Yes. Copy, TXT, and Markdown export are free. An optional Pro upgrade ($14.99 one-time, not a subscription) unlocks SRT subtitle export with timestamps.
Simple Transcript Capture works with Google Chrome and Chromium-based browsers (Edge, Brave, Arc, Opera, Vivaldi). It does not work in Firefox or Safari.
No. The extension reads existing transcript text from the page (YouTube captions, a video player’s captions, or visible transcript blocks). It never accesses your microphone, never records audio, and never performs speech recognition.
Accuracy is whatever the source page provides. YouTube auto-captions can be imperfect on accented or noisy audio; human-authored captions are typically very accurate. The extension does not transform the text, it extracts what is already there.
It needs an internet connection to fetch a YouTube video’s caption track, or to re-read the caption file a video player already loaded. Reading a transcript already present on a page needs no extra request. Either way the transcript is saved locally to your computer.
SRT (SubRip Subtitle) is a standard subtitle format that includes a timestamp with each line of text. It imports into video editors, media players, and subtitle tools. SRT export is a Pro feature.
It works on any YouTube video that has captions, whether creator-provided or auto-generated. Videos with captions turned off have no transcript to extract.
Often, yes. Besides YouTube, it reads the captions of video players on other sites, including course platforms and players embedded from another site. It reads the captions the player already has and does not listen to the audio, so the video needs captions. If a player has a CC button and nothing is found, turn captions on, play a few seconds, then try again.
The title, a link to the source page, then the transcript. For a YouTube video it also holds the channel name, the publish date, the length, the chapter list when the video has one, and the full video description, so names and links from the description stay with the transcript.
Transcripts are saved to your default Downloads folder. The filename includes a timestamp so you can find your files easily.
On YouTube, the extension requests the caption track from YouTube’s own endpoint. On other pages it reads the captions a video player already has, or the transcript already in the page. No transcript data is sent to our servers. See the Privacy Policy for details.