§ Any video, read as text
One box for any link, one for any file.
Paste a YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or Facebook link below and get the whole transcript, with a timecode on every line — or upload a video or audio file instead. Free, no sign-up, five a day.
§ What you get
Five transcripts a day per browser, shared across every tool here. A transcript someone else already read does not count, and a read that fails costs nothing. Past five, a transcript is 1 credit, or unlimited on a monthly or yearly plan (fair use: 50 a day).
Copy the link to one video from YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or Facebook. For a file on your device, use the video to transcript tool.
Paste the link into the box on the page. A caption track is read when the video has one; otherwise the audio is run through speech recognition.
The transcript comes back with a timecode on every line. Copy it as plain text, or download it as .txt, .srt, .vtt or .doc.
Each page says what its source can and cannot give
Reads the video’s own caption track at any length, and listens when it has none. Download .txt, .srt, .vtt or .doc.
TikTok publishes no caption track, so every post is transcribed by speech recognition — punctuated, with word-level timecodes.
Public reels, feed videos and IGTV, transcribed by listening. Some reels are held back by the uploader’s settings, and the page says which.
The same reel, laid out for a creator studying another account’s script: the hook, the turn, the length of every beat.
Uses the uploader’s own captions when a video has them, and speech recognition when it does not. Reels and fb.watch links too.
Upload an MP4 or MOV video, or an MP3, WAV or M4A audio file, up to 500 MB, and get it back as text.
Where the words come from, how long it can be, and what else you can do
Where the words come from. A YouTube video with a caption track, and a Facebook video whose uploader wrote captions, are read from that track, at any length. Everything else is listened to: TikTok and Instagram publish no track at all, and a file never has one. Listening gives punctuated text with every word timed.
How long it can be. Whatever has to be listened to runs up to twenty minutes free, forty-five on Studio and sixty on Pro. Past your limit, up to sixty minutes, it is 1 credit per twenty minutes over, priced before we start; anything longer is refused before we start rather than part-way through.
What else you can do. From a YouTube, TikTok or Facebook link, or a video file, you can mark any line and export it as a vertical 9:16 clip with captions burned in — clips need a free account. An Instagram reel and an audio file stop at the transcript.
What none of them does. Private posts cannot be read — we have no login and use nobody’s session. None of them translates the transcript on its own; an AI translation into one of 20 languages, and an AI summary, are included with a monthly or yearly plan or 1 credit each.
The one for what you have — but any of the link boxes, including the one on this page, reads a YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or Facebook link. A file on your device goes to video to transcript.
Yes: five transcripts a day per browser, shared across every tool, with no account and no card. A transcript someone else already read does not count against them, and neither does a read that fails. Past five, each transcript is 1 credit, and so is each AI summary or translation — or a monthly or yearly plan makes transcripts unlimited (fair use: 50 a day) and includes the summary and translation.
Yes. Every transcript can be copied as plain text or downloaded as .txt, .srt, .vtt or a .doc that opens in Word, and every line can be corrected first.
YouTube, TikTok and Facebook links, and uploaded videos: mark any line and export it as a vertical clip with captions burned in. Instagram reels and audio files give the transcript only.
Not in one go. There is no batch box, no playlist reading and no API — one link or one file, one transcript.