New in August 2026

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 have 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.

Your library sorts itself now. Filter by transcripts, subtitles or burned-in videos, or by what is still running or has failed, with a count on each.

Clearing out the failures takes three clicks: filter to Failed, select all, delete. And Export works straight from the list on any finished job, subtitles and videos included.

Ask Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor to transcribe a YouTube video and it just happens, inside the chat, no copying links between tabs. Connect YoutubeToText once as an MCP server and it stays connected.

Building something yourself? The REST API is written down properly: every endpoint, the setup for each client, and your API token, all on the Developers pages.

Speaker 1 and Speaker 2 can be Sarah and Mike, on every plan, Free included. Click a name to rename it and it changes everywhere in the transcript. The padlock that used to sit on this is gone.

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

Every job now has its own page and its own address. Refresh, close the tab, open it on your phone: the job is still running, and when it is done the transcript is waiting at the same address.

Open a transcript and the video plays right next to it. Click any word and the video jumps to that moment; as it plays, the current word lights up.

Fix a word right in the text. Rename a speaker, or move a line to the right one. Find and replace fixes a name everywhere at once, and undo works the way you expect.

Words we were less sure about are underlined, so you know where to look first. Everything you fix is saved to your account, so it is 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 from any tab as TXT, DOCX, SRT or VTT, with or without speaker names and timestamps.

Search everything you have ever transcribed, rename a job so you recognise it later, and delete what you no longer need. Deleting a burned-in video removes it from our servers too.

Every row shows its date and length, and downloads without opening first.

We would rather show you a number than claim one. Every month we run our engine over public speech recordings that come with human-made transcripts, and publish the word error rate for each kind of recording on the Accuracy page.

For most public videos the transcript now starts within seconds of pasting the link. We no longer download the video first.