About ToTextly

What ToTextly Does

ToTextly is an online video transcription tool that helps users retrieve available captions and generate transcripts from supported YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook videos. Paste a supported public video URL and, when a result is available, ToTextly presents the text in a format that is easier to read and review than repeatedly scrubbing through a video.

Content creators can use the text to prepare notes, edits, or repurposing drafts. Researchers can locate relevant passages before checking the source recording, and other users can search or review spoken material more efficiently. A transcript does not replace the original video when exact wording, timing, or context matters.

How It Works

YouTube caption extraction is free and uses subtitle tracks made available for the video. Supported TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook requests can use available caption data or supported transcript processing. Other-platform transcription is planned to operate through prepaid credits once payments become available.

Some public videos have no accessible captions, and private, restricted, removed, or region-limited videos may not produce a result. Caption quality, punctuation, timing, and completeness also depend on the source track supplied for that video.

Who It's For

ToTextly is built for content creators, researchers, students, editors, journalists, and ordinary viewers who need readable text from a public video. They may use it for source review, notes, quotation checks, editing preparation, accessibility workflows, or finding a specific passage before returning to the recording.

Current Platform Support

ToTextly currently provides tools for YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook video transcripts. Platform restrictions, missing captions, private or removed posts, regional limits, unsupported media types, and provider availability can prevent a result. We do not promise that every video can be transcribed successfully.

Privacy and Performance

Public transcript forms are currently available without requiring an account. Transcript results and related video metadata may be temporarily cached for up to 7 days to improve performance and reduce duplicate provider requests. Read the Privacy Policy for more detail about analytics, infrastructure, and third-party services.

Independent service

ToTextly is not an official product of, or affiliated with, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, or Facebook. Those platforms control their own content and availability, and their names and trademarks belong to their respective owners.

Contact

Questions, feedback, and partnership inquiries are welcome at support@totextly.com.