§ Paste a post, read it as text
Every word, with its timecode.
Paste a TikTok link and get the full transcript — punctuated, with a timecode on every line. Free, no sign-up, five posts a day. Then mark any line and take a vertical clip of it, captions burned in.
§ What you get
Nothing is stored against you. Read it, copy it, close the tab.
The honest version of how it works
TikTok has no transcript file to take. Most tools that promise you one are lifting the auto-caption track from a platform that publishes it — YouTube does, and those captions arrive as a single lowercase run with almost no punctuation. TikTok publishes no such track at all. We checked: a public post offers thirteen audio streams and not one subtitle.
So this listens instead. The audio goes through speech recognition, which means the text comes back with sentences in it — capitals, full stops, commas where the speaker paused. That is a different artefact from a scraped caption dump, and it is the reason a transcript here is readable rather than merely searchable.
It also means each transcript costs us a little compute, which is why the free ceiling is five posts a day per browser rather than unlimited. No account, no card, no email — the limit is the price.
Find the line that landed, mark it, and export it as a 9:16 clip with captions — for another platform, or for the same one with a better hook.
Timecodes mean you can cite the moment rather than paraphrase it, whether you are writing a thread, a newsletter or a complaint.
On a train, in an office, or because listening to a two-minute video for one fact is a bad trade.
Reading a hook as text makes its structure obvious in a way that watching it does not.
Five transcripts a day per browser, no account. Reading a post someone else already ran costs nothing and does not count against your five.
Speech recognition, so: very good on clear speech, worse on heavy background music, crosstalk or strong accents. Names and jargon are where it slips. Read before you publish.
English today. Other languages often work, but nothing about them is promised.
Up to ten minutes.
The text is cached against the post — so the next person who reads the same one waits for nothing — and it is not tied to you. See the privacy policy.
Yes, and that is the main tool: paste a YouTube link on the home page. Long videos are what the clipping is really for.
Not yet. Instagram will not serve a reel to anyone who is not signed in, and we would rather ship nothing than a page that fails on half its links.