The transcript of a TikTok, as a file you keep
Save the video, send it here, and the words come back timed — SRT, WebVTT or plain text. One step more than pasting a link, and the page explains why below.
There is no TikTok link box here, and there is not going to be
The video comes in as a file. Save it out of TikTok — your own posts download from the app, and anything you made is already on your phone or your drive — then send the file here: mp4, mov, mkv or webm, up to 8 GB. Pasted addresses are YouTube only on this product, and a TikTok URL is refused rather than half-handled.
That is a real cost and it belongs in the first paragraph. It is an extra step on every video, and for somebody processing twenty a week that step is the whole decision. Better said here, in fifteen seconds, than discovered after an account exists.
What you get for it is the part most transcript pages skip. Not a wall of text — words with their own start and end times, speaker turns where there is more than one voice, and three files at the end of it. The timings are measured from the audio rather than divided up afterwards, which is the difference between a subtitle file that lands on the syllable and one that drifts.
Three files, and none of them costs a credit
The reading is what is metered. Taking the words away is not, on any plan including the trial.
SRT
What every upload form and every editor takes. Cues cut to about forty characters over two lines, seven seconds at most, broken where the sentences break.
WebVTT
For a player on your own site. Speakers can be carried as proper voice spans rather than as names wedged into the dialogue.
Plain text
The reading copy: paragraphs by speaker with a timestamp on each turn, or clean prose with nothing in front of it if you would rather paste it somewhere.
Timed to the word
Every word carries its own start and end straight from the read. That is what the captions burnt into a clip are drawn from, and it is why they land on the syllable.
Correctable before you export
A misheard name can be replaced in place and the replacement occupies exactly the seconds the old words did. Nothing is re-transcribed and nothing is charged.
Over thirty languages
Worked out from the audio rather than declared. The words come back in the language spoken — there is no translation anywhere in this product.
The same read also finds what is worth cutting
This is a clipping product that happens to transcribe well. One credit is one minute of source analysed, and that minute buys the transcript AND a ranked list of the passages worth posting — four scores, timecodes, and the sentences each one was drawn from. If the video you are transcribing is long, the second half of that is the part you did not know you were buying.
Which is worth knowing if you are going the other way. Plenty of people transcribing a TikTok are doing it to repurpose something longer. If the source is an hour of podcast rather than a thirty-second post, this product is built for exactly that shape and the transcript is the first step rather than the deliverable.
Nothing is posted anywhere, on any plan. There is no integration with TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Twitch or Facebook for publishing, and none planned. Reading a video and posting one back are different connections, and only the first exists here.
Cutting clips for TikTokThe reading is metered. The files are not.
Downloading the words costs nothing, on every plan including the trial.
A thirty-second TikTok is one credit. Analysing a minute of source costs one, rounded up, so short videos are close to free in this arithmetic. The free trial is thirty credits once, with no card — which is enough for a great many short posts, or one half-hour recording.
Above it the plans are 4, 11 and 27 hours of reading a month. Starter is 240 credits at $19, Creator 660 at $49, Studio 1,620 at $99, and a year costs eight months. Exporting a clip past the batch each plan includes costs three credits; downloading the transcript never does.
Questions people ask first
Does it take a TikTok address?
No. Pasted addresses are YouTube only on this product — a watch page, a Short, a live URL or an embed — and anything else is refused rather than half-handled. For a TikTok the way in is the file, saved out of the app and uploaded here.
What formats does the transcript download in?
SRT, WebVTT and plain text. All three come from the same read, and none of them costs a credit on any plan including the free trial.
Does it get the timings right on fast speech?
Each word carries its own start and end from the read, and the export packs them into cues of about forty characters over two lines, breaking on sentences and on real pauses rather than on whatever the transcription engine considered an utterance. On fast continuous speech that distinction is the difference between readable subtitles and one-word flashes.
Will it transcribe somebody else’s TikTok?
The product will read whatever file you give it, and the question of whether you may use that video is yours rather than ours. For a link import there is an explicit rights confirmation before anything starts; an upload is a file you are asserting you hold.
Does it translate?
No. There is no translation and no dubbing anywhere in this product. The language is detected from the audio and the words come back in the language spoken.
Is there a limit on the length?
No paid plan caps the length of a single video. What bounds the work is the credit balance — a minute read costs one credit — so a thirty-second TikTok costs one and a two-hour interview costs 120.
The rest of what happens to those words
The transcript is the first half of the job. These are about the second half.
Video to text
The transcript as a file you keep — SRT, WebVTT or plain text — and the same read hands back what is worth cutting.
TikTok clip maker
Vertical 9:16 with word-by-word captions. It hands you the MP4 — the upload to TikTok stays yours.
AI video clipping tool
The category term, answered with the difference: candidates and reasons first, cuts only after you approve.