Format
Plain paragraphs
Sentences instead of three-word fragments, paragraphs instead of one long line.
For quoting, summarising, translatingFree tool · No account
YouTube already holds the captions, three words at a time. This turns them into something you can read: whole sentences, real paragraphs, timestamps only if you ask. Then the same text is where Splicora starts turning the video into clips and posts.
Free · No account needed · Nothing you paste is stored
What comes back
The same fetch answers all three — the toggle and the buttons work on the text already in your browser, so switching costs nothing.
Format
Sentences instead of three-word fragments, paragraphs instead of one long line.
For quoting, summarising, translatingFormat
The start time of every passage, so you can jump back to the moment it came from.
For finding the moment to clipFormat
The whole transcript as a file, named after the video, straight from your browser.
For archiving or handing to an editorHow it works
Any public video, Short or livestream replay with captions.
Splicora fetches the caption track and cleans it into readable paragraphs. Toggle timestamps on or off.
Copy to the clipboard or download a .txt. Nothing is stored.
Before you paste
That is the whole difference between this being instant and free, and needing a workspace. It is worth knowing which video you have.
Free, no account
Creator captions are used first; YouTube's auto-generated ones are the fallback. Any language YouTube has a track for. Long recordings are fine — they just take a moment longer.
Needs a workspace
There is no track to read, so this tool cannot help. Splicora's paid tools transcribe the audio itself with Whisper, which works on any video.
Where it goes next
A transcript is the fastest way to work with a video without watching it again. Search it for the quote you remember, pull the steps out of a tutorial, cite an interview, translate a lecture, or feed it to a writing tool. For creators it is the raw material for everything else: the blog post, the newsletter, the thread, the clip list.
This tool reads the caption track YouTube already has for the video — the creator's own captions when they exist, the auto-generated ones otherwise — and turns it into text you can actually read: sentences instead of three-word fragments, paragraphs instead of one long line, and timestamps only if you ask for them.
Inside Splicora the transcript is the first step of a project: the AI clip generator reads it to find the best moments, the subtitle generator times every word for animated captions, and the Write stage turns it into a blog post, a newsletter and social posts in your brand voice. Paste the same link there and the whole pipeline runs.
For subtitles you can upload — SRT or VTT with exact timing — you need the video itself, which the paid subtitle generator handles with word-level timing.
Questions
Yes, and it needs no account. It is rate-limited per visitor so it stays fast for everyone.
No — it reads the caption track YouTube provides. For videos with captions turned off, Splicora's paid tools transcribe the audio directly.
Any language YouTube has captions for. English is used when several tracks exist; otherwise the first available track.
No. The transcript is fetched, returned to your browser and discarded.
Yes. Toggle timestamps to show the start time of each passage.
The full version
Feature
Finds the best moments in a long video and cuts them into captioned vertical clips, each scored for viral potential.
See the featureFeature
Word-accurate animated captions in 100 styles (20 free), positioned anywhere on screen, with translation to 20+ languages.
See the featureFeature
Learns your tone from your best content so captions, posts and hooks sound like you, with separate profiles per brand or client.
See the featureOne link, everything after it
Paste the same link into Splicora and the transcript becomes clips, captions, a blog post and a week of scheduled posts. Free plan, no card.
Free plan available · No credit card required