Download a YouTube transcript or subtitle file free — SRT, VTT or TXT. Generate accurate captions when none exist, then translate into 30+ languages.
Manual translation, hired voice actors, days of waiting. Creators and teams lose time and money on every single video.
Skip the old workflowWhy does YouTube's auto-translate give garbled subtitles for my technical tutorial?
How do I get clean SRT files from a Spanish vlog when YouTube only offers embedded subs?
What if my source video has mixed languages—can I translate just the spoken parts to English without breaking timing?
Upload, pick languages, and let the AI handle the rest. No software to install.
A few clicks, that is all.
A few clicks, that is all.
A few clicks, that is all.
A few clicks, that is all.
I translate Korean dramas for a subtitle fan group. The bottleneck was never translation — it was getting a clean SRT to start from. YouTube's built-in download only gives auto-captions in chunks, and most sites are full of ads or malware bait. This downloader changed my workflow: paste the link, pick the language, and the complete SRT lands in seconds. When a video has no captions at all, it generates them from the audio first. I now prep three episodes in the time one used to take.
Pull subtitles directly from public YouTube URLs—no account, no browser extension, no manual copy-paste of captions.
Works with any spoken language on YouTube—even low-resource ones—because ASR detects speech first, then translates.
Exports SRT/VTT/TXT with frame-accurate timestamps inherited from the original YouTube caption track or ASR output.
Choose SRT for broad player compatibility, VTT for web use, or plain TXT for editing—no extra markup or styling.
No—it only processes publicly accessible YouTube URLs. Private or unlisted videos require download and local upload, after which subtitle extraction and translation proceed normally. Output is SRT, VTT, or TXT.
Yes—you can select Japanese as the source and French as the target. Translation quality depends on audio clarity and linguistic complexity; most dialogue-heavy clips yield usable results. Output is SRT, VTT, or TXT.
AI translation adjusts phrasing for natural flow in the target language, which may shift line breaks and duration. Timing remains intact, but human review helps refine pacing. Export options include SRT, VTT, or TXT.
There’s no fixed cap—but very long videos may take more time to process, and extremely dense speech can affect timing alignment. Subtitles export as SRT, VTT, or TXT once processing completes.
Paste the video link into the downloader and export the transcript as SRT, VTT or TXT. If the video has no captions at all, the tool generates them first, then you can download the file or translate it into another language. Nothing to install, and the original video is not altered.
They are the same words in different wrappers. A subtitle file (SRT, VTT) carries timestamps so the text can sit on the video; a transcript is the text you read, search or quote. Export whichever form you need — or both, from one run.
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