Video to textTurn posts and videos into clean text.
Paste a public Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X or Facebook link, or upload a video file, and get a clean transcript with a short summary, with one free transcript a day for links up to 10 minutes and from 75 credits ($0.15) after that.
- Five platforms, and your own video files
- A clean transcript and a short summary
- Copy, download or share it
The price is shown before you start. Updated
How it works
How video to text works
Step 1Start with a link
Paste a public link from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X or Facebook, or switch to Upload and choose a video file.
Step 2It is read and written out
The video is read and transcribed, then tidied into paragraphs and summarised; a long file can take a few minutes.
Step 3Use the text
Copy or download the transcript, turn a link into a step-by-step guide, or save it to your brain.
Video · 12:30ExampleSummary
A product manager walks through how her team runs a weekly review: one page per project, three numbers each, and decisions written down before the meeting ends.
Transcript
We stopped doing status updates out loud. Everyone reads the page first, in silence, for five minutes.
Three numbers per project. If you need a fourth, the project is probably two projects.
Nobody leaves until the decision is typed into the doc, with a name next to it.
What you get
What a transcript looks like
- A summary and a clean transcript
- A Markdown download, and a save to your brain
- For links, an optional guide with numbered sections, a checklist and a next action
- A public library of transcripts to explore by category
What people use it for
Who uses a video to text converter
Meetings and webinars
Upload the recording and read what was decided, with a summary to send round.
Courses and lectures
Turn a lesson into text you can search, highlight and revise from.
Posts and newsletters
Start a post, a thread or a newsletter from what you already said on camera.
Interviews and research
Read an interview through, find the quotes and keep them with their source.
Before you paste
Links and files it takes
Five platformsWorks
Public links from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X and Facebook. Each has its own page below with the links it reads.
Your own video filesWorks
MP4, MOV or WebM, up to 90 MB and 3 hours: a meeting, a lecture, an interview, a screen recording.
What happens to an uploadWorks
The file is used to make your transcript and is not kept by HivemindOS.
Other sitesNot supported
Links from other video sites aren't read. If you're allowed to download the video, upload the file instead.
Anything behind a loginNot supported
Private, members-only or friends-only videos can't be read from any site.
Limits and price
Video transcript: what is free and what it costs
- Free
- One transcript a day covers a link to a post or video up to 10 minutes, with no sign-up and no login. Free ones are counted per device, while the day's last.
- Price
- From 75 credits ($0.15). A video up to 5 minutes is at most 95 credits ($0.19); A video up to 30 minutes is at most 195 credits ($0.39); A video up to 3 hours is at most 860 credits ($1.72). Yours is shown before you start.
- Longest
- A video of up to 3 hours; a longer one is turned away before anything is charged.
- Uploads
- Never free. Instead of a link, upload an MP4, MOV or WebM file of up to 90 MB and 3 hours, priced by its length. The file is not kept.
- Credits
- 500 credits are $1, and one balance works in every HivemindOS Mini app.
Compared
Video to text options compared
| HivemindOS | An app's own captions | Doing it by hand | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where it works | Five platforms and your own files | Inside that one app | Anywhere, slowly |
| No captions needed | Speech is turned into text | Only when captions exist | If every word is clear |
| Your own recordings | Upload a file up to 3 hours | Not covered | Pausing and typing for hours |
| Summary | On top of every transcript | None | If you make one |
| To keep | Copy, Markdown file, share link or your brain | Nothing to download | In your own document |
Checked in October 2026. Other products change, so check their own pages before relying on a detail.
About Video Transcript
Turn posts and videos into clean text
Video Transcript is a video to text converter for links and files. Paste a public Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X or Facebook link, or upload an MP4, MOV or WebM video, and it transcribes the video to text: the caption and the words on screen where a post has them, every spoken word, and a short summary on top. Use it as a transcript generator for meetings, lectures, interviews and anything you can link to or upload.
Price From 75 credits. One credit balance works across every HivemindOS Mini app.
Questions
- Is video to text free?
- A link gets one free transcript a day for a video up to 10 minutes. Uploads are never free: a file is priced by its length, from 75 credits ($0.15) and at most 860 credits ($1.72) for 3 hours.
- Is my uploaded video kept?
- No. HivemindOS does not save your video. It is used only to create your transcript.
- How long can a video be?
- Up to 3 hours, from a link or as a file of up to 90 MB.
- Which sites can I paste a link from?
- Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X (Twitter) and Facebook, as long as the post or video is public. For a video from anywhere else, upload the file.
- Do I need to sign up to convert a video to text?
- No. Paste a link or choose a file and start; there is no account to make and nothing to install. Signing in is only there if you want your transcripts on another device.
- Does the transcript have timestamps?
- No. It is written as paragraphs for reading and quoting, with a short summary above it.
- Which languages does it understand?
- The spoken language is detected for you, and the transcript is written in that language.
