Best Chrome Extensions for YouTube Transcripts (2026)
Eight Chrome extensions that show, copy or download YouTube transcripts, with real user counts, export formats and free limits from each Chrome Web Store listing, checked October 2026.
BY GETYOUTUBETRANSCRIPT · PUBLISHED OCTOBER 9, 2026
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Facts below come from each tool's own site or store listing, checked October 9, 2026. We make GetYouTubeTranscript, so it is marked and described by the same criteria as the rest. Where a price or limit is not published, we say so.
| Tool | Best for | Pricing | Main limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| YouTube Summary with ChatGPT & Claude (Glasp) | Largest audience | Free: 3 basic summaries per day and 3 advanced summaries per 7 days. Pro is $15/month or $150/year. | The listing names only copy-to-clipboard for transcripts. Glasp also has a second, separate listing with a different user count, so do not add the two together. |
| NoteGPT | Best all-round with downloads | Free with 15 quotas per month. Videos with subtitles have no length limit, and videos without cost 1 quota per 10 minutes. Pro is $9/month billed yearly. | The free monthly cap is small, and bulk export is not listed (its pricing page limits how many videos are summarized at once). |
| YouTube To Text | Best free option | Free, with no paid tier on the listing or the developer's site. | No export formats are named (text only), the listing shows no developer name, and the playlists feature organises saved transcripts rather than batch-transcribing a YouTube playlist. |
| Eightify | Best for summaries of long videos | The listing offers a 7-day free trial with no charge until it ends. No permanent free tier is described. | A summarizer first: no transcript download formats are listed, and the listing was last updated in November 2025. |
| Youtube Transcript (youtube-transcript.dev) | Simplest copy-and-summarize | The listing states no price. The developer's site shows $10.99/year or $6/month with unlimited transcriptions and summaries. | Copy and paste only, no file export, and videos without captions may not work. The site does not say what is limited without paying. |
| Subtitles Tool for YouTube | Best for subtitle file export | Free, with an optional subscription that removes usage limits. No prices are published on the listing. | No AI features, the free-tier limits are not specified, and its privacy section says it sends usage events and error reports to its server. |
| YouTube Transcript & Summary Generator (videotranscriber.ai) | Best for speaker labels | The listing says all features are free, including transcription, speaker recognition and export. | The developer's website describes free-use limits in terms of upload size, and its own figures conflict, so how long the free access lasts is unclear. |
| GetYouTubeTranscriptour tool | Newest, with AI summary and chat | Free to install. AI summary and chat use credits: 100 free on signup, then $5/month for 1,000 credits. | One video at a time (bulk extraction is on the website, not the extension), only .txt download, and it needs captions on the video. |
YouTube Summary with ChatGPT & Claude (Glasp)
Largest audience
About 2,000,000 users, 4.3 stars from 4.1K ratings. A transcript widget on the YouTube page with a Copy Transcript button and clickable timestamps, plus summaries using ChatGPT, Claude, Mistral or Gemini.
Pricing: Free: 3 basic summaries per day and 3 advanced summaries per 7 days. Pro is $15/month or $150/year.
Limitation: The listing names only copy-to-clipboard for transcripts. Glasp also has a second, separate listing with a different user count, so do not add the two together.
Visit YouTube Summary with ChatGPT & Claude (Glasp)NoteGPT
Best all-round with downloads
About 400,000 users, 4.9 stars from 8.6K ratings. Summaries and transcripts, AI chat about the video, translation into 40+ languages, TXT and SRT subtitle download, and transcription of videos with no subtitles (up to 2 hours).
Pricing: Free with 15 quotas per month. Videos with subtitles have no length limit, and videos without cost 1 quota per 10 minutes. Pro is $9/month billed yearly.
Limitation: The free monthly cap is small, and bulk export is not listed (its pricing page limits how many videos are summarized at once).
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Best free option
About 200,000 users, 4.7 stars from 1.8K ratings. Converts a video to a text transcript with time codes and lets you organise saved transcripts into playlists.
Pricing: Free, with no paid tier on the listing or the developer's site.
