● Captions-first · Live-aware · Clip Studio

Turn any YouTube video into a searchable transcript — and frame-accurate clips.

Recorded and live streams. Verbatim transcription in the spoken language. Find key moments, cut 16:9 or 9:16 clips with burned captions, all under a hard spend cap.

Runs on your own infra · captions-first so most transcripts are free · per-agent quotas & a daily budget cap

Everything an agent needs

Built for teams publishing volumes of video — cheap by default, accurate when it matters.

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Transcript-first

Serve YouTube captions and a permanent cache first — most requests cost nothing. Fall back to AI only when captions are missing.

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Live transcription

One shared pipeline per stream. Verbatim text as it airs, music/silence skipped, resilient to reconnects.

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Clip Studio

Set in/out, nudge by ±0.5s, build a frame, render to MP4 — 16:9 or 9:16, with styled burned-in captions.

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Key moments

Automatic chapters from pauses and transitions. Click a moment to jump the video.

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Search everything

Full-text search across every stored transcript; jump straight to the timestamp.

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Team & roles

Email/password accounts, admin approval, per-agent quotas, and per-user usage.

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Hard spend cap

Daily $ cap and quotas stop runaway cost. VAD + dedupe + batch keep it low.

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Export

Download transcripts as TXT / SRT / VTT and clips as MP4 — or archive to your storage.

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Self-hosted

Deploy the web app and the render worker yourself — your data stays yours.

How it works

Paste a link. Get text and clips. No fragile setup.

Step 1

Paste a URL

Watch, youtu.be, /live/ or Shorts. We detect live vs recorded and check the cache.

Step 2

Read & search

Captions appear instantly (free). If none exist, transcribe with AI — you approve the cost first.

Step 3

Cut & export

Mark a range (or a whole frame), render to MP4 with captions, download or archive.

Simple, usage-based

You run it; you only pay your infra + model usage. Typical team lands at a few dollars a month.

Pilot
$0/mo
  • Self-hosted web + worker
  • Captions-first (free transcripts)
  • Clip Studio, key moments, search
  • Daily spend cap
Start
Team
~$3–8/mo + usage
  • Live transcription
  • Per-agent quotas & usage
  • Styled caption burn-in
  • Archive to your storage (R2)
Open app
Scale
Custom
  • Multiple workers
  • Channel allow-list & ingest
  • Webhooks & Drive delivery
  • Priority support
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Open the app and paste your first link.

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