Paste the link to a public Reel or video post and download what is said as an SRT or VTT file. Reels from private accounts need the saved video instead of the link.
How it works
Tap the paper-plane or the three dots on the Reel and choose Copy link. On the web, copy the address that contains /reel/ or /p/.
The audio is fetched and transcribed in the language spoken. A 90-second Reel is usually ready in under a minute.
Open the transcript, correct names if needed, and download the subtitle file.
Which Reels work
A link only works when anyone could open it without signing in. That covers Reels and video posts from public accounts. It does not cover:
A Reel you made in an editor is simpler still: upload the exported video, or just its audio, before you post.
Using the file
Instagram's caption sticker is generated in the app and cannot be replaced with a file. To post with your own corrected or translated captions, import the SRT into an editor that draws them into the picture and export a new video: CapCut, Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve. Keep captions inside the middle of the frame; Instagram covers the bottom fifth with the caption text and buttons.
If you post the same clip to Facebook or LinkedIn, those two do accept an SRT upload: see Facebook and LinkedIn.
Sample output
1 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:46,500 fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation conceived in in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition 2 00:00:46,500 --> 00:00:50,300 that all men are created equal. 3 00:00:50,300 --> 00:00:57,500 Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived 4 00:00:57,500 --> 00:01:01,620 and so dedicated, can long endure. 5 00:01:01,620 --> 00:01:07,920 We are met on a great battlefield of that war we have come to dedicate a portion of that field 6 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:14,240 as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that their nation might live 7 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:18,800 it is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this
Real output, unedited: a public-domain LibriVox reading of the Gettysburg Address (2 min 41 s) transcribed here in October 2026. The repeated word and the missing capitals are what came back; you would fix those on the transcript before downloading.
Before you rely on it
Each cue is a phrase from the transcript with its start and end time. Most run a few seconds. A passage spoken without a pause can come out as one long cue of up to about half a minute, so split those in your editor if your platform wants two short lines at a time.
Cue times are taken from the recording itself, so the file lines up with the video or audio you uploaded. If you trim the start of the video afterwards, shift the cues by the same amount in your editor.
On public test recordings, about 7 words in 100 differed from the reference for clean English read speech, between 4 and 9 in 100 for Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, French and German, and about 21 in 100 for Hindi. Noisy rooms, music and crosstalk do worse. Method and every number: the benchmark.
Open the transcript, correct a misheard name or number on its line, and the SRT and VTT you download carry the correction with the timing unchanged.
You get the subtitle file. Fonts, colours, position and captions drawn into the picture are done in your video editor or player, which reads this file.
Up to 10 hours or 5 GB per recording. The box on this page takes files up to 500 MB; larger ones continue on the upload page. 99+ languages, detected automatically.
Pricing
The preview is free. When the full transcript needs a pack, one-time packs are $4 for 500 minutes, $8 for 1,000 minutes, $12 for 2,000 minutes, $24 for 5,000 minutes. Credits never expire, which comes to about $0.29 to $0.48 per hour of audio.
| Recording | $4 or $8 pack | $12 pack | $24 pack |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30-second Reel | $0.01 | $0.01 | $0.00 |
| 90-second Reel | $0.02 | $0.01 | $0.01 |
| A month of daily Reels (30 at 60 s) | $0.24 | $0.18 | $0.14 |
Figures are the share of a pack each recording uses. A button opens secure checkout for that pack. Every export format is included; full details on the pricing page.
FAQ
Copy the Reel's link, paste it into the box on this page, and download SRT or VTT from the transcript when it is ready.
No. Private Reels cannot be fetched from a link. Save the video to your device and upload the file instead.
Not as a file. Instagram has no subtitle upload, so import the SRT into your video editor and export the Reel with the captions drawn in.
99+ languages are detected automatically, and the subtitles stay in the language spoken. With credits on the account you can also translate them into 35 languages from the download menu.
Usage is counted by the minute of audio, so a 60-second Reel uses one minute of a pack. The smallest pack is $4 for 500 minutes and credits never expire.
Every page in this set uses the same upload box and the same export. All subtitle pages
Free preview. SRT and VTT from the same job; packs from $4 when the full transcript needs one.