§ Paste a reel, read its script
The words of a reel, laid out to study.
Paste a public Instagram reel and get its spoken script as text — one phrase per line, each with the second it was said. Free, no sign-up, five reels a day. Read the hook, find the turn, see how long each beat runs, then write your own.
§ What you get
What comes back is what was said. Text that only appears on screen, and the caption under the post, are not in it — see below.
Tap Share then Copy link in the app, or copy the address bar on desktop. Reel, /reels/, /p/ and /tv/ links all work.
Paste the link into the box on the page. The reel is transcribed by speech recognition, because Instagram publishes no caption track.
The script comes back one spoken phrase per line, each with its timecode. Copy it as plain text, or download it as .txt, .doc, .srt or .vtt.
The spoken words — and the two things that are not
A reel’s script is the words that are spoken in it. A public reel is served with no transcript of them — we checked everything Instagram serves for one, and there is no caption track in it — so an Instagram script extractor has to make one. This one listens: it transcribes the Instagram video with speech recognition, and the script comes back punctuated, in the order it was said, with the moment each line starts.
Text on screen is not in it. Many reels carry their message in captions burned into the picture or in text stickers. Those are pixels, not sound, and nothing here reads them — a reel that is all on-screen text and music has no script to extract.
The caption under the post is not in it either. That is the description — the hashtags, the link in the bio — and it stays on Instagram. What you get is the Instagram transcript of what was said out loud.
What the timecodes show that watching does not
The hook is the first line and its timecode. Watching, the opening feels instant; on the page you can count its words and see the second before the next line starts. That is the part most worth studying, and it is the part the timecodes make measurable.
The turn is where the lines change job. Many reels that hold attention set something up and then pay it off; in a script the switch is a visible line, with a time against it. Put three reels from one account side by side and the same shape often shows up in all three.
Copy it into a document and mark it up. Copy transcript gives plain text, one line per phrase, with no timecodes in the way; the .doc keeps a timecode beside every line if you want the timing too.
Then write your own. The words belong to the creator who said them. What carries over is the structure — the length of the hook, the order of the beats, where the ask comes — and that is what a script is good for.
Public reels, with sound, up to twenty minutes free
Public reels, in any of Instagram’s link shapes — /reel/…, /reels/…, /p/… and /tv/…. An instagram.com/share/… link has to be opened first and the address it lands on copied; a private account cannot be read at all, because we have no login and use nobody’s session.
Some public reels cannot be read either. The uploader’s copyright settings can stop Instagram serving the video, which leaves no audio to transcribe. You are told in one sentence, and a reel that cannot be read does not use one of your five for the day. The Instagram reel transcript page goes through every link shape and every refusal in detail.
Up to twenty minutes of audio free, forty-five on Studio and sixty on Pro — far past the length of any ordinary reel. Past your limit, up to sixty minutes, it is 1 credit per twenty minutes over.
It turns a reel’s spoken words into text you can read, copy and study — the script. Instagram does not publish one, so this makes it: the reel is transcribed by speech recognition and comes back one phrase per line, each with its timecode.
Copy the video’s link — Share then Copy link in the app, or the address bar on desktop — paste it in the box above and press Get transcript. Reels, feed videos (/p/…) and old IGTV links (/tv/…) all work, as long as the account is public.
No. It hears the audio and nothing else, so words that only appear in the picture — burned-in captions, text stickers — are not in the script. A reel with no speech has no script to give.
No. The caption is the post’s description, and it stays on Instagram; the script is what was said in the reel.
Yes. Copy transcript puts the plain text on your clipboard, one line per phrase. Or download it as a .txt, or a .doc that opens in Word with a timecode beside every line.
Five reels a day per browser, no account and no card — the same five across every transcript tool on this site. A reel someone else already read does not count against them. Past five, each transcript is 1 credit, and so is each AI summary or translation of a script — or a monthly or yearly plan makes transcripts unlimited (fair use: 50 a day) and includes the summary and translation.
Study it, then write your own. The words are the creator’s; what carries over is the shape — the hook, the turn, the length of each beat. Posting someone else’s script as yours is not what this is for.
It is the same reading of the same reel. That page is about getting a reel’s transcript at all — every link shape, the reels that cannot be read, subtitles for a reel of your own. This one is about reading the script as a writer does.
The tool does not restrict the language, and the script comes back in the language it was spoken in. You can then have it translated by AI into one of 20 languages, line by line on the same timecodes — included with a monthly or yearly plan, or 1 credit. Clear speech matters more than which language it is; music under the voice can still cost accuracy.
Both have tools of their own: TikTok transcript and YouTube transcript. Every transcript tool is on one page.