Download any Instagram Reel or Post as MP4, then transcribe it to text with Whisper AI. Free, timestamped, exports to SRT and TXT. Perfect for creators, researchers, and journalists.
If you work with Instagram content — as a creator repurposing your own Reels, a journalist citing a public post, or a researcher analyzing trends — you often need the words, not just the video. This page walks you through the combined workflow our site supports: first grab the Reel or post as an MP4 with our downloader, then upload it here to transcribe. Both steps are free, and the result is a searchable, copy-pasteable transcript with timestamps.
Instagram is a visual-first platform and its built-in captions are optional and often missing from older posts. A transcript turns a Reel into something you can search, quote, translate, or feed to another tool. Creators use transcripts to repurpose Reels as blog posts or LinkedIn carousels. Marketing teams build searchable archives of their Instagram output. Journalists cite Instagram statements with exact wording. Researchers analyze content patterns across hundreds of Reels.
Both steps live on this site, so you never leave for a shady downloader or a clunky transcriber. Step one: paste the Instagram link on our home page, get the MP4 instantly. Step two: upload that MP4 here, get the transcript. The whole loop is under three minutes for a typical 30–90 second Reel. We don't store the downloaded MP4 beyond its short cache window, and the audio uploaded for transcription is auto-deleted within 24 hours.
A segment-by-segment transcript you can copy straight from the page. A .srt file you can upload as captions if you're reposting the Reel on YouTube or a blog. A .txt file ready for Notion, Google Docs, or your content calendar. An optional 5-bullet AI summary if the Reel is long enough to be worth summarizing. Optional translation into Chinese, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, or Portuguese — useful when your audience spans multiple markets.
Not yet in a single step. The two-step flow (download → transcribe) is what we support today because it's the most reliable. A direct flow where we pull the audio straight from the Instagram parse is on the roadmap.
No. We only work with public posts — both the downloader and the transcriber require a file you have legitimate access to.
Yes, as long as you can download the Story or Highlight as an MP4 first. Our story downloader handles both.
Whisper is designed for speech; pure music Reels will return an empty transcript. Voice-overs, talking-head Reels, and mixed music+voice content transcribe normally.
Downloading public videos for personal use is generally fine; transcribing content you own (your own Reels) is unambiguous. For third-party content, respect copyright — use transcripts for commentary, research, or fair-use purposes, not wholesale republication.