About

Scriber turns a YouTube video into readable text. Paste a link, get a transcript. That is the whole product, and it is meant to stay that way.

Why it exists

I spent 25 years in enterprise software as a design leader, always one layer away from the thing that actually shipped. During a career break I decided to build and launch something end to end myself.

The specific problem was wanting to quote and search interviews and podcast episodes. The tools I tried were either buried inside editing suites I did not want, or gave up entirely on videos with no captions, which is most of the conversational content I cared about. So Scriber does that one job: it uses a video's captions when they exist, and transcribes the audio when they do not.

Who makes it

One person. Marcos Nähr. There is no team, no investors and no support department, which is worth knowing before you rely on it for something important. It also means the person reading your message is the person who can fix the problem.

How it makes money

By being paid for, not by selling anything about you. The first three transcripts are free with no account. After that you can buy credits or subscribe. There are no ads, no trackers following you around, and nothing about what you transcribe is sold to anyone. What is stored and what is not is set out in the privacy policy.

What it is not

It is not a meeting recorder, a video editor or a note-taking workspace. It does not join your calls. Today it does not accept uploaded files either, only YouTube links. If you need those things, other tools do them well and you should use those instead.

Feedback

Most of what has changed since launch came from people telling me what was missing. If something breaks, or a video will not transcribe, or the output is not in a format you can use, tell me.