Save a Facebook video
Facebook video transcripts you can search, save, and chat with.
A Facebook video you meant to use later disappears into the feed. Recall saves the video, generates the transcript from the spoken words, and organizes it for you, so you can search and chat with every Facebook video you saved.
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How to get a Facebook video transcript with Recall
To get a Facebook video transcript with Recall, share a public Facebook video or Reel to Recall, paste its link into Add Content, or click the AI extension on the page. Recall saves the post and generates the transcript from the spoken words. Share the post, not the photo viewer. Private posts may not load.
Save the video or Reel
Share the post to Recall, paste the link into Add Content, or click the AI extension on the post you are viewing.
Get the Facebook video transcript
Videos and Reels are transcribed from the spoken words, and one photo per post is read. The original post stays linked.
Search or chat with the Facebook video transcript
Search the words later, or ask a question across the Facebook videos you saved. The answer comes from what you saved.
3 ways to save and generate a Facebook video transcript
From the Facebook app, from a link in Recall, or from the browser.
Share a Facebook video
On iPhone or Android, open the video or Reel and tap Share, then Recall. If Recall is missing the first time, tap More and turn it on. Share the post, not the photo viewer.
Paste a Facebook link
Open the web app, where Add Content is already open. Paste a public video, a Reel, a post, or a page.
Save a Facebook video from the browser
On a computer, open the Facebook post in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, or Safari and use the Recall AI extension. One click saves the page you are on.
What Recall saves from Facebook
A Facebook video, a photo post, or a page. Recall saves each one.
A Facebook video or Reel
Recall generates the transcript from the spoken words. The original video stays linked, so you can read what was said or watch it again.
A Facebook photo post
Recall keeps the caption and reads one photo on the post. Stories and events are not saved.
A Facebook page or profile
A public page or profile can be saved. Saving a page does not save every video on it. Save each video you want on its own.
What Recall does with a saved Facebook video
Recall saves the Facebook video, organizes it, and generates the transcript you can chat with. Transcript generator
Recall saves the Facebook video
Recall saves the video, Reel, or post in your second brain, with everything else you keep.
Recall generates the Facebook video transcript
Recall generates the transcript from the spoken words in a video or Reel. It does not summarize the video.
Facebook photo posts become text
A photo post keeps its caption, and Recall reads one photo on the post. Share the post itself, not the photo viewer.
Recall organizes the Facebook video
Recall organizes the video for you, so it lives with everything else in your second brain.
Chat with the Facebook video transcript
Ask what was said, or ask across several Facebook videos you saved. The answer comes from what you saved.
Recall connects the Facebook video
Recall links the video to related saves on the same idea.
Keep the source
A Facebook video transcript you can find again
A one-off transcript tool gives you the words from one video and stops. Recall keeps the video, organizes it, and lets you chat with it later.
| Feature | Recall | One-off transcript tool |
|---|---|---|
| Capture | ||
What you leave with | The post and the transcript | Text from one video |
The video file | The post stays linked. The file is not downloaded | Often an MP4, or the text and nothing else |
| Memory | ||
Finding it later | Search it with the rest of your saves | Only if you kept the text yourself |
| Chat | ||
Asking about it | Ask across this post and the rest of your knowledge base | No knowledge base to ask |
| Organization | ||
Where it lives | Organized with everything else you saved | Nowhere after you copy the text |
| Limits | ||
What it covers | Public videos and Reels. Stories, events, and group home pages are not supported | Varies by tool |
| Value | ||
Price to start | Free to start, with unlimited saves and 10 AI summaries a month | Varies, and many cap or charge per use |
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