Transcribe online videos and podcasts
A transcript generator for online content.
Paste a link to a YouTube video, a podcast episode, or a TikTok, Instagram, X, or Facebook video. Recall saves it and turns the spoken words into a transcript you can search and chat with.
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How to generate a transcript with Recall
To generate a transcript in Recall, save a YouTube video, a podcast episode, or a TikTok, Instagram, X, or Facebook video by pasting its link, sharing it from your phone, or clicking the AI extension. Recall transcribes the spoken words and keeps a searchable transcript, with timestamps when available.
Save the video or episode
Paste the link, share it from your phone, or click the AI extension on the page you are watching.
Read and search the transcript
Recall transcribes the spoken words and keeps the transcript, with timestamps when available.
Summarize or chat with the transcript
Ask questions about the transcript, or generate a summary. YouTube videos of 5 hours or longer need existing captions.
3 ways to transcribe an online video or podcast
Recall generates a transcript for a YouTube video, a podcast, or a social post on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, or X. Paste a link, share it from your phone, or save it from the browser.
Paste a video or podcast link
Open the web app, where Add Content is already open. Paste a YouTube video, a podcast episode, or a public social video Recall can read.
Share a video or a podcast
On iPhone or Android, open the video or the episode and tap Share, then Recall. If Recall is missing the first time, tap More and turn it on. The video or episode lands in your knowledge base.
Save a video or podcast from the browser
On a computer, open the page in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, or Safari and use the Recall AI extension. One click saves what you are watching.
What online videos and podcasts can you transcribe?
Recall supports online transcription. It generates transcripts for long-form and short-form video and audio you open from a link.
YouTube videos and Shorts
Videos and Shorts are transcribed, with or without captions. A video of 5 hours or longer needs existing captions. Live streams can be saved once a recording is available.
Podcast episodes
An Apple Podcasts or Spotify episode is transcribed, with timestamps when they are available. A show page is not transcribed. Paid episodes need a public version of the audio.
TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and X
Recall generates TikTok transcripts, Instagram Reel transcripts, Facebook video transcripts, and transcripts of videos when you save a Twitter post. Instagram videos in a mixed carousel are not transcribed, and replies on an X post are not included.
What Recall does with a transcript
Saving the video or the episode is the first step. Recall then turns the audio and video into text and organizes it.
Recall saves the video or episode
Recall saves the video or the episode in your second brain, with everything else you keep.
Recall generates the transcript
Paste a link, and Recall turns the spoken words into text. Recall keeps the transcript with the source.
YouTube and podcasts also get a summary
A YouTube video and a podcast episode get a short version as well as the transcript. A TikTok, an Instagram video, and a Facebook video get the transcript.
Recall organizes the transcript
Recall organizes the transcript for you, so it lives with everything else in your second brain.
Chat with the transcript
Ask what was said, or ask across several videos you saved. The answer comes from what you saved.
Recall connects the transcript
Recall links the transcript to the other videos, articles, and notes you saved on the same idea.
Recall vs other transcript generators
Recall vs a typical online transcript generator
A typical online transcript generator gives you the words and stops. Recall keeps the video or the episode, organizes the transcript, and lets you chat with it later.
| Feature | Recall | Typical online transcript generator |
|---|---|---|
| Capture | ||
Sources | Paste a link to YouTube, a podcast, or a social video | Often a file upload, or one platform only |
What you leave with | The source and the transcript | A block of text |
The original | Recall keeps the video or episode | Gone after you copy the words |
| 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 transcript 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 | Online links only, not uploaded audio or video files. YouTube videos of 5 hours or longer need existing captions | 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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Why people make Recall part of their day
“Think of it as a library of everything you've read and watched, with an AI sitting on top that has read it too. Recall makes that easier than anything else we tried.”
“Recall works the way your brain works! Perfect for deep research or growing your knowledge on any topic.”
“I love [Recall’s] interface, its speed, and its overall user experience… it is scratching my web-hoarding itch unlike anything else has quite been able to do to date.”
“One of my favorite AI apps is Recall. I've used it constantly for almost a year to manage and transcribe all the videos we create and work with. It's the kind of AI app that's just become part of my daily workflow, the highest compliment you can pay a piece of software.”
“After just a few months, Recall has become one of my most-used apps on both desktop and mobile. Frankly, I'd rather give up Microsoft Word than Recall.”
“I've tried practically every AI tool out there, and Recall is among the very few that I've actually found myself using. It has completely changed the way I study.”
“I didn't expect much from Recall. But it completely blew me away. It does everything NotebookLM does and also fills in all its shortcomings.”
“I run two parallel careers, which means staying current across rapidly evolving topics. Recall is the front door to my entire knowledge workflow.”
Fernand
Head of Technology
“Recall has revolutionized how I manage information! As a power user, its AI-driven summarization and storage capabilities have boosted my productivity tenfold, allowing me to effortlessly access and recall key details whenever I need them.”
William Peltier
Senior Director at Moody's
“I use Recall on a daily basis to cultivate and build a hand-picked database of information. The end result is like having a personalized AI loaded with sources pre-screened for quality.”
Roses
Human Rights Worker
“I use Recall every day. It helps me quickly condense important information from thought leadership articles and educational YouTube videos. It's great to have a place where I can easily store this information knowing that I will come back to it again in the future. I've greatly developed as a founder and leader thanks to Recall.”
Jason Patel
Co-founder at Open Forge AI
“I've been building several second brains for years and whenever I see a new way to do it, I don't like changing because my other systems already work. But I'm always willing to try because you never know which one would be a drastic improvement on what you're already using. Recall is one of them.”
Dave Katague
AI Educator
“Recall has become an essential part of how I learn, think, and explore the world.”
Maire
Student, Data Analyst
