Paste a link, get the transcript
These start from the podcast itself, so there is no file to find. The price is for one 60-minute episode, without a subscription where that is possible.
| Service | What you can paste | One hour-long episode | Ready in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Podmenti | Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube or any app link, RSS, or the title | $1 | About 2 minutes |
| Transcribe a Podcast (PodcastRex) | Apple Podcasts link, RSS, or search | $1.49 (£1) | About 10 minutes |
| Listen411 (Listen Notes) | Search, or a direct audio URL | $4.60 | About 1 minute |
| PodScripts | Its catalogue, a link or a file | Free if already transcribed, else $5 for 5 hours | Not stated |
| SpotScribe | Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube | Free for 3 episodes up to 60 min, then from $6.99/month | "Seconds" |
| PodcastsToText | Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, RSS | Free up to 30 min, then from $14/month | "Seconds" |
| Podsqueeze | Spotify, YouTube, RSS | From $8.99/month | Under 5 minutes |
| Podwise | Apple-listed shows, RSS, YouTube | From $9.90/month | Not stated |
| transcript.lol | YouTube and others, not Spotify | Free cuts off at 20 min; $20/month | "Minutes" |
| Castmagic | Spotify, Apple Podcasts, RSS, YouTube | From $29/month | About 3 minutes |
Upload a file
Built for audio you own: you download the episode's MP3 first, then upload it. Several also take a YouTube link.
| Service | One hour-long episode | Good to know |
|---|---|---|
| Riverside | Free | MP3, WAV, MP4 or MOV, no sign-up |
| TurboScribe | Free up to 30 min a file; $20/month unlimited | Whisper underneath |
| Sonix | $10, pay as you go | Also takes public links |
| Rev | $15 by AI; $119.40 by a human | Human transcripts within 12 hours |
| Otter | Free covers 30 min; Pro $16.99/month | Made for meetings |
| Descript | Free 60 min a month; from $24/month | An editor more than a transcriber |
| Notta | From $13.61/month | YouTube, Drive and Dropbox links |
| Happy Scribe | From €17/month; human €1.75 a minute | AI or human |
| Whisper on your computer | Free | Command line; about 11 minutes an hour on a mid-range GPU |
How to choose
- One episode you heard: a paste-a-link service. Here it is $1, from any app's link or just the title.
- Who said what matters: pick a service with speaker labels. PodcastRex has them; we do not yet.
- It has to be perfect: a human service such as Rev or Happy Scribe, at $100 or more an hour.
- Your own recordings: an upload tool, or Whisper if you are technical.
- A summary, show notes, clips: creator tools such as Castmagic or Podsqueeze.
This is our comparison, so read it knowing we are on the list. We have tried to be fair: every price is the one each service published on the day we checked, and we say where others do something we do not.