Your captions, out of the player
Captions do quiet, essential work: they make videos watchable in a loud gym, a silent office, and for millions of viewers who are deaf or hard of hearing. But on YouTube the caption track is locked inside the player. You can toggle it on, and that is all. This page gets the track out, as honest plain text with every line timed, free to read, copy and download.
It handles both kinds of track: closed captions carefully uploaded by the creator and the automatic ones YouTube generates when nobody bothered. The page always tells you what language the track is in, so you know what you have before you save it.
Why people download caption tracks
Creators download their own auto captions, fix the recognition errors, and upload the corrected file back, which improves both accessibility and search ranking on YouTube itself. Researchers collect caption text as data. Compliance teams archive what was said in published videos. Viewers save captions from language-learning channels to review vocabulary later. The common thread: text is only useful once you can hold onto it.
After the download, our free converters turn the text into SRT or VTT without your file ever leaving the browser. If you need the captions summarized, the AI summary runs on this page and returns the key points with their timecodes; a whole list of links can be fetched in one pass on a paid plan. Translation into another language and PDF export are the optional extras that still live in our Telegram bot.