§ Paste a post, read it as text
Every word, with its timecode.
Paste a TikTok link and get the full video transcript — punctuated, with a timecode on every line. Free, no signup, five posts a day. Then mark any line and take a vertical clip of it, captions burned in.
§ What you get
No account and no card. Read it, copy it, close the tab — what we do keep in order to count the free five is listed in the privacy policy.
Open the post and use Copy link, or copy the address bar on desktop. Short vm.tiktok.com and vt.tiktok.com links are accepted as they are.
Paste the link into the box on the page. The audio is run through speech recognition, because TikTok publishes no caption track to lift.
The transcript comes back punctuated, with a timecode on every line. Copy the whole thing, download it as a subtitle file, or mark a line and export it as a vertical 9:16 clip.
The honest version of how the TikTok transcription 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. There is nothing on the page for a TikTok transcript extractor to extract.
So this transcribes the TikTok video instead. The audio goes through speech recognition, which means the transcript 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.
All of the shapes TikTok hands out, and one it does not
The long one from the address bar — tiktok.com/@someone/video/123… — is the shape everything else resolves to, and the surest one to paste. It is what you get from Copy link on the desktop site.
The short ones from the app are accepted too. A vm.tiktok.com or vt.tiktok.com link is what the share sheet produces on a phone, and m.tiktok.com is the mobile web host. All three are taken as they are, so there is no need to open one in a browser first and copy the long version out.
A private account has no transcript here. We have no login and use nobody’s session, so a TikTok you can only see while signed in is a post this cannot read. When a link cannot be read, the reason comes back in a sentence rather than as a wait that goes nowhere.
Find the line that landed in the transcript, mark it, and export it as a 9:16 clip with captions — for another platform, or for the same one with a better hook.
A timecoded transcript means 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 reading a transcript beats listening to a two-minute video for one fact.
Reading a hook as a transcript makes its structure obvious in a way that watching it does not. For a creator’s reels rather than their TikToks, the Instagram script extractor is built around exactly that.
Paste the link. That is the whole flow — no signup, no email, no extension to install, and nothing to confirm before the transcript is on screen. We count the free five against your browser rather than an account, which is exactly why an account is not needed to use this. Going from TikTok to transcript is one press, and the result is yours to copy or download as .srt.
Copy the post’s link — Copy link in the app’s share sheet, or the address bar on desktop — paste it in the box above and press Get transcript. The TikTok video is transcribed by speech recognition, and the transcript opens on a page of its own with a timecode on every line, ready to copy or to download as .srt, .vtt, .txt or a Word .doc.
Not in the usual sense, and nothing else can be either. A transcript extractor lifts a transcript the platform already published, and TikTok publishes none that can be downloaded. So this transcribes the post instead — which is why the words come back punctuated, not as a caption dump.
Five transcripts a day per browser, no account. Reading a post someone else already ran does not count against your five. 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 — as .srt, the subtitle format every editor reads, timecodes included. Or copy the whole transcript as plain text for a document. Both are one press, and the TikTok video transcript is yours either way: no account, no email, nothing held back behind a sign-up.
Every line carries one, from word-level timings rather than an estimate made afterwards. That is what lets a transcript work as an index into the post — find the line, take the timecode, mark the clip.
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 the transcript before you publish anything from it.
The tool does not restrict the language. Clear speech matters more than whether the audio is English; names, accents, crosstalk and music can still reduce accuracy.
Up to twenty minutes of audio, which covers nearly everything posted to TikTok — and up to forty-five on Studio, sixty on Pro, the same ceilings the clipping side of the site reads to. Past your limit, up to sixty minutes, listening is 1 credit per twenty minutes over, priced before we start; anything longer is refused up front rather than part-way through, so you are never left waiting on a transcript that was never going to arrive.
The transcript is cached against the TikTok 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.
Both, on their own pages: Instagram reels and Facebook video. Two things worth knowing about Instagram before you go: you get the transcript, but not clips — cutting from an Instagram link is not available yet — and some reels come back under the uploader’s copyright settings, which leaves us nothing to listen to.