Convert Any Video Into Text

Copy the public link of the video and paste it into Scrivi. Click Transcribe. Scrivi detects the platform, looks for a caption track, and shows the spoken content as clean, continuous text, usually within seconds.

You never download the video or install anything. Scrivi works from the link alone, so the same flow works on a laptop, a work computer where you cannot install software, or a phone browser.

There are two ways to get text out of a video, and knowing which one applies saves surprises.

Caption path: many videos already carry a caption track, either auto-generated by the platform or uploaded by the creator. Scrivi reads it and returns the text instantly. This is what the free plan covers: 20 videos a day across all platforms, no credit card.

Audio path: when a video has no captions, Scrivi transcribes the spoken audio with AI speech-to-text. That is part of the $2.99 Day Pass (24 hours of Pro) and the Pro plan, and handles videos up to 3 hours long. The free plan stays captions-only, and Scrivi tells you before charging anything when a video needs the audio path.

Scrivi accepts public video links from five platforms. Paste the link to one specific video.

Turning a video into text is often step one of writing something: a report, an essay, a brief, or a post. Scrivi covers the next steps too.

One click on any transcript generates an AI summary: a short overview, 6 to 10 key points, chapters, topics, and action items when the video gives practical advice. The free plan includes 3 summaries a day, enough to digest a few sources before you write.

When your report draws on several videos, paid plans add research reports. Put 2 to 5 transcripts into a collection and Scrivi writes one document that pulls out shared themes, points of agreement and disagreement, and insights across the sources. That is the fastest way to go from a stack of videos to a first draft. You can also turn a transcript or a report into an illustrated, editable PowerPoint deck.

Most transcription services expect a file: you download the video, convert it, upload it, and wait. That works for recordings on your own drive. For videos that live on social platforms it adds three steps and a pile of files you never needed.

Scrivi starts from where the video already is. Paste the link and you skip the download, the upload, and the storage. When a caption track exists you also skip the waiting, because there is no audio to process. The trade-off is that Scrivi only works with public videos on the five supported platforms; for private recordings on your hard drive, a file-based tool is the right choice.

Scrivi keeps the transcript in the language that was spoken. A video in Portuguese comes back in Portuguese, not forced through English. If you want the AI summary in a different language, set your summary language in Settings; the interface is available in 16 languages.

Caption tracks generated by the platforms are usually readable but light on punctuation, and they can mishear names or jargon. When you need clean prose fast, the AI summary rewrites the substance into structured key points and chapters. When you need the exact wording, the full transcript is always one click away.

Text is easier to work with than video in almost every way.

Free: 20 caption transcriptions a day across all five platforms, 3 AI summaries a day, read and copy the full text, no credit card. Day Pass: $2.99 for 24 hours of Pro. Pro: $9.99 a month or $59.99 a year. Lifetime: $79.99 once.

Paid plans include AI audio transcription for videos without captions, export as PDF, .txt, or .md, Ask AI for follow-up questions, batch conversion of up to 10 links at once, collections, research reports, and speaker detection. Transcripts stay in the language spoken in the video, and your summary language can be set in Settings.