Gist - YouTube Transcript, Chapters & Community Highlights

Free, no sign-in. YouTube transcript, chapters, community highlights & description resources in one panel.

YouTube transcripts, chapters and highlights. Free. No sign-in. Open any YouTube video and Gist drops a panel into the sidebar with the full transcript, the video's chapters, the best community comments, and every link from the description. No paywall. No sign-in. Reading, copying and plain-text export are never limited. ────────────────────────────── WHY GIST WINS ────────────────────────────── Most transcript tools hit rate limits, hide behind a paywall, or make you create an account first. Gist does none of that. It reads YouTube's own caption data, the same data the player already loads, so it never makes an extra API call to get the transcript and never hits a rate limit. It works as long as YouTube works. ────────────────────────────── WHAT YOU GET ────────────────────────────── TRANSCRIPT ✓ Full transcript of any video that has captions (auto-generated or manual) ✓ Clickable timestamps: click any line to jump to that moment ✓ Switch caption language right from the panel ✓ Copy the whole transcript in one click ✓ Skips ad audio so you only get the real video EXPORT (your choice of format) ✓ PDF, plain text, Markdown, or .srt subtitles ✓ Plain text is unlimited. Markdown, .srt and PDF: 5 a day, or add your email once to remove the limit (or tap "Not now" for the rest of the day) ✓ Email me: send the transcript to your inbox (confirm your address once) ✓ Optional timestamps, video title and channel header, and chapter headings ✓ Markdown timestamps link straight back to the moment in the video CHAPTERS ✓ Every chapter with its thumbnail and length ✓ Click a chapter to jump there ✓ Live progress: the current chapter is highlighted as the video plays COMMUNITY HIGHLIGHTS ✓ The creator's pinned comment ✓ The top (most-liked) comments ✓ Comments that point to specific timestamps ✓ Click any one to jump to it in the real comment thread RESOURCES ✓ Every link from the description, neatly grouped into Books, Papers, Videos, People, and Tools ────────────────────────────── PERFECT FOR ────────────────────────────── • Pasting transcripts into Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini for summaries • Researchers and students taking notes from lectures • Journalists quoting video interviews • Non-native speakers following along • Creators referencing other videos • Anyone who reads faster than they listen ────────────────────────────── RELIABLE BY DESIGN ────────────────────────────── Gist uses several fallbacks so transcripts load even when one method fails: it captures YouTube's own caption request, reads the player data already in the page, fetches the caption URL from the page, calls the timedtext API, and parses the page source as a last resort. If captions are slow to appear, it keeps trying and fills them in automatically. ────────────────────────────── PRIVACY ────────────────────────────── What we collect: anonymous usage statistics (which features are used and whether transcript loading worked, tied to a random id, never video ids, titles, transcript or comment text), switched off in one click from the panel's settings, where "See what Gist sends" shows the exact data. If you type your email (to email yourself a transcript, unlock exports, or get notified of new features) we store it with your country, after a confirmation email, and every email has an unsubscribe link. A transcript you ask us to email passes through our server and is deleted once delivered. No account, no ads, nothing sold. Transcripts are otherwise never sent anywhere. Full privacy policy: https://gist.toolship.app/privacy ────────────────────────────── FREE. NO SIGN-IN. ────────────────────────────── Transcript, chapters, community highlights, resources, copy and plain-text export are free with no limits and no account. Markdown, .srt and PDF export are free too, with a fair daily allowance that one email address removes.