Limitation: No export formats are named (text only), the listing shows no developer name, and the playlists feature organises saved transcripts rather than batch-transcribing a YouTube playlist.
Visit YouTube To TextEightify
Best for summaries of long videos
About 200,000 users, 4.0 stars from 860 ratings. AI key-insight summaries for videos up to 10 hours, with timestamped navigation and a transcript generator.
Pricing: The listing offers a 7-day free trial with no charge until it ends. No permanent free tier is described.
Limitation: A summarizer first: no transcript download formats are listed, and the listing was last updated in November 2025.
Visit EightifyYoutube Transcript (youtube-transcript.dev)
Simplest copy-and-summarize
About 100,000 users, 4.5 stars from 1.1K ratings, marked Featured. Reads the transcript from YouTube's captions and copies it, with brief and timestamp-based summaries. No account needed.
Pricing: The listing states no price. The developer's site shows $10.99/year or $6/month with unlimited transcriptions and summaries.
Limitation: Copy and paste only, no file export, and videos without captions may not work. The site does not say what is limited without paying.
Visit Youtube Transcript (youtube-transcript.dev)Subtitles Tool for YouTube
Best for subtitle file export
About 40,000 users, 4.8 stars from 563 ratings. Extracts, copies and exports subtitles as SRT, VTT or TXT, with timestamp toggles, dual subtitles and translation into 150+ languages.
Pricing: Free, with an optional subscription that removes usage limits. No prices are published on the listing.
Limitation: No AI features, the free-tier limits are not specified, and its privacy section says it sends usage events and error reports to its server.
Visit Subtitles Tool for YouTubeYouTube Transcript & Summary Generator (videotranscriber.ai)
Best for speaker labels
About 60,000 users, 4.8 stars from 477 ratings. Transcripts and summaries, including for videos without captions, with speaker identification, sentence timestamps, and SRT or TXT export.
Pricing: The listing says all features are free, including transcription, speaker recognition and export.
Limitation: The developer's website describes free-use limits in terms of upload size, and its own figures conflict, so how long the free access lasts is unclear.
Visit YouTube Transcript & Summary Generator (videotranscriber.ai)GetYouTubeTranscript
Newest, with AI summary and chat · our tool
Shows the transcript beside the player, click a line to jump to that point, search the transcript, translate it, copy with or without timestamps, or download a timestamped .txt. Adds AI summary and chat with the video. It has only 9 users and 1 rating so far, so it has no track record yet.
Pricing: Free to install. AI summary and chat use credits: 100 free on signup, then $5/month for 1,000 credits.
Limitation: One video at a time (bulk extraction is on the website, not the extension), only .txt download, and it needs captions on the video.
Try GetYouTubeTranscriptWhich should you choose?
For a transcript you can download as a file, Subtitles Tool for YouTube (SRT, VTT, TXT) and NoteGPT (TXT, SRT) are the clearest options. For summaries first, Glasp has the largest audience (about 2 million users). For bulk playlist or channel export, no extension with more than about 1,000 users clearly offers it on its listing, so use a web tool or API for that. The table above has each tool's price and its main limit; the sections give the detail.
Try GetYouTubeTranscriptFrequently asked questions
Which Chrome extension can download a YouTube transcript as an SRT file?
Per their Chrome Web Store listings, Subtitles Tool for YouTube exports SRT, VTT and TXT, NoteGPT downloads TXT and SRT, and videotranscriber.ai offers SRT and TXT. Glasp, Eightify and YouTube To Text list copy or text only.
Is there a Chrome extension that downloads transcripts for a whole playlist?
A few small extensions list it (for example Tubio, with up to 800 videos per session, and Bulk YouTube Transcript Downloader), but none of the large ones do on their listings. For a playlist or channel, a web tool or a transcript API is usually the more dependable route.
Do these extensions work on videos without captions?
Most read YouTube's caption track, so a video with no captions has nothing to read. NoteGPT and videotranscriber.ai say they can transcribe videos with no subtitles, which may use extra quota.
Are the user counts and ratings here current?
They are the numbers each Chrome Web Store listing showed on October 9, 2026. Counts and ratings change daily, so treat them as a snapshot.
