or create conflicted copies, which corrupts the database. Syncing that layer properly needs CloudKit, which is a different mechanism from the document sync the audio uses.
So: treat your iPhone as the device that holds your library. A second device with sync on will see the audio, not the organised library around it. If you want a full snapshot to move somewhere else, use a project bundle export instead.
Turning It On and Off
Sync is on by default, and there’s a toggle under Settings → Storage → iCloud Sync. Two things affect what you see there:
- If you’re not signed in to iCloud on the device, the row reads Not Available. Sign in from the system Settings app first.
- If you turn the toggle off, recordings are stored locally on that device only.
The same Storage section shows how much space your recordings are using.
Privacy
Sync runs through Apple’s infrastructure into your own iCloud account. Good Take doesn’t operate a server and never sees your recordings — there’s no Good Take account to create, and nothing is uploaded to us at any point. See the privacy policy for the full picture of what leaves your device.