YouTube subtitle & caption downloader · SRT · VTT · PDF

Download YouTube subtitles — as SRT, VTT, or PDF.

Timestamped subtitle and caption files for any YouTube video. Cues carry the source caption timing, so they drop straight into Premiere, Final Cut, DaVinci, or CapCut — no re-timing. Two clicks from paste to .srt.

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Greig Fraser on lighting Dune

Transcript Summary Repurpose

00:00:12 The shots people remember from Dune aren't the wide ones. They're the eyes.

00:00:22 I underexpose two stops so the whites become paper, not snow. The face does the rest.

00:00:34 Arri Alexa Mini LF, anamorphic Panavision H-series — that combination buys you another frame of tolerance.

00:00:48 The camera is a knife. Every setup, I ask — what am I cutting away?

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What you download

Every subtitle format YouTube supports.

SRT for editors, VTT for web video, TXT for blog repurposing, PDF for team review. Same subtitle pipeline, whichever format you need.

Timing that matches the source

Timestamped, segment-level SRT cues that carry YouTube's own caption timing — cues land where the source track puts them in Premiere, Final Cut, or DaVinci Resolve without re-timing.

Every subtitle format

Download .srt, .vtt, .txt, or .pdf — pick one, or grab all four in a single zip alongside the source video.

Editor-grade cue windows

Proper break points, no orphaned words, no 200-character monster lines. Your subtitle track looks professional out of the box.

Subtitle workflow

Download YouTube subtitles in three steps.

Paste, pick a subtitle format, download. Your first run is on us — no signup, no watermark on the subtitle output.

Paste a YouTube URL

Drop any youtube.com or youtu.be link into the downloader above. Long-form videos, Shorts, and unlisted URLs all work the same way.

We generate the file

Our pipeline pulls YouTube's caption track, preserves its cue timing, and packages the SRT with clean break points and correct encoding. Median: twelve seconds.

Pick your format

SRT for editing, VTT for web players, TXT for blog drafts, or PDF for a formatted transcript. Or grab every format in a single zip and pick later.

Beyond downloads

More than a subtitle downloader.

Every subtitle track can be summarized, translated to 40 languages, or repurposed into eight content formats — without switching tools.

Download videos

Save the source clip in SD or HD right next to the .srt file.

AI summaries

Two-sentence TL;DR plus chapter stamps — handy for loading metadata into your NLE.

40-language packs

Translated SRT and VTT packs with cue windows preserved for every language.

Repurpose to 8 formats

Threads, LinkedIn, blog drafts — same transcript, different output.

Who this is for

Built for editors who download subtitles every day.

Editors captioning client cuts

Subtitlers delivering multilingual packs

Creators adding burn-ins in CapCut

Accessibility leads hitting WCAG 2.1 targets

Teachers subtitling lecture recordings

Producers archiving with searchable tracks

How it works

How to download YouTube subtitles as SRT or VTT.

The downloader generates SRT, VTT, TXT, and PDF files from any public YouTube URL that has a caption track. The output carries the source caption timing, is editor-ready, and ships watermark-free.

SRT — the universal editor format

Every professional editor reads SRT. We output files with timestamped, segment-level cues, proper line breaks, and UTF-8 encoding that survives import into Premiere, Final Cut, DaVinci Resolve, Avid, and CapCut.

VTT — for web video players

WebVTT is what HTML5 video players read natively. We produce VTT with the same timestamped cues as the SRT — embed into a

Burn-in-ready for CapCut and Premiere

The downloaded track lands clean on the timeline — proper line breaks, correct UTF-8 encoding, no broken characters or mid-word splits after import. No reformatting pass before you drop it under the footage.

Multilingual packs

Paste an English URL and get packs in Spanish, French, Mandarin, Japanese, Portuguese, Arabic, Hindi, and 33 more languages — delivered as SRT and VTT with the source cue timing preserved.

YouTube caption downloader vs subtitle downloader

On YouTube these are the same file. "Captions" and "subtitles" both refer to the timed text track, so a YouTube caption downloader and a subtitle downloader pull the identical SRT or VTT. The only distinction is convention: captions may carry speaker labels and sound cues for accessibility, while subtitles assume you can hear the audio. Either way, paste a URL here and you get the timed track as SRT, VTT, TXT, or PDF.

Clean timing from the caption track

We pull YouTube's caption track and clean it up — fixing formatting, encoding, and line breaks — while preserving the source cue timing. The SRT you download keeps the cues where the caption track authored them, without the broken characters, doubled lines, or mid-word breaks that raw caption dumps leave behind.

No caption track? Use the generator instead

This downloader needs an existing caption track on the video — it pulls and cleans that track, it does not create one. A video with no captions has nothing to download here. For those, use our caption generator or subtitle generator, which transcribe the audio with Whisper and build a caption file from scratch.

FAQ

Common questions.

How do I download YouTube subtitles?

Paste any youtube.com or youtu.be URL above and click download. Pick your subtitle format — SRT for editors, VTT for the web, TXT for plain text, or PDF for a formatted transcript — and the subtitle file downloads in about twelve seconds. No Chrome extension, no signup.

What's the difference between SRT and VTT subtitle formats?

SRT (SubRip) is the universal editor subtitle format — Premiere, Final Cut, DaVinci, Avid, and CapCut all import it natively. VTT (WebVTT) is built for HTML5 video — it adds styling and positioning metadata browsers render directly. We output both subtitle formats from a single paste.

Can I download subtitles in other languages?

Yes. We produce subtitle packs in 40 languages — Spanish, French, Mandarin, Japanese, Portuguese, Arabic, Hindi, German, Italian, and more. The source cue timing stays preserved, so burn-in subtitles stay in sync across every language.

Do I need a Chrome extension to download subtitles?

No — it's a web tool. Paste a URL in the browser tab you already have open and click. Chrome-extension-based subtitle downloaders break every time YouTube rolls out a UI change; a server-side tool doesn't.

Why aren't my subtitles syncing in my editor?

Most subtitle-sync problems come from mismatched frame rates — the .srt is timed to 30fps but the timeline is 23.976fps, for example. Our cues carry absolute millisecond timestamps from the source caption track, so the subtitle stays in sync regardless of timeline frame rate.

Can I download subtitles from videos without captions?

Not with this downloader — it pulls an existing caption track, so a video with no captions has nothing to download. For those videos, use our caption generator or subtitle generator, which transcribe the audio with Whisper and build the SRT/VTT from scratch. This page is for videos that already have a caption track.

Is this a YouTube caption downloader too?

Yes. On YouTube, "captions" and "subtitles" are the same timed text track, so this works as a YouTube caption downloader and a subtitle downloader in one. Paste a URL and export the captions as SRT, VTT, TXT, or PDF — the file is identical either way.

Are the outputs watermark-free?

Yes. Every file (SRT, VTT, TXT, PDF) ships clean — no "Made with …" line, no attribution tag. Use on client deliverables, broadcast cuts, and commercial projects without obligation.

Does it work on private or unlisted videos?

Unlisted works as long as you have the URL. Private videos — ones that require sign-in to the uploading account — cannot be processed, as YouTube blocks third-party access.

“We deliver SRT packs to broadcasters. The cue windows land clean in Premiere — zero reformatting, zero re-timing.”

Tomás Ferreira

Post-production lead · Madrid

Paste, click, download your .srt.

First runs are on us. Clean cue windows, no watermark, no attribution required.

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