Best Tools to Transcribe Facebook Videos (2026)

GetTranscribe lists Facebook on its homepage as a paste-the-link platform, next to TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and X. It pulls the audio, returns a timestamped transcript in about a minute according to its own pages, and adds a main-idea summary, on-screen text extraction and TXT, SRT or PDF export.

Because it transcribes audio rather than reading captions, it handles the captionless Reels and Live replays that trip up caption-only tools. The limitation is the free tier: two transcriptions in total, then the $9.99 per month Pro plan with up to 3,000 processing minutes and 3,000 AI questions a month.

It is a solid choice if you already plan to pay for a multi-platform tool. As a free option it is a two-shot trial, nothing more.

Scrivi accepts Facebook video links from pages, groups and profiles, including fb.watch short links, and treats them the same way as YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and X URLs. When the video has a caption track, which is common on page videos and many Live replays, the transcript appears in seconds because Scrivi reads the captions rather than the audio. From there you can copy it, export PDF, TXT or Markdown, generate a summary with key points and chapters, and file it into collections.

The honest caveat: a lot of Facebook Reels and casual uploads have no caption track. On Scrivi's free tier those stop at a paywall. The free plan gives you 20 caption transcriptions and 3 AI summaries a day with no credit card, but audio transcription needs the $2.99 Day Pass (24 hours), Pro at $9.99 a month or $59.99 a year, or the $79.99 lifetime license. For a single captionless clip, a speech-to-text widget with a free minute allowance is the cheaper route.

What you get for going paid is the research layer: Ask AI questions on any transcript, batch transcription of up to 10 URLs, color-coded collections, and cross-video research reports that synthesize themes across several videos. If you follow a Facebook group or a set of pages over time, that is where the value sits.

ScreenApp's generic transcript generator says it works for Instagram, TikTok and other social platforms, and search results point to Facebook support, although we could only verify the Instagram and X pages directly. What is verified: no signup before you see output, Whisper Large-v3 transcription in 99 languages, speaker labels, and TXT, PDF, SRT and VTT export.

The free widget allows 10 minutes per video with no daily cap, which is generous, but processing takes two to three minutes per clip by ScreenApp's own account. If the Facebook URL path does not work for a given video, the upload route always does. Just remember the account free plan drops to 1 transcription a month; the paid Growth plan is $19 a month billed annually.

DownSub is not a transcription tool in the speech-to-text sense. It downloads the subtitle track a video already has and hands it to you as TXT, SRT or VTT. Facebook is explicitly listed among its supported platforms, no account is needed, and the free tier is free forever with limited features.

The obvious consequence: if the Facebook video has no captions, DownSub has nothing to give you. For page videos with uploaded subtitles or Live replays that Facebook captioned, it is a quick, free way to grab the text. Premium at $5 a month adds translation into 100+ languages, AI summary and an ad-free experience.

WayinVideo has a dedicated Facebook transcript page that, according to search results, covers Reels, Live replays and Stories by URL, with speech-to-text on the audio and a timestamped transcript synced to playback. Exports include TXT, DOC, PDF, SRT and VTT, and there is a built-in summarizer and translation.

We could not read the site directly because it blocks automated fetches, so everything here comes from search snippets. Its own pages disagree about the free allowance: one mentions 60 daily bonus credits after signup, another 200 welcome credits plus 30 daily credits. Paid plans reportedly start at $9.99 a month. Treat the limits as unconfirmed until you see them on the page.

For a captioned Facebook video, the free path is easy: DownSub pulls the subtitle file, and Scrivi's free tier reads the captions instantly and lets you summarize, search and export. Neither will help with a Reel that has no captions.

For captionless Facebook video, you need speech-to-text. ScreenApp is the free, no-account choice if you can wait a few minutes and accept the 10-minute cap. GetTranscribe is quicker and cleaner but gives you two tries. Scrivi's $2.99 Day Pass is the cheapest way to clear a batch of captionless clips in one sitting, and Pro makes sense once Facebook is one of several platforms you research regularly.

Check the video first. If it has captions, go free. If it does not, pick between a slow free widget and a small paid pass, based on how many clips you have.