Instagram reel to text

Only your own, or permitted, videos

A reel on Instagram belongs to whoever made it, and its audio may include music or voices owned by others. Upload only reels you created, or ones whose creator has given you permission to use them. There is no link input here, deliberately, so this site cannot be used to pull someone else's content out of Instagram.

Getting your reel as a file

1. The best source is the original: the clip in your phone's camera roll, or the export from the editing app you used to cut it. It is usually a clean MP4 or MOV.
2. If you only have it on Instagram, the app offers ways to save your own reels to your device, and in some places an account data download. What is available differs by country, account type and app version, so check Instagram's help for the current options.
3. Upload that file in the box above.

Menu names and where options live change between app versions, plans and operating systems, so treat the steps as the general route and check the app's own help page for the current wording.

What you get from a short video

Reels are short, so they fall well inside the guest limit of 15 minutes and 25 MB. The transcript has a timestamp on each line, which is useful when you write captions. Fast cuts, music beds and on-screen text are a different story: only speech is transcribed, so a reel that is mostly music will come back nearly empty, and lines spoken over loud music can be wrong.

Captions and repurposing

A transcript lets you write accessible captions, turn the script into a post, or pull a quote. You can export SRT or VTT, but the cues follow the way speech was split into segments, not the short two-line style of social captions, so expect to edit them. See audio to SRT for the format, and the short-form video guide for a workflow.