# WatchToText

> WatchToText offers video transcripts from YouTube, TikTok and Instagram, with text copying and TXT, SRT or VTT downloads.

## Free transcripts

WatchToText keeps its free transcript option and does not require an account.

- [YouTube transcript](https://watchtotext.com/): Paste a YouTube link to read, copy or download its transcript.
- [TikTok transcript](https://watchtotext.com/tiktok-transcript/): Read captions or try speech recognition when there is no caption track.
- [Instagram transcript](https://watchtotext.com/instagram-transcript/): Try speech recognition on a public Instagram reel or video.
- [YouTube transcript downloads](https://watchtotext.com/youtube-transcript-download/): Copy text or download TXT, SRT or VTT.
- [Audio or video file](https://watchtotext.com/mp4-to-transcript/): Upload an MP4, MOV, WebM, MP3, M4A or WAV file up to 20 minutes and 200 MB for speech recognition.

## Optional YouTube credit packs

- [Credit packs](https://watchtotext.com/pricing/): For YouTube videos that have captions but block the free reader; not limited to English captions (videos with English captions come back in English).
- 100 transcripts cost $4.99; 250 transcripts cost $9.99.
- One credit is used for one YouTube video transcript. If a free try is available, it's used first, and failed tries don't use credits.
- Packs are one-time payments with no subscription, no automatic renewal and no account. Credits don't expire.

## Limits

- YouTube: up to 3 links a minute from one network.
- TikTok and Instagram: 3 links a minute and 30 minutes of speech recognition a day per network; speech recognition handles up to 20 minutes per video.
- A transcript can be unavailable when a video has no captions, cannot be loaded, or has no recognizable speech.