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24 alternatives to Transcribe YouTube videos and Apple podcasts to Readable Markdown
There have been many existing projects that transcribe YouTube videos with Whisper and its variants, but most of them aimed to generate subtitles, while I had not found one that priortises readability. Whisper does not generate line break in its transcription, so transcribing a 20 mins long video without any post processing would give you a huge piece of text, without any line break or topic segmentation. This project aims to transcribe videos with that post processing. Any feedback here, or on Github issues, would be very appreciated.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Transcribe YouTube videos and Apple podcasts to Readable Markdown launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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I know there are various tools that are supposed to make this easy, but I couldn't find anything that did everything I wanted, so I made this today for fun. The web-based offerings all take forever and seem flaky, and you need to process one video at a time, with no control over the transcription settings. In contrast, my script lets you convert a whole playlist in bulk with full control over everything. It's truly easy to use-- you can clone the repo, install to a venv, and be generating a folder full of high quality transcript text files in under 5 minutes. All you need to do is supply the…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Create content from your audio
2023 · whispertranscribe.com · its alternatives →
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I originally added this to my site to speed up my video editing process. Last year I started a youtube channel and for some of my longer videos it's annoying to rely on youtube or capcut to transcribe when Whisper is open source. Capcut also recently updated their T&Cs to say they own your content if you use their app, so I cancelled my subscription. Another use-case I have is recording my claude prompts as audio, transcribing them, and then pasting them into my terminal. I mostly work on the CLI (claude, ffmpeg, whisper), but I wanted to make a browser version. Not reinventing the wheel…
2025 · meetcosmos.com · its alternatives →
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Schibsted created a transcription service for our journalists to transcribe audio interviews and podcasts really quick.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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This is a small project i made years ago and updated to whisper last year, i still use it from time to time and thought it might be useful to others, or just put the idea out there for someone better than me to make a better implementation!
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Convert YouTube videos to text instantly
Mar 2026 · getyoutubetext.com · its alternatives →
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Free AI transcription: convert video and audio to text, translate into 120 languages, download SRT, VTT, ASS or TXT, or export the video with subtitles on it.
2022 · freesubtitles.ai · its alternatives →
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WhisperWizard▲149Speech to text with smarter transcription
2024 · whisperwizard.com · its alternatives →
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Transcribe, Summarize, Understand – in seconds
2025 · whisperbot.ai · its alternatives →
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MacWhisper▲123High quality text transcription with OpenAI's whisper on Mac
2023 · goodsnooze.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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Online transcribe audio and video to text
2022 · media.io · its alternatives →
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2023 · magic.jxnl.co · its alternatives →
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Open source macOS video transcriber that builds a self-organizing knowledge base 🐝 - itsfabioroma/transcribee
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A while back, I got stuck in subtitle hell. All I wanted was a simple way to auto-generate captions for my videos—no paywalls, no upload limits, no “surprise, now you need a subscription” popups. As a broke small creator and podcaster, I wasn’t about to drop a pile of cash on tools that watermark my stuff and send my files who-knows-where. So I built my own. I made it free, offline-first and available for Mac (Apple Silicon). Just drag in your video, and it spits out clean, accurate subtitles using the local OpenAI’s Whisper model you choose. What’s the deal? - Animated subtitles that don’t…
2025 · fiumidanilo.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I built Transcrib.ee to help me generate transcripts for lectures on YouTube with no captions, especially multilingual lectures. I was constantly frustrated with videos that had no transcripts or inaccurate ones, so I built a tool and decided to share it with everyone. This tool uses Groq (an AI inference engine that's different from Grok and offers very fast processing) and OpenAI's Whisper model (really accurate in multilingual) to quickly transcribe any YouTube video, regardless of the language. It's been a game-changer for my studies! To make it even faster, I created a Chrome…
2024 · transcrib.ee · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, ExpoReader is a viewer for YouTube videos that shows the transcript of the video, and generates a shareable URL for a completely readable version of a video. I built it because I wanted helpful tutorials without having to watch an entire video. In a later version, I was thinking it could be cool to show other screenshots from the video throughout the transcript, but there’s really no easy way to do that outside of downloading the video and taking clips from there. If anyone has any good suggestions, I’m all ears!
2022 · exporeader.com · its alternatives →
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