About

YouTube videos into useful text.

HardlyScribe is the first product in the We Hardly Work suite. It helps creators, researchers, students, operators, and small teams turn captioned YouTube videos into clean transcripts and exports.

What it does

Paste a public YouTube URL, then HardlyScribe checks for public captions, formats the transcript with timestamps, builds lightweight notes, and gives you copy, TXT, and Markdown export options.

Why it exists

Long videos can hide useful ideas. A readable transcript makes it easier to scan a lecture, quote an interview, outline a talk, brief a teammate, or turn video research into written work.

How it is funded

The core workflow is free and supported by advertising. We use Google AdSense and Google's consent tooling where required.