Paste a link.
Get the words back.
9 free tools built on one transcription engine. Each one is tuned to a place your audio already lives. Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, TikTok, so you never download a file, install anything, or retype a word.
Pick the one that matches your link
Every tool below runs the same transcription engine and exports the same six formats. They differ in where they fetch your audio from and what the page walks you through.
Podcast to Text Converter
Paste a Spotify or Apple Podcasts link and get the full episode as text, subtitles, or structured JSON, no download, no upload, no software.
Spotify Transcript Generator
Copy any Spotify episode link and get an accurate transcript with speaker labels and timestamps in about a minute.
Spotify Transcript Extractor
Pull a clean, exportable transcript out of a Spotify episode: quotes, show notes, and subtitle files in four formats.
Apple Podcast Transcript Generator
Apple shows captions in-app but gives you no way to export them. Paste the episode link and download the whole transcript instead.
YouTube Transcript Generator
Turn any YouTube video into readable text: the whole script, reflowed into prose you can quote, edit, and publish.
YouTube Caption Downloader
Get the captions out of any YouTube video and export them as SRT, VTT, JSON, or plain text, with cue timings intact, ready for an editor, a re-upload, or a translator.
TikTok Transcript Generator
Paste a TikTok link and we transcribe the video’s audio with AI, no watermark removers, no screen recording, no retyping.
Free Podcast Transcript Generator
30 minutes of transcription every month on the same AI model the paid plans use. No credit card, no watermark, no trial countdown.
Podcast RSS Feed Finder
Paste any link to an episode or a show and get the RSS feed URL behind it, the one directories and podcast apps ask for. Free, no account.
Audio is the only format nothing else can read
A recording is a closed box. Search engines cannot index it, a reader cannot skim it, and you cannot paste a sentence of it into anything. Every downstream use of a conversation (the pull quote, the newsletter, the caption file, the citation, starts by turning it back into text.
For discovery: publishing a transcript gives Google several thousand words to index for an episode that was previously invisible to it. Long-tail queries land on the exact moment somebody said the thing they searched for.
For reach: captions and transcripts are how deaf and hard-of-hearing listeners, non-native speakers, and anyone scrolling with the sound off get access to work they would otherwise skip entirely.
For your own time: finding a half-remembered quote takes seconds in a transcript and twenty minutes of scrubbing in a waveform.
Built for people with a backlog of audio
Podcasters
Show notes, quote cards, and a searchable page per episode: the transcript is the raw material for all three.
Writers & marketers
Turn an hour of conversation into a blog post, a newsletter, and a week of social posts.
Language learners
Read along with native-speed speech and catch the words your ear misses on the first pass.
Researchers & journalists
Quote accurately and cite a timestamp without scrubbing back and forth through audio.
Six formats, every tool
Pick the one your next step needs: a text file to quote from, a subtitle file to drop on a timeline, or JSON to feed something else.
Plain text
Clean prose for blog posts, notes, and quoting.
SubRip subtitles
The standard subtitle file for Premiere, Final Cut, and DaVinci.
WebVTT
Captions for HTML5 video and web players.
Structured JSON
Timestamps and speaker labels, ready to parse.
Word document
Speaker headings and timestamps as real formatting, ready to edit or hand off.
Print-ready PDF
Paginated and page-numbered, for sharing, archiving, or marking up.
Discover PodcastsToText
The transcript is where it starts. Here is what the rest of the studio does with it.
Your episode opens in an editor.
Click a word and you hear it. Change a speaker name once and it changes everywhere. The whole episode is one page you can actually read, with the line playing highlighted as it goes.
Try the live demoAI that simplifies everything after the episode.
Chapters with real timestamps, a summary, show notes, translation into around a hundred languages, and a chat that answers from the transcript only. The panel beside your transcript cycles through the lot.
See everything it makesOne episode, a week of posts.
Everything generated from an episode is kept on one page, per show: the blog post, the newsletter, drafts for X, LinkedIn and Instagram, SEO fields, a YouTube description with chapter timestamps, and the pull quotes. Open one to read it, edit it in place, or export it as markdown.
Choosing between the tools
Questions that apply across all 9. Each tool page answers its own platform's quirks in more detail.
Start with one episode.
30 free minutes every month, no credit card. Paste a link and see what comes back.