I ship small tools for people who live in short-form video. The latest one is TokTranscript — a web app where you paste a public TikTok URL and get a full transcript with timestamps, then optional AI helpers on top.

Try it: https://toktranscript.com/

Why I built it

When I study what performs in a niche, the bottleneck is rarely “watching the video once.” It is rewatching, scrubbing, and copying lines into a doc so I can compare hooks, pacing, and callbacks across dozens of clips. I wanted something closer to “give me the script” plus “explain the shape of the thing,” not just raw text.

What it does today

• Instant transcription — Paste a TikTok link; you get word-level text with timestamps (handy for quoting, subtitles, or dropping into an LLM).
• Viral Breakdown (Pro) — Structured notes on hook, pacing, and why a clip might have worked — useful when you are reverse-engineering format, not plagiarizing lines.
• Script Remix (Pro) — Keeps the structure of a reference clip while rewriting around your topic — I use this when I already like the rhythm of a format but need original wording.
• Plaza — A public feed of analyzed examples (good for browsing patterns across niches).

Free tier exists; Pro unlocks exports like SRT/DOCX and the heavier AI workflows. Nothing here replaces taste — it just removes the mechanical drag.

Who it is for

Creators, marketers, and anyone doing competitive research on short video without wanting to live inside the scrub bar.

Honest limitations

• Public TikToks only.
• Like any ASR pipeline, messy audio hurts accuracy; I still edit transcripts when the stakes are high.

If you try it, tell me what workflow you want next — I am actively iterating.

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Disclosure: I work on TokTranscript. Product site: https://toktranscript.com/