Questions and answers

Open the Reel, tap share, and copy the link. Paste it in the box above and press Get transcript. The text appears on the same page a few seconds later.

This one is free. There is no sign up, no email box, and no card. You get the full transcript, the timestamps, and the SRT file without paying anything.

Instagram shows captions on some Reels while they play. It gives you no way to copy that text out of the app. Paste the link here and the words come back in a form you can select and edit.

Yes, one link at a time. Paste it and the transcript is produced with no further steps from you. There is no bulk mode, so a hundred links means a hundred pastes.

Paste the Reel link above. Our server reads the audio, a speech model turns it into words, and the text appears with timestamps. Converting an Instagram Reel to text takes a few seconds and costs nothing.

No. Paste the link and the audio is read on our server. There is a file upload as a backup for the times a link will not load.

No. Only posts that anyone can open without logging in. Private accounts, deleted posts, and age restricted posts all return an error rather than a transcript.

The same way as on a computer. Tap share in Instagram, copy the link, open this page in your browser, and paste. Or change the host so instagram.com reads instagramtotranscript.com and open that. The page is built to work on a phone screen.

Yes. After the text arrives, use Share, or copy the address in the bar. Anyone who opens it lands on the same Reel, already filled in, and presses Get transcript. If we have already read that public post, the words come back from the copy we kept. You can also start from Instagram: change instagram.com to instagramtotranscript.com and leave the rest of the URL as it is.

No. Stories are not supported. Reels, ordinary video posts, and old IGTV links all work.

More than fifty. The speech model works out the language on its own, so a Hindi Reel comes back in Hindi and a Spanish one in Spanish.

Yes. Every transcript carries timestamps. You can download TXT, SRT, or VTT, and the SRT tab shows you the file before you save it.

Three minutes per video, which covers almost every Reel. Anything longer gets a clear message instead of a partial transcript.

No. There is no signup and no paywall on the first transcript or the hundredth.

The audio goes to one speech to text provider and nowhere else. During the request it sits in a temporary folder on our server, and that folder is deleted the moment the request ends. The words of a public Reel are kept for 30 days, keyed on the post, so a repeat does not run the model again. We do not keep who asked.

It depends on the audio. Clear speech comes out close to perfect. Loud music and crosstalk cost accuracy. The text is editable, so fix anything that reads wrong.

A Reel under a minute usually comes back in four to eight seconds. If we have already read that public post, the text comes back at once. Longer video takes proportionally longer, because the audio has to be downloaded and read before anything can be written down.

Yes. It is one endpoint that takes a link and returns the same text, timings and subtitle files. There is also an MCP server so an assistant can read Reels directly. Create an account, make a key, and you are going. New accounts get 10 free credits.

Only if the Live was saved as a public post afterwards. A Live while it is running has no permanent address to read, and once it disappears there is nothing left to transcribe.

An SRT lists every line of speech with the second it starts and the second it ends. Video editors read it, so dropping one into CapCut or Premiere gives you subtitles that are already timed. You need one if you are editing video. For quoting or note taking, plain text is enough.

The text is yours to work with. The words themselves still belong to whoever said them, so quote people fairly and credit the account when you publish. Reposting somebody else's whole script as your own is a different thing and this tool does not make it acceptable.

Usually because there is no speech in the video. A dance clip over a music track has nothing to write down. You may also see a line of song lyrics, which is the model doing its best with what it heard.

No. This is an independent tool with no connection to Instagram or Meta.