TranscriptWorks

TranscriptWorks is a free video transcript generator at transcriptworks.com. Paste a link from YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X, or a podcast and the words come back as text or subtitles, with no sign-up. Videos that already have captions come back in seconds and use none of your minutes.

Transcribing a video is free up to a daily limit in minutes, and the homepage shows that number before you start. Audio transcription, the video summarizer, and the translation pages state the allowance as 90 minutes a day, one minute per minute of audio. A file can run to 90 minutes when the audio fits in 95 MB.

There is no account, no card, and no trial, and no paid plan is listed. Converting subtitle files is free and unlimited. The subtitle converter page lists 59 free tools that run in the browser.

They convert SRT, VTT, ASS, SMI, TTML, DFXP, SBV, SCC, and STL, remove SDH, speaker names, and sound effects, fix or shift timing, auto-sync, convert frame rate, and check reading speed in characters per second. SRT and VTT editors are included, along with merge, dual, and split. Extracting subtitle tracks from MKV, WebM, MP4, MOV, and M4V, and burning subtitles into a video, run in the browser and do not upload the file.

SUP and IDX/SUB picture subtitles can be turned into SRT. Converting, fixing, and cleaning a subtitle file uploads nothing, and the homepage says there is no size limit. Transcription and auto-sync use the daily minutes, and transcription sends the audio to the site's server.

Audio files such as MP3, WAV, M4A, AAC, FLAC, OGG, and Opus work, including iPhone voice memos and WhatsApp or Telegram voice messages. The spoken language is detected automatically, in close to a hundred languages, and 78 of those have a page of their own. A video summarizer returns three to five sentences and up to eight key points, each with a time, from what is said.

Video, audio, and subtitle translation are on the site. Subtitle translation keeps the timings, uses none of the transcription minutes, and sends only the lines of text, up to 5,000 lines and 2 MB. Downloads are SRT, VTT, ASS, SSA, SMI, SUB, TXT, PDF, LRC, Enhanced LRC, SBV, and JSON.

Enhanced LRC, karaoke ASS, and word-level VTT need word-by-word timing, so they are not offered for every video. Each transcript is kept at its own link and is never listed, linked, or shown in search. Checked on transcriptworks.com, October 29, 2026.

Pricing: Free. Subtitle conversion is unlimited. Transcription is free up to a daily minute limit shown before you start; pages state 90 minutes a day. Captioned videos use none. Checked October 29, 2026.