Does Apple Podcasts already have transcripts?

Apple generates in-app transcripts for many episodes, but there is no way to export, copy, or download one. You can read it inside the app and nowhere else.

Can I get an Apple Podcast transcript for free?

Yes. The free tier covers 30 minutes of transcription per month with no credit card required.

Which Apple Podcasts links work?

Any public episode URL from podcasts.apple.com, including apple.co short links. The link must point at a specific episode, not the show.

Do I need the Apple Podcasts app?

No. Everything happens from the URL in a browser, there is no app, no download, and no macOS or iOS requirement.

Is this more accurate than Apple’s own auto-generated transcript?

They are comparable, both are machine transcription of the same audio, at roughly 95% on clear recordings. The difference is that this one produces a file you can edit and export.

Why does the episode URL need an ?i= number in it?

That number is the episode ID. A podcasts.apple.com link without it points at the whole show, which has no single episode to transcribe.

Can I transcribe an Apple Podcasts Subscriptions episode?

No. Subscriptions episodes and other paywalled content need an authenticated session to play, so they cannot be fetched. Only public episodes work.

Do old back-catalogue episodes still work?

Yes, as long as the episode is still publicly listed. Age makes no difference, only whether the audio is still published.

The show is on both Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Does it matter which link I use?

No. Both resolve to the same published audio, so the transcript is identical. Use whichever link is easier to copy.

Apple Podcasts transcripts,
finally exportable.

Apple will show you a transcript and give you no way to keep it. Paste an episode link here and the whole thing comes back as a file: speaker labels, timestamps, and seven formats to choose from.

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How it works

Three steps, one to two minutes

Nothing to install, no Apple device required, no audio file to move around.

Copy the episode link
On podcasts.apple.com or in the Apple Podcasts app, open the episode, tap the ⋯ menu, and choose Copy Link. The URL will contain an ?i= episode ID.
Paste it and pick a format
Drop the link into the box above, choose TXT, MD, SRT, VTT, JSON, DOCX or PDF, and switch on speaker labels for interviews and panel shows.
Download the transcript
We resolve the episode to its published audio and transcribe it. Most shows are back in one to two minutes.

Who it's for

What people do with the transcript

Podcast creators

Ship show notes and an indexable episode page without writing either from scratch.

Students

Keep a lecture or interview as notes you can annotate instead of a file you re-listen to.

Language learners

Follow a native-speed conversation in text while it plays.

Accessibility

Give deaf and hard-of-hearing listeners the same episode everyone else got.

Exports

Download it in the format you need

.txt

Plain text

Clean prose for show notes, blog posts, and quoting.

.md

Markdown

Title, speakers and paragraphs intact, for Obsidian, Notion or any notes app.

.srt

SubRip subtitles

Cue-timed subtitles for any video editor.

.vtt

WebVTT

Captions for HTML5 video and web embeds.

.json

Structured JSON

Timestamps and speaker labels, ready to parse.

.docx

Word document

Speaker headings and timestamps as real formatting, ready to edit or hand off.

.pdf

Print-ready PDF

Paginated and page-numbered, for sharing, archiving, or marking up.

While you are here

Discover PodcastsToText

The transcript is where it starts. Here is what the rest of the studio does with it.

Your episode opens in an editor.

Click a word and you hear it. Change a speaker name once and it changes everywhere. The whole episode is one page you can actually read, with the line playing highlighted as it goes.

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Transcribed from the episode link · click any line to seek

Marios

Have you ever listened to a podcast and wish you could read what was being said?

Maybe to quote it, study it, or just to find that one line again without re-listening to the whole podcast.

Hey everyone, I'm Marios and I'm really excited to introduce you to my new project,

podcasttotext.com.

It's a web-based app that converts podcast episodes from Spotify and Apple Podcasts into clean, accurate text in just seconds.

Why did I build this up? You may ask.

I built it because I listened to a lot of podcasts.

And at the end of each episode, I was forgetting what was being said.

So I wanted a way to quickly take notes or revisit specific moments without rewinding,

without re-listening the whole podcast.

Uploading files or manually transcribing just wasn't practical.

So I decided to make something that's fast.

Chapters

The problem: hearing something and losing it