7 Best youtubetotranscript.com Alternatives in 2026

youtubetotranscript.com is free and focused. These seven tools add AI summaries, chat with the video, subtitle file downloads or an API, with pricing and limits from each tool's own site, checked in September and October 2026.

BY GETYOUTUBETRANSCRIPT · PUBLISHED OCTOBER 24, 2026

Quick answer

youtubetotranscript.com is a good free tool if all you need is the raw transcript and translation. People look elsewhere for an AI summary, chat with the video, an API or an MCP server, none of which it offers. GetYouTubeTranscript covers the same free transcript and adds those. Glasp and NoteGPT are the best-known summarizer extensions, Subtitles Tool for YouTube is the pick for SRT and VTT files, and YouTube To Text is the free no-frills option.

Facts below come from each tool's own site or store listing, checked between September and October 12, 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.

Quick comparison of the tools in this list
Tool	Best for	Pricing	Main limit
GetYouTubeTranscriptour tool	Best for transcript, AI summary and API in one account	3 free transcripts a day without an account, then 100 free credits on signup (no card) for AI features. Plans from $4.50/month billed yearly, or $5/month.	It reads the captions a video already has, so a video with no captions has no transcript. Summaries and chat need a sign-in and credits.
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 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.
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.
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.
Tactiq	Best if you also need meeting transcripts	The YouTube tool is free. Tactiq plans start free (10 meeting transcripts a month), and Pro is $8 per user per month billed annually.	The YouTube page downloads .txt only and has no AI summary or chat. A public API and translation were not found on it.
Kome	Many transcript languages	Free with usage limits that are not specified on its site.	The free limits are not published, and no chat-with-video feature was found.

GetYouTubeTranscript

Best for transcript, AI summary and API in one account · our tool

Paste a link and the full transcript appears, with translation into 190+ languages. The same account adds an AI summary, chat with the video, a Chrome extension, a REST API and an MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor, plus download as TXT, Markdown, SRT, WebVTT, CSV or JSON.

Pricing: 3 free transcripts a day without an account, then 100 free credits on signup (no card) for AI features. Plans from $4.50/month billed yearly, or $5/month.

Limitation: It reads the captions a video already has, so a video with no captions has no transcript. Summaries and chat need a sign-in and credits.

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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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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)

YouTube To Text

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.

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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.

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Tactiq

Best if you also need meeting transcripts

A meeting transcription product (Google Meet, Zoom, Teams) that also has a free YouTube transcript page, with no email needed. Its AI and its Chrome extension are built for meetings, not YouTube.

Pricing: The YouTube tool is free. Tactiq plans start free (10 meeting transcripts a month), and Pro is $8 per user per month billed annually.

Limitation: The YouTube page downloads .txt only and has no AI summary or chat. A public API and translation were not found on it.

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Kome

Many transcript languages

Transcript extraction with AI summaries and a Chrome extension, supporting 120+ languages for the transcript.

Pricing: Free with usage limits that are not specified on its site.

Limitation: The free limits are not published, and no chat-with-video feature was found.

Visit Kome

Which should you choose?

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Frequently asked questions

Why look for a youtubetotranscript.com alternative?

Mostly for what it does not have: an AI summary of the video, chat with the video, a public REST API and an MCP server. It is free with unlimited transcripts, so if you only need the text and translation it already does the job.

Which alternative is free?

YouTube To Text is free with no paid tier, and Tactiq's YouTube page is free. GetYouTubeTranscript gives a few free transcripts a day without an account and 100 free credits on signup for AI features. Glasp and NoteGPT have free tiers with limits.

Which alternative downloads subtitle files?

Per their listings, Subtitles Tool for YouTube exports SRT, VTT and TXT and NoteGPT downloads TXT and SRT. GetYouTubeTranscript downloads TXT, Markdown, SRT, WebVTT, CSV and JSON.

Do any of these work on videos without captions?

Most read the caption track a video already has, so a video without captions has nothing to read. NoteGPT says it can transcribe videos with no subtitles, which may use extra quota. GetYouTubeTranscript does not transcribe audio.