How to connect Google Drive to Inwista
Send finished transcripts and video exports straight into Google Drive, and pull files from Drive when starting new projects. The connection uses Google's most privacy-friendly permission model: Inwista can only see the folders it creates and the files you explicitly pick — never the rest of your Drive.
Before you start
You'll need a workspace administrator role and an active subscription — integrations are included on all paid Inwista plans. Any Google account works, personal or Google Workspace.
1. Connect your Google account
From your dashboard, open My workspace, select the Integrations tab, find the Google Drive card and click Connect. Google's sign-in window opens.
- Choose your account Select the Google account you want deliveries to land in.
- Tick the Drive checkbox Google shows a permission screen where Drive access is a checkbox — and it starts unticked. Make sure it's checked before you continue. If it's left unticked, Google completes the sign-in without granting access, and Inwista will ask you to connect again.
- Done The window closes and the Google Drive card shows Connected. Inwista has now created a folder called Inwista in your Drive — that's where deliveries go.
What Inwista can and cannot see
The connection uses Google's drive.file permission. In practice that means Inwista can only access the Inwista folder and its contents, plus individual files you pick when importing. Your documents, photos and everything else in Drive stay invisible to Inwista — by design.
2. How deliveries are organised
Every project delivered to Drive gets its own subfolder inside the delivery folder, named after the project. The newest version of each file always sits at the top of the project folder — re-deliveries update the files in place instead of piling up copies. With Keep delivery history enabled, each delivery also drops a timestamped copy into a revisions subfolder, so you can always go back to an earlier version.
Open Manage on the Google Drive card to adjust the transcript formats (SRT, VTT, DOCX and more), the file name template, and the delivery folder.
3. Let deliveries run on their own
In the same settings you'll find two switches: Deliver new transcripts automatically sends the transcript files to Drive the moment a transcription finishes, and Deliver video exports automatically does the same for finished video renders. Turn on both and your Drive folder becomes a complete, always-current archive of everything Inwista produces — without anyone clicking a thing.
Prefer to decide per export? Leave the switches off and use the Save to selector in the export dialog instead.
4. Import files from Google Drive
When creating a new project, look for Or import from below the upload area and choose Google Drive. Google's own file picker opens — the same one you know from Gmail attachments. Pick an audio or video file and Inwista fetches it server-side, so nothing needs to pass through your device. Picking a file grants Inwista access to that one file only.
Disconnecting
Open Manage on the Google Drive card and click Disconnect. Deliveries and imports stop immediately, and everything already delivered stays in your Drive untouched. You can also review or revoke Inwista's access at any time from your Google account's security settings.