Transcribe YouTube Video
Transcribe Any YouTube Video
Paste a YouTube link and get the full transcript in seconds. Works on any YouTube video — lectures, interviews, tutorials, podcasts and Shorts. Free, no sign-up, no limits.
Transcribe any YouTube video instantly
You don't need a Google account, a paid plan, or any software. Paste the video URL, press Transcribe, and the full text appears — clean, readable and searchable. Works with manually-captioned videos and auto-generated captions across every language YouTube supports.
What you can do with the transcript
Copy the entire transcript and paste it into a Google Doc, Notion page, or email. Use the search bar to find any word or phrase instantly. Click any timestamp to jump to that exact moment in the video. Export as SRT subtitles for video editors or TXT for documents. It's everything a transcript tool should do — and it's free.
How it works
From link to transcript in three steps
No software, no account, no waiting around. The whole thing takes a few seconds.
Paste the link
Copy any YouTube, Instagram Reel or TikTok URL and drop it in the box. Shorts, podcasts and long-form all work.
01We pull the words
We grab the captions or run the audio through speech recognition, then clean up the text and align timestamps.
02Copy, search, export
Read it as a tidy paragraph, jump to any timestamp, search a phrase, or export to TXT, SRT or VTT.
03FAQ
Common questions
Copy the YouTube video URL, paste it above, and press Transcribe. The full transcript appears in a few seconds.
Yes. No Google account or sign-up of any kind is required. Just paste the link.
Any language YouTube has captions for. The transcript uses the video's existing captions, so if YouTube has them, we can get them.
When a video has manually-written captions the accuracy is very high. Auto-generated captions are good for clear speech but may miss names or technical terms.
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