Drop any YouTube link and Whipscribe pulls the audio for you. Multilingual transcript with word-level timestamps in about a minute — long videos, age-restricted videos, lectures, podcasts. Your first transcript is free, at any length · instant preview with no signup · packs from $8 for 1,000 minutes, credits never expire.
How it works
Forget the download-then-upload dance. The URL is the only thing we need.
Any public, unlisted, or age-restricted video. We pull the audio server-side — no browser extension, no command-line tool, no MP3 saved to your Downloads folder.
A 1-hour video typically transcribes in about a minute. Word-level timestamps, automatic language detection across 90+ languages, automatic speaker labels for multi-voice videos.
Click any line to jump back to the moment in the video. Export as SRT / VTT for YouTube Studio, DOCX for an article draft, or JSON if you want to pipe it into your own tooling.
What you can do with the transcript
Every YouTube transcript opens with an AI sidebar — search, summarize, chat, export.
Ask “summarize the lecture in 10 bullets” or “what are the three core ideas?” The AI answers with quoted timestamps.
Non-English video? Whipscribe auto-detects the source language and a one-click translate gives you the same transcript in English.
Search a hook, copy the timestamp, and you have the clip range. Pair with /tools/clipping for word-level burned-in captions.
SRT and VTT export on every pack — drop straight into YouTube Studio's subtitles editor.
Pricing
Your first transcript is free, at any length. After that, a 1-hour talk costs 48¢ on the $8 pack and a 3-hour interview about $1.44. Prorated to the second; no monthly commitment; no credit card to start.
FAQ
Paste the URL above and Whipscribe pulls the audio server-side. Transcript with word-level timestamps comes back in about a minute. Preview with no signup; $0.99 opens your first transcript in full, at any length.
No. The URL is enough — there's nothing to install and no MP3 saved on your machine.
Yes. Long videos transcribe in a single pass. Word-level timestamps work across the full length so you can jump to any moment.
Yes. Whipscribe supports 90+ languages via Whisper. Source language is auto-detected and a one-click translate gives you the English version too.
Public, unlisted, and age-restricted videos work via standard URL paste. Private videos that require a YouTube account to view cannot be fetched.
Yes. Both formats are included on every pack — drop the file straight into YouTube Studio's subtitles editor.
No. We run open-source Whisper on private infrastructure. Audio is never sent to OpenAI, Google, or any third-party transcription service, and we never train models on your audio.
Instant preview, no signup, no card. A free account keeps your transcripts in one library.