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GistCite for creators, podcasters and newsletter writers

One long episode should become the transcript, the show notes, the newsletter, the captions and the clips. GistCite does each step from the same source.

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What you can do with it

Media Tools

Captioned clips for every platform

Trim, caption and crop to 9:16, 1:1 or 4:5, with AI clip ideas from the transcript.

How Media Tools does it

YouTube Transcripts

Chapters that play

Your video's own chapters show above the transcript, play in the page's player, and head the Markdown and Word downloads.

How YouTube Transcripts does it

Features that fit this work

What each one does and what it costs in units.

  • A transcript you can click

    Click any line to play that moment in the video above it; the line being spoken stays highlighted. Search inside the transcript, step through the matches, and copy a selection with a link to the second it starts.

    Cost: Included with the transcript: 1 unit per fetch, nothing extra.

    Open a YouTube transcript

  • Markdown, Word and PDF downloads

    Save a transcript as Markdown with Obsidian-ready frontmatter and linked timestamps, as Word, or as a page to print to PDF, with caption fragments merged into paragraphs. Summaries download the same three ways.

    Cost: Free: downloads use no units.

    Download a transcript as Markdown or Word

  • Chapters and video details

    A video's own chapters show as chips that play in the page's player and become headings in the exports. The description and publish date come along too, and the API returns them as metadata.

    Cost: Free.

    See a video's chapters

The tools you will use most

  • YouTube Transcripts

    Paste a YouTube link and get the full transcript with timestamps: click a line to play that moment, search it, and download Markdown, Word, PDF, TXT or SRT.

  • Media Tools

    Transcribe audio and video uploads, burn captions, trim, crop to 9:16, 1:1 or 4:5, compress, extract MP3 and find clip ideas from saved transcripts.

  • AI Summary, Ask and Create

    Summarize any source into an overview, key points and timestamped chapters; ask questions with citations; create posts, briefs and scripts from it.

  • Sentiment Analysis

    Collect every comment and reply on a YouTube video, score them with AI for sentiment, emotions, toxicity and language, and export CSV, Excel, JSON or an HTML table.

  • Speech to Text

    Dictate live in the browser for free, or upload a recording up to 500 MB for a Whisper transcript with word timestamps and SRT export.

Worked examples

Independent podcaster

From a one-hour podcast episode to a newsletter, captions and three clips

One public episode on YouTube becomes a transcript, a chaptered summary, a newsletter draft, SRT captions and three short clips, all from one upload.

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Questions from this audience

Can I process a whole back catalogue?
Yes: batch and playlist transcripts (up to 25 at a time) are on Pro, and the API runs the same calls on a schedule.

Further reading

Try it on your own material

The free plan covers transcripts, document extraction and downloads; Pro adds the AI and media tools. Failed requests are never charged.

Fetch a transcript from your latest video