New in YoutubeToText

No more guessing what a video will cost. Before you press the button, the options dialog tells you how many minutes it'll take from your balance and how many you'll have left. A burned-in video or an extra language shows its price there too, not on the invoice afterwards.

Prices are in your own currency, and if a payment fails you get a plain sentence saying why, not an error code.

You can switch plans yourself from the billing page. If you downgrade, it takes effect at the end of the period you've already paid for, and the page says so. Every invoice is there as a PDF.

Paste a video longer than the minutes you have left and we still transcribe the first part, so you can check the quality before you pay for the rest.

Once you have enough minutes, one click unlocks the whole transcript. Buying a credit pack or a plan works too.

Open a subtitles job and you see the lines drawn over the video, right where a player would put them. A line that runs too long, an awkward break, a subtitle over someone's face: you catch it here, not after you've uploaded the file.

Press play and the list follows along, lighting up the line being spoken. Click a time to jump there. Fix the text, and the file you download has the fix.

For a burned-in video you watch the finished video itself, so what you see is what you get.

Search everything you've transcribed. Find any transcript, subtitle file, or video in seconds.

• Filter by type or status: transcripts, subtitles, burned-in videos, or what's still processing. Each filter shows a count.
• Rename items so you'll recognize them later.
• Select several at once and delete them, for example everything that didn't finish. Deleting a burned-in video removes it from our servers too.
• Download any finished transcript, subtitle file, or video straight from the list, without opening it.

Ask Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor to transcribe a YouTube video and it happens right in the chat, without copying links between tabs. Connect YoutubeToText once and it stays connected.

Building something yourself? The Developers pages cover every API endpoint, the setup for each AI app, and where to find your API token.

Speaker 1 and Speaker 2 can be Sarah and Mike, on every plan, including Free. Click a name, type the new one, and it changes everywhere in the transcript.

Run out of minutes mid-month? Switch extra hours on from your billing page, and off again whenever you like, without contacting us. You see what an extra hour costs on your plan before you decide.

Refresh, close your browser, or switch to your phone: your transcript keeps processing in the background. When it's done, it's waiting at the same link.

Open a transcript and the video plays right next to it.

• Click any word to jump to that moment. As the video plays, the word being spoken lights up.
• Fix a word right in the text. Undo works the way you expect.
• Rename a speaker, or move a line to the right one.
• Find and replace a name everywhere at once.
• Words we were less sure about are underlined, so you know where to look first.
• Your fixes are saved to your account, so they're there on any device.

Summary, Translate and Ask AI now sit in tabs right above the transcript. Get the gist, get it in another language, or ask a question about the video and get an answer with timestamps you can click.

Export as TXT or DOCX, with or without speaker names and timestamps.

We'd rather show you a number than claim one. Every month we test our transcripts against public recordings that come with human-made transcripts, and publish how many words we get wrong for each kind of recording on the Accuracy page.

Under every finished transcript there's a thumbs up and a thumbs down. Thumbs down opens a short list of reasons, one click each, so telling us what went wrong takes seconds. We read every one.

Before your burned-in video is made, you style the subtitles on a frame of your own video: text size, background box, outline color and width, and where they sit on the picture. On vertical videos the subtitles start higher up, clear of the app buttons.

Fixed a line or changed your mind about the look? Burn it again, without transcribing the video twice.

Prefer another tool? Download the lines as .txt, edit them there, and upload them back into the same job.

Videos up to 12 hours now go through, up from 4. You still get one transcript, with timings that run all the way through. A longer video uses more of your minutes.

Need subtitles in more than one language? Pick up to 10 when you start a subtitles or burned-in job and you get one SRT or VTT file per language, zipped, or one burned-in video per language.

We remember the languages you picked last time, so your next job is one click.