Get the transcript of any public Reel

The text appears in one block, as the service heard it, under a word count that is handy when you are turning a Reel into a caption, a script or a blog post. One button copies the whole text.

The tool also looks for what the speaker asks people to do, and highlights it in the text: “comment GUIDE”, “type PLAN in the comments”, “DM me the word START”, “link in bio”. It ignores phrases that only look like a request. “Comment your thoughts below” is not a keyword, so “thoughts” is never offered as a word to reply to.

If a comment word is named, you also get a button to set up replies to that word. If the speaker only says “link in bio”, the button leads to a general set-up, since there is no word to start from.

Tip: Spoken words reach people who never open the caption. If you want comments, say the word out loud as well as writing it, and check here that you did.

• Length: only videos under 2 minutes. A longer video is skipped, and so are photos and carousels, before a transcript is requested.
• Speech only: music with nobody talking comes back empty, and words written on the screen are not read.
• Machine-made: the text comes from an AI speech-to-text step, so it can mishear names, numbers and slang. Read it through before you use it.
• Languages: the text is returned as the service heard it, and we haven’t tested every language. Calls to action are marked only when they are said in English.
• Time: 10 to 30 seconds is normal. If nothing arrives after about a minute, the page stops waiting and says so.

What someone says in a Reel belongs to them. Use this on your own Reels, to turn them into captions, scripts or articles, or on Reels you have permission to reuse. If you want to quote or repurpose another creator’s Reel, ask them first. That is why the tool has a Copy button and nothing to download.

We never download the video or show it to you; what comes back is text. For a file you hold yourself, the Video to text tool on this site transcribes it on your own device and never uploads it.

Pasting a link makes two requests from your browser to ours: one for the post’s details and one for the transcript. Together they use up to 2 of your free daily checks, fewer when the post or its transcript was looked up recently. A few checks a day means a few Reels a day.

We keep a Reel’s transcript and its post details for a week at most, so asking twice doesn’t cost twice. We keep nothing about who watched or commented. Your allowance is counted against a scrambled form of your network address, never the address itself.