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YouTube transcripts you can actually read.
Paragraphs with timecodes instead of a wall of caption lines. Search it, copy it into ChatGPT or Claude, or download it as text, Markdown or subtitles. Free, no sign-up, no daily limit.
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Not a wall of caption lines
0:00So the first thing to understand about memory is that it isn’t a recording. It’s rebuilt every time you remember something, and that’s why two people can remember the same evening completely differently.
What people use it for
- 📖Read instead of watch
- Reading is faster than listening, and you can skim: skip the intro, re-read the hard part, and tap any sentence to play the video from there.
- 📝Study notes
- Lectures and tutorials as text you can search, highlight and download as Markdown for Obsidian or Notion.
- 🤖Ask an AI about it
- Copy the transcript with a ready prompt for a summary, study notes, key quotes or a quiz, then paste it into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini.
- 💬Quote the exact moment
- Select a sentence and copy it as a quote with a link that opens the transcript at that second.
Straight from YouTube
Drag this button to your bookmarks bar, open any YouTube video and press it: Transcript
Questions
Which videos work?
Any public video that has captions, whether the creator wrote them or YouTube generated them automatically. Private, age-restricted and caption-less videos do not work yet: speech recognition for videos without captions is planned for Pro.
Is it free?
Yes. Transcripts, search, copy and every download format are free, need no account and have no daily limit. Advertising pays for the servers. A paid plan without ads and with extra tools is planned.
Why not ask ChatGPT or Gemini about the video directly?
Assistants often fail to open the video or pick up only part of the captions, and you cannot see what they actually read. Here you get the full text first, check it, and paste it in with the prompt you want.
Can I get the transcript in another language?
If the video has captions in several languages, choose one from the language list on the transcript page. When YouTube offers machine translation for those captions, a “Translate” list appears next to it.
How accurate is the text?
As accurate as the captions on YouTube. Creator-made captions are usually reliable. Auto-generated ones come from speech recognition and can miss names, punctuation and jargon.
Can I save it as a PDF?
Open a transcript and print the page. The print layout keeps the title and the text with its timecodes, so “Save as PDF” gives a clean document.