Paste a TikTok link and get the spoken content as text plus an AI summary with key points, topics, and action items. Useful when you need what was said, not another scroll.
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Tap Share, then Copy Link. Full URLs and vm.tiktok.com short links both work.
Scrivi reads the caption track when there is one. TikToks without captions are transcribed from the audio on paid plans.
Click Summarize for an overview, key points, topics, and action items when the TikTok gives advice.
In the TikTok app, tap Share and then Copy Link. In the browser, copy the address bar. Paste the link into Scrivi and click Transcribe. Both full tiktok.com URLs and short vm.tiktok.com or /t/ links work. Scrivi gets the spoken words as text, then Summarize turns the transcript into a structured summary.
You don't need a TikTok account, the app, or a download. Scrivi works from the public link. You do need a free Scrivi account for summaries, which takes about a minute and needs no credit card. Every transcript and summary is saved to your dashboard, so the clips you research stay searchable after they drop out of your feed.
TikToks are short, but they are dense: a fast-talking creator can pack a full tutorial, a product review, or a recipe into 90 seconds. The summary pulls that apart into pieces you can scan.
Some TikToks carry a caption track, either auto-generated or added by the creator. For those, the transcript arrives in seconds and the free plan covers it: 20 caption transcriptions and 3 AI summaries a day.
Many TikToks have no caption track, especially clips with music, voiceovers added in an editor, or older uploads. For those, Scrivi transcribes the audio with speech-to-text. That is part of the $2.99 Day Pass (24 hours of Pro) and the Pro plan, because processing audio costs money per minute. Scrivi tells you up front when a clip needs that path.
Clips with only music and no speech have nothing to transcribe. The text on screen in a TikTok is not read either; Scrivi works with what is spoken.
One TikTok rarely tells the whole story. Trend research, competitor analysis, and creator studies usually mean dozens of clips on one subject. Scrivi is built for that workflow on the paid plans.
The common thread is getting the words out of a format built for watching.
For a 20-second TikTok, the full transcript is often all you need. It is short enough to read in a few seconds, and you get the creator's exact wording, which matters when you want to quote a line or study a hook word for word. Reading the transcript does not use one of your 3 daily summaries.
The summary earns its place on longer TikToks, multi-part series, and Lives, where a creator talks for several minutes. It also helps when you work through many clips on one subject: the topics and key points make it quick to see which videos actually cover your question and which ones only touch it.
A good rule of thumb: read the transcript when you care about how something was said, and use the summary when you care about what was said. Both come from the same text, so you can switch between them at any time.
Collect the links of the clips you want to study, for example the top videos for a hashtag or a product. On a paid plan, paste up to 10 at once in a batch. Add them to a collection named after the topic. Read the summaries to sort out the clips that matter, then generate a research report from the 2 to 5 strongest ones. The report shows the shared themes, the claims that repeat, and where creators disagree, which is usually the insight you were looking for in the first place.
Scrivi summarizes individual videos. A creator profile, a sound page, or a collection link is not a video, so paste the links of the clips you want. Private accounts and videos restricted to followers cannot be read.
The transcript stays in the language that was spoken. The summary language is up to you: pick one of 16 languages in Settings, which is useful when you research creators in other countries.
Tips, recipes, and explainers are packed into seconds. The summary lists them so you don't have to pause and rewind.
On paid plans, batch up to 10 TikToks and combine 2 to 5 transcripts into one research report with shared themes.
Scrivi works from the public link. You don't need the app or a TikTok account.
Paste a video URL and get the full transcript in seconds. Free to start, no credit card required.
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