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Open a YouTube video, click once, and get the full transcript with timestamps. A free Chrome extension does the work in the browser, so there is nothing to download and nothing to upload.
The Chrome extension reads the video captions directly in your browser. You never download the video, convert a file, or paste a URL into a queue and wait.
Every line carries a timestamp. Click any line in the transcript to jump the video straight to that moment, so finding the exact quote takes seconds.
Save a transcript to your dashboard and the AI adds three levels of summary, key points, action items, timestamped chapters, topics, and fact checks.
Take the transcript wherever it needs to go — a document, a subtitle track, or a research file. Export straight from the extension or from your dashboard.
The obvious approaches all cost you something. YouTube’s own transcript panel gives you a wall of text with no punctuation structure, no speaker separation, and no way to export it cleanly — you end up selecting it by hand and pasting it somewhere to clean up. Downloading the video and running it through a separate transcription tool means waiting for a download, waiting for an upload, and burning transcription minutes on audio that already has captions.
Exactum takes the shorter path. The captions already exist on the video, so the extension reads them where they are. There is no download step, no upload step, and no queue. For a one-hour talk, the difference is the gap between a few seconds and a coffee break.
That also means the length of the video is not the constraint it usually is. Because nothing is being uploaded or processed as audio, pulling the transcript from a three-hour podcast episode is no slower than pulling it from a five-minute clip.
A raw transcript is rarely the thing you actually wanted. What you usually want is the argument, the list of steps, the one quote worth citing, or a summary you can send to someone else. Saving a transcript to your Exactum dashboard runs AI analysis over it: short, medium, and detailed summaries, five to eight key points, action items, four to eight timestamped chapters, sentiment, topics, and fact-check items.
From there you can ask questions directly of the transcript rather than rereading it. Ask what a speaker said about a specific claim and get an answer drawn from the text, with the surrounding context. For research across many videos, you can query your whole transcript library at once.
Transcripts can also be translated into 79 languages on the Starter plan and above, which is the practical way to work with a talk or interview recorded in a language you do not read comfortably.
Extracting transcripts is free to try: the Free plan includes five YouTube transcript extractions per month. Every paid plan removes that cap entirely — transcript extraction becomes unlimited from the Basic plan at $6.99 per month upward.
AI analysis of those transcripts is metered separately, measured in hours of video analyzed per month. The Free plan includes one hour, Basic includes 300 hours, Starter 1,000, Creator 3,000, and Studio 8,000. Yearly plans add twenty percent to those allowances.
Uploading your own audio and video files is a separate allowance again, starting at 30 minutes per month on the Free plan. Extracting a YouTube transcript does not consume any of your upload minutes, because no audio is being processed — the captions are simply being read.
Turn lectures, conference talks, and interviews into searchable, quotable text with timestamps you can cite precisely.
Pull exact quotes from public statements, press conferences, and interviews without scrubbing through the footage.
Study what performs in your niche, and turn your own back catalogue into blog posts, newsletters, and social content.
Produce clean subtitle files in SRT or VTT, or give readers a text version of video content they cannot easily watch.
Read along with native-speaker content, then translate the transcript to check your understanding line by line.
Capture earnings calls, product launches, and competitor announcements as text your whole team can search.
Add the free Exactum extension to Chrome. It takes about thirty seconds and no account is required to try it.
Go to the video you want in text form. The extension works on any public video that has captions available.
Click the Exactum button. The full transcript appears in a side panel with timestamps, ready to read, search, or copy.
Send the transcript to your dashboard to get summaries, chapters, key points, translation, and every export format.
Install the free Exactum Chrome extension, open any YouTube video with captions, and click the Exactum button. The full transcript appears with timestamps. You can read, search, copy, or export it, and save it to your dashboard for AI summaries and chapters.
No. The extension reads the video captions directly in your browser. Nothing is downloaded and nothing is uploaded, which is why it finishes in seconds even on very long videos.
Yes, to a point. The Free plan includes five YouTube transcript extractions per month. Every paid plan makes transcript extraction unlimited, starting at $6.99 per month.
It works on any public YouTube video that has captions available, including auto-generated ones. Videos with captions disabled cannot be extracted, since there is no caption track to read.
No. Upload minutes apply to audio and video files you upload yourself. Reading a YouTube caption track does not process audio, so it does not draw on that allowance. AI analysis of YouTube transcripts is metered separately in hours per month.
Yes. Transcripts export as SRT and VTT for subtitle tracks, and as TXT, PDF, and DOCX for documents. Saving to your dashboard also unlocks Markdown, JSON, Notion, and Obsidian.
Transcription covers 47 languages with automatic detection, so the transcript comes back in the language spoken. On the Starter plan and above you can then translate it into any of 79 languages while keeping the timestamps intact.
Length is not a real constraint for extraction, because the captions are read rather than processed as audio. A three-hour podcast extracts about as quickly as a short clip.
The generator tool and everything it produces from a video.
Skip the transcript and go straight to the summary and chapters.
What the extension does, and how to install it.
For video files you have on disk rather than on YouTube.